I've seen no sign of a patch or download yet when I play now there is a choice of map types (Pangea, Continents etc) that I didn't have yesterday. Is there patch notes?

When I load the game, it says that I am offline. But, I am not. Steam is connected. Internet works fine. Tried restarting Steam and my PC. Saw a couple of threads on the similar issue but none of them help, they just say "Oh I've fixed it" with no elaboration whatsoever/...

Cheaters have appeared in the game. The player with only one city won on the 10th move (by gaining more than 100 points). At the same time, he built 8 wonders of the world and also from the 6th move he began building shooters of the 4th era (9 hammers cost) and managed to build more than 4. And there is no way to prove this because in a network game there are no statistics or game replays at all. ATTENTION. Who wants to buy the game, know that there is no interest in playing against cheaters. And you nee...

Title says it all - clearly the devs wanted this to be a competitive PvP thing. Not sure how well that's working out, but now that the dust has settled, can anyone comment as to how good this is playing it single player?

My friend and I are trying to play a Custom multiplayer game but the game is not accepting the code I give him to input in Join Game despite multiple tries. It keeps coming back with "Error Occurred". Is there something we are missing?