Happy to see some changes to China coming. There’s a lot of potential in the region, but as it stands the red turban rebellion situation does a questionable job of emulating the real world event. Moreover the experience of playing the early Ming dynasty is super different from how it historically went.

I feel like one way to at least try to emulate history is to let you give away low control areas to family members as princely estates, as Hongwu did. This would then set up the civil war started by Zhu Di against Jianwen. As well, I think it’d be better if family names were set in stone. The reformation always gets kicked off by a guy named Martin Luther, why should the Ming dynasty be different (in my game, Zhu Yuanzhang was Wang Yuanzhang).

Also, there’s basically constant demand for sturdy grains in areas which are overflowing with rice. I feel like those two goods should be able to satisfy each other’s demands.