Just a bit strange to go from "favorite turn based strategy game" to a "big step backwards"

Only because a game is one of your favourite games doesn't mean that you have to like all of it.

Yeah, just that you like it better than the others^^

What!? Did the rumours mention if it will continue from the Civ V branch or will backtrack to the ways things were in Civ IV? Will Shafer be involved?

I only played Civ I and FreeCiv. I love them both! I would love to see "The Civs" on GOG.

Is there not going to another major expansion released for Beyond Earth?
The game definitely needs one.

Shafer left to form indie dev Conifer Games in 2012, and has been working on his own Civ-alike (sorta) At The Gates, so that would be a 'no' as to his involvement in a new Civ.

Just to clarify:
The Civ 2 gold game is a 32 bit game,but has a 16 bit installer. There are workarounds that are not all the hard to get it to run on a 64 bit computer.
The original Civ 2 and it's expansion discs are 16 bit programs. Short of Goint the virtual machine route, there is no way of getting them to run on a 64 bit computer.

CIV II had expansions?
I only know the base game (still own the boxed version), but I never heard of an expansion.

There were three expansions.

First one added 20 new scenarios - it was called Conflicts in Civilization
Second one added several fantasy scenarios (X-Com, Master of Orion, Master of Magic worlds, etc.) - it was called Civ II Fantastic worlds.

Third expansion included all of the above and added multiplayer for the game.

Only the Ultimate Civilization 2 Classic Collection includes all the above features.

There was also a remake of Civilization 2 called Civilization 2: Test of Time (really loved this one).

There were two expansions - Conflicts in Civilization, which featured historical scenarios, and Fantastic Worlds, which features Sci-fi and Fantasy scenarios.

I particularly liked the Master of Magic jr scenario. :)

Wow, I didn`t know that. I have here a box, published by PC Games, which is titled "Maximum Fun CIV 2 Undiscovered worlds for Civilization 2" which contains more than 50 scenarios. :-)

I'm glad the people here on GOG know all about the games. :-) Thanks.

Oohh... hexagons! I'm glad Shafer is sticking with them.

So... if Meier is not comming back to Civ... I'm guessing it will be a new designer?

Yes, I would expect there to be a new lead designer, probably chosen from the people who were senior (but not lead) designers on the previous iterations of the game.