Invest in forums and keep spending your influence to expand

Any of the races are in a good enough spot but I'd avoid necro because they change the most from the core mechanisms

no minimap is a big no.
hmm and no music?
its cos its ea?

so more food more citizen so more influence output?

It's not worth investing into food production you'll get enough just as you grow each city.

And I don't see why the game would need a mini map, it has a great zoom in and out already

i havent play endless for few year need to watch youtube to relearn all the mechanic.

Lost lords and Sheredyn are the best race IMO to start with.
Easy mechanics and strong units.

Aspects are also good and can expand very easily. Their unit are decent in early game and very good later.

Necrophages are very strong but require to never stop fighting. They kind of break the rules so not the ideal faction for a first pick.

Early game with the Tahuks is a nightmare. Their first units are so bad that you'll struggle to Lvl up your hero. Winning your first battles without losing a single unit is almost impossible, even against a small squad of quest foes. First bastions are a plague. You can fall behind very quickly. To me it's the least noob-friendly faction.

Tahuks actually have the easiest early game as they'll have a 2nd hero and 2-centre city by turn 10 at the latest. Don't be afraid to pump out a couple of extra scout units after the initial improvement - they'll be needed later to speed up movement anyway. The trick is to sacrifice your first pop and then again as soon as the first festival ends/you have a replacement pop. Later you get 3 times and then 4 times yields on your population output with sunshine buff.

If you're beginner, kin of shredyn is basically the vanilla faction. Unit roster have every type of unit, simple mechanics (just spam fort), it's like playing typical 4x game. If you want some flavor, play tahuks, they're so busted it's hard to mess up. Powerful artillery unit, their observatories are borderline broken, you can't go wrong with them.