Here's a humble request to Creative Assembly to release the details of the savegame structure. Or a utility that lets one read, or read/write the savegame.

This would be after your well-deserved vacation, and any critical bug fixes.

The savegame for RTW (and MTW) uses some sort of native/compressed format that can't be figured out from afar.

Making the savegame available to your community will let us make many add-ons and utilities that will enhance the pleasure for the players. You would be leveraging the strength of us all, with only a quite modest investment on your part. As an example, I'd like to write a util that shows city incomes as a sorted list, and attempts to figure which leaders would best match which cities, to achieve various imperial goals. But it would require accessing many minor details of the savegame.

Please consider this request, as soon as convenient. If anyone else would like to show their support for this idea, please append your sig.

Thanks once again for this great game - and your other ones too, CA!!!