FYI the author of this article http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?...e=moral_combat theorizes that computer games are structured to encourage "conservative" play styles, although you may differ as to what that means.

In the case of Civilization, she considers warmongering to be the conservative victory path. She says that she's only won that type of victory, so her evidence isn't that convincing to me. What do you think?