Gregorian calendar

[herrickrcw2]

I never like the calendar based on the foundation of Rome, I can't know if I'm advancing like in our real timeline and I can't compare. Not knowing the exact date frustrates me sometimes and this made me to never look at the date because I simply don't understand nor relate with it.

Besides I don't play as Rome in every playthrough and looking at that date is off-putting.

So I petition to change it for our normal Gregorian calendar that everyone understands it or at least give us an option on the options menu to change it.

 

[vyshan]

I think that part of the issue is getting the dates to count down in general in PDX games and that they have difficult doing BCE.

Personally I prefer not using the Gregorian Calendar. I rather like it. but tis just my opinion.

 

[Ketchup & friends]

I think that part of the issue is getting the dates to count down in general in PDX games and that they have difficult doing BCE.

Changin the actual code to a BCE countdown would indeed be a bad idea (great amount of work, risk of bugs for a flvour gain). We agree with you and strongly oppose doing that.
But @herrickrcw2 provided an easier solution as well:

at least give us an option on the options menu to change it.

The game already has a converter (mouseover tooltip), adding an option to display the converted date should be very easy.