Quote Originally Posted by Owen Glyndwr View Post
As much as many people would hate to hear it. I think that if I had to choose between the real-time battles, and an actually realistic working and complex political system in which the AI behaved sanely and logically, I'd go with the politics. Sure fighting massive battles is just plain awesome, but battles that have no meaning, to me, are completely arbitrary and boring.
I wholeheartedly agree!

Yet the trend has been in the opposite direction.

Some of this has been a simple misunderstanding of what the players are looking for, and CA has seemed to be listening.

I pray that they still are and can move the game back to a political, economic, & military model, in that order and not just all war all the time.

Players who like all war are free to declare war on everyone as they choose,(something everyone seems to forget), however, those who want something else can not turn off the idiocy and play a different kind of game in its current state.