Dahui’s Rome Rework: Senatus

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Adding Senatus as the Roman unique ability. Rome may now enact Senatus Consultum through Senatus Influence to gain bonuses. Although Byzantine should also be able to use this mechanism, for gameplay considerations, this mechanism is not added to the Byzantine for the time being.

Rome

Unique Ability: Senatus Populusque Romanus

All cities create a Trading Post. If in Trade Route range of your Capital, they also start with a road to it. May enact Senatus Consultum through Senatus Influence.

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Senatus Influence

The Senatus is divided into three factions: Optimates, Populares, and the opportunistic Ceteri. All three factions can increase their Influence due to certain incentives. (PS: Historically, Roman Senatus did have Optimates and Populares , but they were not modern political parties and were not in opposition to each other. I have set them as opposing parties to simplify the design.)
When the total Senatus Influence reaches a certain value, may enact a Senatus Consultum.

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Senatus Consultum

There are three types: Military Consulta, Administrative Consulta, and Diplomatic Consulta. Each type of Consultum has its own unique bonuses and paths. For detailed information, please refer to the image above.
The dominant faction among Optimates and Populares will try to enact only one type of Consultum. Therefore, when the dominant faction remains unchanged, it is impossible to switch the type of Consultum. You can spend gold to make Ceteri change their stance and thus change the dominant faction to switch other type of Consultum.

Since the Diplomatic Consultum encourage you to focus on city-states, it is highly recommended to subscribe to the CIVITAS City-State Expansion. The Maritime City-State within it provides bonuses for Harbors and Great Admiral. If you also subscribe to Manor District and Great Agriculturalist, the Agricultural City-State will offer bonuses for Manors and Great Agriculturalist.

New incentives, Consulta contents and new types of Consultum will be gradually added in subsequent updates.

If you find any bugs, please leave feedback in the comment section and I will fix them promptly.