Hello. Is this considered the most popular server? I see that the free for all server allows 16 countries, but there are only 2600 countries that exist, and this has around 440 unique countries. I found this game from a voting site, and I'd like to try and give it a shot. I skimmed through the offered reading, and I'm just curious to start now.

Hi, join an alliance on this server or it won't be very fun.

best place to learn to play is express, new resets every weak allows you to make mistakes then learn from them very quickly

alliances here have a large knowledge base though, im in laf for example, and this is the best place to play once you know what your doing

also there is a test server

http://www.earthempires.com/alphaffa/create
http://www.earthempires.com/alphaffa

where you can try things out getting turns much quicker and so on

Thank you. I will check those out. That seems like a good way to practice.