Tell me Leoreth have you played with Mali and enjoyed your game? I did not. Playing Mali is horrible
You are complitely mercy at random events and elements. Here are some facts:
Timbuktu does not have any kind of production.
Your UU is horrible compared to your enemies which you can defeat only by their ramdomness.
You cant stop pillaging.
You dont have time to hoard all that gold and have good defence to defend your tiles.
Here some elements that wil destroy your game. And you cant avoid them!
Barbs will pop-up randomly in any direction.
Lost a starting unit? Was your city razed? No UHV for you.
Did plague kill majority of your population and ruined commerce? Too bad, no UHV for you.
You were unlucky and did not spawn Great Merchant? Later Great Profet. No UHV again lol.
More imps and cavalry units than you can handle? See how your improments are burning.
Getting first goal was easy. However there is always a chance that random barbarian unit will spawn next to your merchant during traveling and kill it.
Second is pure luck. How can you get a Great Profet? You can build only Islamic temple on a city to generate Great Profet but you have only one slot, so you need to employ other great people as well. But then you cannot be sure you spawn GP and game over. Building University of Sankore is possible if you can make Timbuktu big enough and whip it. But you need to trade extra health recources from aboard. Oh but pillaging imps? Yup, traiding ivory is indeed very hard.
And then you need to get 7500 gold in year 1500. 27500 in 1700
I dont even need to comment this one.
All this happend when I was playing viceroyalty level game.