I'd also this a PBEM mechanic as well as server ones would be excellent. From what I gather, Stardock might well even be able to improve is in some clever way over other games in the past that have used one variant or another of it seeing as how they've got some clever folks scurrying about.
What about something kinda how you can generate the names of whatever in Dwarf Fortress? Considering there's lore in this game likewise, history and such, something roughly comparable might be a nice touch of detail to grace it with.
Likewise, this will be interesting when the time comes to reveal it. I got a good laught at the little notebook sketches used in the prior updates---so cool!
I shall have to wait to pre-order this until closer to the time for financial and other concerns that far ahead in the future. Either I'll pre-order it at that time, or on release day. However, strangely, I literally just discovered the whole PC TBS/RTS Fantasy Strat thang in the past week or so after all these years of varied gaming, so finding that something like THIS was on the horizon was just fantastic(First I heard of this was within NeoGAF). I'm a big