I REALLY wanted to give this game a positive review but 5 years after release I believe this is roughly the final state of the game.

Unfortunately the game failed to match up to its predecessor, there isn't a game-play per-se. They abandoned any attempt of balancing the economy by putting a very low limit on businesses you can own, you float in cash so fast it's hard to understand. The game have been rushed.
I followed the game closely since announcement (2015) I know that they did a complete re-haul of the game couple of months before release which made it impossible to have enough features/stability in time for their beta(alpha) release.
They messed up and had to rush all features like check-boxes without being able to make a coherent game. In the end everything feels rushed, there's no immersion everything is disjoint, independent, unbalanced. For an economic simulation, the economy part is kinda important and they messed it up BIG TIME.

Spoiler alert : You get stuck after 1-2 in-game days with LOADS of cash and nothing todo with it
Pros

• Stability: game and multiplayer is much more stable than TG2

Cons

• Money: You get too much money too easily, everything is worthless. Every aspect of an economic simulation are killed by this, they decided to put limits on everything that is of importance so that you are limited because obviously you'll drown in resources.
  
• Influence: Given that money is worthless they added this resource that is acquired slowly overtime that allows you to negligibly increase the number of buildings and mercenaries/guards you can have.
  
• Buildings Limit: Given that you are too rich too fast you can only build couple of businesses which is frustrating, in TG2 you could have as much as you could afford, in here 4-5 is a lot due to arbitrary limits because you can afford too much.
  
• Mercenaries: you can only hire couple of them (3-4) rather than as much as you can afford (20+ usually)
  
• Fights and Guarding: All of the fights are 1-on-1, you are attacked by a bandit and have two mercenaries protecting you ? nope they'll wait for you to die before attacking the bandit again 1-on-1. It makes multiplayer with friend basically worthless as you can be killed a single roaming bandit even with fully equipped 4 guards protecting you (they'll just wait for you to die before acting)
  
• Politics: When money is infinite, it greatly reduces the need to get power to increase your ability to grow and reduce growth/penalize competition, everyone is limited by the arbitrary limits not their resources. It doesn't matter everyone is floating in gold and resources there is absolutely no advantages of politics.

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No comment 100hours and I can say i love the gameplay takes some time to do the first time setup [bugs for audio hardware] but once you got it running no regrets !

I really loved how this game was bought back to life after all these years, the balance between nations is almost perfect and player types can all find what they like the most !