u/caesarevich

Instead of sending a diplomat on a world tour to secure trade rights with piss-poor distant factions, why not leave him in Italy and task him with extorting money from your fellow Romans?

Start the game by offering to attack as many factions as possible (eight is the maximum the UI will let you haggle for). Neither diplomatic stance nor relations seem to matter.

The most I've managed to get this way is 1k for 9 turns from the Senate and 1k for 7 turns from my allies. In some versions of the game, once you follow through on your promise, you can immediately ask for a onetime payment in exchange for attacking the same target faction again.

And since the AI receives large cheat donations on higher difficulties, your allies will always have some spare money until you no longer need their help.

So, I've only spent a short time with the mod, but I'm already impressed. This is what the Remaster should have been!

We can finally remove towers!

It's now possible to convert a settlement or a building to another culture!

The minimum number of regions AI needs before attacking a member of a superfaction is configurable.

The game runs incredibly fast.

It launches in fullscreen with the correct FPS and all that right from the start.

There are a few issues I noticed.

The game occasionally crashes when opening or browsing the Settings menu.

The obvious bug is that player units don't receive exhaustion penalties.

Demolishing a building now takes one full turn. I understand the reasoning behind this change, but personally I'd prefer it to remain instant.

Units animations on the campaign map are sped up by default. This can be switched back by pressing the Space bar, but I would prefer it the other way, as was in vanilla.

I'd really really like to see the author focusing on a polished Vanilla+ version of the mod before expanding into unit overhauls, new factions, and other large content additions.

Overall, this mod is a fantastic foundation! I can't thank the creator enough! Highly recommend!

Milking the Senate and the People of Rome

REX mod. WOW. Just wow