That's good to know Stewie, cheers.
I guess the game has to be boring by its nature. If it was all guns blazing action, it would be too time consuming and impossible to function across international time zones. I do think it could be tweaked to add a geographical element to reduce the 0500hrs madness of update. It should also make it far more difficult for nations based in say Africa to attack across a continent with conventional means. It's just absurd that I can fling my army across time and space. This would also lead to regional powers and blocs that would change the game mechanics by virtue of members/AAs being geographically remote from the main powerbase. Politics would have to account for vulnerabilities in isolated AAs on a different continent. Treaties would change to increase strike capabilities abroad.