What about the resources?
Make the game more dynamic for priests and courtiers?
Introduce more resources, not only food:
-wood
-rocks
-gold
-silk
Make trade more alive.
Maybe regionalize regions of the maps, such regions are good producers os this, others of that, etc.
Just a thought.
A long time ago there was an additional resource in the form of "metal" if a region didn't have metal its smiths couldn't operate. I don't recall the specifics of this or if there was ever a way to trade metal. In those days food had to be carried around by caravan or manually transported by ox cart.
More trade goods has long been in the category of "yeah that would be nice if it wasn't too hard for the dev team to code" alongside adding a second dimension to battles.
