Yep
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The discussion of it on this forum has inspired me to try out Age of Decadence! Not much of a āgamerā, so to speak, but I enjoyed the tutorial!
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ā¦Juliaā¦ This one is on youā¦
I really need to replay (I was basically in shock from the attack on Julia onwards), but I think technically I didnāt although I did manage both Senate and Barbarians having about the same relationship with me (in the 30s I think)ā¦ The public does hate me really badly which sadly I think will bite me later on.
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What decisions are you making? I just want to know how one gets a 30 favor with both the foederati and Senate. Are you focusing on your personal power at all costs while still romancing the Empress, which lowers mob favor?
Iām sort of consigned to a low mob favor myself, but I donāt plan to take the throne and am happy to take the reputational hits for Julia or now Augusta.
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I did the compromise at the beginning, sided with the Senate but stopped before a personal alliance, put Cleto on the Council, told Augusta to side with the Barbarian in Court, let her do her thing with the Senator in Court, talked with Darius a couple of times over Consentia, and gave the barbarians the reduced grain dole.
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Finally had a chance to play the new chapter! I kept losing my saves over the past few days. I play on my phone, and apparently phone browsers just reset/refresh tabs every so often? I try to load my saves from justā¦ a few hours earlier but poof, theyāre gone. Anyone know how to keep saves persistent?
Anyway, I decided to continue with the insane path I settled on in chapter 4 of letting Titus blurt stuff out and not stopping him or reconciling. Just go see what happened.
And oh boy, did stuff happen. It was painful. Very painful. But weāll get through it.
I had Augusta at 127% trust in chapter 4 but between the stat caps and the events that transpired, it plummeted to like 80% by chapter 5. Oof.
Anyway. Iām still incredibly proud of my kiddo and sheāll make an incredible empress. The scenes with her in the public reveal route were incredibly moving. I just wanted to hug my kiddo through the screen.
Augusta, uh, also had quite the interesting reaction to Diana in their scene together. 
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Interesting. I find that if you plan to put Ceto on the council, it works best to talk to Antonius instead. It allows you to increase both factions. Also, your choice of background impacts your starting relationships with the characters. As a Prefect of the Treasury, I start with an extra 10 favor from the Senate, and there are other similar bonuses for being from the other choices.
Additionally, I personally choose the Augusta compromise options for the first two petitioners, but tell Augusta to deny the Senate in the third. The first two donāt matter that much; itās only a couple points of favor between the legions and barbarians at stake. The third choice matters much more. It stops a significant decline in Imperial Favor. Letting Augusta do what she wants is also not the best idea for balancing, because she will have the Senator arrested and really hurt your relationship with the Senate. Julia wonāt be very happy either, because weāve made a mess for her to deal with rather than simply telling the Senator to go away.
Also, unless youāre trying to do a full Darius run, investing a lot of resources into him is not a winning move. The armies of Pharia are not yet riding to our aid, although with how this narrative is shattering my expectations, perhaps Dariusā foreign connections will be of more use later. Go talk to your major faction option instead and get a free 15 favor from them at the cost of Imperial Favor; itās easy to make that favor back in the next flashback.
For some final, general pointers:
Simply being good at your job wins you some free points; resolving all three crises with Economics V gets you a free five favor from all factions, for example. Also, when you let people talk at the riot council meeting, they give you two favor.
The compromise options can save you. Taking a -2 penalty from multiple factions or characters can most of the time be made up easier than a +5 / -5 from one or the other. Donāt take sides unless you have to, even if it leaves many people mildly disappointed. For example, when Julia and Augusta are arguing, the best choice to minimize stat loss is to tell them to stop arguing, causing them both to be mildly annoyed, rather than siding with one or the other and becoming much more angry with you.
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Minor corrections to the above post: The second petitioners, Dagr and the centurion, actually have a very important choice; +/- 10 favor is at stake for both the legions and the foederati. Siding with the legions over the Uvelli here is an easy way to score many points with the military, which is probably the hardest of the three factions to accumulate favor from. So often, military favor comes with punishing drawbacks, so having a giant freebie like this really helps. And after some code-diving and careful maneuvering, I have all 3 factions over 50 favor.
A couple more errors I found:
Perhaps this should be it may lead to the grave?
Iām not sure what you meant here. Maybe ātired scowlā?
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Could I suggest adding an eye trauma content warning for Dariusā route? I think āgoreā is too vague a warning for how intense that scene is, especially since once you have enough information to realize whatās happening thereās no way to have your character leave, only reload an earlier save.
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Fixed!
Will do! I have also added a way for the MC to step out of the room and skip any gore involved moments in that scene. I also decided to add the content warnings from the front page as an option to the opening of the demo, to hopefully avoid any unpleasant surprises.
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Oh, in terms of bugs ā one I spotted:
In ch4legion, in polite_novit, you check for the Augusta relation being over 50 to test whether Augusta speaks up or not. Is that right ā or should that be Augustaās strength? In the next bit, moveonvit, you check for Augustaās strength.
Anyway, speaking of which, thatās still one of my favorite parts of the game ā where Augusta stands up to Julia even if the MC wonāt. Itās especially satisfying if you can get Julia to admit in ch5 that Augusta was right! I really enjoyed that.
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Fixed!
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In the second ally visit (the time when Cetoās thugs accost you), the option to visit Consentia gives 20 Senatorial Favor, and the option to visit Darius also gives plenty, but you get nothing when visiting Antonius. Is this intentional?
Another question, what effects will the possible destabilization of Seyet have? In the case of the Senatorial rebellion, which occupies the eastern provinces, will it actually benefit the player? I know itās a spoilery question, but I canāt help but wonder.
And an issue I found: In Cetoās āfade-to-blackā scene, the option to say youāre a Novae is available even if you arenāt Novae. I havenāt checked the other charactersā scenes, though.
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Both are fixed!
All in due time.
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I will just mourn the loss of my ability to get a free five favor from all factions for five stability. Not that I usually avail myself of the option, but itās always nice to have lower consequences for these things.
The Senatorial rebellion is primarily naval, and in Attika. Not only does the game note that the legions and foederati are still present in Kyro and not mysteriously absent, Victoria declares the city will be hers in three days. The only way to move from Attika to Kyro that fast is by sea, unless Gaia is willing to teleport you.
The Seyetite legions are explicitly mentioned as returning to their garrisons as you march to Kyro. Just like the earlier succession conflict between Julia, Invidia, and Aite, the border legions and faraway troops have little desire to abandon their posts and will probably just wait this conflict out from the safety of the frontier and pledge allegiance to the victor.
Itās very fourth century Rome, with its constant civil convulsions of violence every decade and incredible instability.
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This civil war needs to end and fast. The Not!Persians as well as the Witch-King will take advantage of this for sure.
We canāt let the Persians demolish fortifications or take key strategic positions. If they can force us to let go of their throats theyāll be an active problem again.
If we strip the frontiers of the border garrisons the Witch-King will have an easier job by far.
Clock is ticking and ticking fast.
@Aeternitas: it has been this many days since the Empireās fought a civil war:
Iām very much of the vein of Domitian and Stilicho right now, the Senators have to be purged and we need to reinvigorate the Empire by breaking their holdings up while incorporating the foederati more tightly by giving them lands that were depopulated and encouraging them to join the army.
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Be careful what you wish for. At this point I wouldnāt be shocked at all if UFOās started darting above Kyro.
Maybe good old Darius can help us with that matter. Surely, (potentially) helping him with that bionic eye is worth something.
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They are not our friends, remember, we both 100% believe that our national destiny is hegemony over the whole world. Darius wants to be King of Kings, he might be more generous if we put him on the throne. But the end goal is that they want to control the world too.
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On the Barbarian Rebellion path, the legionaries from Attika and Seyet stick with you, so clearly the Senatorial Faction has influence there.
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I play a legionary so Iāve been able to get legion support quite easily tbh
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