Its mostly a multiplayer game though solo isnt too bad. Always enough people to start a game. Maybe not all 17 nations, that would mean waiting awhile for all the slots to fill up. But easily 5 or 6 can be found in a day when you want a game. There is an IRC channel which is instant game but kindof a luck roll.
Finish? I dont want to scare you off. If a game is one turn a day then of course finishing can be a long way off but its a very interesting way to play. Its like those chess-by-mail you see people playing on TV. You spend all day thinking about strategy.
Actually very few games really finish. They tend to run until its clear who will win. Again, the chess analogy would be that there is rarely a surprising end-of-game move. Usually more of a "checkmate in 7 moves", everyone sees that and knocks over their king. But it takes ALOT longer to get to that point than it does in chess. There is definetly no "5 moves into the game everyone sees where its headed and quits" type of strategys for THIS game.
