So, I start up RFC for the first time in months (my graphics card pooped out). I decide to play America; the loading time is NINETY MINUTES. I'm wondering what in the world is going on, since it shouldn't be taking this long. So I went into worldbuilder, and this is what I saw (please don't mind the resource bubbles, I didn't expect to see what I saw and wanted to get the pictures quickly):
Not too unusual, huh? Both the Aztecs and Maya living (and the Inca too) and none being vassals--well, the Aztecs vassalised the Maya--is a bit weird, but nothing really strange. Dutch New York, a conquered French New Orleans and the Vikings in Vinland is a bit weirder, but still not outside of possibility. I might as well fill you all in on the rest of the colonial front--Mali is a Spanish vassal, Ethiopia collapsed, South Africa and Venezuela are Dutch, Australia is about to be colonized by the Brits, and I'm reasonably sure none of the far eastern civs are vassals (I didn't check too closely).
This isn't overly strange either, I suppose. Germans take northern Greece while the Turks take the rest, then move on Russia and collapse them. The Vikings help take the remains. It gets a bit stranger when you notice that the French have lost Lyons to Germany and are vassals of them, but still, with a monster Germany, who's to say what happens? Well, a Dutch Rome, I guess. Oh and, by the way, Portugal is Islamic and a vassal, probably also of Germany. German power?
This is what happens. For those of you counting, the Ottomans hold most or all of the territory of: Themselves, Greece, Babylon, Persia, Arabia, Egypt, and Carthage. They're moving in on Ethiopia (which is entirely native for whatever reason). Germany holds or has vassalised Greece, France, Portugal, and Russia. The Ottomans also have far more people. Yeah. I want to see the fallout when those two go to war, it would be a glorious bloodbath.
Just thought I'd show you all, since I think it's interesting the game developed so curiously. If you care, the game's gone easily so far--I've entered a defensive pact with the Aztecs, the Dutch flipped peacefully (and I got THREE East Indiamen!), and the English declared war and are about to lose all of their Canadian possessions. The natives I've encountered haven't attacked for whatever reason. I'm not very far into the game, but it seems like it'll be quite easy.
Oh, and sorry if I brought this topic back from the dead. If it's taboo, well, I didn't want to start a new one and this was appropriate