[Cainehill]

Originally posted by The Panther:
Of course, I admit it would be nearly impossible to truly balance 17 races.

I'd really like to see something where all players could have the same nation, picking and designing their pretender and scales given the shared nation/theme.

Not only would that be a helluva lot of fun, but it'd really be great as a way to level the playing field.

It'd also be great for doing scenarios that simulate a civil war - fantasy / Dom2 Version of the War of the Roses or the Hundred Years War.

If Illwinter had tied units / provinces / sides to the player, this could fairly easily be done; unfortunately I think they used nation as the index / identifier. (Not that that wasn't a decent design decision - simpler code / structures to do things that way. Flexibility isn't necessarily the first design constraint. )