I guess most people here play easy difficulties and automate their units then?
Among Civ enthusiasts games usually go into the triple digits. Usually you'll have at least 10 other civs on multiple continents, and control every unit and city manually. Frankly, I don't see the point in playing if you're just going to let the computer do the work for you.
Also, playing on Epic is a given. Quick and Normal are unbalanced and stupid, with units becoming obsolete before they even reach the front lines.
Civ 5 is a lot faster than the others though judging by the few games I played before rightfully declaring it an utter pile of crap and going back to 3 and 4.
This all seems rather silly.
I'll just stick to what I'm doing.
And from the sound of things it seems that Civ V was indeed the correct choice for normal people.
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