[FrankTrollman]

One thing to remember about better graphics is that a modder making new units will have to keep the newly required graphics up to par.

A text only game is easy to add units to, you just write a description of a new unit. A 16 pixel-high unit requires a 16 pixel-high piece of art. A 3d wireframe with attached cellshading requires... and so on.

So the higher tech the art gets, the harder it is going to be to add a new team. And since we are still missing:

Klackons (or Abeil, or Formians)
Arabians
Vietnamese
Tibetans
Incans
Vaettiheim (or swamp goblins, or the Unseelie Court)
Beastmen

etc. etc. etc.

...that remains something to worry about. The Dominions meta-setting is one which could potentially incorporate virtually any group from virtually any fantasy or historical setting, and therefore should. So it must remain easy to create a new group.

-Frank