Heh, I don't know about you guys, but reading all those tragic stories in this game actually makes it fun
Most of us are getting screwed, which makes it pretty much even. Lol.
Oh, and sea lanes are really insane. It's pretty standard to get a "Hello neighbour!" PM from someone I didn't even know I neighbor, until I followed that looong rope to a distant Nowhere-island on the other side of the sea
It's kinda silly, too. You could call England and France neighbors, but this is calling USA and Russia as ones. Lol.