Really just two comments. First I'm getting a lot of crashes (or hangs) in 0.992. Unfortunately they don't seem that reproduceable. I enter a city (for combat) and the game hangs. I wait 5 minute; then have to use task manager to kill and restart - i reload and the fight goes through. I play a while; enter a city and the game hangs.... (I wait 5 or 10 minutes just to make sure it really is not coming back. Once I had an error: DX Error: INvalid call. -- Also I think easy is not quite as easy as easy should be easy. the biggest problem is that if a fraction declares war on you; you can quickly find yourself beset upon by 3 or 4 more powerful nations. But that is not the root cause; something just doesn't feel right (for easy). In 8xx hard was easy but in 9xx easy is hard. Hum.