In addition, we are testing many other features that we want to introduce into the game: perks, construction, non-linear storyline, new ends and options for the development of events.” “The game is full-ready for the application of mechanics: completing missions, finding streets, suppressing riots and military clashes. Was ist der derzeitige Stand der Early Access-Version? “More events, characters, well-developed resource mechanics, additional quests, perks, various animated scenes, advanced soundtrack.” Wie soll sich die Vollversion von der Early Access-Version unterscheiden? It depends on how quickly we can realize all the ideas.” Wie lange wird dieses Spiel ungefähr den Early Access-Status haben? Feedback from players will help us to perfect the conceived game, since all funds received from early access will go to the development and improvement of the project (both cosmetic and gameplay).” 4.“Please note that the game is in Early Access and we plan to develop it after release. The family tree became more complicated after Augustus had his stepson Tiberius briefly marry his daughter, and then adopted Tiberius outright as son and successor in A.D. to marry Livia Drusilla, who had two sons-Tiberius and Drusus-by her first husband, Mark Antony’s ally Tiberius Claudius Nero. His second wife, Scribonia, bore his only child, Julia the Elder. Augustus: Family and SuccessionĪugustus married three times, although his first union, to Mark Antony’s stepdaughter Clodia Pulchra, was unconsummated. He expanded the Roman network of roads, founded the Praetorian Guard and the Roman postal service and remade Rome with both grand (a new forum) and practical gestures (police and fire departments). He spent much of his time outside of Rome, consolidating power in the provinces and instituting a system of censuses and taxation that integrated the empire’s furthest reaches. And to win over the people, he worked to improve and beautify the city of Rome.ĭuring his 40-years reign, Augustus nearly doubled the size of the empire, adding territories in Europe and Asia Minor and securing alliances that gave him effective rule from Britain to India. To mollify Rome’s Senate and ruling classes, he passed laws harkening back-at least on the surface-to the traditions of the Roman Republic. Cleopatra’s seized treasure allowed him to pay his soldiers, securing their loyalty. In that four-year span, Octavian secured his rule on multiple fronts. (the victory at Actium) or 27 B.C., when he was granted the name Augustus. Historians date the start of Octavian’s monarchy to either 31 B.C. His mother Atai was Caesar’s niece, and the young Octavius was raised in part by his grandmother Julia Ceasaris, Caesar’s sister. His father was a senator and governor in the Roman Republic. He was born Gaius Octavius Thurinus in Velletri, 20 miles from Rome. the Roman Senate conferred on him the name Augustus, the august or exalted one.
he was Octavius after his adoption was announced in 44 B.C., Octavian and beginning in 26 B.C. Of Augustus’ many names and honorifics, historians favor three of them, each for a different phase in the emperor’s life. He shrewdly combined military might, institution-building and lawmaking to become Rome’s sole ruler, laying the foundations of the 200-year Pax Romana (Roman Peace) and an empire that lasted, in various forms, for nearly 1,500 years. As the first Roman emperor (though he never claimed the title for himself), Augustus led Rome’s transformation from republic to empire during the tumultuous years following the assassination of his great-uncle and adoptive father Julius Caesar.