King Rad
Warlord
You guys have done a great job on Civ! I didn't use to play computer games, but I've always been a strategy board game fan [used to give the ones I wanted to play to my brothers for Christmas or b'day presents]. I discovered Civ IV and have been hooked on the franchise ever since - to the point I simply don't have time to play anything else it seems. While I didn't get into Civ until IV, that doesn't mean I'm a young whipper snapper. I'm one of your older fans (74, although my wife says I act like I'm 14), but you've got to keep putting out more in this franchise because I plan on playing for at least another 25 or so years! As some have said, I often use Civ to relax, and while if I make a mistake in Civ some of my little virtual people might get hurt, it's not like when I'm working with a client and making a mistake can cause major issues and/or the success or failure of a venture. I also am part of a family that is very computer oriented [several programmers and in fact, one of my sons is a computer game designer] and have some appreciation for the difficulty of programming and making a game like Civ, where the possibilities an AI has to deal with are literally endless. You guys do a great job of bringing the world to life [to the extent that we often 'hate' some of the other players, even if they're not real!]. Keep up the good work; and thanks for all you do.