Quote Originally Posted by A number of folks
They should set the timescale to 0.5 as default so that the characters age properly. Then they should put the starting eras in. Makes perfect sense.
I couldn't agree more with this guys, but I sincerely doubt that we'll get either. Definitely not going to get 1/2 years per turn, because CA has stated on a number of occasions they think that a ~225 year campaign is optimal for the "overall target audience" (or something close to that), which is unfortunately the lowest common denominator demographic who would seem to prefer "shorter action based games". At least they threw us a bone here and made it easily modable, which is a Good Thing©. The other logical extension to this and that'd complete the picture is giving us control over character aging through scripts or config files. Hopefully we'll know for sure when the unpacker is out if this is possible, if not then definitely goes in the wishlist thread.

RE: Eras... I personally only started a campaign in High once, otherwise always started on early for the same reason Econ stated. Loved clawing my way up from the bottom so to speak. Never started or had a desire to play starting from Late, though I can definitely understand other player's desires to do so, hence I'm throwing in for the "yes" team here. Putting some effort into give us this much missed feature would go miles for getting CA brownie points.

Speaking of unpackers... Where's our "release day" patch already?