[Loser]

The way I understood it (please correct if mistaken), MoO3 will use a 'focus point' system to keep you paying complete attention to _all_ aspects of the management of your empire. You have a limited amount of these points, and so can only control, personally, a limited amount of your empire.

You can spend some points to get complete control of a battle, it seemed to say, but your points might be better spent elsewhere.

This sounds very good for playing agaisnt other people, like the time limits in SMAC, but limits micro-management. Being a confessed control freak, micro-management junkie, this idea makes the game sound just a little less appealing.

Trusting any aspect ofthe empire to an AI does not sound very good. The ministers in SEIV are certainly ... impressive. But letting them do their thing is like letting my roommate (who gets a monthly check from The State for a 'learning disability') do the dishes: it means I won't have to do it, but does not mean it will be done well.