Ave,
I have been going after some achievements in Imperator Rome and I grouped the "Ktistes" and "Land of the Rising Sun" into a Pontus playthrough. The former unlocks by forming Pontus starting as Kios, while the latter unlocks by owning pretty much all of Anatolia with a nation of the Anatolian culture group. I'm a big history fan so there is really only one way of doing this: historical Pontus.
Now, I had some sad last few days with this playthrough because the events for forming Pontus and the related decisions are very very buggy, making the playthrough very frustrating, because most of all this is clearly a simple oversight that should be pretty easy to fix by the dev team, if there still was a dev team that is. After a search on the forums, these bugs were already reported with the launch of the Marius update but are still not solved. For anyone looking for a solution while playing an ironman game, you know that info is very hard to find due to the low player base, so I'm hoping we can be of help to one another. This will be a long post, so hopefully you have the time to read it.
Now onto the decisions I made in my playthrough, the problems that occured and my workarounds, if available.
First thing is to start as Kios and the Mithridatic dynasty. After Mithridates' death, an event chain will happen, allowing his son to escape to or conquer Paphlagonia to form the Mithridatic Kingdom. All good up to this point, but this here is were the pain starts.
After a while, you will get an event allowing you to peacefully annex tribal Pontus (the one available at the start), or get some claims to conquer them and form Pontus via a decision. Important to note, the initial Pontus with the purple flag is "PON" Pontus, as defined in the decision scripts. If you peacefully annex PON Pontus with Mithridates from Kios, you will form "PTU" Pontus, with its new unique flag (other one is cooler but that is just an opinion).
ISSUE 1: Achievement Ktistes not unlocking.
WORKAROUND 1: Now, usually all achievements are a bit hard to make them pop up, and usually I fix it by opening the achievementt list in the menu twice. However, here that didn't work. Close the game or go to the main menu. Reload the save. The achievement should pop up.
Continuing the playthrough, a new event will appear allowing you to Hellenize if you wish to do so. OF COURSE I want to. Allowing the influence of Greek traditions will create 2 new decisions for Pontus: Getting the dual capital bonusses for Sinope-Amaseia and getting access to 2 new deities (Zeus Stratios and Selene, both with incredible omens) from the new syncretic faith.
ISSUE 2: After allowing Greek traditions, even though it is stated in the event, both decisions are NOT available for PTU Pontus, only for PON Pontus. Big bummer!
WORKAROUND 2: Instead of annexing Pontus peacefully, forming PTU Pontus, conquer Pontus by force and form it through the decision. This will form PON Pontus. You don't get the PTU flag, which is the only downside.
Playing as PON Pontus, you will notice you DO have access to both decisions concerning the dual capital bonusses and the syncretic faith with 2 unique deities. Taking the decision for the dual capital bonusses works without issues it seems. However, the pain does not end here.
ISSUE 3: While I can select the "embrace Greco-Pontic omens" decision, granting me the bonus to omen power of the syncretic faith, the 2 new unique deities Zeus Stratios and Selene are NOT available to select in the pantheon, even though the decision clearly says they will be.
No workaround for this one though. Couldn't find a solution as of yet.
If you don't care about the deities, go ahead and have fun. But I like some unique flavor in my playthroughs. I'm so disappointed by all these unintended flaws that I don't know whether I want to continue this playthrough. Hopefully someone has better luck. I also don't even know whether it is still useful to file a bug report at this point, since no one works on this title anymore. If you know a solution or encountered the same issue with the deities not being available, feel free to post it below.
Have a good day!
I have been going after some achievements in Imperator Rome and I grouped the "Ktistes" and "Land of the Rising Sun" into a Pontus playthrough. The former unlocks by forming Pontus starting as Kios, while the latter unlocks by owning pretty much all of Anatolia with a nation of the Anatolian culture group. I'm a big history fan so there is really only one way of doing this: historical Pontus.
Now, I had some sad last few days with this playthrough because the events for forming Pontus and the related decisions are very very buggy, making the playthrough very frustrating, because most of all this is clearly a simple oversight that should be pretty easy to fix by the dev team, if there still was a dev team that is. After a search on the forums, these bugs were already reported with the launch of the Marius update but are still not solved. For anyone looking for a solution while playing an ironman game, you know that info is very hard to find due to the low player base, so I'm hoping we can be of help to one another. This will be a long post, so hopefully you have the time to read it.
Now onto the decisions I made in my playthrough, the problems that occured and my workarounds, if available.
First thing is to start as Kios and the Mithridatic dynasty. After Mithridates' death, an event chain will happen, allowing his son to escape to or conquer Paphlagonia to form the Mithridatic Kingdom. All good up to this point, but this here is were the pain starts.
After a while, you will get an event allowing you to peacefully annex tribal Pontus (the one available at the start), or get some claims to conquer them and form Pontus via a decision. Important to note, the initial Pontus with the purple flag is "PON" Pontus, as defined in the decision scripts. If you peacefully annex PON Pontus with Mithridates from Kios, you will form "PTU" Pontus, with its new unique flag (other one is cooler but that is just an opinion).
ISSUE 1: Achievement Ktistes not unlocking.
WORKAROUND 1: Now, usually all achievements are a bit hard to make them pop up, and usually I fix it by opening the achievementt list in the menu twice. However, here that didn't work. Close the game or go to the main menu. Reload the save. The achievement should pop up.
Continuing the playthrough, a new event will appear allowing you to Hellenize if you wish to do so. OF COURSE I want to. Allowing the influence of Greek traditions will create 2 new decisions for Pontus: Getting the dual capital bonusses for Sinope-Amaseia and getting access to 2 new deities (Zeus Stratios and Selene, both with incredible omens) from the new syncretic faith.
ISSUE 2: After allowing Greek traditions, even though it is stated in the event, both decisions are NOT available for PTU Pontus, only for PON Pontus. Big bummer!
WORKAROUND 2: Instead of annexing Pontus peacefully, forming PTU Pontus, conquer Pontus by force and form it through the decision. This will form PON Pontus. You don't get the PTU flag, which is the only downside.
Playing as PON Pontus, you will notice you DO have access to both decisions concerning the dual capital bonusses and the syncretic faith with 2 unique deities. Taking the decision for the dual capital bonusses works without issues it seems. However, the pain does not end here.
ISSUE 3: While I can select the "embrace Greco-Pontic omens" decision, granting me the bonus to omen power of the syncretic faith, the 2 new unique deities Zeus Stratios and Selene are NOT available to select in the pantheon, even though the decision clearly says they will be.
No workaround for this one though. Couldn't find a solution as of yet.
If you don't care about the deities, go ahead and have fun. But I like some unique flavor in my playthroughs. I'm so disappointed by all these unintended flaws that I don't know whether I want to continue this playthrough. Hopefully someone has better luck. I also don't even know whether it is still useful to file a bug report at this point, since no one works on this title anymore. If you know a solution or encountered the same issue with the deities not being available, feel free to post it below.
Have a good day!
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