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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1224336" data-attributes="member: 7240">This is an excellent and under-utilized historical period for gaming. Is it just going to be early modern technology or will there be an early modern worldview as well? Remember: when Europeans "discovered" the Americas the second time around, they did not have the capacity nor inclination to "build" a civilization there. Intially, settlement/colonization was only successful in areas where they could piggy-back existing infrastructure. So, colonization was really limited to areas where they could use Meso-American and Andean infrastructure from the outset. It was only through massive liquidation of and tribute from these civilizations that Europeans were able to garner the economic resources needed to engage in the second phase of colonization. So, just to push you, are you going to do the Pizarro/Cortes phase or are you going to do the phase following that when infrastructure has been taken over and sufficient plunder and tribute have been levied to begin developing the area? Or are you going to work from a different narrative? If so, you need to think about what is motivating your empire to repatriate its citizens and invest in an area far from its own core territory.Good luck!</blockquote>