Recent content by Deyshawn

caprera said:

Thanks Deyshawn, but at the time of the first try, Fraoliva and me decided that would have been better not to set any precise timeline, nor span.
We wanted to have more options and justify a little less historical attention with much more gameplay.

Same reason to reject your suggestion: giving players the possibility to choose a path rather than a blind choice was part of the main idea.
Picturing a "barbarian" that guided by will and/or events ends up in one of the two sides (hence the title) sounded much more interesting to me. Not to mention that the setting itself suggests a rather grey border between what was Roman and what was not. Here's why as well i waited so much before starting the thread itself: it took time to write down notes about the many items like encouters or places, as well as conversations and characters that should have been the motor for the choice along the road. Don't get it wrong anyway, this is just as i thought it.

However, now that i gave up because of my work, it's up to Fraoliva to make eventual choices, so many things could be changed and/or improved.

Click to expand...

iLag said:

Well if you have another mouse, try it anyway just to be safe.  We need to separate a hardware issue from a software issue.

Click to expand...

iLag said:

Okay, that's very odd.  If you have any USB joysticks or gamepads, I would try unplugging them.  Other than that, make sure your mousewheel  or whatever you use to switch weapons works fine in everything else.

Click to expand...

Cèsar de Quart said:

So the Tuscan League is not made-up, it's a real thing, although very blurry. I'm not even sure that I had the right Consul of Florence, since the list of consuls and city-leaders seems to be somewhere in a Florentine archive, and not in the Internet.

Click to expand...

The former was democratic, republican, favourable to the papacy; the latter was the party of the old Florentine aristocracy and the emperor. In 1197 the Tuscan League (in imitation of the successful Lombard League) was formed at San Ginesio between the cities of Florence, Lucca, Siena, Prato, San Miniato, and the Bishop of Volterra, in presence of papal legates. These cities bound them selves on that occasion not to acknowledge the authority of emperor, king, duke, or marquis without the ex press order of the Roman Church. At that time, in the interest of better administration, Florence abolished its old-time government by two consuls, and substituted a podestà, or chief magistrate (1193), with a council of twelve consuls. In 1207 a law was passed which made it obligatory for the podestà to be an outsider. The legislative power originally resided in the Statuto, a commission nominated by the consuls. After the introduction of a podestà it was exercised by the priors of the chief guilds (the artes majores), seven in number (carpenters, wool-weavers, skinners, tanners, tailors, shoemakers, and farriers), to which were afterwards added the fourteen lesser guilds (the judges, the notaries-public, doctors, money-changers, and others). To hold any public office it was necessary to belong to one or other of these guilds (arti); the nobles were therefore wont to enter their names on the books of the wool-weavers' guild. The management of all political affairs rested with the Signoria, and there was a kind of public parliament which met four times a year. Public business was attended to by the podestà, assisted in their turns by two of the consuls.

Click to expand...