You can create as many cities as you like, as long as you have the gold for them. Cities also need food to grow, which is more limited, so if you don't have enough you'll just have lots of level 1 cities that can't grow.

Some things are similar to Galciv 2. Tech research is handled pretty differently. There's five "areas" to research, and you can pick discoveries as they come up. But you can't specifically say "research bigger swords". You'd research "warfare" until you get bigger swords.

Hope that makes sense.

Game is very interesting! Do you like this game??