Would be nice to be able to make a human nation of something other than white people.  

I highly suggest you actually try to make even the tiniest bit of effort to familiarize yourself with the lore or even the game period before you throw around accusations like this. You need to grow up. This is a fictional world created by Stardock, it contains red people, purple people, and blue people. They can frankly include or not include any skin color they want and it has no relevance to any bizarre little real life political power trip your currently on about. There are no Caucasians in Elemental because that would imply they are from Earth and their not.

Skin color for troops is set by your race whether it's green or yellow or whatever. Feel free to mod in a race with whatever skin color you desire. I frankly think it's totally unnecessary to have the option to create troops with all the colors of the rainbow. Why even have races then?

I agree with most that the racial charge is absurd. However, I do think that this is a potential opportunity, one thing Stardock could do to spice up the Kingdom sides a little bit. (Bringing it back to faction differentiation. Ha ha.) As it stands, Altar, Capitar, Gilden, Pariden, and Tarth all look like they've come from the same place. But why should they all be white? If, say, the Gilden race were brown/black, and Pariden had a somewhat asian/south american look, and etc., it would help them stand out against the other kingdoms.

There is a demonstrated lack of intelligence in this thread.

Kraxis? Which has always seemed more middle eastern then European to me.

Gilden should be brown and Pariden should be round faced n yellow.

Maybe tarth can be reddish.

Drama-frying? Looks like we need some cooking oil

Unless of course, races other than northern Caucasian are introduced in expansions via "Other Continents"

Brad, Derek and other Stardockians please don't compromise your creative vision to satisfy the whims of the PC brigade - that's going to be a losing game because those people are never satisfied - even if you did introduce different ethnicities they'd start whining and moaning about racial stereotyping and the fact that you havent included other random groups such as one legged pygmies and ginger people.

I suggest you just give them editing options and ignore them after that.

edit: I almost think elrhemlin is trolling

@ Polistes

I realise that but I worry that Brad and co will take it seriously

When I said seriously, I meant that they might introduce different ethnicities to appear more PC

Also none of the characters are gay, transsexual, robots, handicapped, or from a religious minority. In fact since this a fantasy universe Stardock has a Duty to invent whole new ways to not discriminate against fictional people based on random physical or mental characteristics. I'm going to throw people with shoe sizes under 9 out there.

In all seriousness Stardock should stick to their guns and just go with whatever the lore says. Racial characteristics should make sense in regards to the world's history and not be thrown out their for a token effect, that just cheapens the game.

I won't forget this, DsRaider! I WON'T FORGET THIS!!!