I loved Civ I, trekked through the sequels, and fell in love again with Civ V (the orgy of stats in IV was starting to kill the franchise, IMHO). I think they are on the right track - the point of Civ is to find a balance between statecraft drudgery and military action, and V moved the needle back towards that ideal centre IMHO.<p>This new direction sounds slightly too RTS-y, but as long as they don&#x27;t try to pull a Simcity 5 (&quot;social&quot; games, just say no, kids!), I&#x27;m happy to give them the benefit of the doubt.