Well, I gotta thank both of you for your help. Not too long after I posted this (why does it always happen like that? I can't find something so I blame my dog, assuming that she ate it, and there it is, right on my desk or something....) So my campaign is pretty early, but Seleukids are AGAIN being a limp noodle for me. I had given ImpressedByCats to Antiochos and Alexandros probably on the first turn, and I gave it to 3-4 others as well. (bad, I know...I didn't realize at the time) But then (maybe a game year later) I read the EBBS script and started screwing around trying to have the reform triggered earlier;After realizing that giving it to everyone and their mom, I took the trait away from all Seleukids except for Alexandros Syriakos and his pops, and I cleared them (i.e. cleared the trait), then I gave them -- or tried to give them -- SeleukidsDevelopCats, changed it back to IBC2, blah blah. It wasn't working. So Spring 270 I used give_trait ImpressedByCats 2 on Antiochos Syriakos and the heir (I always forget his name...), and I gave SeleukidsDevelopCats (assuming you can give it to them, since its supposed to be a Nogoingback trait) to Alexandros Syriakos, and in Winter 270, the Coming of the Cataphract buildings showed up.

Thoughts..?

Btw, by using the add_population, add_money, and process_cq to help the Romani and jack up Roma and Capua's infrastructure and population, I managed to get the March of Time pretty early , well the changes were triggered in Spring 270, but Capua had built the huge city level (proconsular?) palace during the winter (or at least, started to build it, then finished it real quick-like with my help : ).

Let me tell ya though: that governor in Capua is STINGY!!! He's got a villa of the proconsul, his population is 40,000 something, Romani are by far the richest faction (thanks to Moi...), his public order is like 60% (plague broke out a few times, so be careful if you do this), yet he just wouldn't build that thing until -- GET THIS -- I sent a diplomat to personally give 40K as a gift. Now I have no idea if this had an effect or not, but when I loaded the save I made after I paid him, and ended the turn, he didn't build the proconsul's palace. Yet after I reI loaded the same save, paid him AGAIN, and ended the turn, voila: he was building just what his sugar daddy wanted...

BTW,
I have to thank the makers of EB for many things, but this has seriously helped my personal crusade to become more computer literate (which began 3-4 months ago, after I watched my ex girlfriend throw 2 GB of RAM into my old laptop, which sounded really complicated and scary to me, in about 3 minutes, and REALLY took off when I got this new laptop, an HP G62-140US, since it, well, you know, can do things and play games...? ).

The amazing game play and the numerous ways in which the game reenacts historic events (especially when compared to other RTW mods) made me super curious about how it all worked, and the numerous scripts and triggered events have drawn me into computer jargon in a way that has actually been fun. I've gone from being your basic average American re computer competence (you know, use the internet, know what alt+control+delete is for, do a few things with the control panel...) to actually doing my own mods to RTW (and I mean besides changing the EDU and unit stats--I've been making/importing units, changing or making new scripted events, etc...I'm making a Roman general unit right now to replicate Caesar with his German mercenaries at Alesia, I'll try to post it for downloading or whatever if it comes out right), and that has made learning all of the other technical aspects of windows, programming, etc, a lot less intimidating.