[C3C] Rise of Rome Deluxe (RORD)

anemoia

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Hi there everyone!

For the past three weeks I've been working on my own take of the vanilla "Rise of Rome" scenario. I've always felt as though the base version of the scenario was lacking the true scale of the ancient Mediterranean and the grandeur of the time. Although there are other mods on this site that essentially achieve the same purpose, in my experience many of them lack a direct download link or are unfortunately outdated. My aim is to create a version of this scenario that I have always dreamt of since I was playing this game as a kid.

In the coming days I will post screenshots of the scenario. As of this post, I am currently completing laying out all of the cities, mapping out territories, adding units, adding wonders/improvements, and writing civilopedia entries. At this point I would say I'm about 80% of the way to being finished developing this mod.

Here are a few figures to give you a taste of the scale of this mod and its contents. There are 25 playable civilizations compared to the measly 4 available in the base version of RoR. Finally you can play as the barbarian civilizations or try to revive the glory of Egypt. The Celts have been divided into two separate players with Gaul being led by Vercingetorix and the British Isles being led by Boudicca. Macedon has been broken up to reflect the squabbling city states of ancient Greece. Even the Italian peninsula has been divided with the edition of the Etruscans to the north of Rome and Pyrrhus' Greek colonies to the south. Besides new civilizations, there are roughly 46 unique techs on top of pre-existing techs and 88 new units (with likely more to come). There is also a unique interface and music to create an overall more immersive experience.

The goal of this initial post is to gauge whether or not anyone would actually be interested in giving this scenario a shot. Creating a mod such as this has always been a dream of mine and thanks to the wealth of tutorials and resources available on this site, that dream is becoming a reality. If there seems to be enough of a demand, I'll post a download link.
 
Congratulations!

I hope to play a new scenario in Ancient Era. If you want to use unique units for Etruscan, Italic nations or Carthaginians have a look below:

 
Congratulations!

I hope to play a new scenario in Ancient Era. If you want to use unique units for Etruscan, Italic nations or Carthaginians have a look below:

Hey thanks for the links! Believe it or not I have already downloaded a good deal of these and have implemented them into the mod. The last thing I’ll do before publishing the mod will be to credit everyone for their assets so thanks again for your work!
 
Nice. So when are you going to publish your mod? :)
I'll probably post it in about a week or so. I still need to implement buildings/wonders and flesh out the civilopedia. In the meantime though, here's a preview of the map!
RORD Preview 1.png
 
One thing I forgot to mention as well is that there are no locked wars in this scenario. I wanted to add more possibilities in regards to how the game plays out. Who knows, Rome and Carthage could be best friends...
 
Hey everyone, just thought I'd give an update on the progress of RORD. Everything is now implemented into the game and now I have begun beta-testing the mod to find bugs and make sure everything generally runs smoothly. I haven't had as much time as I would've liked to work on this but I should have more time this week to wrap things up.
 
Hi there everyone!

For the past three weeks I've been working on my own take of the vanilla "Rise of Rome" scenario. I've always felt as though the base version of the scenario was lacking the true scale of the ancient Mediterranean and the grandeur of the time. Although there are other mods on this site that essentially achieve the same purpose, in my experience many of them lack a direct download link or are unfortunately outdated. My aim is to create a version of this scenario that I have always dreamt of since I was playing this game as a kid.

In the coming days I will post screenshots of the scenario. As of this post, I am currently completing laying out all of the cities, mapping out territories, adding units, adding wonders/improvements, and writing civilopedia entries. At this point I would say I'm about 80% of the way to being finished developing this mod.

Here are a few figures to give you a taste of the scale of this mod and its contents. There are 25 playable civilizations compared to the measly 4 available in the base version of RoR. Finally you can play as the barbarian civilizations or try to revive the glory of Egypt. The Celts have been divided into two separate players with Gaul being led by Vercingetorix and the British Isles being led by Boudicca. Macedon has been broken up to reflect the squabbling city states of ancient Greece. Even the Italian peninsula has been divided with the edition of the Etruscans to the north of Rome and Pyrrhus' Greek colonies to the south. Besides new civilizations, there are roughly 46 unique techs on top of pre-existing techs and 88 new units (with likely more to come). There is also a unique interface and music to create an overall more immersive experience.

The goal of this initial post is to gauge whether or not anyone would actually be interested in giving this scenario a shot. Creating a mod such as this has always been a dream of mine and thanks to the wealth of tutorials and resources available on this site, that dream is becoming a reality. If there seems to be enough of a demand, I'll post a download link.
I'm a huge fan of RoR mod and I would love to see what you have come up with. Hopefully, I'm not too late to the party
 
I'm a huge fan of RoR mod and I would love to see what you have come up with. Hopefully, I'm not too late to the party
Hey! You are by no means late to the party whatsoever! I've actually been meaning to post an update on this mod.

Halfway through the development of RORD, my life took a downward turn and I stepped away from the mod for a while. Without getting too personal, the events of my life made me step away from developing that mod in particular. Over the months since I first posted it, I have worked on other CIV 3 mods and I'm currently developing a third project.

Besides RORD, I have just about completed a deluxe version of the Middle Ages scenario. Although I'm aware of MEM, I found great difficulty in getting it to work properly and simply decided to make my own take of the scenario. Ironically, many of the assets to that mod were taken from MEM so if I end up posting it, I will credit embryodead. My other scenario that I've been developing off and on is a fantasy scenario.

Because I am now sitting on multiple scenarios, I have been debating waiting until I finish my list of scenario ideas before releasing them here.

As for RORD, it is almost complete but I need to make some tweaks here and there to fix bugs and ensure the scenario is properly balanced gameplay wise. If there is still interest in this mod, I will get to doing that immediately and have it posted here ASAP.
 
As for RORD, it is almost complete but I need to make some tweaks here and there to fix bugs and ensure the scenario is properly balanced gameplay wise. If there is still interest in this mod, I will get to doing that immediately and have it posted here ASAP.
I'm intrested to see this mod, the sooner is completed the better :)
 
Hey! You are by no means late to the party whatsoever! I've actually been meaning to post an update on this mod.

Halfway through the development of RORD, my life took a downward turn and I stepped away from the mod for a while. Without getting too personal, the events of my life made me step away from developing that mod in particular. Over the months since I first posted it, I have worked on other CIV 3 mods and I'm currently developing a third project.

Besides RORD, I have just about completed a deluxe version of the Middle Ages scenario. Although I'm aware of MEM, I found great difficulty in getting it to work properly and simply decided to make my own take of the scenario. Ironically, many of the assets to that mod were taken from MEM so if I end up posting it, I will credit embryodead. My other scenario that I've been developing off and on is a fantasy scenario.

Because I am now sitting on multiple scenarios, I have been debating waiting until I finish my list of scenario ideas before releasing them here.

As for RORD, it is almost complete but I need to make some tweaks here and there to fix bugs and ensure the scenario is properly balanced gameplay wise. If there is still interest in this mod, I will get to doing that immediately and have it posted here ASAP.
First off, I'm sorry to hear about your difficulties, but I'm sure that everything will get better in due time. Is your RoRD available now? If so, how can I get it? Also, I have an idea for a historical scenario, but I have absolutely no skill, training or experience in this arena. How should I go about bringing my concept to life? Or, would you be interested in collaborating with me on it? Lastly, is there any money to be made creating these mods?
 
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