Yes, thank you all.
It's been a real treat.

I think the build up to a new release or expansion pack is the only time I really post. Sometimes I wonder whether I prefer the build up to the actual games.![]()
Both are sweet to me in the same amount, my friend. We wouldn't torture our minds so much if the games weren't fun enough, but the tension that arises from which civilizations and leaders will make the cut and if the picked ones are those that each of us want to see in the game is what might make it sweeter for the speculation period.The anticipation is almost always sweeter than the experience with Civ. Don’t get me wrong, I love spending 100s of hours playing the games, but the slow uncovering of information and the imagining of what the game could be like is always a lot of fun.
And hopefully we'll will a few more. Each time this conversation comes up, I'm going to mention Enheduanna and hope someone at Firaxis wants to add a little something more to ancient Mesopotamia.Maybe not as fun as Tamar of Georgia but I think there has been decent progress toward willing Liliʻuokalani into existence.
She feels like an absolute perfect fit for Civ7.Enheduanna
My earliest memories of gaming are sitting around the Atari 2600 with my mother, father and sister, playing several fun games (especially Snoopy and the Red Baron). By the time we got a Nintendo my parents didn't play as much anymore, but my mother would sit beside me and draw a complete map of Hyrule, screen by screen, while I became immersed in The Legend of Zelda for the first time. The first time I experienced Civilization was in high school, when a friend brought the game back from the US and we played on his PC. Today, anyone who knows me knows I play Civilization, not just that I enjoy games in general.
I associate each iteration of Civ with very different moments in my life. Whether that's playing Civ 1 back in Brazil as described above, or hearing Baba Yetu for the first time, living on my own, just out of college, or being able to buy a new PC that I would play Civ 6 on thanks to a career that united my passion for gaming and language.
Last August I moved to care for my terminally ill mother, who unfortunately passed in November. My mom knew I was looking forward to the game. It's a pity she won't be able to watch it, because as with many other brilliant games I shared with her, she would have loved the art, the voices and the many of the creative components of the game. Who knows where I'll be when Civ 7 is winding down and I'm back on the forums to nitpick about Civ 8's upcoming details. But when I start playing I'll be in what used to be her home, weaving new experiences with familiar ones, including games, among many other things that I love, to navigate another next stage of this life.
I don't mean this to be a sad tale with that previous paragraph. It's just a way to express what the thread invited us to. It's a thank you to Civ and to the forums for being a fun community. Communities are important, and that is as true for CivFanatics, and Civilization as any other. And if there's one thing a game should be, it's fun and if there's one thing its community should be, a positive experience that you always look forward to returning to is that thing.
could still will other leaders into existence. considering how often lili’uokalani has come up, hopefully firaxis will take note!As the first looks and dev diaries draw to a close and the release date for Civ 7 nears, I wanted to take the time to thank each and every fanatic who has posted here. It has been such a great journey since last June, getting to learn together with you about the next iteration of a game series we all love.
This is such an amazing community. I have so enjoyed reading your opinions, your speculations, your reasoning (sometimes "reasoning" with quotes needed) about what Civ 7 is likely to bring. I so appreciate everyone who took the time to investigate every new scrap of information, pulling together screen shots, making connections, keeping track of what we know, what we think we know, and what we think we don't know about what Firaxis has come up with.
We have here people from all over the world, of every political stripe, from different generations, different professions, different cultures, different ways of thinking. Being able to discuss, speculate and, let's be frank, obsess about Civ 7 with you has been a fabulous experience.
And if, this time around, we did not collectively achieve such magic as willing Tamar of Georgia into being, we have, for me at least, been a great group to spend time with for the past 8 months. Thank you!