Been playing Caesar (pronounced Kai-Zar) 3's Augustus mod for the first time ever. Strange I never played these games back in the day despite being obsessed with AoE2 and SimCity.I'm having fun.
>>2433441these games have mods?what are some good onesI have played only pharaoh
>>2436560I think only Caesar III has meaningful mods by adding things that older entries in the series have like roadblocks. Otherwise I'm only aware of Pharaoh's widescreen .exe.>what are some good onesZeus is like Pharaoh's side-grade, it's pretty much the same gameplay but simplified in a lot of aspects. The campaign is focused on establishing colonies, playing the same city over missions and fulfilling gods requests/missions.Emperor is a straight upgrade, it has beautiful sprites and is the peak of the Impressions games genre. Must play if you played Pharaoh. Feng-shui mechanic is an oddball though.Caesar is the oldest but people swear it's very good even as it lacks things like roadblocks. I've never played it.
>>2433441read it as Impregnation Games GeneralI'm sure that means something about me
What does Augustus actually change? I'm not interested in installing Caesar 3+mod just for it to be a nothing burger that only adds roadblocks or something.
>>2436601Gameplay enhancements include:RoadblocksMarket special ordersGlobal labour poolPartial warehouse storageIncreased game limitsZoom controlsAnd more!
>>2436631See, that's not enough for me. I want more buildings or something. If it's just the same with quality of life, I got other games to play.
>>2436633Which games? Anything good?
>>2436576Emperor is great. My only complaint would be that I wish you couldn't solve literally every single level (except the last) in the game with a single housing block.
>>2436641Nothing you'd probably be interested in. Certainly no city builders.>Jurassic World Evolution 3>new Battlestar game>old Battlestar Deadlock gameI've played Caesar, didn't like it compared to Pharoah, and really if I wanted to play an Impression game, I'd just play Pharaoh. It'd take better monuments to make me interested in the Roman era.
>>2436631>takes all the challenging mechanics I refuse to play this game with mods. Yeah I know they changed things in Pharaoh, Zeus, and Emperor but those games also lack some soul of Caesar III
>>2436633Augustus does have more buildings. In fact, it adds Pharaoh style monuments with labor camps, guilds, phases and such. These are two trade-boosting buildings, the Pantheon and the new god-specific grand temples that all add perks when completed. The Colosseum and the Hippodrome are also now built in this manner - to compenstate, there are now free-built Arenas and Taverns for entertainment. There are new resources and production chains to get bricks, stone and concrete for the monuments. The cultural buildings (academy, school etc) now have an upgraded state. There's also a bunch of new smaller temples for needs satisfaction. There's a small graveyard mechanic where the new mausolea emit a massive negative desirability in a small radius around them but then boost it in a large one outside of the NIMBY area. There's a supply post through which you now feed your military and watchtowers/palisades as a cheap and shitty wall variant. And a shitload of decor of course.There's also mechanical changes like completely reworked citizen happiness and health.
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>>2436769>I refuse to play this game with mods.In my experience, that's usually something people say when they're too stupid to install even a simple mod. Besides, Augustus isn't just a regular mod. It changes so much and adds so much new content that it's practically a whole new game.
>>2436560Then you will absolutely love the universal workforce mod for Pharaoh.Aka the only mod you will ever need for that game.C3 modding scene is basically two autismos trying to out-do each other in the weirdest flex imaginable, while both missing the memo they are "fixing" a fundamentally different game than rest of the series and doing it in a completely wrong way.
>>2436769>muh sovl>C3Pick one.C3 was basically a tech demo for Pharaoh, to check if they can pull new mechanics after C2 for their upcoming game.It's a glorified object placement game as a result. Does Augustus trivalise it? Sure, but the challenge was always about how shit the game controls of your own city are, not the missions themselves