Quote Originally Posted by lars573
a recipe for gunpowder... happened upon by Taoist alchemists trying to make an immortality potion
I bet THOSE alchemists never reached immortality!

With the default time scale, I feel that everything is a bit rushed. They seem to have slowed down the tactical battles a little bit, which is good, but the speed of events and the constant attacks from your neighbors seem to have increased the overall pace of the game.

I guess that's what we get from all of those threads talking about how people got bored and never played all the way through a campaign?