Well to be honest I don't see the problem, as long as we can play the other factions by editing a simple text file then that's it.

Quote Originally Posted by Doug
I think the purpose of the "unlock" features is to keep a new player from picking some faction he likes for outside, historical or sentimental reasons, then getting clobbered. People with bad first impressions rarely get addicted.
Well, I think it's just there to keep the player playing, give him some sort of a objective other than conquering the twenty needed cities. That simple.