you can't really compare Renegade(X) with Empires, as there is no base building in renegade(X), which is one of the main functions of the commander in Empires(not the only, but one of them), and really a commander wouldn't work well in RenegadeX I think, or rather it would be pointless, there would be in a public game maybe 1% that would actually listen to the commander every 10 game, and organized games like clanwars you don't need an commander elected officially in the game