Quote Originally Posted by Zim
I think you'd fill more factons if the teams were smaller.
I'd try it. If you weren't using hotseat, would that mean you'd have to use the console to switch factions?
Well the idea of having larger teams is so that the game can continue a lot easier without interruption.

With one on one hotseats, often time the game is halted or abandoned prematurely because it's a long game and life gets in the way.

With team play, the odds are much better that someone will be available, somewhere, to continue the campaign. And it adds a new element of gameplay... having to cooperate with someone when ruling a single faction.

It is rather like being the King and entrusting your entire Northern army to your heir and your entire southern army to your top generals. You have to work together with other sentient beings with their own styles and preferences and achieve victory together in spite of your differences.

I think it adds a whole new dimension to the game. Maybe so?