If I may be allowed to start a general suggestions thread, I have a few things that I think that would be worth including/changing in the mod
Ramtha it's all up to you to decide if you like any of these/if it's worth the time and effort to try including them
1) Focus the time period covered by the mod
Currently the descr_strat covers the timeline 1493-1730 (!)
I suggest focusing to the timeline 1493 (Colombus returns with news of an unknown land to the west - even though I still prefer 1494 ) to 1555 (Peace of Augsburg between Charles V and the Schmalkaldic League - in 1556 Charles resigned and went to a spanish monastery to live his final years)
This will allow for focusing on the turbulent years before and just after the reformation (the next big bout of turbulence would occur during the 30 years war)
2) 4 turns per year due to the shorter time frame
3) Rebalance unit recruitment time to go with the 4tpy AND to reflect the reality of levying/creating units in those times. I seem to recall that casting those big basilisk cannons could take up to a year or so. Also levying some pikemen in a city can not take equal time as gathering the creme of knighthood from across the kingdom
4) Adding factions. Quite a few indeed and not just the Incas. (I'll prolly make another thread to list them)
5) Reformation script!
This is really complicated... For example factions will have to change religion (is it even possible) PLUS there may need to be a couple of emerging factions (the Schmalkaldic League instead of the former factions). There are other complications here though...
6) Unit rosters per faction...
I'll prolly make another thread to list what vanilla units are more appropriate for the era, because as things are there are quite a few units that just don't fit. But be advised that (as dristvaan pointed out earlier on) the rosters may be short and heavy on gunpowder and heavy cavalry units - which in turns will unbalance the game and is not necessarily historical (I'll show what I mean in the other thread)
Oh and a last suggestion for ramtha: get a scripting guy, because there are quite a few complex events (eg the reformation, the italian wars, etc) which will need us to give the AI a good push if they are ever going to happen
Post other suggestions freely (we can always dream, can't we? )...
cheers