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The short answer would be "No." The long answer is longer, and beyond me to know the details, but so far as I'm aware so long as it's not a strict scrutiny issue (which includes things like race, religion, etc.), discrimination is generally pretty legal. If I had a store or whatever and wanted to put up a sign saying "No one with hair past the shoulders allowed" (and then enforced it), I'm fairly sure that'd be legal in a lot of places in the US, and not strictly against the constitution regardless.

Yeah... stuff like that is why the SCOTUS decision was both great and terrible. We've still got a helluva' fight ahead to make sexual orientation and whatnot something under strict scrutiny and thus umbrella'd under anti-discrimination laws. Noticed a fairly succinct pic that's circulating a little that does a pretty good job of getting the message across:

Heroes of Annihilated Empires has the option. You can choose to go into a match either as a builder or a solo champion. Goal is still annihilation, but the mechanics of it can be somewhat distinct (builders eventually get a hero as well, but later in the game and substantially weaker than the solo champ). The individual factions are fairly different, as well, though the nature of the game itself (everything dies in droves, constantly) makes that somewhat difficult to really notice.

Few of Arcen Games' other works have the same sort of asymmetry to their player/npc interactions, as well. Last Federation, Bionic Dues, even the Valley stuff... it's pretty common to their designs.

Pretty sure Distant Worlds can be set up similar to that third option, as well -- there can be nation specific victory conditions, iirc. Pretty sure there's a good handful of other 4x games that work like that... it's not exactly common, but it's not particularly unknown, either.

Several of the Civ games offer similar options, though anyone can pursue any particular one, rather than a particular faction being locked in to certain victory conditions. Still, you had disparate victory conditions available.

Giants: Citizen Kabuto probably counts, too. Fairly radically different factions, albeit with fairly similar goals.

No? I can't recall any part of D1 that was MP only...

... in other news, I'm going through a LP of an iOS JRPG called Chaos Rings. Have got to the first(?) big reveal, and it turns out the plotline of this game is apparently hatesex and ten millennium of incest and inbreeding. Seems like whoever wrote the plot got their genetics lesson from Genesis instead of a biology textbook :V

Yes, and sorta'. If you haven't played since it first came out, there is a tremendous amount of new stuff all across the board, from the early game to the late. The latest patch seems to have sprinkled stuff all throughout, as well, albeit with a bit of a focus on the late game stuff. Still, you're not looking at any particular grind at all to reach new content, if your baseline is immediately after initial release. New stuff compared to the early versions is just bloody everywhere.

You are looking at a fair bit of effort to get to the higher end stuff, though. Progression's fairly organic, but you still may end up mining or farming critters more than you'd particularly like to, at points. Especially if you're not terribly familiar with the game already, or aren't leaning on a wiki.

... huh. Was the night vision helmet in the last version?

Also, noticed what you do with desert fossils! Glad I found the right thing in a house somewhere underground >_> Extractionjigger, for those who haven't noticed yet.

... huh. Apparently I get 2 FPS in multiplayer. Max >_>

Admittedly my SP performance isn't exactly amazing, but... yeah.