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Panzer General, now over 20 years old. Very simple to learn, but very strategic. The only problem was finding actual people to play against if you got bored of the AI. The Settlers 2. Real time economy management at its finest. Plus it had a rather catchy soundtrack that I can still recall...

Call to Power II had something called the "World Peace Victory" where you would win the game if you were allied with every other civilization. Implementing something like this would be a small step in the direction you're looking for, it at least makes a "win by cooperation" possible.

These are great ideas, they take the game in the direction of feeling like you are in an actual world, not a gameboard.

How would this actually work? If a civilization got big enough would they be "promoted"?

You mean an open source version? Check out freeciv.

It wasn't perfect, but I agree that stack death was preferable to the other systems that have been tried.

Did you install the update to version 1.2? I just reinstalled the game and started playing, the AI is not especially intelligent but they have definitely been going to war without much in the way of provocation. I noticed that the more powerful you get, the angrier the AI becomes.

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