Side effects of changing time scale

[Bob the Insane]

I may be corrected but I believe you do not need to worry about such things... Historical events are tied to a date I believe and as such do not occur early.

The are some niggles though with population growth as it grows but a percentage every turn thus your city of 10,000 will grow to the a certain size in 100 turns whether 200 years have passed or 50...

The build speed is suddenly much higher which matters more for the more advanced buildings such as a cathedral which takes say 12 turns... In default that is a reasonable 24 years, but in the 0.5 timescale a mere 6...

But simply increasing build times by 4x has effects, now a simple church take 4 turns and the Pope only gives you 5 turns in his build a church mission... And I noted a distinct lack of priests in the AI factions when I had made that change is a test game of the 0.5 timescale mod I was playing around with...

In the test games I also found that CA had showed good judgement in balancing the game for 225 turns as it still takes around that time to win even if not being too aggressive... Which in the 0.5 timescale only get you to just shy of 1200...

The good point where the slow tech development gave you much more time to play with the different variety of troop before better ones came along...

Another unforseen issue, the HRE's early troop are inferior to various Italian ones and the HRE normal getting beaten into submission every time if the AI is controlling it...

I often thought a good idea would be to combine the 0.5 timescale with a era's style game, say starting in 1203 for a High medieval game...