Yeah it's sad to see so many people giving up after their first defeat lately. I think I'm going to try to play only on small maps from now on, so there's less chance of people burning out.
I had fun as Agartha in this game at least. I was constantly war with at least one nation from turn ~12 on. Strangely I couldn't get ANY earth income either; I think I only had my capital for earth gems until turn 30 or so. The only thing that saved me was finding a 40% blood site early on in the game
