- Makes learning the game easy. Includes a tutorial game as well. - Makes all the calculations for you - Reminds you a lot of things, for example, when you have some actions left and you click end turn (reminds you about your actions), or when you try to build something but you have an action card that can be used for building it cheaper, or when your leader has an ability that you can still use etc. - During AI play, you can left click with your mouse on some empty space (or press space) and it will make its move instantly. So you can skip their turns very quickly by keeping pressing mouse. - If you get an in-game screen, for example colony bidding etc., you can minimize it using the button on its upper right.