Game is very boring. Unless you pay money to get the major resources you need to play it, it will take you probably 100 years of real time to get half way through the game. You get land infrequently, unless you pay for it. You lose people when you build certain buildings and never get them back, unless you sell houses and then rebuild them. Researching is very slow. Combat could be good, except it seems all your AI neighbors always seem to have better units that you do & will just kill you.