Civ 3 had pollution, and managing it created a number of complaints: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/an-option-to-turn-off-the-pollution.57841/ https://f

Civ 3 had pollution, and managing it created a number of complaints: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/an-option-to-turn-off-the-pollution.57841/ https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/an-option-to-turn-off... Civ 4 had global warming, and it annoyed people enough they hacked the game to get rid of it: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/global-warming.145922/ https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/global-warming.145922... People already complain the games are too complex. If you add a bunch of knobs for various forms of pollution and exploration, you'd just get thousands of requests to turn it all off.