What is the last playable year

[Budwise]

First, how do you change it with VI, which I have and don't worry, you have five years left? You try finishing off the world in five years.

[Zarax]

Look in the campmap/startpos folder.
Find the campaign you want to play and add this under "late era start":

SetGameEndDate:: 1066

Replace 1066 with any year you want.

[Budwise]

How do you do that OUTSIDE OF VI, I want to do it in the main game.

[Zarax]

The procedure is exactly the same, you just need to copy the string in the same place for the early, high and late campaigns.

[Yoyoma1910]

It does make sense for it to end then... At least historically. What with the oncoming of the Renaissance and the age of exploration.

[Zarax]

Well, i set it at 1491... Not much later and still in theme (one year before columbus travels)

[Yoyoma1910]

1453 is the year Constanstanople fell to the turks. Also, there were advances in missile type weapons that made cannons and powder based guns the center of the modern army of the time. There was an insurgence of eastern flight to rome, bringing with it many greek and arab texts and schools of thought, changing the face of western culture immensely.

Which is, I suppose, why the game ends then.

[Lord of the Scotts]

It does make sense for it to end then... At least historically. What with the oncoming of the Renaissance and the age of exploration.

The Renaissance was caused by the Crusades, I would say that the Renaissance is before the game ends(but after it begins), durring the 1300s.