[llamabeast]

Sometimes turns can take half an hour by mid-game, even longer if there's a lot going on or you're LA Ermor or something. Half an hour every night can sometimes get a bit much. Mind you, other times if people are keen they stick to the 24 hour timer right into the late game.

MP turns do take longer often - certainly for me. In SP I rapidly become careless, while in MP you have to think more carefully. Also diplomacy sometimes takes a while, though like you say it's very good fun.

My server is PBEM, yep, although it's automated so it shows you whose turns have arrived, processes straight away when they're all in and so on (see the website linked in my sig). Other people have servers set up you can connect to directly.