What do you mean 'no longer select any date we want'? When could we ever do this?
Aw shit. I saw those arrows when I started out and they didn't seem to do anything.
Try the second half of 1157. KoJ is strong with a good ruler, Nuradin controls most of Syria and Damascus, Seljuk blob imploded into a bunch of emirates, Fatimids are still around, Sicily controls a patch of Africa from Tunis to Cyrenaica, etc... An awesome start if you want to play in the Middle East.
Yeah it is deceptive because if you happen to be on one of the first 2 bookmarks when you try it there is nothing to tell you why it isn't doing anything. For a while I thought from the load save character select screen you could go back in time through your save but eventually I realised my mistake. I'm now interested to do the norman challenge as the independent norman count in anatolia at some point after i finally bore of the d'Ivrea family
Yeah. They're pretty subtle and unless you press the centuries one or are zoomed out it's pretty hard to tell the difference usually.
That's because day-by-day starts from 1066 only - they never filled the dates before that, even when they added new starting points with TOG and CM.
While not an intended feature, it can be done by modding a single file. I once played a game where I started as Al-Hakim the mad caliph. But there were less characters than in a regular start date (e.g. most rulers had no mother or sibling to make alliances). Within about 50 years of game time, there were enough randomly generated courtiers that I couldn't tell the difference.
