HZ victory conditions are a problem even with a very good PC (crash dump). Cheat mode would be perfect (especially if heroic units are limited) but a normal 3 x (or 5x) resources with 250 Pop should be awesome (enough resources to avoid to wait for a long time). The 2 x resources 500 Pop victory conditions is nice but the crash is permanent with 500 (dump crash issue).
We do not all want to wait for a long time to get resources.We do not all want to have an ultra realistic game.