[Vanilla] Leader chaches

[Patine]

The personalities and qualities of the leaders change one Stalin to one consensus and one. Tsar another! You don't care about politics

Amazingly enough, Civ has NEVER been a remotely close to accurate simulator of realistic politics. It would lose it's charm, and it's brand, that sells it to it's base, if it did.

 

[pokiehl]

The personalities and qualities of the leaders change one Stalin to one consensus and one. Tsar another! You don't care about politics

It seems like you're basically making an appeal to realism here, which doesn't resonate with me. This series isn't a history simulator, is full of abstractions of reality, and above all else, has always relied on a faction being represented by an immortal leader. Diplomacy is centered around that idea.

With how important the leader factors into a civ's design, your idea is completely unreasonable, both from a history perspective (who is the appropriate leader for a classical era oligarchic Canada?) and from a practicality perspective (leaders are among the most intensive assets to make for the developers, comprising animation, modeling, texturing, and voice acting).