Jade & Spice - If you guys are tackling a project as big as modding, why remove anything? Unless jade and spice cause a problem with the software, leave them as an allowable commodity option for the designer to choose (or not).
Expanding City names and City leader names - Would it be too hard to allow dynamic names that could be assigned like parameters in the campaign design? Example: a pop up window for city name in which the designer can type in whatever name they want, not pick from a hard-coded list. Same pop-up data entry window for city leader name. If a hard-coded list must be used, I could probably come up with at least a hundred names I've wanted to use over the years...
Just my .02
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