If someone is interested into how ELO (very small customization for first few games) and Glicko2 works, I made wrapper website here where you can see how rating is changing after each game:
https://bete8.alwaysdata.net/rts/ora_elo.php
https://bete8.alwaysdata.net/rts/ora_glicko2.php
Imho, ELO is much better.
The paintings (DeviantArt, username: coricancha) are created by an anthropologist trained especially in the material culture of ancient Latin America, visual studies, and digital reconstruction – resulting in historically informed and visually precise representations.
Change is not inherently bad. It's just bad execution.
There is clearly room for improvement in the implementation of territory and capture features. Changing the default is understandable.
Mason, lumberjack, merchant, a blacksmith (profession, not a building).
Fishermen in the coastal areas. Probably a lot of other things. Women did mostly knitting, some farming and some other stuff that would be inappropriate to talk about.