Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
As it is now, the same empire will be dominant from the Stone Age 'till the Nuclear Age--and that's a direct result of the poorly designed faction system, and the ridiculous rate of time compression.
I think it's more a question of available resources, isn't it?

But if you want to see different empires rise and fall in different Ages, I think you're expecting a little too much from a game. However I tend to agree that this type of game oftens gallops through some ages too quick. Yes, it would be good if each era had enough time to develop its own flavour a bit more.

At least, it would in theory. In practice though, given the time it takes already to play through a Civ campaign - I'm not so sure.