Hi,

I have recently noticed this game bundle on GameStop (former Impulse) and with a great help from Katapraktoi's Let's Play serie I really got tempated to buy ;)

However I would like to know few thing and since I have not found any form of manual...

1) Experience/leveling/abilities - some info about heroes - how much they are effective, what abilities (pasive/active) can they learn, how much strength they gain by leveling etc...
2) Concept of slaves and migrants?
3) Supply routes - if I understand properly you have to link all your building to be able to replenish lost troops? Any details on this unique tool?

Thanks in advance for reply and if there is some guide book I missed apologies in advance.

Regards,
Marty

1. Only units level, leaders add experience to a unit. They provide a mrginal bonus.
You have four items to level: unit speed, siege speed, food usage and morale. All of these items are quite straightforward what they do and can provide quite an edge if used properly.

2. When a unit breaks (morale is down to zero) it stops to fight and tries to flee, if you catch them before they flee and escape they can be captured or executed. Captured enemies turn into slaves that can be used to work in mines or to transport food for large campaigns.

3. Supply routes allow food to transfer between cities they also provide a small gold bonus. Units are replenished automatically if there are no enemies nearby, if they are in supply of a city and the home city has enough recruits. Recruits are generated automatically and if you can change the home city of all your units.

Hi,

thanks for replies. Game bought :) I prefer GameStop digital distribution over Steam because Steam is still using DRM and that is something I will not support. Plus I like the GameStop client, it is tidy in my opinion.

Regarding game I really like the game play but I have some remarks/suggestions/questoins.

Does unit loose it experience when it flees from battle?
Can game be modified some way? Mean balance etc?

Maybe a suggestion for Hegemony: Rome
More RPG - more abilities for unit and heroes, definitely (at least for sandbox) possibility for heroes to level up and customize (mostly sandbox).
Some kind of towns evolution, I know the child mortality rate was tremendous those times but prosperous towns should still have some way to grow.
Supply routes between towns should be created automaticaly - I don't really see a reason not to.
Can unit attack enemies in close proximity automaticaly?

Regards

Hi,

wow, it is surprising to see gain this kind of feedback from dev. team. I am impressed. Gratitude and respect for listening & answering community ;)

But just to clarify for anybody else, the Steam version of Hegemony doesn't use their DRM Really? I thought 99,99% of Steam games uses this crapy costumer-bullying technique. Thumbs up for those who live free of DRM shackles!

Rome does feature a completely new upgrade system that allows you to use XP to promote a wide variety of officers in your legion which add additional abilities to your units. A similar system also allows you to build upgrade buildings for your cities. The "heroes" or generals in Rome will still have fixed skills but there are now a lot more variations than the four skills in Gold. You can also assign generals to be city "governors" which will apply applicable bonuses to the city.
The reason cities don't really grow in Gold/Rome is because the games were meant to model a relatively short period of history (10-20 years) where you wouldn't have seen huge shifts in population. We also wanted to keep the focus on the military aspects rather than on growing cities.
For both points, I understand why you want to keep heroes/towns steady in campaings. Your Macedon campaing in Gold could very well be used as a teaching aid for history lessons in my opinion :-) However in sandbox these principles seems to be a bit limitation. For the sake of replayability having the posibility to expand town and shape your own heroes would be a great advantage.

You're correct that you do always want to connect your cities but, particularly later on, you will find the number of connections is limited and you'll need to make choices which cities you want to connect to each other.
Well, but if I understand right you only need one link amongst all cities and food/recruit will be redistributed. Only benefit from direct connection between city full of food and starving cities will be the speed of food transport? Maybe I am jsut not getting it right, it is totally new aspect I have never seen in any other game.

Thanks a lot for your replies.

I agree there could be some interesting potential there in the sandbox and we are trying to expand that mode to make it a lot more interesting in Rome. While I don't know if there's a realistic chance of including those as in-game features, you should be able to add heroes and change populations fairly easily as mods.
Well, leaving some hero leveling mechanism prepared for modders sounds like an option :-) Same goes for towns.

I don't know if this helps, but in Hegemony Gold, the supply lines have a fixed capacity but they all transport at the same speed. This means that having two lines will transport twice as much food, but the time it takes from the completion of a supply line to when the food arrives is always the same.

We're actually going to be changing this up a little in Rome to hopefully make it a little clearer and more intuitive.
Supplies are still tricky for me to be honest. You can not link city A to city B with 2 supply lines? And supply lines between city and farm, city and mine and city and city are equal? Still think auto-connection witihin cities will be fine, plus you can always have some upgrades for supplny line so players will care about their supply lines but not suffer headaches from making „logistic“ decisions.