I am sure that the people at Firaxis have built a fine TBS engine. The community could build some fine mods and scenarios for it, but what do you guys think, should sell Firaxis the engine to other programmers to make their own game. I could imagine that a developer would like to make a complete Alien TBS. It could earn Firaxis a great deal of bucks, which they could invest in !FREE! updates for CIV III.
And of course, Firaxis should protect the principle of their own game to be stolen. If they sell it, the other developer shouldn't make another CIV. So Activision is banned
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