The problem I think is the fact that most people do not have quad or triple core pcs. Even amongst the gamer market, your hardly talking mainstream. Empire is aiming for massive sales and while games like Crysis look good, it's games with the graphics equivilent of Civ 4, EU III, and MTW 2 that dominate the pcs of turn based gaming.

The day may come when it's 20,000 but for the time being they are sticking with 10, and that's more then enough for me. I don't need to see 100,000 v 100,000. Even with 10,000 v 10,000 I already have to much action to actually watch or enjoy anything, so I usually go with 2,000 v 2,000.