If it is a public game you can rejoin on your own - in a private game you need to ask the Host. It depends on how long you were out , if the other players are willing t revert ...

But you can always just continue - its sometimes funny to clean up after the AI :)

In general I recommend the Vacation mode if you can't play for a while - and for shorter periods you can ask if the other players in the game are ok with stopping the game for a week. So far I have rarely seen someone say no ...

Worst option is to just vanish or go on vacation w/o a word and then just vanish for a few month (happens unfortunately more often then I like) .

Because if the difficulty level is high the AI gets considerable advantage in that time

yes you can do that - I actually enjoy the early game and if you use the GMR Client it is not that much overhead , as if you manually download and upload the saves.

but the website also loads extremly slow

same here - when I interpret the errormessage on steam login correectly the have a time issue The website is up but the authentication against steam does not work because the timestamp is apparently in the future ( but for me 2 hours behind )

looks like the Tides have turned since that last update :)

I think so as well. My Theory is that it depends on the player in front of you. I you end you turn the games starts calculating the turn of the next player before you can save the game. So when the next player loads the game this mesages are already generated by the game in the language the previous player use.

Proof: its probably not exactly proof but i had a least one game where the player in front of me quit and the language I received the messages in changed after that. Sometimes its even in languages the syste can't display so I obly get a practcally empty field.

I'm in

nice , congrats PrimEvalCIV

Thts true Rilli , but i think this might not be an issue in the earlier Ages , and it makes it much more difficult to ally City states. Lets see how it affects the game .

happens to the best of us ;)