embryodead
Caliph
Because there's no reason to pre-place it. Founding date doesn't count. Nearly every city on the map was founded before 750 CE. If that was a factor, the whole map would have to be filled with pre-placed cities, and settlers would become obsolete. You have to think about founding cities as them becoming important game-play wise - it's the same with RFC and any mod-mod - if you look at RFCE, you also get an empty map that should actually be filled with hundreds of cities founded long before 600 AD.
Conditional civs are there only to prevent civs occupying the exact same place (i.e. Egypt).
2) I have entered the Mongol Invasion Era era in early 1100 and enter the Gunpowder Empire Era era few turns before Mongol Invasion begin. I just took Black Powder which lead me to Flint?lock (CMIIW) and able to train Arquebusier approximately 250-300 year earlier
Nothing wrong with that, except the era name. I admit that "Mongol Invasions" isn't the best name for a tech-based era. If you have a better idea, let me know! Just while typing this, I thought "Broken Crescent" might be a better choice, and a tribute to the M2TW mod that inspired me to make SoI.
I have the same impression from my games, and I'm not sure why this is the case. Nothing was changed in terms of Mongol invasions.
No. Bluebags explained it well enough. There's no way to measure it properly, and no point in doing it, gameplay-wise.
It's not about his death, which happens before the mod event starts, but about building an exquisite tomb for him, so it doesn't matter much when it is built.
