Well, there's one thing I'd like to ask. Is the EB team going to work on the Roman names any further? Many of the names which turn up (talking about nomen gentile and cognomina) are not correct for the timeframe of the game. Many of them indicate provincial birth, very low class origin or even names families with freed slaves as ancestors would have. Such romanized foreign names start to appear in the higher classes like generals and such only between 50 to 100 years after the games timeframe. I have to write down the names of some of my generals as I don't remember them at the moment.
One of them for example is called Diocletianus, like the later emperor, a greek name like that wouldn't appear during the Republic or early Principate. People with such a low social status or provincial birth didn't have the chance to advance to higher ranks or social status. That only happened after the Romans started to grant citizenship to other people and auxiliaries on a more regular and more widespread basis. Of course I would offer my help if the EB teams was going to work on the names.
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