Micromanaging peacetimes, or what to do when not fighting?

[Mithridates VI Eupator]

Personaly, I found Foot's statement that the total-war part will be less prevalent, the best part of the whole interview. When, after a while, the AI-empires have grown powerful enough, they start sending a never-ending stream of stacks against you, resulting in several, often rather pointless, battles per turn, which, in my opinion, isn't very fun.

Still, there is some truth in what you say.

I don't know if this is possible, but perhaps, with the events, there could be different events and missions for the player to deal with, that are not connected to warfare.
For instance, the simple "build a church"-type missions that exist in vanilla too, but maybe there could be other, more complex types of missions too.
There are also, for example in SS, events such as church meetings, that the player can choose to take part in. There could, perhaps, be some kind of such events in EBII, don't know of what kind, though.

But then again, I actually find sitting around an micromanaging my economy, building stuff, and reading unit/building descriptions quite fun...