2nd page! 
Crazy!
Some thoughts about this game then...
What is required to win this
- 34 players, obviously it's go big or go home...
- At this point we have no clue about the structure, but my starting hypothesis is some kind of continent type of layout. We might well have some internal 4/6/8-player death matches and the players who manage to win their own battle early enough give themself a shot in this game
- Because of above, neighbor luck is at least as important as in PB13. Good neighbor that pushes to other direction or simply a bad neighbor that can be easily conquered.. You don't necessarily need more than one or two of them if stars are positioned right, but... Yeah, it really really matters..
- That said, simply eliminating your neighbors is of course not enough, you still need to master the peaceful expansion and make the most out of that extra space. A rush that kills a neighbor, but puts you 30 turns behind is not good enough either..
Other observations:
- No map trading is interesting. There are real gains that one can achieve with information advantage and I would say that getting away with pink dots is more probable.
- Getting a religion would be huge, but so are tech costs. As much as Buddhism/Hinduism/Judaism is tempting me, there is a major trade-off in development that one needs to accept even if you are successful. Unless we get lucky with huts, a tech such as Pottery will come in terribly late
- Events will be bigger than most players expect. There are very strong positive events left in the game so let's cross our fingers..
Forecast/Guesses:
- This is a crazy game, people will play crazy... Lots of early rushes, religion and wonder plays, etc..
- Most of the above crazy plays fail and by T100, 25 players are kind of out of the running already. Either due to craziness of their own or their neighbor...
- Some players succeed in their crazy gambit or benefit from their neighbors crazyness so that we have 1-4 players with an awesome position by T100
- But... this will be such a big game that I would say that if in any game, then in this game it is still possible to make a good comeback if you get geopolitically lucky..
- We start next to somebody who wants do to an early rush. We see it coming thousand years before it happens, but it still cripples us. We manage to crawl back into game, but then someone just eats this crazy neighbor and we are stuck with a superpower as a neighbor...
Okay, here we go, that was my pessimistic forecast, let's hope it's the complete opposite! 
Crazy!Some thoughts about this game then...
What is required to win this
- 34 players, obviously it's go big or go home...
- At this point we have no clue about the structure, but my starting hypothesis is some kind of continent type of layout. We might well have some internal 4/6/8-player death matches and the players who manage to win their own battle early enough give themself a shot in this game
- Because of above, neighbor luck is at least as important as in PB13. Good neighbor that pushes to other direction or simply a bad neighbor that can be easily conquered.. You don't necessarily need more than one or two of them if stars are positioned right, but... Yeah, it really really matters..
- That said, simply eliminating your neighbors is of course not enough, you still need to master the peaceful expansion and make the most out of that extra space. A rush that kills a neighbor, but puts you 30 turns behind is not good enough either..
Other observations:
- No map trading is interesting. There are real gains that one can achieve with information advantage and I would say that getting away with pink dots is more probable.
- Getting a religion would be huge, but so are tech costs. As much as Buddhism/Hinduism/Judaism is tempting me, there is a major trade-off in development that one needs to accept even if you are successful. Unless we get lucky with huts, a tech such as Pottery will come in terribly late
- Events will be bigger than most players expect. There are very strong positive events left in the game so let's cross our fingers..
Forecast/Guesses:
- This is a crazy game, people will play crazy... Lots of early rushes, religion and wonder plays, etc..
- Most of the above crazy plays fail and by T100, 25 players are kind of out of the running already. Either due to craziness of their own or their neighbor...
- Some players succeed in their crazy gambit or benefit from their neighbors crazyness so that we have 1-4 players with an awesome position by T100
- But... this will be such a big game that I would say that if in any game, then in this game it is still possible to make a good comeback if you get geopolitically lucky..
- We start next to somebody who wants do to an early rush. We see it coming thousand years before it happens, but it still cripples us. We manage to crawl back into game, but then someone just eats this crazy neighbor and we are stuck with a superpower as a neighbor...
Okay, here we go, that was my pessimistic forecast, let's hope it's the complete opposite!