Age II: Accomodating real life people
Say your rich Uncle in France invites you to stay in his mansion for a month but he only has old school dial-up 56k modem. Or you go on a 2 week vacation. Or you travel to Spain for a 3 month student intership. Or your wife has a baby and you won't be online for a few weeks. Or you move from Chicago to Los Angeles and they screwup your internet in the new apartment so you need to wait 4 weeks for new DSL service to get installed. Bro, people have lives. Life happens.
And in Age II guess what? No problem. Let your alliance know you will be offline or have very limited access for the next month. Close your gates and relax. When you can get back online a month later you find that all of your cities are colonized and that 70% of your overall troops have been slowly drafted over that period of time. No problem. You ask your alliance to help you uprise and overthrow the Suzerain or you can build back up yourself and do it on your own. It may take you a few weeks to build up enough troops to uprise. Or if you have a strong alliance you can get reinforced and uprise in a day or two. Now that the monkey is off your back, you are back in business and ready to open multiple cans of whoop a$$...
This is one of the very very nice things about Age II. It accomodates people with real lives and real schedules.
Age II, "Accomodating real life people since 2010."