I think it can be started as a community mod. If there are enough people who like the idea, it should be possible to compile a list of most important issues and make a mod that fixes them.
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Oh there are plenty of mods that can fix the issue, Expanded timeline is one example. But I'd like it to be an official update, considering the bookmarks are already there, it'd make a lot of achievements much easier to get too, and make the game a whole lot more repayable, it's like having 2 games in one, similar to CK3. I hope at least before they stop development of EU4 they'll fix some of the bookmarks.
Extended Timeline makes lots of changes to base game, much more than is necessary to make bookmarks inside official timeline playable. What I suggest is to make lean and mean mod that only fixes things, which could later be included into base game (or used by developers as a starting point)
Making very similar games for every start date that differ only in minor details is just a stupid waste of money
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I would not consider 1700 a similar start date to 1444. Warfare, society, technology was different.
Did some reading on the topic. Never knew there were even 5 levels to sprites that actually start from 1350 (0) to 1805 (5) and beyond. Was more ever planned for the EU4 dates but abandoned earlier in development?
1805 to 1860 standard british Suez Piths, Union Army, and Post Napoleonic war French outfits would be a quaint reward for flying through the tech-tree.
1805 to 1860 standard british Suez Piths, Union Army, and Post Napoleonic war French outfits would be a quaint reward for flying through the tech-tree.
I've read every DD for EU 4 and don't recall seeing anything about expanding the scope of the game. But we can infer some thing from EU 3. EU 3 expanded both its starting and ending date by +- 50 years each via expansions (at launch game went from 1453-1789, with expansions went from 1399-1821). Those Xpacs also introduced new late-game mechanics focused on revolutions and generally more content related to Napoleon.
We do know that the starting date was push back to 1444 as Devs decided it was generally better for gameplay than 1399 and pushed a more "historical outcome". Only real piece of content we got that wasn't focused on 1444 was "The American Dream" which focused entirely on the American Revolution and gave a bunch of events to USA, and a non-1444 achievement! Apparently, this DLC was never popular and is now part of the forgotten content for EU 4 which might have served as an early indicator that people weren't all that interested in that type of content, meaning that if they had more plans to add more late-game content it might have been scrapped early on EU4's life cycle.
I could write a couple more paragraphs on how EU 4 sits on a transitional period for how PDX used to do expansions and how it would do them, how change in design philosophy before and after the game came out might have lead to them cancelling support for starting dates and late-game content. There's a whole discussion to be have here regarding what we know and what we can speculate.
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