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Did you hire medicos ? I think Maeve is available the day after you hire one. You must go to the forum to receive permitt. You can do this the same day you hire secuty in this version.
- May 12, 2020
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I don't get how to buy Ionus in one shot. On Veneris, i first paid between 1100 to 1900s. The trader Fulvius said :
Next Solis, I come every hour of the day (from 10AM to 7PM) but i dont find him. I will find him on next Veneris, but i will have to pay around 5000s more. Does somebody had better luck ?
Next Solis, I come every hour of the day (from 10AM to 7PM) but i dont find him. I will find him on next Veneris, but i will have to pay around 5000s more. Does somebody had better luck ?
- Mar 18, 2020
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You can`t buy him in one shot, but you can try quick save and quick reload before the second meeting. If you are really that low on the money.
In the older versions he did that 4 or 5 times to me, i mean he always said, meet me next week^^
I think they made it more easy to buy him now. Anyways i don`t think there is a limit that say`s you have to buy him by "XYZ".
5K might not be the cheapest roll, but you can earn like 58K with a single court case, so money becomes pretty fast irrelevant anyways.
- May 12, 2020
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More problems with Ionus. After buying him from Fulvius, he told me:
So I took him to the farm.
Then every mercurii, I have this exchange with Fasti:
When I look at the quests log, I get the following advice:
But every time I try to pick him up at the farm, he will run away. And when I try to take her out of the bordello, she will run away. Does anyone have a solution?
So I took him to the farm.
Then every mercurii, I have this exchange with Fasti:
When I look at the quests log, I get the following advice:
But every time I try to pick him up at the farm, he will run away. And when I try to take her out of the bordello, she will run away. Does anyone have a solution?
- Jul 30, 2017
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It sounds like you waited weeks before trying to take her to see him at the farm?
As far as I remember, this whole mission has a hidden timer on it, as in.. can be failed if not done within a time limit.. Therefore the first thing I did, after putting the brother to work at the farm, was to pick up his sister at the brothel and travel back to the farm.
Hopefully you have a back up save from when you bought the brother?
- Mar 18, 2020
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I had the same problem, but that is basically a "bad roll" the Quest can split up in different parts i only played the part where he is willing to follow to the brothel.
So my suggestion would be reload the day you meet him, i don`t think there is a hidden timer, it is just up to the dice what roll/quest you become basically 50/50 chance. So simply quick save and quick load before the meeting with his brother.
I wonder and i`m curious tho, what the second option is, if there is really a better or less good outcome to it...
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Patronus Trunk
Tue Feb 23 15:55:46 2021I think there's a lot to like in this game, but the randomness of income makes almost everything you do feel pointless. Whats the point of running a brothel if so many things only give a pittance of sestertii, then a single vaginal sex makes more money then the entire previous two weeks combined. I've earned three times as much from a single court case then my brothel has made in my entire play time but then the next trial is a difficult one where I defend a senatorial and I get like 12 sestertii .. ok...
my point being, success in this game feels like its 90% luck, 10% grind and 0% skill, which is a shame cause other aspects like the art and the way the setting is used are great
my point being, success in this game feels like its 90% luck, 10% grind and 0% skill, which is a shame cause other aspects like the art and the way the setting is used are great
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- Jul 30, 2017
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The randomness in general.. Like any result really, if you make a safe before doing something and reload it to get another result, you most likely will. In court cases for example, a perfect success will not only earn money but also fame and glory etc. So each time I do court, I make a safe when asked if I'm sure I want to spend 4 hours looking for clients, and again after ask if I want to defend a case. Then I keep loading until seeing a profitable case (at my stage its murder or poison cases) and save in a different slot, then I keep loading till I like what the client has to say/winning chances etc. and make a 3rd save slot, and keep loading this to do the case and eventually get a perfect success, boosting 2-4 attributes along with a lot of money, often highest possible amount.
So here it is pure luck and grind.
Same with everything else, I make a back up safe before pressing "Go" and reload till getting the result I want, in play time it takes longer but in game days it's shorter
- May 9, 2017
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At this point in the game it may feel like your goal is money, like in so, so, so, so many games. It isn't. The game makes it clear that your goal is actually to become a man of note in rome, not just to pay off a shitty moneylender who is trying to find a way to ride on your coattails. This game is under very active (albeit slow) development, and we're trying to balance the sex scene releases with the game system releases.
Yes, a single successful court case in the defense of a senator accused of treason against the emperor might pay you 1M sestertii or more, cancelling your entire debt. That's NOT a mistake. Money is not the goal of the game. Fame and power are the goals. Fame and power in ancient rome do not come from money - there are lots of wealthy men in rome. Fame and power come from the traditions of the state:
- Become a senator, or
- Become a patron of the plebs, or
- Become an infamous gangster
- Consolidate a power base
- Fuck *all* the bitches
- Manage a gens of the most famous courtesans in all of rome
- Do horrible shit with your sister
- Run for political office on a wave of money and corruption
- Maybe try to become emperor?
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Crassus - *before* the reign of the Caesars and the vast confiscation of wealth into the personal treasury of the Emperor - was worth well over 200m sestertii. During the high imperial period, the Emperor had direct access to wealth in the billions, roughly the economic power of Musk or Bezos. And even then, the power was not from the money. It was from the mob, and from the legions. Most of us in the west (US, EU) have been trained to think of money as power. The reality is what Mao said: " 枪杆子里面出政权 " - Power comes from the barrel of the gun.
thank you for the reply, much appreciated! I can understand what youre saying, once I got my first big win and had that financial security, I already found myself ignoring the money in favour of long term goals like self improvement, socializing (and enjoying my brothel!).
That said though, I would still advocate for something like visible minimum prices that scales with your skill (or the quality of your slaves and establishment in case of the brothel) and add invisible variance on top of that to make up the final amount you get paid.
Money is not the goal of the game, but when you give me ways of earning it, I would still like those ways to feel both logical and rewarding. I would like to know what my services are worth and to see my efforts translate into tangible results. I think that kind of thing is important in any part of a game. Even if its something as simple as a price list in the brothel and some kind of indicator of roughly how much my services might be worth to my client before I accept the case.
I hope that made sense. and I want to stress, there's a lot about this game I like, which is why I decided to post
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- Aug 21, 2018
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The problem with the brothel earning at the moment is that your brothel is a shithole. When we are able to improve the place the amount of money you make from tasks will improve, people will be happier with the service, etc. No matter how good your girls are at their job, doing it under the broken down bridge near the waste dump is going to effect earnings. I believe girls will eventually get patrons that favor them which I assume will earn more money and rep as well. We're just waiting for the systems to be in place for all of that at the moment.thank you for the reply, much appreciated! I can understand what youre saying, once I got my first big win and had that financial security, I already found myself ignoring the money in favour of long term goals like self improvement, socializing (and enjoying my brothel!).
That said though, I would still advocate for something like visible minimum prices that scales with your skill (or the quality of your slaves and establishment in case of the brothel) and add invisible variance on top of that to make up the final amount you get paid.
Money is not the goal of the game, but when you give me ways of earning it, I would still like those ways to feel both logical and rewarding. I would like to know what my services are worth and to see my efforts translate into tangible results. I think that kind of thing is important in any part of a game. Even if its something as simple as a price list in the brothel and some kind of indicator of roughly how much my services might be worth to my client before I accept the case.
I hope that made sense. and I want to stress, there's a lot about this game I like, which is why I decided to post
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That's completely correct, and *fingers crossed* we're one or two releases at most from that stuff happening in the game - asculum improvement, bordello improvement, rome villa purchase are all critical to get out soon. However we're *also* trying to get the save/lod thing fixed and the cheat menu added.
- May 9, 2017
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Hey, a small update for everyone - Some of you really like the dressup game we've made for the girls. Our own @lanternofdarkness has done a new version. We will post it this week on the Subscribestar page, free for all our subscribers. This version features both Maeve and surprise Charis!