I wish there was actually more to do in terms of development than just who can minimax the fastest and send most attacks, and more about the actual life of your people and the land than a bunch of statistics representing nameless workers who just do nothing but the same quantity of production every day with no variation or personality.
Really I'd care more if I saw my people really develop, could nurse them through natural disasters, bad harvests and any amount of danger, try to keep them satisfied and eventually build huge cities, winding roads, complex teaming treade routes and a real empire.
My lack of interest in the online, dull, stat increasy versions of these sorts of games is only max for my major desire for an offline, single player version with real personality and expantion.
So Aprone, how is Castaways 2 going? .
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)