Multiplayer has advantages and disadvantages. As long as there is no war or certain unit movement, players can play simultaneously, but a single game still take

Multiplayer has advantages and disadvantages. As long as there is no war or certain unit movement, players can play simultaneously, but a single game still takes a lot of time. Played it mostly with 2 friends with beer at rainy weekends and it can easily take 5 sessions à 4 hours. It still was acceptable. On some occasions we had more players and the round timer becomes mandatory and it changes the play style a lot. The general performance of CIV is also ridiculously bad for what is basically a board game, especially in multiplayer, and at some point you just now what the AI will do. I still like the AI since they did a good job at giving the different leaders a personality within the rules of the game. But if you start for the 50th time next to Montezuma you know it might be a good idea to build some military. He will just never accept you.