Todd Schmidgall wrote:
As for not much we can do about all of this (to paraphrase Mark J), I'm finding that is not so much the case really any more.
There are plenty of gamers here in this club that are creating mods for these games - not just wonderful maps and unit icons, but also changing the various parameter files, etc, that affect movement rates, morale and quality rates, everything really.
This seems to me to indicate that there is a lot we can do with these games to improve the quality of experience.
All true. I should have said that there was nothing much we could 'officially' do about it. The problem with modding everything is that the mods are not universally applied. You have to be very careful to ensure that everyone in on the same page, and running the same systems.