Cool, well I'm not releasing a version of CD any time before then so no worries. Also I'm curious as to how I'll get this linear thing working, all I'll have to do is change one of your variables, right?
One more thing, I saw in some of the above posts that a simple "A Great Artist has been born in a far away place" will show up instead of the great artist's name.. may I request that you create a variable or a different version that allows the name to show up all the time? I know this may give you a
tiny advantage but I think the flavour is better than just seeing a great artist or great engineer. Or, as you said, just show the name of the great person after you meet this civ, but that would probably be more difficult to code, and take longer to release.