This update will make the early-mid-game economy snowball slower by reducing how many Dignitaries you can recruit, and increases the late game challenge through more severe Empire Maintenance and Diplomatic penalty ("Expansionism") effects on higher Imperium levels.

Combatting Empire Maintenance early on will be more important than before, and you might have to spend money on gifts to keep important treaty partners maintain their relations with you,


- Reduced the caps for how many Dignitaries you're allowed per Imperium level:

Before --> After:

Imperium 0-2 = 2 --> 1 Dignitary
Imperium 3 = 3 --> 2 Dignitaries
Imperium 4 = 4 --> 3 Dignitaries
Imperium 5 = 5 --> 4 Dignitaries
Imperium 6 = 6 --> 5 Dignitaries
Imperium 7 = 7 --> 6 Dignitaries
Imperium 8 = 8 --> 7 Dignitaries

(NOTE: This wiil not affect existing saves. You can either keep more Dignitaries than allowed, or disband existing ones until you reach the limit.)


- Increased Empire Maintenance by 50% per Imperium level.

- Increased Diplomatic penalty ("Expansionism") by 100% per Imperium level.

Updated support for RotR.

- Changed certain Roman buildings to spread "Owned faction's culture" instead of Latin, since Samnites and other Italic factions use the same buildings as Rome.

- Added higher Local Traditions including culture from neighboring Provinces to RotR Provinces.

- Changed scope of added Cultural Differences penalty from low Public Order.