I love EB, and spent rather too much time last summer playing it. My favourite thing about it is re-writing history - not necessarily to be more glorious, just different.
One thing I'd really like to see is a program that would catapult your game decades forward into a "new era".
When my Parthians overrun the east, I don't really want to sit there and micromanage the empire for 100 years. But what I do want to do is take up the reigns again in 50 BCE, when a succession of inept rulers have bankrupted the treasury and the empire is beset from all sides. And after I stave off that crisis, I'd like to fast forward 20 years and take up the cause of the lost scion of the Ptolemies in his rebellion against the Parthians. And then I'd like to skip forward 100 years to the time when the Carthaganian Empire is beginning to crumble and fall under repeated migratory onslaughts.
From what I can tell, scripts exist that can make any change we could want. It's just a matter of creating algorithms that would model the steady rise and fall of empires and implementing them in script form. Of course, I use the term "just" in its most ironic sense.
Am I right in my assessment - is this possible? It'd certainly increase the longevity of an EB game for me. Would anyone else be interested in using a utility of this kind? Or helping to create one?
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