A thank you to the community as the release of Civ 7 nears

I echo the OP sentiments and the confirming responses that many of you have given, including that the moderation here makes this a nice oasis in an otherwise unpleasant social-media environment.

I have thought of discussion here as a sort of pre-release mini-game. More of a guessing game than a 4x,of course. But it's been a ton of fun, and that has been because of my fellow players.
 
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. :D

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.
 
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.
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.

And I have to say that my participation in this forum was marginal in the past. I made this account to just share my opinion about Greece's design and Pericles's look in Civilization VI. Some time later I asked a couple of questions in some modding tutorials, critisized the separation of Macedon (which I want back in Civilization VII, not because I consider the Macedonians non-Greeks, but because I find the inclusion of an additional Greek civilization with a military focus interesting enough) from Greece in the Persia and Macedon DLC, and I discovered the word Impi in leftover animation files prior to the release of Rise and Fall. In past months, communicating and sharing my opinions with other members here was a lot of fun and made me feel like I belong in a family, something that I have felt only on one other site before (it is a gaming news site that livestreams games and has the mentality of a parent) when communicating on the Internet.
Thank you all! :high5:
 
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Thank you fellow civ fans, moderators and Firaxis on this journey and keeping the hype up!

Who would have thought we will be seeing such gratitude thread again after the gratitude post of Firaxis when they are about to end the development cycle of Civ VI a few years before?

It is always a pleasure seeing everyone speculate, argue over, and have a collective chorus of what we want to see in this beloved game.
 
I love these periods of time preceding the new releases of Civ games and expansions. I don't have moments as memorable as on this forum with any other game. It's always a treat to spend time reading your input. And it was great to have a teeny-tiny contribution towards a collective lunacy for civ. I even repainted my puppet monster for my avatar here! ;)

Last few months were tumultuous for me personally, but I think it's fair to say you had a good influence on my wellbeing. Thank you all :)
 
The pre release speculation on civfanatics has always been an amazing experience....in the past.

Feels so weird to not care at all about civ 7.
 
Thankfully the period of speculation and snooping about for information never really ends! Every new DLC and civilisation is another round of interest here, but there really is nothing like the pre-release period, and nothing like the wealth of knowledge that spews forth on a forum like this.
Maybe not as fun as Tamar of Georgia but I think there has been decent progress toward willing Liliʻuokalani into existence.
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.
 
I'd like to thank everyone in multiplayer who play FFA for being there when I wasn't as busy, and I logged in on multiplayer. I had many good runs and experiences on multiplayer and I feel really thankful for it. I appreciate the modders who know how to make the multiplayer game better as well. To me it wasn't always about winning but more like spending time with other civilization players online no matter what skill of play they had whether they would win or lose or tie from a disconnection, there was always that opportunity to restart and replay again. Thank you all for keeping me company online when I really didn't have anyone to go out with since they were too busy working or with their families. Thank you for your time multiplayer civilization and I thank everyone that plays FFA in there.
 
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.
 
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.

I'm sorry to hear that your huge lost, but at the same time, thank you to share your family story as the happy memories about this game series.
I hope the Civ franchise will be remained as the games which can be introduce by the parents to their children, and the friends to thier friends, so those can continue to tie people and family together with the feeling of participation in the history around us.
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Posted on this forum a bunch in the Civ IV and Civ VI days, but haven't been here much in the lead-up to Civ VII. That said, I'm happy that this place is going as strong as ever and am glad to see so many familiar faces here. Forums are a dying breed, and this is one of the best. To many more years!
 
I have been on a civfanatics hiatus for a few years only briefly checking in to see if anything really catches my attention. Life really demanded my attention these past few years.

I am looking forward to 7's release and life cycle. This is only beginning for me. I dont get too caught up in the speculation. I need to get my hands on it to really get into it. I cant wait to discover the game with you all. I am looking forward to it.
 
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!
could still will other leaders into existence. considering how often lili’uokalani has come up, hopefully firaxis will take note!
 
And here's hoping Firaxis will take note of our pet interests.

There is a certain leader that I would be rather interested in seeing...
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