You can entertain yourself with micromanaging and making your own storylines. I have spent countless hours on courting, making a family and then trying to put my family, one by one into seats of power. And when my loved ones were being killed off, spending all that time on vendettas, either brutally and directly, or with finesse and working in the backdrops, it can really be immersive. One huge drawback though, is, despite the highest difficulty levels, if you survive for long enough, the enemy families will stop making babies and they just die off. If youre into just creating something, a powerful and influential family, successful businesses and just playing around with your own imagination, its great fun, but if your main objective is eradicatio, youll probably be disappointed.