AbsintheRed
Deity
okay, I fired up the SVN again, it downloaded a single file (40kb) and told me I'm at 1263, so either that was a display-bug earlier or there havent been any large changes since 1226^^.

Umm, Morocco starts with 2 Maceman and 2 Armored Lancers. All the rest are defensive and civilian units.You start with a huge army (I already disbanded 5 or 6 units and still had something like 8 or 10 decent offensive units left, not counting city defenders). And it seems you're not allowed to do literally anything with it (because it takes >100 years to properly develop your lands so you can actually take cities from Cordoba, it seems). I'd recommend scaling down their starting units and maybe instead increasing their growth and give them possibly a settler more.
The Scottish Auld Alliance UHV isn't perfect. Will be improved in some form for the next version.Tried a game with Scotland to compare. And they can seemingly just do what they want. I conquered and razed and conquered and yet my stability was always +10 or higher. However, there I ran in the issue that France wouldn't sign a defensive pact with me "because my lands are too far away". Awesomesauce. And they vasallized England around 1200 AD. Despite me playing like their little lapdog (selling them 7+ resources, being on "friendly" since before 1100AD and joining every war of theirs within 1-2 turns) I was only at around 1000 relation points with them in 1500 AD. Also, what's the point of building the forts? I mean it's cool that they have a unique goal, but...I just dont get why I should use my workers to essentially do nothing for half a century.
Also weird: I had countries declare war on me for seemingly no reason at all. Countries like Genoa or Arabia, that really have no interest in my lands, at all. Not that it was an issue, they never sent any units my way (except maybe a single ship), but it just felt weird.
Well, the mod only improved in the past period, mainly for the needs of the players.Either way, maybe it's just me, I dont seem to have as much fun playing this mod as I used to. And compared to games like EU4 the limitations of the civ-engine start to show here and there.
Also most mechanics you are questioning origin from vanilla RFC.
So if you loved the mod and played it a lot, they surely didn't disturb you before.