I am starting to get a little frustrated at all the things in SVN.
I had finished snatching up France & Italy as Prussia, and am starting to feel the futility of it.
Britain techs insanely fast. I don't know if the "Be the first to complete the tech tree" is possible when I have no reasonably quick way to raise a navy before they reach Mech. Infantries. Mega-Mongolia in the modern day is an eyesore and shouldn't happen (too often; as it stands now, it's like 100% of the games)
and the Mega-Spain is an issue as well for different reasons; when I started they had 2/3 of their UHV goals and there was a potential for them to win UHV.
There's at least a dozen instances where cities will "Yearn to Join the Motherland" for no obvious reason at all.
Many countries still build dozens of crap cities, that you have to dredge through to eliminate respawn possibilities and heavily hurt your Expansion rating.
I entered a war with Sweden, but retired the game because I knew it wouldn't be fun to have a protracted campaign against them
(too many useless cities in the tundra, I could ignore all of them, but it just frustrates me).
It's about 1860 or so now, and I will get Infantry in a few turns, but the idea of matching Infantry vs. Infantry defenders (let alone Machine Guns) just makes me want to quit.
Also, the Persecution pop-ups are the most annoying thing in the version so far.
You know, not to mention, pretty much every game looks the same now.
There is no variety in how the game world ends up anymore:
-Spanish colonial empire; this is nice, but it syncs up with their UHV.
-Mega-Mongols that don't collapse.
-Illegally fast teching Britain. I'm starting to miss when the Vikings/French would cripple them.
-Late respawning/dead Russia/China. They did not respawn until about 10-20 turns after the Prussian spawn.
They both ended up vassals as well. They are mostly dead or very small in other games I've observed.
-Large Ethiopia; this one I actually don't mind. They usually take Mbanza Kongo and some of the native cities down south.
-Too many cities everywhere. All in the second ring. Why are we encouraging this behavior?
I never remembered it being this bad in previous versions.
/rant over.
I understand this is the testing phase, after all, but these are some of my problems with where the game stands now.