Great game, but very tedious to set up an online game with friends. (No direct IP connect, sometimes frequent and random disconnects, takes forever for players to join and pauses game until the player joins, replaces disconnected players with AIs that ruin everything, etc.) One time it took more than an hour just to get past the game setup because random players kept losing connection.

A normal game can take more than 6 hours to complete, but you don't really notice until the end.

Also, the computer players in this game don't get better when you raise the difficulty. Instead, they cheat and have a thousand cities and resources by turn 10, which is annoying. They will demand basically everything you have for one of something they have, so there really isn't much fair trading. During war, they seem to have unlimited units that are created from nothing.

Great game, but very tedious to set up an online game with friends. (No direct IP connect, sometimes frequent and random disconnects, takes forever for players to join and pauses game until the player joins, replaces disconnected players with AIs that ruin everything, etc.) One time it took more than an hour just to get past the game setup because random players kept losing connection. A normal game can take more than 6 hours to complete, but you don't really notice until the end. Also, the computer players in this game don't get better when you raise the difficulty. Instead, they cheat and have a thousand cities and resources by turn 10, which is annoying. They will demand basically everything you have for one of something they have, so there really isn't much fair trading. During war, they seem to have unlimited units that are created from nothing.