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Quote Originally Posted by hoetje
then,another factor, (sorry i didn't mean to destroy your dreams ^^) how long will it take CA to work out all those factions in detail?There will probably be over 40,50 factions,that's a huge number to give proper attention to all of them :D


True, but they have already built a great game engine, and have already designed half of the factions. They would simply need to touch up the ones they already made. Pretty much all of Asia would have the same sort of armor and so forth, and natives have already been done. Major innovations would be African tribes and more unique units.

The game would be somewhat easy to build using the existing game, Medieval 2. It just needs some programming tweaks, a couple new features, a bigger map, and a few new factions. Modders working for free (I think) have already accomplished all of the above.

Granted, this mod would eat all the other mods alive.