Originally posted by Grailoch:

If you are trying to find purpose in a video game, you are looking in the wrong place. Any video game is just entertainment, a time waster that you enjoy for a while. Just like a movie, concert or any other type of entertainment. Can you name any video game that actually has a purpose? Collecting pixels? Come on now. Get real.

Your response basically just boils down to miscommunication. OP doesn't mean real-world results from a fictitious world. OP means expanding the sense of progression in the game and making it so that conquered biomes are reinvigorated or otherwise made more interesting in later progression areas.