Prince, all default settings.

This is the first version of the game I decided to play till the end. Need to say that I like many things in the game, but there are (still) some very weird issues with it here and there.

I don't like playing for High Score, even though it works. Unfortunately the game doesn't propose better ending conditions.

This is the Civilization game which is the most not like SM Civilization. And it's its strongest point. I like the research options with choices, production chains, problems growing your cities through the game (even though they don't rebel). I like regions and the map generation. But the military side requires the improvements.

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- Regarding UI, the most problematic at this point is assigning Experts on the city screen. It's ok in the beginning. But when your cities reach level 20+ and you have like 50+ experts in the city... it's a real mess. The second would be Amenities list in a city which becomes long and hard to navigate.

- There was only single rather random crash. There are visual bugs with borders disapappering, but nothing critical.

- But there are still some really weird gameplay bugs. Drydocks do not work for Sea Trade. Lvl2 fishing nets (industrial era) produce 4 times less than lvl1 (from ancient era). Plow and Hard Plow are no different. Though Loom is now working, so there is a chance for improvements...

- There are enough cases where production accelerators make no sense (either too high cost for little benefit or simply so low benefit that it's pointless for any cost). (There is a case where you can get +10 production bonus for something which costs 1000). And this is the obvious part, harder to answer how much it's all properly balanced.

- Regarding technologies there are interesting stories, like one around coffee, but there are some clear missing pieces. The most noticeable is lack of Nuclear Weapons. There is uranium and you can use it for creating Nuclear Submarines which are... good for chasing Battleships. Another example: Internet tech opens handheld computers and Temple of Lotos Wonder. But the last few Eras went pretty quick to notice much.

- I didn't get what triggered the game end. Notification came on turn 378, when I was finishing research of my 1st Singularity Era tech. May be I've got 3 times larger Score than 3rd player on the list. In the remaining 25 turns I've researched 7 techs including Singularity one, but that probably didn't finish the game and merely awarded me with 500 score.

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On Prince I had only 1 war declared on me in the Act 1. Later Acts I was highest nation in all areas and it was peaceful for me. Here is final stats:

Final Turn: 402
Score: 38K (2 and 3 times more than 2nd and 3rd AI)
Population: 30 millions, 10 cities (up to 30 size) including 3 on another continent
Religion: all planet is mine, and I found it the last
Research: 1000 from cities (3 cities had 200+) and +1000 more from producing RP
Money: +500, Wood +1K, Materials +1.5K

Most noticeable difference vs AI nations: my 63K production points vs their 4.5K at best. This advantage was high even within Act 1.

Only 1 AI nation reached Industrial Era, and it happened in the very few last turns.

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The most arguable seems to be the final Act 3.

I've mentioned that my cities reached size of 30. The problem is that is without ever using lvl3 farms or tractors. My Capital only had 2 farming regions (7 farms in total) and still reached size of 29 (also maximum 1 expert per farm).

Is there a room or need to grow cities larger? I don't know. Growing cities larger makes little sense but causes problems easily, especially my cities normally have no land to expand by this point. So what is place of the lvl3 farms? I didn't use lvl3 Mines or Logging Camps either.

The most unused resource was Grain. Stockpiled 11K of it with +160 surplus per turn. There are certainly other resources which I had no idea how to use for their abundance.

Beside the food there are some questions on how long are the last few Eras. I have mentioned that I passed the whole Singularity Era in 25 turns, with my ~2K Research. By this point I didn't try to use what I researched and mostly pressed End Turn button.

If production to research conversion rate (1:1) is a bug, then the Era would become longer.

The whole Act 3 still sounds pretty quick. Primarily because you only need to research 3(4) out of 10 techs available per era. I like that future Eras are quicker, that improves the game tempo near the end. With harder oponents it would be very tense, probably. But 4 out of 10 seems to be too low margin.

May be that needs to be counted for all players, not just one. Like you need to research minimum 3, but all players still need to research 6 (different).