Includes America and Azteks? Huh?

[Zenicetus]

and the fact that they're probably investing a lot of time into something that most of us don't like or don't care about. Time that could be invested in more important stuff such as polishing and unit balancing.

I don't know.... it's basically just a reskinned Barbarian faction, right? Nothing fancy like cavalry or artillery.

The one place where it will soak up resources will be in the terrain modeling (if they do it right), and that won't take away too much from other parts of the game, I don't think. The places where I'm personally hoping to see improvement are in areas like strategic and battlefield AI, better unit control, better diplomacy, etc. I don't think modeling some new Central American 3D terrain will take away from those elements. The guys doing AI programming usually aren't the same guys who are pushing pixels to build 3D models for a game.