Maybe they should add a scenario, where your nation would loose a city every time it goes into anarchy and it would be one of the civs, that actually formed out of yours. Like, say you start out with 4 civs. Their all very basic. Time progresses, soon you'l want to have an anarchy for having a state religion. You loose one of your cities and it becomes one of your split civs, which might in return engulf yours.
Like you start out with the Celts, One of your cities departs, you get the Scotish, or maybe the Anglo Saxons. Or you start out as Goths, and you split into the franks and so on!
And if one of your splinter civs conquers you, you have the choice of playing on as the civ that conqured you.
SO America would be one of the split civs of England and so would be Canada. And Different Slav civs form from The original one.
__________________________________________________
About the comon civs, I think that could be a good idea as well. But for instance, you have thee base civs, you play as them until at say every 100 turns, it asks you weather you would like to change the name of your civ for an option of civs, that formed from the original.
__________________________________________________
They should leave the Vikings out. They could add Scandinavians, or maybe a Sweedish civ, because it actually was an empire and is older then 200 years. You could let it have a female ruler as well, because the Swedes actually had a clever female ruler named Christina in the 17 century, who made many reforms.
__________________________________________________
My last post was commented generally thus: "you're saying that America should not be in the game because it hasn't been around since 4000 BC? You DO realize that following that logic to its obvious conclusion would only leave something like 3 civs in the game, right?"
I'm not saying it shouldn't be there because it wasn't there 4000 years BC. I'm saying it shouldn't be there because there were no "American" people there before 200 years, when The British there thought, that the king was a burden. They could change it and add a Native American civilization. And add George Washington as an English ruler.
__________________________________________________
No you don't. Aint Persia enough for you! It's the same place!
__________________________________________________
TErribly sorry for the abaout 1000 spelling mistakes.