Strategy Games - Is There Any Internal Motivation?

Grand strategy games are very rarely driven by internal motivation, says bret. In Am you can just play eu and sit in your little um county or or whatever lest level unit. You don't really have any need to go do anything else, aside from maybe crossing your fingers about some large aggressor showing up. The most recent dev diary about west africa is talking about federations of tribe kings in like hause land. They're going to use state privileges to model how much autonomy the local kings have. Verses like the ban king. There's all these ways they've tried to hack it together.