Faction selection

[theShadow]

right now, when a map is created, the mapper chooses where each player is going to spawn, and what faction is going to spawn there. Is this the final functionality here, or is there any plan to allow the player to choose which faction he wants to play as, selecting from a list of all factions? it seems like ti would make more sense to give this control to the player, as opposed to the mapper.

[WhiteTreePaladin]

Change the map type to "Random Map" and you will be able to choose the civs, the number of players, etc. Scenarios don't let you choose because that would interfere with the story. Because we haven't finished the scenario design features, the current scenarios/maps are just like the Random maps, except you can't change any of the settings.