I'm in the mood for improving the situation of the Scenarios, this will be important regarding playing people on customised maps, but more so for customised starting positions, names and the like.

At the moment, there is a very plain system which is in need of improvements and I intend to update it very soon after spending some hours today improving the Scenario creator a bit.

This comes at a good time, because it turns out the Technology Tree actually crashes the load map function (ouch) so the main game will need a patch released for that.

Basically though, Map and Scenario creation is a subscribers feature, and comes with a specialised editor, but anyone can use maps and scenarios created. I've been making the odd maps every now and again, but I'm at the stage where I want Scenarios to actually be playable.

From next version onwards then, Scenarios should include a few new features, such as player select as you log in; AI personalities for nations not being played, perhaps considering a few new updates for the main game; including possibly some new colours (light blue, dark red, etc) for the purpose of scenarios, which I'll try to provide some at release.

My intention is to release something along this list (hopefully more than 1):

UK Map: Roman Conquest of Britain
Europe Map: Multiplayer map up to 12 people
World Map (Small): Multiplayer map up to 4 people

And perhaps some more. Theoretically, anything up to Roman Empire based Scenarios are possible, perhaps a bit further if I do some more units (namely, Cavalry) but that's a wait and see at the moment.