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    Krusader's Nemesis Member abou's Avatar
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    Caesar is the really messiah. All dates should be adjusted by 100 years to mark the momentous occasion of his birth.

    ... well, at least he is my messiah.

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    Ming the Merciless is my idol Senior Member Watchman's Avatar
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    Why not start dating from the traditional date of founding of Rome, the Eternal City, as the Romans did ? Ab urbe condita or however they now put it.
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    Cause they're just one faction. If we really did go with another dating system, it'd be one that was common over more of the map at our starting time roughly. That wouldn't be A.U.C. for sure. It probably would be Olympiad dating or something like that, but that really wouldn't do either, so we just use dating most players will understand. We've had serious discussions over this and realized it's just not possible to change this part of the game engine (if you could alter dating based upon faction or culture, now *that* would be awesome).

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    Maybe someone should release a minimod for the roman campian changing the dates? If I rember there is a mod that enances rome alot. Which I'll play onece a) I get a unsolvable ctd or 2) I rule the world.

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    EBII Mapper and Animator Member -Praetor-'s Avatar
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    A good idea would be to count the turns instead of years (instead of 271BC, turn 4) Thus, it would eliminate inconcistencies like conquering the carthagineans with the romans in 250BC...

    Hey... now that I think about it...

    how do muslims and jews count their years???

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