I'm playing it almost every day, very hard game, need to save game every 10 min to not lose time even if game speed can be increased or decreased. Many things are problematic, like leaving audition and declare war-if mouse is not good and work with 90-%, there is big chance to declare war to some strong kingdom which has many allies. That means going in war with other kingdoms. Also there are many problems with knights... So Lex, if you wanna play this game-multiplayer, contact me and we can try something via hamachi or similar..
I'm using only patch to skip intro since intro with some good speakers can make earthshake and can destroy whole town In my version, Papacy can expand, so that can be big problem, but also is cool because game is much harder.
Theres even a patch with whole world map (both americas, whole africa, and whole asia.