[Japo]

I played a game of AC long ago and I basically won hands down, I know what it's about. IMO that sympathies are influenced by policies is a cool feature. If you were green you should have armies of those nasty alien mind benders and they cut normal units to pieces regardless of their weaponry.

I played the scientific faction and had green policies. The most hostile faction was the Hive but when I dispatched a warship way above their technolgic level and a bunch of uber-aliens they just kida surrendered before I ever got to shoot, and offered to submit. The Industry faction was also hostile but I beat the daylights out of them until they licked my boots. The UN were pathetic and bullied by the Hive so they loved me and my policies. The second most powerful faction was the Green one and they wouldn't submit but since they were nice and liked my policies I chose not to wage war. With world peace so guaranteed, I called a world council and was elected world leader. In the mainstream Civ games the only way to guarantee world peace is conquering the world, and that's what the Civ games are about and nothing else. And the other civilizations' AIs are just clones of Gengis Khan or Saddam Hussein so you can't live in peace with them even if you try, and diplomacy is dumb.