How many techs can you research in a turn?

[OneInTen]

Ah, when you said last place I thought you meant amoung the three human players competing.

I have no problem with a novice player being able to beat the AI (as they should be able to on the easiest difficulty!)

[Dinkeldog]

OneInTen,

Some of the real time games pretty much do what you're asking. Majesty, in particular comes to mind, although Rollercoaster Tycoon is about the same. I guess the next evolutionary step there would be, for example, to tell your people in Majesty that you want a new barracks and let them decide where to put it. Aside from physical locations of some building projects, you have no direct control of anything.

In general, though, I don't like real time games much.