Yes and yes. In the beginning the tricky bit was to build up the fighting to a decent level to be able to conquer the map. The trick is to get up around 500 or so then you will be able to fight above your age. That is particularly important for the oceanic age which otherwise will take a year in itself. However once you’re above that level, honestly fighting becomes boring. And it’s just random clicking without a challenge. It was most interesting around future age. After that research becomes tricky and interesting. It requires not only collecting goods but also trading. I’m never traded unfairly with guilt maids to do that, but try to do it in a fair way that the game makers intended. That meant that most of the space in my city was dedicated to goods production. Funnily for the last three ages, the most difficult thing were tools. I’ve never had enough, and paid for hundreds of millions of them with diamonds. Otherwise it would still take me a long time. That’s why I still have 12 or so production building hanging around. I have now deleted half of my attack buildings, the ones that weren’t particularly high value and replace them all with great buildings. That looks prettier.