New Game?

[CSSS]

I have to admit. The detail and depth of the game looks beyond amazing!

[mercenarius]

Thanks for the kind words! And I am sorry about the delay in responding.

I got a little bored with the particular Ops Command that I was demonstrating earlier, and I decided to finish the last remaining enactment from the "Urbes" choice in the Civitas Department. You have seen this before, but here is a reminder:

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Clicking on "Urbes" will give the player the following menu:

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The upper left choice, "Establish a New City...", hadn't been done yet. (The others are all finished).

After playing around with it, I decided that the players will need a submenu to help define their goal before actually making an enactment. Clicking on the upper left button will layer a new menu over the existing one. This is what that submenu looks like:

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If the player choses to "Establish a New City...", the choice for the enactment is made from a "Choice Area" which is pretty standard and you have seen them before. It does so happen that this is one of the few Admin functions in which empty city sites are relevant. Here is what that look like:

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If you select one of the empty sites as the target for the enactment, and click on Build City, you will get an Enactment Menu similar to this:

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After that, it's about the same as other construction projects with the somewhat rare condition that any fixed costs are paid up front rather than on a pro-rated basis. It's admittedly somewhat abstract, but it is easy to understand. The idea is that the state has to grant privileges and benefits in order to convince people to settle in the new city. It therefore costs more to found a new city on an empty site than on the site of an existing village.

I'll post more next weekend concerning the other enactments related to establishing a new city or upgrading an existing one.

EDIT: sorry for the small sizes of the shots of the admin dialog itself. I scaled those down to make it easy to fit them into the post. The dialog at the runtime is bigger than that, of course, at least it is when the screen size allows it.

EDIT: I realized that the first version of the "City Options" menu was rather overselling the state's role in the growth of cities as it relates to city's classification (village, town, minor city, etc.). And I also realized that the renaming of cities needs to be in there somewhere. So, I redesigned the menu and changed the "Resettle Verterans" icon to go better with the other icons in the menu. This is much better, I think. I hope.

[mercenarius]

The "Sponsor Colonia" enactment is inspired somewhat by Gibbon's chapter on Septimius Septimus, and the need for the player to have a mechanism to strengthen a city's landowning class. There are indirect ways to do this, such as reductions in taxes for a particular city, and those methods will be the most commonly used. But I wanted to add a direct way.

Once completed, there is a Notification added. I won't bother to post a screenshot of that; you have seen examples already of similar notifications. But, since those notifications can be deleted, I also added a notice in the City's report dialog already. If the city received such a "sponsorship" its Monuments attribute will use a different panel and it will look like this:

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A "normal" panel looks like this:

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I will post something next weekend to finish up with the four "New/Upgrade City" enactments. And I will try to make it earlier in the weekend!

[Orm]

Looking good- And complex.

Any idea on what the play time will be like? Will it be more like Hannibal type of speed to do things, or perhaps like the behemoth War in the Pacific: AE?