Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit View Post
Hmm. The complexity intimidates me. I've played Civ games and Alpha Centuri and Railroad Tycoon 2 and Civil War Generals 2 as well. But this seems like it'd take a while to learn.

So, how hard is it really?

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For the first hour you'll find yourself doing this a lot:

It's mostly a case of a very steep curve at the start. Once you find your way around the interface, grasp the basics, and gain an idea for what you should be trying to do then the worst is over. After that it's a case of learning mid and high level aspects and honing what you have. If you are prepared to give the game around 10-15 hours newbie disaster time combined with a few hours of reading the official forums then you should make it over the step. From there the rest is much easier to grasp. Partly because your country won't be on the edge of imploding every five minutes

If you can play high end civ 4 then you should be able to play EUIII without problems. They are about as demanding as each other; the difference is that civ 4 is more intuitive and is much more welcoming to new players. Civ4 tells you what is wrong and gives a suggestion on how to fix it. EUIII pretends not to notice as you cry and carries on without breaking step.