@Lordnewguy Yeah, I haven't played on the newer servers, and my guess is as the server gets older it will get brutal for many, CD is probably the logical setup unless you can afford to truce once a day, I'm on na4, and we're stuck on carebear mode atm, and there is almost no point in playing anymore, so as brutal as new age2 servers will get mid to endgame, it will be a hell of alot more fun then the carebear mode alot of people are playing in right now in the earlier age2 server...... I'v pretty much quit playing now, b/c there realy is no point in colonizing people, only time I could ever see colonizing someone as useful is if there was an attack button, and your enemy only had one city left.