Eye candy, turn base, exploring again, more pirates again, bad neighbors again, still its a game
ship play is simple and need little experience in monitoring the movement
personal relationships with other computer players is small and they keep wanting some actions against other cultures and are willing to pay you for what they need done to them, like destroying some building or ships, kind of like a terrorist tactic, they make you the terrorist
still in all i have played numerous of these types of games and this one is good in the form it was made, so get it play it and do what you have always done. win and conquer the game