How speed up my game?

[Wai_Wai]

Hi.
After a few multiplayer games, I found I played particularly slow in the multiplayer world. People frequently hurry me up. However I have already tried my best. I keep busying myself with all my affairs.
Eg order my workers (to build roads and develop terrains) and settlers, my armies (to guard and epxlore), assign my citizens to work on different terrains, set back my science slider (when 1 turn left before the tech researched), and so on...

Even if I am playing at a slow speed, I am so busy and I have no time to think my plans long, doing diplomacy etc. I am more and more busy as my empire expands. I usually spend about 75-90% of my time bar before I can finsih most of my work. And people keep hurrying me up.

I feel I am reduced to fast-clicks, rush plans, and restless work. So exhausted...

What's wrong with me? Why other people can play so fast, while I play so slow? Is it my problem? Or is it because they simply skip most of non-important work (eg no micromanagement, automate their units instead)?Otherwise it is hard for me to believer they can finish their tasks in less than 25% of time bar.

How to speed up my work in multiplayer games?

[b_ramsdell]

Fortify units that you don't need to move, automate some workers for roads and such. Put city improvements in the QUE so you don't have to keep going back to each city all the time.