Recent content by Nerva

My impression was that colonies do get spun off as vassals with very good relations, but the game manual seems to suggest that it's possible for those relations to decay to the point that the colony declares independence. Following up on what was suggested earlier, I'm thinking perhaps RFC...

Is the problem due to RFC hard-coding the major civs and using special "independent states", making dynamic allocation of new civs impossible? What I'm wondering, then, is if certain civs that historically had colonies, like France, England, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, could be given...

What's the problem? I would think RFC would be the perfect place to show off the new BTS colony feature. I'm really disappointed, because playing the vanilla game as England is very awkward, with the question of which Civs to put on the map at the start of the game and no Western Roman...

Does RFC use the new colonies feature in BtS? I want to play as England and found colonies all around the globe!

If you look at climate maps, Eastern USA and all of Europe not on the Med coast should start as forest rather than grassland, and then must be cleared by human activity. Also, my understanding is that classical agricultural technology was not up to the task of farming Northern Europe. I...

Yeah, if it's easy to tweak, how do we do it?? I want to play Rome/England/USA!

I'd like to start as the Romans, then switch the the English, and then finally the Americans. Is there a mod that allows this?

I'd like to see the Roman Empire conquer the eastern Med and split in half, with the eastern half being the Byzantine Empire. I'm also curious why the USA is required to kick the Brits out of Canada.

I'm sorry, I should have been more clear: I want to play the full time span of the game, not play a mod that only covers a specific period. I just want to mod the game so it lets me play a historical English strategy (naval trading empire) in a realistic way. I want all the major world...

Hey all, I'm thinking of trying to play England semi-historically and I'm looking for suggestions on what the best mods are for doing that. Basically I'd like to be able to build up on my fortress island, maintain the balance of powers on the continent (prevent anyone getting too...

Sorry, I did a search and didn't come up with anything on this topic, so here I go: I like to play accurate Earth scenarios, so I've downloaded some detailed Earth maps... however, I'm wondering if there's any way to increase the probability that history plays out "correctly" in terms of...

Hexes rule. Yes they're strange at first to accept as "proper" -- I used to think the old hex wargames were goofy, but there's no denying the geometry benefits of it, along with the gameplay -- what was right for old boardgames is still right for modern computer games. I also vote for a...