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PATCH 2.0.4

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This mod completely reworks Imperator: Rome’s core systems to make every decision meaningful. Legitimacy now drives character loyalty and ruler popularity, while subjects require high opinion and careful management to annex. Buildings, governor policies, and economic choices all come with powerful trade-offs, forcing you to balance growth against unrest, food, and happiness. Pops have unique, interlinked roles — nobles drive tech and output, citizens boost happiness and taxes, freemen supply manpower and defense, and slaves fuel food and growth. Trade is no longer tied to pops but to ports, markets, and investments, with every trade good redesigned for impactful bonuses. Technology rewards great powers while keeping smaller states competitive, food systems demand careful city–settlement balance, and stability, tyranny, war exhaustion, and aggressive expansion impose real costs on expansion. With stronger investments, cultural integration penalties, reworked economic policies, dynamic war vs. peace effects, and cheaper, more active navies, the game becomes a deeper, harsher, and more strategic experience.

Game Rework Overview

LEGITIMACY
- Positive legitimacy: increases character loyalty and ruler popularity gain.
- Negative legitimacy: decreases character loyalty and ruler popularity gain.
- Legitimacy is affected by tyranny, war exhaustion, stability, and ruler popularity.

SUBJECTS’ OPINION
- Subject opinion is influenced by ruler popularity, tyranny, war exhaustion, stability, and legitimacy.

INTEGRATING SUBJECTS
- Integration speed and subject opinion are modified by tyranny, stability, ruler popularity, and war exhaustion.
- 350 opinion required to annex a subject.
- Gifts have no limit (can be sent repeatedly).
- Improve Relations is more expensive.

BUILDINGS
- All buildings now use trade-offs (positives and negatives).
- Example: Tax Offices = +tax income, but –happiness, –food, +unrest.
- Counter-builds: farm settlements (food), temples (happiness/unrest), forts (unrest/defense).

GOVERNOR POLICIES
- Fully reworked; now very powerful levers for provincial development and control.

POPS
- Nobles: affect technology, pop promotion/demotion, and unrest; also modify output of all other pops in their city.
- Citizens: provide happiness, reduce unrest, lower building costs; generate tax and boost the tax output of other pops.
- Freemen: primary manpower source; add local fort defense.
- Slaves: primary food source and a driver of pop growth; apply negative unrest; provide small tax that scales strongly when citizens are present.

TRADE
- Trade no longer comes from pops.
- Now driven by ports, markets, number of cities, and investments.
- All trade goods reworked with new province and national bonuses.

TECHNOLOGY
- Tech efficiency is lower for low-rank nations and higher for great powers.
- “Behind-the-times” safety net raised so no country falls too far behind.
- Max ahead-of-time benefit capped at 200 years.
- Inventions cost 10.
- Tech tables grant strong buffs — being ahead yields meaningful national strength.

FOOD
- Settlements: high slave output and strong food production; settlement buildings further boost this.
- Cities: slaves produce far less food; city buildings consume food.
- Requires dispersing pops across settlements to sustain cities.

STABILITY
- Grants broad buffs across the nation.
- Investing in stability is costly in tax and trade.
- Political Influence is not meant to be maxed constantly; keep reserves for emergencies (e.g., fast expansion and AE reduction).

WAR EXHAUSTION
- Imposes multiple debuffs (e.g., discipline, land morale, others).
- Best counters: Stability and Devotio.
- Devotio now costs significant tax and trade, scaling over time — long wars become very expensive.

AGGRESSIVE EXPANSION (AE)
- Soft cap/target now 30.
- AE increases war exhaustion, unrest, and reduces happiness for wrong pops.
- Best counters: Devotio and Stability.
- Taking provinces with claims generates no AE.

TYRANNY
- Main source is Devotio.
- Increases tax/trade penalties and reduces character loyalty.

INVESTMENTS
- Maximum of 10 per area.
- Each investment is powerful.

INTEGRATING CULTURES
- Each integrating culture imposes tax and trade debuffs.
- Additional tax/trade penalties apply while integration is in progress.
- Choose cultures strategically.

ECONOMIC POLICIES
- Completely reworked; now very powerful.

GENERIC MISSIONS
- A Cancel option appears when a mission starts.
- If clicked before any mission step is taken, the mission can be completed without penalty so you can pick another.

WAR & PEACE
- At War: +war exhaustion, +unrest, –tax, –trade.
- At Peace: strong economic buffs and war exhaustion reduction.
- Max war exhaustion set to 25.

NAVIES
- Much cheaper; AI will perform naval invasions more often.

CULTURE
- Integrating multiple cultures at once speeds things up but stacks heavy penalties.
- Already integrated cultures currently have no penalties (your second block is empty).
- Wrong culture group integrations are deliberately very harsh to discourage or slow them.