Game is very easy and nearly impossible to fail. I see people use poor strategy often and we always win. As long as you have at least 1 or 2 players who understand the games rules you will succeed.
The thing that annoys me the most is people who keep building level 1 NEW improvements instead of repairing/upgrading existing ones. After there are about 80 total improvements, building new ones just replaces the oldest existing ones. If you build these away from the center, you wind up with a bunch of level 1 satellite improvements and nothing near the important center circle. I hate when people do this. But the game is so easy, even when this happens it's still hard to lose.