I would say that we wait for one more turn to see what happens. Maybe we can get a raise of the unitlimit inot patch 3.12 if we whine enough in the general forum
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I think that freespawn nations might be slightly out of balance as from the nations that get lots of freespawns (EA & MA Pan, LA Ermor, LA Rlyeh) all are still around.
Also the 650 province goal for winning is way of the scale. My turns with a 75 province empire take 1+ hour, and im not the guy that micromanages everything do the deepest, so turns with a 600 province empire might take easily 10 turns, and the game would just be won by the guy who is willing to make that effort.
I would think this would be a bad end for the game, as just now the things begin to move. But if the strange bugs do not end i vote to end it now, as with this bugs we could also choose the winner by throwing dices.