Encountered the following issues – Terrain randomisation on ‘play now’ option are somewhat random, its not uncommon for huge areas of ocean to be near your starting area, or for the other colonial empires starting far too close to your position. Actually, I’d like to be able to configure the number of land-masses and amount of sea/ocean in the map.

Also, I should be able to re-generate the map as long as I haven’t created my first colony, sort of like in standard civ but lasts beyond turn 1.

Its really fucking annoying when another empire comes along and builds a town right on your border, sure its trying to take advantage of the over-ride my territory through independence rating function, but I wonder if its taken to an extreme.

Its really fucking annoying when a native group declares war on you with literally no warning (Having to go and look at the relationship info screen like a paranoid android does NOT count) – at least in the original if you were upsetting the locals they’d come up and tell you a few times first, I’ve just lost a town I was setting up because as far as I could tell no one was planning to attack me, not to mention this whole fecking ‘raise it to the ground thing’ that AI loves to do soooo much.

In the town screen I should be able to right click on soldiers and colonists in the small ‘outside the walls’ box so I can change one from soldier to dragoon without having to exit out the screen and select the unit and change its type at that interface element.

I’d like to be able to play a longer term game without the production quantities (etc) being increased to match.

The kings are way too quick to start wacking up the tax rate (In one case I kissed pinky ring for tax increase on one turn, then literally the next turn he demanded I give him cash in addition to the tax hike, no king is that stupid, really), and the ‘give me money now’ demands seem daft because there doesn’t appear to be much penalty for saying no to those. I also find myself questioning how permanent a boycott should be.

Anyway, the core of it is there but I’m finding there are a number of annoyances in the design and things that were in the original that shouldn’t have been left out (particularly the we’re not happy with what you’re doing with the land, but if you share your food we’ll overlook it for now warnings.

Aside from that: Outstanding game, perfectly captures the feeling of the original, in my opinion.

Plus, indentured servants were generally considered to be people.

Think that and “Indentured Servants” are the extent of it though. Unless you hear a few bars of Old Man River when you click on a cotton plantation…

Indentured servants in theory had contracts and got paid, but often in such a way so they could not leave. A subtle difference in many cases.

I liked this in Civ4. The wife and I played some Co-op games and it worked well.

How well does it work competitively?
Wouldn’t it be a bit like an RTS? If you’re trying to catch my unit out in the open, and I’m trying to get him out of the way? Or you’re trying to cap a city and I’m trying to get some more defenders in there?

Quick someone call the NWML, I don’t think their scale is properly calibrated. I put a Dikatana on there (SI=0/10) and it came out 2.5/10.

If we don’t act fast people will be unable to directly compare subjective opinion. Chaos.