Help! It's not fun!!

[Clownhammer]

Thank you all for the replies (except for the guy who took the trouble to post only that there was something wrong with me)<rolls eyes>.

Apparently, multiplayer is where it's at. However, I am a large map solo type of player. That being said, it seems that I need to do two things to achieve the fun factor:

Get past the initial expansion phase (first 20 turns or so) and figure out which nation suits my style. I tend to like to start slow and research. With that in mind, would any of you have any suggestions as to which nation and pretender god I should go with?

Again, thank you all for taking the time to get me going. If I didn't believe that the game was excellent, I wouldn't take the time to try to get my brain around it!

(edited for punctuation)