"Already" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, by the time the game comes out it will have been 9 years since Civ 6. That's 3 years longer than the gap between 5 and 6 which is the next longest gap in the series. At this point they're vastly limited in the things they can do without a complete overhaul on base mechanics we've been playing with for nearly a decade.

Would you rather they completely overhaul the current game and the original mechanics be lost to time? Of course not, the obvious next step is to make a new game.

Me waiting on a sequel to Sid Meier's Pirates.

Tbf alpha centari still works perfectly fine

What fixes do VI need?

Do the drones still look up to you at this point?

No information about Alpha Centauri 2? I posit an AC quote then:

"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." -Commissioner Pravin Lal, 'U.N. Declaration of Rights'

And if you look closely, you'll see me, under your foot, waiting for a sequel to Pirates

I have 3 friends that I play Civ V with weekly, in person LAN parties maybe once or twice a year. Civ 6 never caught on and I'm the youngest in the group (at 39) so I just went with it. But going by the principle that odd number Civs are good we are excited for 2025.

There was a ridiculous, completely unbalanced version they published just after Alpha Centauri where the most powerful unit was a van-looking ecoterrorism thing that transformed everything around it into forest.

They could make a sequel to that one instead.

they did do a sequel to alpha century and it was fucking garbage, where u trying to forget?

There’s only so many more times I can elect myself Supreme Planetary Leader as Brother Lal.

What was the expansion pack where you could play as aliens called?

I absolutely loved Civilization: Beyond Earth tbh. Nowhere near as bad as people said and I wish it had been successful so there was more content to expand the game than what we got.

I hope the new game loses the Clash of Clans style cartoony graphics.