i was Zerti, a Draconier

I was Gwaeron - somehow, the last player (Blackcat) seemed intimidated by that puny army of mine (guess I got lucky there)

I'm curious who were the 3vs1 and who was who in the score?

The game is concluded. No one wanted to bother with the AI in the end :-)
As the last one to quit I decided to grab a score screenshot for all interested:

hope for a good game for the last Players.
I lost my capital and then my leader. It was a 3vs4 and now it is a 1vs3.
GG

try to Play always with latest update. then all is okay.

What happened Dreadreapr? You got 2xwarning?

i'm for carry on, the player will be replaced with a computer,
but our team is now weaker, it is a 4-3 now

Regads, Mark

Does that mean that the game is over - or do we just carry on? Might well be that the game is still fairly balanced overall despite one player dropping out...

It's just a game (though still fun imo). In general, I think it is better to avoid playing too many games at once - that makes it turn into work once things get more active. For me, the fun in PBEM is a lot about planning for the next move in a game, it's easy to lose that when doing too many things in parallel.

Mauve I understand how you feel, because I'm currently playing just like you. Allthough I've had more phases like this during my PBEM time. 
Thing is that I didn't leave the games I was in, because I decided to start/join a game with other people and leaving during a match kills the match for everyone that wanted to keep on playing.
Golden rule in multiplayer imo is "don't quit", ofcourse together with "don't cheat". 

Those periods where I didn't enjoy AOW3 were always followed by periods in which I enjoyed it again (else I ofcourse would've quit a long time ago). Because I kept on playing as I considered it my "duty" toward the other people in the game I always seemed to find my pleasure back again as well. Ofcourse that was just for me and your in a 2 month period where you don't enjoy it anymore, that's long ofcourse.

Ofcourse it's your life and leaving an multiplayer game is ofcourse nothing too dramatic, but you did kill this game for 7 other people who are still enjoying it. (except me so in that regard it's not too bad for me  )

We can't turn this back though. Too bad.

Just my 2 cents.

sad, because the game is a new one, hope you will not leave.

I’m taking a break from AoW3 for a while. I’ve been trying to get better at this game, but I’ve realized that for the past 2 months or so I haven’t been enjoying it at all. All my strategic decisions lately have revolved around doing whatever will get me through my turns the quickest, and I frequently avoid battles that I should be doing as a result.

Sorry for any imbalances that this causes in any of my ongoing games, but I think that taking a break will ultimately be for the best, so I have quit all my current games in progress.

If dreadreaper doesn't rejoin today I will look for an replacement. 

Ok I've set the game up again. No without cosmic happenings and with empire quests.
Also hero resurgence is turned off. Max hero lvl is 15. 

I suggest to join the teams like this:

1. Kwibus
2. The Ranger
3. Markymark
4. Wodokan
5. Dreadreapr
6. Mauve
7. Blackcat
8. Chiveicrook.

Hope everything is done properly this time