Apocalypto
Chieftain
You make some good points on the issues of not including Portugal and to have gold in the form of treasures from lost cities. Im sure Portugal will be included in a mod shortly after the game is released.
About your modding idea: From what Ive read, there seems to be a lot more emphasis on forming alliances and on the natives fighting other tribes in the new version, this of course causing the Europeans to get entangled in native conflicts. Well see how well this plays out in the game, but it seems like a major improvement.
I heard, somewhat to my disappointment, that they are not going to include random events like we had in BtS. I think their reason for this was that the game requires so much micro-management that it simply would be too much happening if they included it. Im still hoping for it in a future patch or expansion -- players could always toggle it off it they didnt want it.
I found this feature to be a great improvement in BtS. Events could be marriages between colonists and natives causing relations to improve, careless frontiersmen causing relations to deteriorate, sudden droughts causing food output to drop (times were, after all, pretty harsh back then). And how about Agueybana I (who believed the Spaniards to be gods) dies and his brother Agueybana II claims the throne, causing a massive change in relations with the Arawaks, and so on.
I guess well have to wait and see. I loved the first Colonization, and Im really looking forward to the new version.
Final note, I think weve made ourselves guilty of derailing this thread from its initial theme
, which was the founding fathers. The list has 40 names now, btw. 
About your modding idea: From what Ive read, there seems to be a lot more emphasis on forming alliances and on the natives fighting other tribes in the new version, this of course causing the Europeans to get entangled in native conflicts. Well see how well this plays out in the game, but it seems like a major improvement.
I heard, somewhat to my disappointment, that they are not going to include random events like we had in BtS. I think their reason for this was that the game requires so much micro-management that it simply would be too much happening if they included it. Im still hoping for it in a future patch or expansion -- players could always toggle it off it they didnt want it.
I found this feature to be a great improvement in BtS. Events could be marriages between colonists and natives causing relations to improve, careless frontiersmen causing relations to deteriorate, sudden droughts causing food output to drop (times were, after all, pretty harsh back then). And how about Agueybana I (who believed the Spaniards to be gods) dies and his brother Agueybana II claims the throne, causing a massive change in relations with the Arawaks, and so on.
I guess well have to wait and see. I loved the first Colonization, and Im really looking forward to the new version.
Final note, I think weve made ourselves guilty of derailing this thread from its initial theme
, which was the founding fathers. The list has 40 names now, btw. 
