Hope it's not dead
I sure hope this isn't dead, since there hasn't been any activity for a week. Anyhow, I have no clue how to program, but, since I'm Arabic and that's the history I learned at school before moving to Canada last year, I sure can offer help with history. I'm not sure if you guys need help, because you're doing great, really. I don't if you made up your mind about religion yet, but I don't think you should include any muslim sects besides Sunni and Shitte (not sure of spelling in English), Kharjism wasn't really a religion, but rather a portion of Ali Bin Abi Taleb's Army that left and started working like a militia, and soon they were eliminated (khwarj means in Arabic....umm..can't think of a word, well it comes from the word outside, something like outsiders, or those who became outside, meaning that they betrayed the Chaliphate.) About Sufism are not really a sect, but they did have some reasonable influnce on the goverment in the Abbasid era, but soon Harun Al-Rashid destroyed their influnce. One point about Arabic hisotry that it's really hard to simulate, for instance the Ummayeds had an empire that spanned from India to Spain, but they were very decentralized, not because they wanted to, but because before their rule is over, they were very weak, North Africa was more like a bunch of vassals than actually being part of the empire. How you gonna simulate the becoming of Abbasids, in matter of months they took over the huge empire, Are you gonna give the player the right to become the Abbasids or try to stop their influnce, or just end the scenario if they took over the player. That's somewhat a lengthy post, and there's further things I'd like to discuss, just tell me you guys still working.
