Maybe make the distance penalty for diplomacy trend towards neutral instead of always being negative, i've found that civilizations randomly declare war on each other (and me) because they were discovered and happened to be far enough away for the penalty
the beginning of the game completely lacks direction, i didn't even realize there was a path off the second bit of island until i saw a green bit on the minimap, there was absolutely no indication that i could walk through there
the description for woodcutters states that all we're doing is making axes, does this imply that my 83 woodcutters are all actually one man swinging 83 axes at the same time?