MAYHEM: A character based game of epic proportions
You choose which continent you wish to start (Europe, Asia and Africa will be the most popular campaigns)...born into a small tribe, you begin as a lowly berry gatherer sometime during the stone age period, after hours of gameplay (collecting the most berries) your 'rank' improves and you can progress to hunting Mammoths or some such animal that shall be near your tribe, at this stage you shall be able to take your first wife... "32/24/32" will be the important stats (never fear they will be easily found once Peter Ebberson has made a compatible bride finding program)....Your first child is born...during this period you will be able to become 'chief' after spiltting your leaders head in half with a shoddy axe late one night or a random event happened "chief fell over and died"...
...time passes, you marry your children off to powerful members of other tribes, your main character dies, somehow you manage to 'inherit' your greatest rivals tribe when your new character (the eldest son) takes command, rinse and repeat 1000s of times (new features include a complete family tree, not only of your main character, but also that of all tribal leaders)
...spreading across large swathes of land, your tribe is now able to develop new technologies...farming small be 'infrastructure 1', borders will develop and be agreed upon with other tribes through war or diplomacy...
The game shall be called EU:Stoneage
converters shall be developed by dedicated fanboys linking to Rome...