I have been playing this game for quite a while, completed a few games. It is a good game and I would recommend it, but it has its fair share of downsides too. For one thing, if you attack a nation that is run by a computer, you can’t go back (if you did it by accident or you miscalculated how strong they were) A few of my games have been lost because of this. There’s also some resource management issues. You don’t get that many resources, which is their way of making you pay for more. It really makes it hard to develop because you need so many resources to make all the essential structures. Besides these major flaws in the games design, it is quite fun; when you are actually in a server with a lot of players, you can make coalitions and plan coordinated attacks, so that your combined force means you won’t be overpowered. It takes more victory points to win while in a coalition, but it makes the game much easier. Every time I have won a game, I was in a coalition. Also, if you are at war with a player, you can make a peace treaty with them (trading land, resources, relations for peace with them) This is better than the computers that don’t stop attacking you ever. There’s one last thing to be addressed here, and that’s the amount of time a game takes. From my experience, just the tutorial game takes about two months (the tutorial has 4x speed) and most normal games take more than half a year. If you don’t think you can commit to a game like this, it’s not the game for you. Anyways, that’s all I have to say.