Help! It's not fun!!

[Renojustin]

It's fun every time you discover an old strategy.

It's extremely fun when you start to realize that you're better than the general run of people at the game, that you know a lot of the ins and outs and can defend yourself even against long odds.

It's insanely exciting when you develop a new strategy that maybe nobody has ever heard of, and then pull it off in a multiplayer game.

It's indescribable when you're winning a multiplayer game against 10, 15 other players a couple of months into it, with people writing stories about their (and your) exploits; the game comes alive and you look forward to every turn with butterflies in your stomach.

It then really freaking sucks when Gandalf's servers go down and the game is cancelled.

[Gandalf Parker]

Renojustin said:
It then really freaking sucks when Gandalf's servers go down and the game is cancelled.

Hey now, to be fair only one of the servers went down.
The blitz games kept running.
But its nice to know its missed. Working on getting it back up.

[llamabeast]

I recommend reading a strategy guide for a nation you find interesting. They tend to give an impression of the really huge range of options open to you. Baalz's ones are good.