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Anyway, some numbers with regard to CK2. for example:
2014 - Vanilla game sales:
http://www.pcgamer.com/crusader-kings-2-has-sold-one-million-copies/

2015 - Vanilla + DLCs + Expansion Packs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusader_Kings_II

As of February 13, 2015, the base game has sold over 1.1 million copies, with the expansion packs sales totaling over 2.5 million units sold and the cosmetic DLCs 5.5 million. According to Paradox Interactive, the game is played by an average of 12,500 players every day, 104,000 per month, with an average playtime of 99 hours per player.

This is pretty decent for a strategy game.

Yeah, it is, doesn't change the fact that tons of people can't get into it (or think they can't), though.

The moral of the story is never again to go on Bay12 intoxicated.

I can relate.

As said before many times they do not run on a feudal system.  They run on a socialist/communist system because despite the existance of 'barons' and 'kings' among dwarves nobody owns any actual private property except for the clothes on their back. 

They run on a feudal system with the economy stripped because it sucked. It's a temporary thing.

I do not actually think we should actually be able to choose those things directly.  That is because a player will not necceserily know the general character and appearance of the civilization that the person he is player, so we could up with people who have a completely different appearance to the other people in their civ, which people may come to regret. 

Could always lock or warn against traits that wouldn't occur naturally within the relevant populations, there's also outsiders who wouldn't be affected by any of that. Unusual traits are a staple of fantasy heroes though, so I wouldn't shy away from it entirely.

Therefore there is no Mr.Anachronism fell from the sky as is presently the case, if you want to become part of part of the world then you have to become just that; if you cannot find the right person then you have to look elsewhere, not wave a magic wand to make one.

That's going to be a problem regardless, if the dude himself doesn't randomly fall from the sky his super-awesome sword skills will still have to, and at that stage it probably makes more sense to be some random from out of nowhere than the high-master swordsman potato-farmer who's never been in a battle his entire life.That is unless you do away with skill customization entirely, in which case you'd be left with about three viable adventurers a world.

I'm disappointed the title wasn't the entire suggestion.

Sounds interesting for Adventure Mode but not sure if it would matter to Fortress Mode. 

Assembling infrastructure and collecting materials for an end of the world spell seems like it would be a perfect endgame goals in Fortress Mode.

Yep, shit monsters are already in, and that's good enough for me.

Well, here in the grim darkness of the cold north we get as utterly shitfaced as humanly possible every weekend so we can actually talk to each other and such. No idea if that counts as unusual, but it's supposedly healthier than the continental 'glass with every meal' style of doing things.