is this game still active? forum seems fairly desolate...

Population growth is insane. By turn 100 I have +130 people per turn. All those people need housing, food, and I can't keep up. Satisfaction dropped into negative values, and I had an angry mob of 937 peasants rioting. I hired a few stacks of mercs and killed about 1400 of my population. Now things are manageable again, but I still can't keep happiness above 20% Any tips for beginners in this situation?...

I've run through about 3 civilizations that have all died due to starvation because I can't seem to find a tile that will allow me to build a Field. Am i missing something or do i just have crazy bad luck?

Anyone has the bug where you open the trade menu for the first time, and then you can no longer open it up? Is there a way around it? Also, how do you merge stacks? And, how do you send a hero on a quest?

So I build a lumberjack camp in a forest. A few turns later I realized that forest was blocking my most prime avenue of expansion so i chopped it down. Tile is now a plains but I couldn't build houses or a farm there.