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yes back in a day when king/queen/emperor/empress/etc were still titles with power, today not so much since titles are mostly ceremonial.Aren't most kings jerks with over-inflated egos?
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maybe, last update took longer cause dev decided to switch rendering to unreal engine and no news about next update.
I am having issues unzipping the latest update.
I found no answer searching the thread. Hopefully someone can answer these issues.
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Tried several of the uploaded files.
They unzip but encounter an error.
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I also notice that there is an image in chapter 10 that is 222mb.
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It has been a few updates since I checked back. Why is there a decompiler and deobfuscate script in the zip?
I found no answer searching the thread. Hopefully someone can answer these issues.
1.
Tried several of the uploaded files.
They unzip but encounter an error.
2.
I also notice that there is an image in chapter 10 that is 222mb.
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It has been a few updates since I checked back. Why is there a decompiler and deobfuscate script in the zip?
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Not sure what you mean, I downloaded it fine and compressed it and posted it.
I had to try a few different extraction programs. It looks like my extraction program had issues with your file.
I originally thought it was an issue with the upload, as I have never encountered this issue before with any of the other files here, on patreon, or on itch
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With my file, huh? I didn't post the ones in the OP, I only posted the "compressed" version.
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Great game! I read about people making various alliances, but even though I played through chapter 11, I only recall getting offers, and few/no choices how as no queen was chosen.
Background story/lore implies setting is in Hellenistic world such as later Roman empire or kingdom split off. One thing I thought weird about that is how some/many women are shaved (at least the royals?) which possibly isn't historically accurate, with Latins/Romans/Italians having copied Greeks, whom generally didn't do that, though Egyptians did, and at one point were taken over by Greeks, then I don't know if the style stayed or not. I know after pornography mostly evolved from magazines to Internet that style became more popular after some decades, so a fair number of males now may even prefer that and dislike hair, but some games have it as a yes/no choice. It doesn't really detract from how entertaining gameplay/story is.
Background story/lore implies setting is in Hellenistic world such as later Roman empire or kingdom split off. One thing I thought weird about that is how some/many women are shaved (at least the royals?) which possibly isn't historically accurate, with Latins/Romans/Italians having copied Greeks, whom generally didn't do that, though Egyptians did, and at one point were taken over by Greeks, then I don't know if the style stayed or not. I know after pornography mostly evolved from magazines to Internet that style became more popular after some decades, so a fair number of males now may even prefer that and dislike hair, but some games have it as a yes/no choice. It doesn't really detract from how entertaining gameplay/story is.
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isn't the top photo(not screenshot) from before the MC goes to the capital ...
meaning hes still out East on a war campaign and time passes before he reaches the capital ..
also the the codex was added later on (as far as i remember) meaning the info is from later on not the first scene off this avn
its very well possible valentina is already 19 at the current time in the avn
but lets not go to deep into the age off the the pixels off this photo off the screen whit this avn on it
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he met val 1st time when got to capital and don't think he has been been in capital for long enuf for val turning 18 and 19.
The scene was the first scene of the game, MC met her while during her goodwill tour of the eastern provinces. She wanted to marry him then sent several letters prior to him being recalled back to the capital.
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scene ch1s1mcmeetsvalentina28 with dissolve
p "{i}The complexity of the situation has not lessened. I've received letters from Princess Valentina since then. I'm not sure they can be called love letters, but they are certainly affectionate.{/i}"
p "{i}I felt that I could avoid the situation while stationed on the eastern edge of the kingdom. I wouldn't have to confront this. But now I’ve been recalled to the palace.{/i}"
p "{i}The kingdom has been in turmoil lately. Apparently the King feels I can help stabilize things. I pray he's right.{/i}"- Jul 12, 2018
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makes sense if the codex was added at a later time since i meet her at her 19 birthday a few years later from the 1st picture, when being called to the capitol.
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thats a flashback for when the MC met the princess that was sent around the provinces as a good will embassy!
2 years later he is called with his entire legion to the capital to secure it and thats when the story starts!
he became a war hero because he was outnumbered and probably outgunned but still kept the eastern provinces secured!
a lot like Belisarius in real life, always out manned, always out gunned and yet he kept on snatching victories of what should have been defeats!
mainly his battles against the sassanid empire are considered epic and true lesson and pinacles of generalship!
his sea adventures were not so bad either the way he crushed the vandals the lombards and the osthrogoths!
do notice that had rome crumbled and accepted the sassanid demands, both empires would not have been so depleted t
hat when the arab expansion started they were severly lacking in manpower and battle hardened warriors since 30 years of wars being miss managed ,,,
and seriously after 30 years of war their soldiers should have been top notch... recruit them at 16 they would have been 46 and from there down ...
a full echalon of veterans... and yet both the sassanids and the romans just burned their best warriors in useless battles and sieges!
and everytime a new general rose trough the ranks he would be eliminated as a danger to the throne!
So when the arabs finally went at them, even out numbered their generals were better and their more mobile troops removed both empires advantages
while both empires had neither the generals nor the troop quality to nulify the arab advantage!
notice that once they faced proper empires again like the franks or the northern indians their advance stoped!
so basically meritocracy was removed out of political expediency... one could say the middle kingdom atm suffers from the same problem!