Good luck on your business as well, Laina!
Here are my rough plans (subject to change) for the mod from now until the end of June:
I'd like to do a lot of the "filling in" parts of the mod, that is, doing the civilopedia entries, getting all the unit graphics together, getting unique flags for each civilization, making buttons for basically everything besides the buildings, and such. I also want to continue with the gameplay aspects, but that won't be such a huge part of this update.
I'm going to be gone the entire month of July in Deutschland (Germany), so I will either put the project on pause for then or pass everything on to one of you. I'd like to post a very large update a week or so before I leave, maybe 0.7 or something.
At that point, I've been thinking it might be time to get a project forum for this mod (It is the 10th most downloaded mod, with over 5000 downloads
).
I've done about a third of the civilopedia entries for the countries, and I was wondering how you all thought the civilizations should be named. I see a couple of good ways:
1. Leave it as is. Have kingdoms called "Kingdom of ____", the Khanates called "Tatar Khanate", Vikings and Spain called "Viking Kingdoms" and "Spanish Kingdoms', and various "_____ Empire".
2. Have every civilization use the same naming convention, such as "Kingdom of ____". In the case of the Goths, the Avars, and such, it would be "Kingdom of the ____".
3. Have only a few naming conventions, maybe "Empire of ____", "Kingdom of ____", and "Khanate of ____".
The reason I think this is important is because the civilopedia looks very messy with such inconsistency between the civilizations.