Oh right, I haven’t played Civilizations but I have played Tropico, so I definitely know what you mean. I believe even Starcraft II has similar feature but could be wrong… Any others tasks for the camera, apart that one? Can you rotate it like yaw-wise?
Oh and another thing, what do you (and rest of the people ) think of RTS camera that when you zoom in it slightly rotates pitch-wise? I have mixed feelings about that, sometime that makes for a nicer look, but sometime it’s much more useful to just be able to fast zoom in and out without totally getting my camera rotated…