r/Imperator

I'm the author of multiple AI mods for Paradox grand strategy games: Anbeeld's Revision of AI for Victoria 3, the AI in Imperator: Invictus, and my old personal Stellaris AI mod. I'm not modding much these days, but I wanted the design knowledge to live on. ARoAI never had proper documentation, for instance.

The article covers utility systems, blackboards, planners, and what happens when the scripting language can't express any of them. It goes through how each mod approximated standard game AI architectures, what each gave up, and what actually worked.

Hey guys! Can you recommend me some tribal nations to play that involve the option to migrate to another area? I already did the goths and vandals some time ago and I was wondering which other nations have missions that use the mechanic.

I'm playing with Invictus.

So I've been doing a Rome run with Invictus for a while now, just finished the Epirus war on the peninsula, and I made a pretty embarrassing mistake that I figured someone here might relate to.

I get to 99 war score. Hipponion just fell, I've got boots on basically everything I wanted. Open the peace screen ready to clean up — and Bruttium is blocked. Overextension cap. I'm already too close to 100% with what I was taking and just... didn't check.

I've been so locked into watching the war score tick up that I never stopped to do the math on whether the territories actually fit. Rookie mistake after 12 episodes of the same campaign, which is the embarrassing part.

So now Bruttium, Croton, and Hipponion are sitting there for a future war. In 481. Eight years in game time.

What made it worse — while all this was going on, the Antigonid Kingdom just silently ate the rest of Epirus. Like, the country I just spent two episodes dismantling on the peninsula? Gone. Absorbed. The Antigonids are now sitting right across the Adriatic with everything Epirus had left.

Won the war, got less than I wanted, and accidentally made my next problem bigger. Good session.

Does anyone do manual overextension math before opening the peace screen, or is there a ledger view in Invictus I keep missing? Genuinely asking because I can't be the only one who's done this.

This is a simple compatibility patch to make the anti-blobbing mechanics of Virtual Limes (Invictus) play a bit more sweetly with the expanded map and custom mission trees of Imperator: Invictus.

Came back after a long break. Tried Invictus but a bunch of different nations are clearly listing the ruler as the ruler of a separate nation. Ruler of Carthage is a Roman guy listed as the ruler of Rome. Ruler of Rome listed as a Bithynian who is the king of Bithynia. Thought it was from mods but I’m not running any. Doesn’t matter if I have mods on or not. Makes the game kinda unplayable and I can’t find any way to fix it. Really don’t wanna go back to Rome 2 I’m bored of it and it’s so small. This game seriously can’t still be this broken after years of not touching it.

I'm trying to play as Egypt, and no matter how much I set myself up for the start, the war drags on for ages in a bunch of different locations.

It's not so much the fact that it's difficult to do well but that there's way too many things to watch at once. I'm trying to manage 3 different fronts and ensure that some random tiny army doesn't sail behind my lines and start annexing provinces half the map away from my armies.

And the aggressive expansion gained just makes the above scenario even more tedious. If I could just take the land I want and then peace out somehow that would also be great, but I'm permanently stuck at like 5 war score and can never do this.

Am I doing something wrong? I just wanted to play as Egypt, and I have tried doing this war in the least detrimental way possible like 4 times and just can't do it.

Do you think Imperator: Rome could have been great if it kept getting updates, or was it fundamentally flawed?

I still find myself checking for news or updates from time to time, even though I know it’s unlikely at this point.The game had a rough launch, but after the last updates it actually started to feel solid.

Do you think it could have turned into something great with continued support?