Same. Though the AI since hexagonal tiles is so bad I've signed off Civilization series. Why they haven't contracted to that Google subsidiary to use machine learning to improve the AI of the game is a mystery.
If you play Civ V on Windows, you can get the Vox Populi mod for vastly improved AI.
I love Civ V (and loved Civ 2 back then), somehow I never played Col. Just installed Civ IV Colonization and the weekly build of FreeCol :)
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by smacktoward on Sunday February 03, 2019 @03:07PM
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You can get the original Colonization DRM-free from GOG for $6: https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_colonization
It's worth it -- the Civ IV DLC version didn't really capture the magic of the original, and FreeCol has been a work-in-progress for a long time. The '90s graphics of the original can take a little getting used to, but the gameplay is still extremely solid. I keep a copy on my laptop to play when I'm stuck waiting around in airports.
Civ, and also SimCity, always felt as if they would progress along more or less the same trajectory of growth, with little actual choice for the player as long as they broadly stayed within the bounds of what the designers considered typical gameplay.
In Col, I loved building these intricate industrial networks and trade routes.
Now that I’m writing this, I’m wondering if Colonization possibly came too close to the Soviet idea of central economic planning for the taste of the audience.