[WB] Aut Caesar aut nihil (18+)

Aut Caesar aut nihil v1.444b (от 26.04.2021) :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1othIOFYUw6WZ6k9bXcgQqaDdxMM13r1b/view

Автор обновил свой мод, не меняя номера версии.

27 июня ожидается новое глобальное обновление мода. Автор предупредил, что старые сохранения работать не будут.

Точно в срок вышло обещанное обновление Aut Caesar aut nihil v1.500 (от 27.06.2021) : https://disk.yandex.ru/d/5UfPMeCCoMDlrg
Огромный changelog. Автор мода достоин восхищения.

Full changelog of the update:

fixes:

    its now possible to revoke the lex militaris correctly
    fixed a small issue in character notes code
    fixed a minor dialogue
    fixed items not being displayed correctly in inventory
    corrected many typos
    fixed issue that agents weren’t considered as routed properly if they tactical retreat
    fixed wrong desert forest maps being used for large battles
    deceased lords/ladies can no longer attend to player domus mare feasts
    wind will no longer cause glitches on some trees, bushes and grass meshes

troops:

    removed lords: Cothelas, Reichsin, Mardonios (as they had no family and nobody likes them)
    changed several unit names to be latin/greek/germanic/celtic
    added new Scythian mercenary units
    improved equipment of most non Roman low level faction troops
    Celtic kings now have helms, Germanic lords have civilian clothing and new armour
    changed equipment of bandit troops
    changed steppe bandit troop to Alan raider and added two more Alan troops
    added Bosporan troops
    changed Scythian troops are now Sarmatian troops and they are all mounted now, have no longer shields and fight mostly with ringswords, kontos and bows
    mastercraftsmen now have equipment according to culture
    new handcrafted faces for:
    all arena masters, all armor merchants, all weapon merchants
    all tavern keepers, all horse merchants, all good merchants
    all magister civium, all village elders, all master craftsmen
    all slave traders, all wandering musicians, all the latifundia personal
    ladies:
    Artashidala, Surena, Phaedymia, Atossa, Artanis, Parysatis, Artystone, Artakama, Parmys,
    Artazostre, Rhoxane, Vashti, Damaspia, Artakamasa, Lulya Karinid, Ifar Mihranid,
    Asinia Stulta, Verginia Aurora, Coccia Prima,
    Pulchra Invidia, Darta, Valeria Victrix, Hunna
    companions now have proper age and renown set at game start
    companions stats are changed. Roman veterans now have higher stats and are a bit more expensive to higher. Some special companions also have now higher stats.

items:

    added Sarmatian and/or Bosporan equipment
    added Alan equipment
    added some Indian equipment
    changed some Roman helmets which looked too similar
    civilian caligea no longer have nails, military have
    changed certain armors for a more consistent look
    removed most native items which where still in the mod
    adjusted values of armors, boots and helms
    weight, price, speed rating are now calculated via formulas taking into account quality, weight and size of the item
    corrected lengths of certain weapons and shield sizes
    changed some damage values of certain weapons
    shields are now weaker making it possible to break during battle
    Introduced a system for changing equipment of Roman troops during winter months, i.e. they will wear pants and longer tunics under their armor
    introduced a system to change body parts of armors to match the skin colour of the troop wearing it

quests:

    added quest: 'Dionysus rege!':
    quest is available in caves of Dionysus, you need to do the quest if you want the Aegis shield
    added secret quest (starring many famous people, including Emperor Kujula Kadphises)
    added special quest Tu amo, me non amare:
    For quest to trigger you need to talk with Biggus Dickus on victory party, then quest will trigger once you have more then 50 senate support while entering the senate (there is no longer any real penality don’t worry, so you wont lose any renown/influence or whatever, thought there is still a very small honor lose later on (which scales with your honor if respective diplomacy setting is actiavated, and some ethical concerns). The quest has choices allowing you to be 'nice' or not. Though you can only get two special items from the quest if you are not 'nice'
    kill local merchant quest:
    * quest will now appear more frequent
    * merchant has equipment depending on town culture
    * town center scene is used instead of buggy back alley scene
    tax collecting quest:
    * rebellious peasants now have clothing depending culture of current center

scenes:

    added a missing entry point for a village scene
    adjusted some siege scenes
    village of Patrae (Greece) has unique scene
    new scene for Cyrene ( thanks oliver from 457AD mod)
    new set of scenes for Lugdunum (thanks oliver from 457AD mod)
    new scenes for Bosporan centers (thanks oliver from 457AD mod)
    new generic scenes for Sarmatian settlements: town, village, castle
    parties:
    renamed/relocated some centers in Crimea
    added a castle and a village in the Ukrainian region

other changes:

    change to Lord party AI thinking:
    * the lord where player is enlisted should now follow marshal orders more often (of course, if there is no campaign in progress he wont)
    * courting a lady is now lower priority than patrolling an alarmed center (it was already very low priority, but now its really the lowest)
    * information radius now depends on culture of kingdom: Romans have highest, while Germans/Brits have the default, which is lowest now. (i.e. range at which a marshal is considered to be too far away, one could think of it like range of messengers)
    changes to faction diplomacy AI:
    * actor and target factions consider now possible alliances of their enemies when doing strength calculation
    * if a faction is allied with tow other kingdoms which declare war on each other it will now stay neutral
    * strength calculation now considers size of parties to determine its value
    * allies will now only join wars if they border to the faction, otherwise they cant wage war effectively:
    It is still possible that, for instance, the Dumoni ally with Armenia if both are at war with Rome,
    though Domuni wont join wars of Armenia against Parthia for instance, it will only join wars against Rome (as they both border to Rome)
    In particular, with the "curb power war goal" enabled, large alliances against Rome can be more effective now
    the relationship penality with the town lord for enterprises is now -40, idea: governors really need to hate you before they violate the law to harm you
    added some Sporus interaction
    improved performance of horse archer AI trigger a bit
    default female body shows no longer nude boobs, though dancer still (I failed to make it an option)
    new maps for steppe terrain
    improved patrol spawn code: each town can now have 1 patrol, castles wont have a patrol, this improves performance as I could remove a daily loop over all parties (f*** diplomacy) and AI will now decide size of patrol depending on town wealth, with wealthier towns having larger patrols and the town has to pay for patrol at spawn.
    changed saga of Beowulf to poem 'shield of Heracles'
    AI patrols should now retreat to their home town if they wandered to far away or are very small and will also drop of prisoners
    bandits drop of prisoners whenever they reach their lair, i.e. sold to slave traders
    bandits with too many prisoners will return to lair to drop of their prisoners
    bandit parties too small will be removed whenever they reach lair
    changed steppe bandits to Alani and added them as bandit faction
    changed Roxoloani to Sarmatae
    added Bosporan kingdom which replaces Scythia, also renamed some lords
    added cult of Mithras in Rome (only available after secret quest is completed)
    added Hellenic arms merchant in Rome (only available after secret quest)
    added special Indian merchant in Ctesiphon’s town center
    added Indian mercenaries available in some Parthian towns
    new random events (thanks @BanDHMO)
    in Cnossus (walking around the castle) you can now find the entrance to the labyrinth. There is some treasure and surprise awaiting you
    added a cutscene at beginning of 'rags' start
    added a new track
    changed tariffs calculation a bit: having entry controls issued will now provide more tariffs from caravans entering town
    added wolf, lion and leopard hunts for minor factions
    added new minor faction in Ireland with two new troops which can also be hired as mercenaries
    added new minor faction in Denmark with two new troops which can also be hired as mercenaries
    added new minor faction in Eastern Poland with two new troops which can also be hired as mercenaries
    added event about Claudia Augusta's dead
    a new freelancer event for nonPraetorian line
    the march with the soldiers freelancer event is now skippable (just press tab), but you wont get any progress points if you skip
    during 'tournaments' in Roman towns, player can now watch beasts fights
    removed option to let AI always attack: if freelancing, AI will always attack to avoid both armies watching each other,
    otherwise AI can decide whether it wants to attack or not. Reason is because having AI always attack make it use their range troops worse
    lords can now also be goodnatured, goodnatured and quarrelsome is less likely (Kaeso is no longer the only goodnatured lord)
    farmers when fighting bandits are now based on culture rather then being generic farmers
    in tournaments in nonRoman towns the participants will spawn using their own weapons: the idea is to have those 'nonRoman tournaments' be like competition between the best warriors of the region
    gladiator equipment is now for sale in Roman shops
    weapons and armour merchants inventories are now based on culture of town rather than original faction
    Armenian kings wife is no longer mother to older kids
    merchants in Jerusalem temple will no longer sell pork
    changed a quest description
    some changes to lord ages and family relation for British and Germanic lords
    dismounted cavalry will now be assigned to infantry division
    archers can now also form ranks
    overhead thrust with spear is now faster
    gladii now have overhead thrust and a new unique thrust animation, left and right slash is now disabled by default, you need to press X to enable and switch to different weapon mode
    new stand idle animation
    in field battle, ammunition will be refilled each 7 minutes (during sieges its 4 minutes)
    during large field battles: reinforcements will now spawn more frequent but with less troops
    Thestia Domitia is now also marriable if player choses to keep her as companion
    bandits chosen for freelancer patrol mission will now depend more on current location
    Custom banners are now working like the normal once
    Special items are no longer accessible from find item cheat. HAHAHA
    Changed chest location on Pyramid scene

Again a special thanks to Oliver and Wlodowic from 457AD mod team for models and research.

Для себя из changelog я выделил самое интересное :

Введена система смены экипировки римских войск в зимние месяцы, то есть они будут носить штаны и более длинные туники под доспехами.
Союзники теперь будут вступать в войны только в том случае, если они граничат с фракцией, иначе они не смогут эффективно вести войну.
Добавлено Боспорское царство, которое заменяет Скифию.
В Кноссе (прогулка по замку) теперь вы можете найти вход в лабиринт. Вас ждет поиск сокровища и сюрприз.
Во время "турниров" в римских городах, игрок теперь может наблюдать за боями зверей.
Торговцы в Иерусалимском храме больше не будут продавать свинину.
Thestia Domitia теперь также может выйти замуж, если игрок решит оставить ее в качестве компаньонки.
Специальные предметы больше не доступны из чит-магазина.    HAHAHA   (Демонический хохот автора)
+ совершенно новые квесты.

Автор пофиксил ошибки в свежей Aut Caesar aut nihil v1.501 (от 27.06.2021) :
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/_JXE0oiGKi0pmA

Изменения :

- fixed minor issues in dialogues
- fixed issue at game start
- fixed start up quest
- made sure player cant reach an area he shouldnt reach on the new scene for rome
- special arms merchant will now sell pila and hasta again
- changed hit points of shields to be stronger to better fit for longer battles (keep in mind the importance of shield skill though)
- some adjustment to throwing weapons
- Sporus will only spawn after the quest has been done

Aut Caesar aut nihil v1.502 (от 28.06.2021) : https://disk.yandex.ru/d/9TVyEv5ob0wpTQ

Изменения :

- changed stats of 2-handed hammers
- price for polearms is less sensible to the length now (in general, they are now cheaper, since I think a spear should be less expensive than a sword anyways)
- shields are again a little bit more expensive
- fixed more problems in dialogues
- in final battle of training peasant quests normal villagers will spawn
- bacchus quest will end now at the end
- special Roman arms/armor merchant sells now his stuff correctly again

Aut Caesar aut nihil v1.503 (от 30.06.2021) : https://disk.yandex.ru/d/sy4lIJlsHIHVyg

Изменения :

- added names (Amogus...) (obviously needs new game to see this change)
- flirting successfully will give you now some xp
- improved standard equipment selection for Roman custom troops (requires new game)
- also in Judean towns one can now visit the baths
- fixed crocea mors sword
- certain rich items no longer have modifiers
- lowered price of shoes
- golden caliga are cheaper now, but still expensive, as they are made of gold
- fixed a string in an dialogue during freelancer event
- sporus dialogue should now work properly
- feasts at player villa will end after you attended to them
- looted towns will no longer creat a patrol
- player culture will now change properly if player decides to lead the jewish revolt as king
- spatha's have now better position
- changed effect of item modifiers (price and probability)

Aut Caesar aut nihil v1.504 (от 01.07.2021) : https://disk.yandex.ru/d/eqfWIPfzDPTP2Q

Изменения :

- new faces for Celtic lords (require new game)
- a minor change in menu
- while hunting during freelancing a flag was overwriten, this is now fixed
- AI behavior in sieges: at start, archers spawning at infantry spawn will be assigned to infantry division
- fixed native bug which pretended archers to go to their positions
- nerfed sarissas as they were op
- changed some ages/family relations of celtic lords (requires new game)
- increased greek fire damage as it was way too low
- changed some celtic lord ages because of '?' well, why not
- added a totally neutral option to a Nero event
- fixed finally the default custom legion selection not showing everything (needs a new game, sry)
- removed debug code
- added missing spawn points to lugdunum scenes
- leader gloves show now correct skin color
- king of dumoni and his wife are now older than their son
- fixed special issues for freelaning: player is now at war also with defeated factions to avoid problems with revolts (need to leave and then rejoin service for change to apply)
- while freelaning companions wont spawn in lord hall

Aut Caesar aut nihil v1.505a (от 03.07.2021) : https://disk.yandex.ru/d/c_iJjdVvLAmGMA

Изменения :

- you can no longer get ambushed by bandits if you are sneaking into the town
- local auxiliaries can now also be recruited in villages if the village is Romanized
- you can get prisoners again
- changed more Celtic noble faces
- changed some Germanic noble faces
- fixed a string bug in reports menu
- fixed a messed up vertex on worldmap
- changed germanic spear prices
- changed some sword and weapon prices
- low armor shoes are now much cheaper
- shields are a little bit more expansive now
- fixed a dialogue
- patrols will disband if their town change faction
- fixed minor issue on Alexandria scene
- changed difficulty of some weapons which where quite high compared to others

Aut Caesar aut nihil v1.511 (от 11.07.2021) : https://disk.yandex.ru/d/O3PKgC-xXATfkw

Изменения :

- when sneaking into castles, siege equipment will be removed properly
- fixed a glitch with manica
- fixed a glitch with masks
- fixed a glitch with slinger tunics
- added missing triggers for some missions
- fixed a glitch with bronze sandals
- added back pelt for hamata of legio macedonica which has been accidentially removed
- renamed item: bearskin to wolfskin
- made Bosporan queen older (so that she really can be mother of her childs)
- added primary flag to all secondary flag items which was missing and caused some issues
- fixed an issue if player switches to inventory with winter clothing
- changed some strength requirements for hasta which where a little bit too high
- added a fall back to code that changes shoes in winter
- fixed a glitch with cataphract boots
- changed damage of long hasta from 31 to 30
- minor faction raider parties will now also drop off prisoners
- fixed a problem with parties travelling to Cyrene or parties near Cyrene
- added missing merchandise flag for: roman poor tunics and togas, dresses, some helms and a weapon
- added merchandise flag to greek fire
- added heavy armor to pavels shop
- fixed glitch with linothorax
- fixed some typos and grammar
- fixed a diplomacy issue in dialogues
- added a dialogue to the special merchants in rome to ask them where the goods merchant is if the quest is active
- you can now also buy some slaves from ramun and galeas
- casualities from siege events are now smaller
- casualities due to autocalculation when storming walls are now slightly higher
- when buying slaves from slave traders, dialogue will now inform you if you have not enough capacity
- made the spy party slower to make the 'follow spy' quest easier
- added rumor strings to tavern keepers for certain special quests
to make playing as villain a bit easier and to encourage roleplaying:
- low honor will now increase prisoner limit
- if you have low honor depending on looting skill you can now steal money from defeated lords after a battle, money gain depends on how dishonorable you are
- being more dishonorable will give you more prisoners while chasing after villagers
- being dishonorable will give you more prisoners if you sack a town/castle
- being dishonorable will give you more money if you sack/loot a town/castle
(the main idea of this changes is that if your character is really dishonorable he takes more care while doing such actions, while a honorable character would be too hesitant)
- added information message once slaves are purchased by slavetrader
- manhunters have now a secondary weapon
- there is no longer snow during nile freelancer mission
- fixed a freelancer bug
- improved skinning of dancers outfit
- fixed glitch with gladius scab
- added a desert version for marching camp scene
- added dialogue to help slave in rome if emperor
- fixed an issue with patrols
- fixed more typos
- fixed a diplomacy bug
- fixed an issue with dialogues
- fixed conflicts in code between sea travel and patrols
- changed judean lair scene to be more fitting
- bandit lairs will no longer join battles
- added missing horse archer skills for horse archers (would require a new save to see this change)
- buying the two villas in rome will now give renown
- your staff (quaestor etc) will now also spawn on villa scenes

 Новая версия мода ожидается в период между 20 и 24 декабря.

Сегодняшний Dev Blog XX :

Camp fortifications
Player can fortify his camp. It requires a set of tools inside the inventory and an engineer skill larger or equal to 5. You can’t move while fortified, it works like a camp. Being attacked while fortified will lead to a battle where the enemies are assaulting your camp. The camp has four archer positions and two infantry positions at the two gates of the camp. The infantry is divided into two divisions that will hold position at the two gates. The enemy is divided into two forces that will attack the two gates.
As the camp battles worked quiet well I decided to try something similar to sieges, which lead to a change to all siege maps, which took quiet a while.

Sieges
Attackers and defenders have now four different spawn points. The melee fighters spawning there will be divided into four division. There are four ladders placed on the map. The four defender divisions will hold defend the four ladders respectively. Also the four attacker division will each use one of the ladders.
Additionally, attackers archers are divided into four divisions. Each of this divisions has its own archer-position. That means attacker archers will cover advancing infantry with additional fire. The attacker and defender archers will receive ammunition supply over time. Though the attacker supplies will run out at some point, then the attacker archers will charge.
Once the battle is coming to an end (i.e. if the last defender reinforcements arrive) all division will charge.
Those changes mean that a larger part of the siege scenes will be used! Thus I also decided to give the attacking player access to his horse, it will spawn right next to the player.
The number of reinforcement waves for sieges in now fixed, though I also added an option to double reinforcement waves for people who want longer battles. As usual, if not all defenders have been defeated the battle will continue in the streets.
I am still thinking of a similar feature for field battles, but dunno yet. (maybe in the future)

Olympic games
Finally added Olympic games have arrived in the mod! They will take place at some random date after the game start. You will be informed via a menu and a quest will start. The quest will expire after 75 days, during this time you can join the Olympics whenever you want. Once the quest expires the games will conclude without the player.
The games will take seven days to finish. On each day a competition is held, after the competition is over the player is forced to rest at Olympia. The participant who wines most of the competitions is declared victor of the games. The competitions are:

    Pygmachia: a fist fighting competition
    Dialous: a running race
    Hoplitodromos: a running race in full hoplite armor
    horse race
    mule race
    spear throw
    discus throw

To participate you need at least strength 12, power throw 3, riding 3, and athletic skill of 3, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to use the required items for the competitions.
Companions and Roman lords with high enough skill can also participate.

"Banking”
An Argentarius has been added to scriptorium. Its not longer possible to deposit money when talking to the when talking to the praefectus, instead you can deposit it when talking to the Argentarius. Additionally you have an option to lend out money. You can lend out a loans between 5,000 and 500,000 denars. The loan will expire after a week. Once it expires the money will be added to the following budget report. Depending on when you issued the loan and depending on when your next budget report will show it can take between one or two weeks until your receive the interests.
For your loan you have two options: Either you order the Argentarius to reinvest the money again, or you order him to send you back all the money. In the first case, you will only receive the interests of your loan and the rest of the money will be used to lend out a new loan right away after receiving the interests. In the later case you will receive all the money back. Sometimes the interests can be negative. That shall simulate the case when the debtor is not able to repay the loan you offered him. Though its not much, in the long term you will make a profit.

Other changes

    Ironman is now disabled and you can’t enable it. Its better to have multiple saves and save often.
    New buildings have been added and the town center menu has been changed. It is much more structured now and gives a better overview. The buildings have different benefits and some will give profit, but its all a long time investment.
    Doing the “conquer quests” once being emperor will grant a cognomen that is shown in the character notes and the character report. Your name won’t change as long names will cause glitches and there is also a character limit. You can rename yourself however you want.
    tones of new items for various cultures and rework of existing ones and changes to troop trees.
    more special quests and artefacts
    some modification to faction AI diplomacy, in particular, player will now recieve more peace messages from enemy factions.
    budget report is now enabled while freelancing and used to pay your wages.
    et cetera

После очень долгого перерыва следующее обновление мода ожидается 22.12.2021

Most important changes to expect:
*) changed all sieges to have 4 ladders (and adjusted battlemaps)
*) changed all large custom battle scenes and fixed the border bug
*) many, many new items and changes to existing items, in particular for Germans, Sarmatians, Armenians, Parthians and the African/Arab minor factions.
*) some new special quests
*) you can now fortify your camp, which will lead to a camp battle if it is attacked.
*) new buildings
*) olympic games

Как и было заявлено автором Aut Caesar aut nihil v1.602 (от 24.12.2021) : https://disk.yandex.ru/d/gz4bH2N4yAWJMA

Изменения просто огромны:

v. 1.600 beta changes:
fixes:
- fixed issue with wlod adventures quest: disguess will now be removed once player joins caravan to
sagala, this will avoid an issue where player spawns without armor in sagala
- fixed an issue while freelancing where it could happen that player participates in a battle between two
Roman lords
- fixed an issue with sea raiders not patrolling sea properly
- fixed some issues with minor faction parties AI
- fixed an issue in dialogue with daughter
- fixed issue with armored horses not appearing in shops
- you can now only travel to Sagala from Ctesiphon
- fixed an issue in raiding code
- fixed typos
- fixed an issue with dead lords reappearing if civil war ends
- fixed some glitches
- a germanic sword and axe which had blunt damage now have cut damage
- you can no longer change commander of enemy civil war faction
- joining Rome via invitation quest will end now the entlist army quest
- fixed a crash related to an collision mesh of a prop
- fixed an issue with fur coat
- you can no longer enlist a lord who is imprisoned
- roman gladius upper thrust will now inflict same damage as lower thrust (swing and thrust damage are
now equal for the normal weapon mode, as the upper thrust animation uses swing damage)
- fixed same issue with spears
- fixed extra penetration flag
- fixed an issue with companion parties
- the wife of shah of Armenia is no longer mother to anyone, as she is too young
items:
- added some clothing for garamantes and gaetuli
- added some other roman shields which where hidden on the textures but not used
- replaced germanic ridged helms with zomby roman helms (thx @oliver)
- replaced some germanic shirts with better tunics (thx @oliver)
- added judean tunics, mail shirts and scale armors and 4 new Germanic mails and tunics (thx @oliver)
- added a couple of auxiliar helms and some old Roman helms (thx @oliver)
- added 4 judean scutums (thx @Mamo for shield patterns)
- added old and rusty gladii and hasta
- added one new Roman style throwing spear
- changed Aegis and Ancient Shield hitpoints
- changed some roman shield textures (thx @Mamo)
- added new short bow and new long bow
- added three small round shields for Rome (thx @Mamo)
- added germanic noble tunics (thx @oliver)
- added rings
- added four Germanic caps
- added Eastern Germanic shields (thx @Fabio of Great Lombardy)
- added new roman armors and some helms (thx @oliver)
- added new vexilia for custom legion (thx @lib)
- added Alexanders armor and changed Alexanders helm
- stone has now different texture then silver
- added Arminius helm and spatha
- added crown of egypt (thx @migdeu19 from ToNC Ancestors mod)
- added toga picta for Emperor
- added augustus breastplate (thx @lib for the decoration)
- added 3 clubs (thx @oliver)
- added two poor tunics, two hoods and a cloak from brytenwalda
- added a couple of simple roundshields

- added two dacian spears, two eastern spears, one sarmatian spear, celtic throwing spear, dacian
throwing spear, eastern throwing spear, parthian axe for cataphracts, Armenian sword and Armenian axe
- replaced parthian armors and tunics
- added armenian armors and tunics
- replaced sarmatian armors and tunics
- added bosphoran scale armors
- added a Germanic spear
- added Germanic shields (thx mamo)
- added palmyrian lamellar and swords
- removed two native sarranid armors and replaced them by arabian lamellar armors
- added arabian colored turbans and simple tunics
troops:
- replaced Friedbert with Assi, legendary ruler
- replaced Actogais with Ambri, Assi and Amrbi are brothers
- gaetuli troops are now light infantry
- changed parthian troop tree, added new elite infantry unit
- changed judean troop tree
- added armenian troops tree
- slightly changed Germanic troop tree
- changed cretan archers: they no longer have a linothorax and Greek equipment
- removed manhunter troop tree
- added palmyrian mercenaries
scenes:
- vestal priest is now outside the temple along side with the people, its no longer possible to enter the
temple, though player can look into it from outside, and the holy fire has been added
- added a bedroom to domus augusti
- added hieroglyphs to pyramid scene (which you can read)
- added village scene for African villages
- added castle scene for the two Roman castles in Africa
- added scene for Ephesus, with Artemis temple
build fortifications:
- you can now fortify your camp (will lead to a camp battle if you are attacked)
- you can also fortify your siege camp
quests:
- added small quest involving Pavel
- added special quest about Thusnelda, Arminius' wife
- added Nero reborn quest
- added elysium quest
- added legendary lombard quest
diplomacy:
- peace declarations can now happen more frequent and player will recieve more peace offers from AI
with option to negotiate
- AI will now also try to make peace even if it distrusts its enemy a lot
- if AI suffered a lot during a war without gain it is more willing to make peace now
- during peace negotations player can demand now more money
- normal truce lasts now for 25 days instead of 20 to give factions more time to recover
sieges:
- if player joines an assult the attackers will now also retreat if they lose the battle with high casualities
(just like if the player defeats an assult if he is defending)
- each siege now has 4 spawns for defenders and 4 for attackers, attackers have now also 4 archer
position to which the attacker archers will go
also attacker archers will recieve ammunition supplies now, once they run out of ammo they will also
charge
if player builds mantels the archers will have additional palisades which protect them (ai will always
build mantels by default)
- sally out mission uses now a field battle scene rather than the siege scene
other changes:

- changed titles of Sarmatians: Sayal (King), Katiari (Queen), Batesa (Sworn Bondsman)
- modified HDR effects so it looks less silly
- added a cutscene to the wlod I quest
- sand storms can occur in deserts
- added generic freelancer task to collect tribute from subjugated (non-Roman) villages
- added a freelancer event
- remvoed manhunter parties
- Roman factions will now only give castles/towns + surrounding villages to lords
- added olympic games: they have 7 competitons (spear throw, discus throw, horse racing, mule racing,
and two running races (one with hoplite armor one without),
all competitions can be played in Olympia at any time
- freelancer wages will now show in the bugdet report, the budget report is now enabled while
freelancing
- Eastern Germanic mercenaries have a change to be recruitable in Eastern Germanic villages
- foraging for food has now much smaller probability to cause small casualities
- ala praetoriana can now only be recruited in barrracks of centers owned by praetorian prefect or if you
are Emperor in your own barracks
- barracks building build by non-Romans will provide player a new presentation to recruit troops instead
of volunteers
- no longer possible to arrest your wife while she is in your party
- modified horse archer ai to avoid horse archers getting stuck at scene borders
- you can now also order your companions to stage a border incident with you own faction (i.e. fabricate
claim, is necessary if you want to declare war without relation lose)
- major faction tributaries of player faction will now pay a tribute (just like minor factions)
- added a new game to the greek philosopher (thx @BanDHMO)
- you can recruit balistarii from barracks too
- disabled ironman option at gamestart, i.e. you are now forced to make your own save files!
- added new center buildings: sewers, provincial farming, provincial peasture land, provincial trader,
guard posts, Great port, fishing port, paved roads, quarry, hospital, industrial mills, indutrial looms,
industrial smithies
- changed center managment menu to a presentation
- added Q and A event with Petrus
- changed menu art
- player can no longer deposit money when talking with a praefect in scriptorium, instead inside the
scriptorium an agentarii will spawn
player can talk with him and deposit money, he can also lend his money out and recieve interests (more
detailed explaination can be found under game concepts)
- you no longer need to pay for accommodation if you rest in Rome if you own a villa there
- added three special artefacts the player can obtain from doing the 'Conquer Britannia', 'Conquer
Germania' etc quests
- added menorah with (moral bonus only if you are worshipping yhwhe)
- mithras statue will only give you a moral bonus if you are not worshiping christ or yhwhe
- slave markets should now be build more often
- converting culture is now a little bit faster
- doing the quests to conquer land for Rome will give you a cognomen
- added more dialogue options to a freelancer event
- looters will no longer spawn near high prosperity villages (<66)
- added sprinting to horse races: by pressing J you can speed up your horse, though if it gets too
exhausted it will die and you will lose
- changed cursor
- you can now buy new furniture for domus mare
xp gain (idea is to have a level 40 character after ~500 days of campagning without having to kill 5k
troops):
- xp gain from killing/wounding enemies is now also higher
- finishing buildings (of latifundia and town) will give now xp
- killing animals during hunt will now give extra xp
- winning horse race gives now more xp

- freelancer daily training gives now more xp
- flirting gives now more xp
- added xp gain to most events
- successfully embzelling funds will give now xp
- extra xp gain from progress points gained during battles
optimisation and textures:
- reduced size of specular maps
- reduced size of save files
- minor optimisation of some models and collisions
- added several bump and specular maps
- removed unnecessary alpha channels from some textures
- optimised map icons
debug changes:
- disabled debug cheats, to enable set the slot g_is_dev of trp_global_variables to 1 in game_start script
and compile
- game will detect how often player uses the cheatmenu
version 1.601 beta changes:
- Greek (shit) items will no longer appear in shops, pavel has the monopol on it now
- added scabbard for sarmatian swords, alan swords, parthian daggers (but not for greek shit)
- removed native sabres
- removed native boots: hide boots, hunter boots, ankle boots, removed native nomad armor
- added new model for Sarmatian boots and leather boots
- added Fabio kaftans
- no longer possible to marry Testia Domitia if player is betrothed
- fixed Alexanders Armor appearing shop
- removed debug message appearing on world map about faction diplomacy
- fixed typo of old mercenary
- fixed last dialogue in wlod 2
- fixed elysium quest doesnt end
- fixed infest by bandit bug
- fixed rioters killing praetorians
- fixed second outfit doubles items
- fixed Arminius tomb relation loose
- fixed missing change to world map in Lucia event
- fixed lombards not recruitable
- fixed collision of pyramid
- fixed Syrian helm glitch
- fixed legendary Pilos helm glitch
- renamed Bulgur to Utidava and Kedelk to Setuacotum
- added dialogue option to father of bride to marry her without a feast if 1 week has passed without
anything happening and if player and his bride are at the same center during conversation
- fixed other typos
- fixed some dacian castle scene
- replaced Sarmatian helms
- changed Native behavior: for player weddings AI lords can now host feasts EVEN if player is marshal,
this will have unforeseen consequences
- changed Armenian tunics to a different pattern
- Anicetus has now an Armenian short ringsword instead of a shit Greek sword
- removed boetian helm from scythian mercs
- non-time conform items should only be buyable from special merchants know (i.e. Pavels hellenistic
shop)
- removed native khergit dresses and replaced them with something else
- removed diplomacy dialogue option from player wife to buy bread and also removed the ridiculous
trigger to make the spouse party moving
- travellers and slave traders will now also generate small tariffs modified by buildings
- new dancer outfits and special outfit for player spouse in bedroom scene

version 1.602 changes:
- fixed an issue with gwenhyfar, she cant join now if party is full
- hiring bandits from lair now only possible if you are at peace with the bandit faction
- fixed issues with bandit hideouts loot calculation and added more loot
- new scenes for some bandit hideouts
- added a Libyan village scene
- added Germanic village scene based on a scene from @wlod
- made Alans deadlier
- tweaked parameters for horse archers
- fixed even more spelling mistakes
- you will now lose progress points for team killing while freelancing
- added more banners
- roman legates carry now a banner fitting to their legion
- fixed wolf hunting bug
- fixed cattle not appearing
- Greek mercs will no longer appear in Roman taverns, only way to get them now is via the emperor
event about alexander
- added recruitement limit to barracks, volunteers wont update if town/castle is under siege
- reduced recruitement cost
- while freelancing it is now possible to talk with the immune for treating wounds during sieges, as long
as player is not wounded
- if player party exceeds prisoner limit additional prisoners will now escape!
- added own rebelious slave troop tree
- there was an issue on the boundaries of the large hand made battle scenes from the osp (this issue was
there for quite a while), thus I changed all large battle scenes
- added coastal roman village scene based on a scene from @wlod
- added Alpine roman village scene based on a scene from @wlod
- added secret chest to Carthage town center (hint: look around the habour)
- added small events for companions: low level companions will slowly gain xp, strength and agility
while player is travelling around the world
- added quest: investment opportunity
- changed some Dacian scenes
- roman officers will now stand in last row of a wedge or ranks formation (as they are easily get killed in
first row), for shield wall: centurios still can stand in first row, but aquilifer and signifers wont.
- after an agent starts or stops running away at least 15 seconds need to pass before he re-decides his
action
- added more nubian euqipment (axes, heater shields and kilts)
- added a Germanic coastal village scene (by Rafa)

1.602 hotfix:
- disabled dev cheats
- changed riding skill requirements
- locked lending out money behind a renown threshold
- other minor things
- disabled some event which shouldnt happen while freelancing
- improved a siege scene

и главное - один мой хороший знакомый взялся за полную русификацию мода.

Прямо за новогодним столом автор обновил свой мод Aut Caesar aut nihil v1.602 (от 01.01.2022) :
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/PNxxUK3xLiU1Dg

Изменения :

- fixed texture of legio hispania vexilium
- added a threshold for looter spawns
- made a trigger less heavy
- fixed some typos and minor things
- fixed night bandits and improved its calculation
- removed the 'covers beards' flag from some helmets which shouldnt have it
- fixed some minor issues
- fixed troops spawning behind some buildings during the Fake-Nero fight
- optimised sound files
- after overthrowing Nero player claims no longer to be son of Nero but son of Claudius to justify rule, which makes player brother of Nero
- fixed an issue with soldiers not having legs

Aut Caesar aut nihil v1.603 (от 17.01.2022) : https://disk.yandex.ru/d/N-DCXP0HsGPlmw

Изменения :

fixes:
-) added some additional conditions to prevent dead lord from coming back
-) Olympic games timer is set properly
-) fixed Bosporan culture towns/villages/castles cause crash in the following situations:
village raids, looting/sacking the town/castle after capture, killing town/castle population, fighting bandits in villages. (done, but not updated)
-) make sure Ra Karak can't disappear (works only if you haven't hired him yet)
-) fixed Nikomedia siege scene
-) fixed conflict with armour randomization code that causes leg to disappear under certain situations, mainly noticeable for auxilia.
-) fixed Germanic shortsword and axe have missing modifiers
-) fixed hunt quest: should only be possible in settlement where quest is issued
-) fixed recruitment of volunteers in town/castles
-) player horse wont spawn as defender, only as attacker
-) restored old sounds as the sound bug I wanted to fix was not fixed at all
-) fixed some centurio helm missing skinning
-) fixed name of temples player can build
-) fixed an exploit with mercenaries

new features:
-) player can now order any weapon or armour piece from latifundia smiths or weapon/armour merchants him with selectable modifier
-) player can now ask a horse merchant or latifundia breeder to import a horse for him with selectable modifier
-) lords can comment on player's cloth he wears during conversation.

changes:
-) only Roman, Bosporan, Armenian and Parthian player-spouses will trigger the spouse event for spending too much money on various stuff
-) while freelancing the duty menu will pop-up weekly
-) made Thusnelda (the lady version, not the quest one) adventerous for Arnulf

Свежая версия после долгого перерыва Aut Caesar aut nihil v1.603 (от 19.03.2022) : https://disk.yandex.ru/d/eiGndZBOVQuBsQ

Новый Dev Blog XXI разработчика (от 02.04.2022) :

There are two things to mention: First of all, I want to give updates names, because of reasons. Secondly, updates will be bigger from now on.

So let’s see what the next update will have among other things. It will be called “Antonia”, named after Claudia Antonia, step sister of Nero, daughter of Claudius. In reality, she was murdered after the Pisonian conspiracy failed, as she was part of the conspiracy (Piso intended to marry her).
In the mod things will be a little bit different, but no spoiler. Its just important to note now that she will be introducing the player into the main changes for everything related to politics (if the player chooses the rags start…).

The main focus of this update is politics. In particular:

    governors governing a province in total. It is also no longer possible to just rule over one village, AI and you will always rule over a castle/town + villages.
    difference between senatorial and imperial province: The governorship of a senatorial province will expire, then the senate elects a new one. Governors of imperial provinces are fixed. There will be different ways to get a governorship (the old one to usurp a town will be integrated properly)
    a lot of new screens to manage everything, in particular as emperor
    “influence system”: Basically you will have two currencies: senate support and just influence. There will be a way to convert one thing to the other and it will be useful to demand things, like titles, promotions, a governorship. There will also be a possibility to convert influence into money, (basically to use your influence to take on loans that you will never pay back.)
    Change of the imperial finances. In particular: having debts will be the standard way to go, as all states have debts, in particular Rome
    other things that I wont tell now


Other characters that will be having a special role: Claudia Urgulanilla (probably a daughter of Claudius with his wife Plautia Urgulanilla), Amokos Impostos (totally non-fictional, former worker at the infamous brothels of the marine troops in Neapolis…)

(preview images can be found on the discord)

In any case, Roma invicta!

Из главного :
Автор теперь каждому обновлению будет присваивать личное имя (следующая версия мода будет называться “Antonia”)
И отныне обновлений будет больше.

https://disk.yandex.ru/d/3e7f4lFjBMR-rw  русификатор автор  frankenheim

Мод удивил. Понравился. Среди нпс много исторических персонажей. Поиграл в английскую версию - смертельных багов не нашел. Решил сделать к нему перевод. Файлы frankenheim не использовал (комментировать не буду). Взял за основу файлы из Imperial Rome (Опциона). Удивился малому количеству совпадений. Правда, переделка значительная. К переводу более 15 к строк. Но перевод будет закончен. Пока сроков нет.

Валуа, Отличная новость и успеха в переводе. И по словам автора нового обновления мода в ближайший месяц точно не будет, так что перевод будет актуален долго.

По мере прохождения мода постараюсь пополнять Гайд по сундукам и квестам