[kurzov]

Okay, GWB update time.

At this point, I've planned out a majority of the sim "history", as it were - up to around the mid-'90s. However, I'm still debating smaller things about the leagues, such as how the leagues should be sorted (league rep value and levels), rule changes, and so on. (DH? Salary caps? Roster size?)
Of course, given these leagues are completely fictional, I have nothing to fall back on, so these decisions have to be made on my own.

I'm unsure as to whether the sim should just straight-up halt at the end of 2001 or continue to "current day" (2024). The series lore states that at some point between 2000 and 2002, miko (shrine maiden) Reimu Hakurei introduced the Spell Card Rules.
While these rules are more of an internal lore document that only really serve as an in-world explanation for why the games play the way they do, the effect these rules would have would appear in a couple forms for the sim/save. Chiefly, it would impact the divide between humans and youkai.
This in turn would affect the logic being used by these leagues, particularly when it comes to the rules limiting youkai playing in human leagues, and vice versa. Other effects could be considered more nebulous.
However, stopping at 2001 would also limit the events of the games from impacting the sim. Some examples would include the Scarlet Devil Mansion, the Moriya Shrine, and the Palanquin Ship from appearing in Gensokyo (2002, 2007, and 2009 respectively).

Once the history is completed - whether I decide to stop the sim at 2001 or not - I can begin to work on the database entries. I'm not sure if I will be able to simply append these entries to the end of the existing nation and city databases without having unwanted side effects, or if I will need to wipe out these two databases and replace them with the custom entries entirely. There are also some other concerns that I have, particularly regarding the use of custom regions, that I'll probably only be able to answer once the custom databases are implemented.

Lastly, I'm waiting for any upcoming game updates/patches to be released before actually implementing these databases or starting the simulation, as I'm not sure of how installing updates would affect any edits made to the database files - and I would like to run the sim with as few hangups as possible.