View Full Version : RCFEurope stability/How to improve it?


SimonB1er
May 11, 2009, 12:14 AM
I'm currently playing a game as Byzantium, I'm in 937 and my stability is collapsing. How can I improve it?
Thanks.

Tigranes
May 11, 2009, 04:41 AM
Don't even try. Just focus on your core cities (3 in Greece, 2 in Asia Minor + Constantinople). On Emperor I got all 3 UHVs with -100 stability (Apr 25 release).

3Miro
May 11, 2009, 07:42 AM
I'm currently playing a game as Byzantium, I'm in 937 and my stability is collapsing. How can I improve it?
Thanks.

Byzantines are supposed to be unstable and lose all their cities outside the Greek + part of Anatolia core. Read the Byzantine UP, that'll explain it.

Deego3
May 11, 2009, 02:17 PM
What are Byzantine core areas exactly?

Verily
May 11, 2009, 10:29 PM
Their spawn area on the Reference maps (see the RFCEurope/Reference subfolder). In game terms, Athenai, Thessaloniki, Hadrianopolis, Constantinople, Nicaea and Ephesus, although you can found additional cities in your core area if you want. (Attaleia and Mistra are both useful, Attaleia in particular to secure Crabs for health.)

dknight237
Sep 11, 2010, 10:47 PM
Byzantines are supposed to be unstable and lose all their cities outside the Greek + part of Anatolia core. Read the Byzantine UP, that'll explain it.

Where is the Byzantine UP?

ezzlar
Sep 12, 2010, 05:50 AM
You can see the Unique Power when you chose civ or in the civipedia. For the Byzantines its "The core of the empire can never collapse due to instability".

If you want a large empire you need manor houses, courthouses and happiness for stability.

civ_king
Sep 12, 2010, 11:37 PM
I'm currently playing a game as Byzantium, I'm in 937 and my stability is collapsing. How can I improve it?
Thanks.

Courthouses+Manor houses are good for stability

Also pump up Orthodoxy because it gives stability

ezzlar
Sep 13, 2010, 02:29 AM
In my current Byzantium game I managed to keep Alexandria! Amazing!

dafiden
Sep 16, 2010, 06:49 PM
In my current Byzantium game I managed to keep Alexandria! Amazing!

Yeah, me too. The Arabs never even gave me any trouble at all. Just make sure you are somewhat prepared for the Arabs and VERY prepared for the barb hordes that arrive (a least 5 per turn for about 20 turns) on your eastern flanks right around the same time as the Arabs. The wiped out all my improvements, but I just waited in my cities (with roaming knight to kick their arses) while they fell mercilessly against my castle walls.

FakeShady
Sep 19, 2010, 10:26 PM
In my current Byzantium game I managed to keep Alexandria! Amazing!

Alexandria almost never declares its independance in my games. You do have to garrison it with a few good units though, the Arabs in my game seem to really want that city.