![]() ![]() Same happened with Rome, there was small, gradual changes that eventually added up to the ship of theseus that led historians to distinguish the two periods, but the people of the “Byzantine” empire would have called themselves Roman, the emperors were Roman emperors, and there’s a clear line of descendence from the Roman emperors to the “Byzantine” emperors. The key thing is to look at Roman history as a whole, and not try to compare the late republic to the “byzantine” period, because of course, after 500 years, any nation would change significantly, if you went back 500 years on, say, Spain, it would be a completely different entity, they wouldn’t even understand modern Spanish, yet they would be the same nation. Look at the Aeneid, the myth of foundation of Rome was inextricably linked with Greek culture since the very early days of the empire. The people of Anatolia had always been more influenced by Greek culture than Latin culture, and Greekification was a tendency throughout the empire even as far back as the late republic period. It had more of a Greek influence that the early Roman empire, but it was still the Roman empire. Like, is an exclusively China pack really necessary? There's gotta be diminishing returns at some point when it comes to the uniqueness new leaders provide when the Civ ability and unique units/buildings are still the same. I just don't like that they always dip into the same civs. It would also be thematic to the Inca given that their empire was long North to South (it would be the equivalent of the US-America border to the bottom of Mexico in length) but they still managed to rule it efficiently. A loyalty bonus alongside extra defense could be interesting and let them have aggressive expansion that is tempered by the mountain requirement. Maybe they could do something related to settling adjacent to mountains for bonuses. Similarly the Inca is the only civ to use mountains in the way that they do. Maybe they could do a religious angle to contrast with the science heavy one we have now. It's open ended enough as to not pigeonhole potential alternate leaders but unique enough that they could probably find unique synergies. The Mayans don't need fresh water and revolve heavily around farming/housing. It's also just a missed opportunity to not explore the tall civs like the Inca or Maya who arguably have some of the most unique abilities in the game. I already felt like there was a lack of American cultures so it's a bit disappointing to see that none of them are getting an alternate leader other than the US. I just want them to give some other civs alternate leaders.
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