Used to be a pretty good game the first couple of years, which is how I ended up with over 2000 hours in it. However, the DLC for this game has a track record of very often breaking previous mechanics, or making the game unplayable without you buying the latest DLC (eg: playing after the releases of Cossacks or Common Sense would put you at an incredible disadvantage for the first few months after they came out). Eventually, features from paid DLC do get released in patches, but that is only when new features get built on top of it, and the developers remember that it's not part of the core game. It usually takes around 2 years for it to happen. That, or they plan to overhaul it to a significant degree in the next upcoming DLC. Unless you intend to buy most non-cosmetic DLCs, I recommend you do not purchase this game. It will take your experience and fun hostage whenever the team working on it feels like it, and the only way out is to pay more, and more, and more money to avoid that happening.
