Talk:Rome: Total Realism

Status of RTR:PE
As of April 7, 2007 it was considered "official" by the designers. "In other news, we are proud to announce that Rome: Total Realism is officially adopting the fan-made modification, Platinum Edition, as an official version of RTR." (http://www.rometotalrealism.org/).

NPOV
This article reads like an advertisement for the mod from a gaming web site, and is not "encyclopedic" in anyway. If someone could take out the FAQ and remove the useless extra commentary and replace with a simple list of changes the mod has over the original game, that would be much more suited. 69.232.225.167


 * Agreed. I'll work on it. &mdash;Simetrical (talk) 04:38, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I think it's much improved now. Some additions to consider: RTR history, and its relationship to IR and MA. &mdash;Simetrical (talk) 05:14, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Does anybody know if Total Realism 6.0 works with Rome:Total War 1.5? I've got the Gold edition...--84.217.124.231 21:34, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * RTR Gold uses 1.2 edition. Try Platinum which uses 1.5 and is much better than Gold.Lucius Domitius 17:04, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * How do you get Platinum? The page this article links to seems kind of out-of-date, and 1.2 isn't on the Total War website anymore.
 * have you tried via File Sharing apllications? - 80.98.211.195 17:16, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Can you actually buy rome:total realism or just download it? 'cause on the other page it has a box with the pic on.
 * pretty sure that box is just a render by someone bored enough to make boxart. 66.215.20.28 (talk) 14:27, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Major Changes
There is scant reference to the changes to the Roman factions. The whole principle of the original game is changed by removing the Senate and the three separate Roman houses to replace them with one single faction. The Senate is no longer able to set objectives which give direction and challenges to the campaign when playing a Roman faction. The intrigue in keeping the Senate sweet whilst courting popularity with the people has gone, and that is a massive reduction in functionality.

It may please the wargamers and the historical pedants, but the mod makes the game one dimensional. I say this as someone who is fascinated with Roman history. However, the makers of t

New Political map
Btw, the page needs a new political map, as the current is from the stone-age 5.3

Yep, I agree. This one is much better. http://lazarus.elte.hu/~hzsolt/terkep/rtw/rtw_political_trm60.png
 * What about this one? http://lazarus.elte.hu/~hzsolt/terkep/rtw/political_rtr70.png It's unofficial but still illustrates the vastly expanded scope of the upcoming RTR VII —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.85.248.133 (talk) 21:24, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

What is the official site?
I do not understand one important thing. Is rometotalwar.org the official site, or is rometotalwar.com the official site. the .com site seems to be

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Can some one tell me which mod is better Europa Barbarorum or Rome total realism???
 * Don't download either of them, it is totally unprofessional how they handle installation techniques, they don't warn you about any data loss, they are vague about some program deleting certain files. If you don't understand what they are really saying you are scr*wed. They tell you to simply make a copy of the Data file in your Rome: Total War file, AFTER you have installed the mod. How immature is that? I strongly advice you never to download any of those mods and never ever never install them. Mallerd 22:03, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Cheers for the advice, i posted that message a long time ago in the time after ive tried both mods and i think there brilliant, however i felt EB was the best but it crashed at the year 242BC everytime (very annoying) so now im playing realism and ive got no problems with it. King Alaric 18:54, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

I've downloaded both EB and XGM and I've never had any problems whatsoever with the installation. SpartanGlory1983 (talk) 13:52, 20 April 2008 (UTC) SpartanGlory1983

Marius Reforms
Are there any marius reforms in the game i just passed 103BC surly they should have come in around 106 or 107??? I WANT THE COOL LEGIONS lol King Alaric —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.106.81.182 (talk) 19:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * You need to have an Imperial Palace in two cities in Italy (Rome+other) Kranyak (talk) 21:05, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

User Mods
I added this little part and also updated the RTR PE version as well. Xelnanga 04:43, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Notability and focus
I think that this article does conform to the standard of notability required for Wikipedia. I have found several reviews (mostly of the old RTR 6.0 version) online.     Based on these, I feel that the notability warning should be removed. I am unsure if these would be appropriate for the external links section or not. I also feel that the article focuses on a single version of the mod rather than the project as a whole. I think that future edits of this page should take this into account. --Ptolomy of Epirus (talk) 23:06, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * If you have found websites establishing notability, please include them in the article and help to clean this page up. There are many gaming review sites that have talked about RTR but nobody has bothered to challenge the notability tag.  Someone needs to take the time to do some work on this page. Ace blazer (talk) 16:31, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

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About the recent edits
Most of the content in the article was not sourced and the only plausible explanation for much of it was WP:OR criticism by game users which are certainly not proper reliable sources for the matter. The excruciating details of the additions made by the mod are also not particularly important from the perspective of anyone but users of the mod; for most readers a short and simple summary is more than enough and it fits better with typical content guidelines (for another example of this, see the main article on Rome: Total War; or the very good article on another mod for the same game, Europa Barbarorum). If any new content is to be added; it first and foremost needs proper sources (not just opinions from users of the game). A good start would be for someone to track down the reviews from the various mentioned sources and add that information. 107.190.33.254 (talk) 21:30, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Dead Link
The link at the bottom ( http://www.rometotalrealism.org/ ) leads to some blog about video games that does not contain anything about the mod. I assume that the domain owners have changed. I found https://www.moddb.com/mods/rome-total-realism as an alternative, but as I am not sure whether this is official or not, I did not edit the article. Another promising link would be the twcenter forum entry https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?559467-Rome-Total-Realism-Platinum-Edition-v2-0 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.97.40.174 (talk) 14:17, 4 May 2020 (UTC)