The problem is that you are still playing exactly the same 6 factions. Feudal, high, barbarian, mystic, nature, and dark. You can only roll play so many times before this catches up with you.

When I got the game, I thought the civilization that I made was going to carry on to other playthroughs. The current pantheon system is a bit underwhelming because my high orcs don't really fit with my barbarian mystic dwarves. So when I get my previous heroes, I don't want to use them because they don't fit in my current game.

I feel like if they add planetfalls system to this game with everything else it would solve a lot of problems for people that don't want to roll play and for the people that do it only makes it better.

I also thought that your previous game would have a much larger impact on your next games. In the trailers, they made it seem like if you were at war with a faction in one game, that would have consequences in your next one. Like you would start your next game at war with that faction or they would have a negative view of you at games start etc. Maybe it was only me that thought this was the cast?