Just me but that impatience just then pops the bubble early enough that it makes the modern+ less interesting by the time you get there. Where it's at you feel it's well earned once you reach it, which is good because the Ren and Industrial eras can be boring as hell if you aren't expanding a lot during that period.
When you can travel the oceans by about turn 2000 then you can found colonys in africa and so on as letz say USA, makes later era's more interesting, you need to defend it and you have to do alot more in later eras all over the globe when you can manage to build a super power will be very intersting. If you wait tooo long then all room to found colonys is gone. Also AI can do that if they dont have room and movment ways left, they can still found citys with ships far away, makes sense because AI can expand longer also if they get trapped with no more land available to them. You cant create endless citys fast, you need gold and UEM has alot of room also. But you can found strategic citys = more interesting gameplay also.
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