In reference to all of your ideas, i totally think that they would make RTW better for me.

However, there have been thousands of people writing in and saying "i want this, i want that" and the problem is that, esentially we all want:

Sid Meiers Civilisation: Total War.

Total war has always been a pure war game, hence Total War. And so i think it will take a good 5-10 years for CA to develop this Civ: Total War and sell it (assuming they want to make heaps of money) :D