I'm a devout Civ2 player to this day, myself. The only big issue has been getting it to actually work on Windows 7 or later, but a few tech mods that came up fairly quickly has largely addressed that issue.
I loved the game back in the day but it has limitations for my busy mind these days, i'm guessing it's popular kinda due to it's chess like nature which will keep it going for years.
It's ridiculously easy to make mods and custom scenarios for. I mean, you're editing bitmaps and text files instead of needing to be a programmer and 3D graphics designer, or rely on the largess of one or more of such. Plus, the relatively recent Test of Time Patch Project has partially broken the code and allowed massive expansions to such editing capabilities.
Hmmmm interesting, i am a novice coder so it sounds in my area doing text editing, i'm also a professional graphic artist and print/web designer so the bitmaps part i can do very easily so it could lead to some interesting game graphics (my forum name may give you a clue) so i may have to re visit civ2 soon then, i'll pop by the modding forum for it later.
On the steam version i have it loads up nearly all mods perfectly bar a couple of low interest to me so i can live with that, real invictus loads up correctly and lets me start a map but the map is all black apart from the troops etc, i can see water on the coast too but total blackness otherwise and i can open menus etc still, i then decided to get the old civ 4 cd out from 2007 era and it installed as it should and i get to the play now screen but then the admin error appears, not sure if it's a windows 10 issue because this laptop is old enough to still be friendly with old cd games and i have the disc drive built in still so ...
