I absolutely love that game, getting to see your empire evolve from a barbaric city state to a full blown empire is very satisfying. Seeing a city's economy collapse and investigate until you understand that the governor's corruption is not only taking money from the economy but applying a morale malus to your population as well feels great once you understand how this whole thing works. Although the waiting time gosh, I played that game years ago on a solid computer and I had the same problem as now with my potato laptop, the waiting times for the AI turn are so long. I played a game on a medium world with 4 other major regimes and had to stop once each turn took 15 minutes before I could play which frequently meant checking on the economy and passing my turn awaiting buildings to be built. It feels a bit like playing one of those facebook games from back in 2010 where you had to wait an afternoon before you could come back to act again on the game. I hope getting a new processor will help with that for I'd like to be able to finish unifying a planet for once before I end up quitting because the AI is slower than my grandma.
I tried with different computers on 4 screens (Because there are OS incompatibility AND/OR resolution troubles at launch) I got at least 4 different error messages trying to launch the game in different compatibility modes and I don't feel like spending another hour trying to start a game from the 90's based on obscure 5 years old forum threads of people all having different messages and solutions
