Yep, Civ 7 has been announced and is on steam for wishlisting. Release sometime next year, more in-depth information comes in August. Just thought I'd mention it since there was no notice here. All there is on Steam at the moment is a small announce trailer, but still, it's Civilization. I wishlisted pretty much instantly.

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I greatly enjoyed 5, but bounced hard off of 6, so I'll see where it ends up before committing money to it.

My primary interest in the Civilization series is in the music Christopher Tin writes for it, so I'll be watching for that.

I've loved every civ game I've played- including alpha centauri, beyond earth, and Colonization. I'm in.

I'm very excited for Civ 7. I think I mentioned it briefly before, but something I was involved in from a backend perspective was a mod for Civ 5 that got featured in Australian Kotaku. It's probably the closest thing I've got to a claim to fame. So yeah... pretty hype for the new instalment.

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due to the unique way in which the traitor is funded, i am obliged to point out that other civ 5 mods are available

I spent many hours back in the Elder Days playing or, more often, watching other gweeps play the original Civ for PC (and Amiga, I think). Silly shit happened pretty routinely in that game; I remember a bunch of Settlers sinking one of Andrew Petrarca's battleships once, because those units had a defense rating and the game made no allowance for "well, technically yes, but this is clearly hopeless" and just made a dice roll for such interactions.

I also remember Andrew playing a game once in which he never moved off the original primitive governmental model, so in the 22nd century he was still operating a straight-up despotic monarchy. "Aw, are you folks unhappy? Why don't you take that up with MY LEGIONS."

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nuclear war was pretty happenin' in that straight top-down view, too. the sound effect was great. city go BLAMMO
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