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I have tons of memories of playing Civilization with my brothers. We would leave the game board set up for weeks at a time and play it for a couple hours every day. It's frustrating to know that such a great board game was killed off by a naming conflict.

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I'd really love to track down a copy of Advanced Civilizations. I played the computer version many times.

You have two options other than ebay:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/880022/civilization-total-g...

A completely recreated version of Advanced Civilization w/fantastic all new art. There are people such as printplayproductions.com [1] who will make one-off copies of prototype games on request from sets of files, but will probably run you in the $150 to $200 range. This is the copy I have.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/184424/mega-civilization

Currently available in retail boardgaming outlets, very deluxe and very huge. Extreme boardgaming. Retails around $250.

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Both of these versions come with all of the expansions and supplementary material, and Mega-Civilization comes with a lot more, driving the maximum player count up to 18(!). Both options are cheaper than trying to accumulate all of the original material on ebay, and the components are nicer.

Just trying to be helpful...

[1] http://www.printplaygames.com/prototypes

One problem with these games is that getting a group together willing to play these games can be kind of onerous. It's one of the things I try to do at Gencon: there's usually a couple of games scheduled for Advanced Civilization, Die Macher, Dune, Danw Patrol, &c.

It's awful. This thread actually made me decide to try to get a game of Civ some time next month, but if I want to do it, I'd better start recruiting now. I do have one of those vaulted tables, and that helps because you can break up a game like that over two weekends (wargame-style.)

Does Mega Civilization change the rules at all other than adding enough materials for more players? Or can you take a subset of the materials and play a game of Advanced Civilization with them?

As much as I enjoy Advanced Civilization, it does take a long time to play; lengthening it even further and getting more people together doesn't really help.

From the photos, it looks like the board is sectional, and you can remove the East in pieces as you reduce the player count. I'm guessing you can play straight Civ and Adv. Civ without any additions with it.

I'm a partisan towards the redesign, probably because I have it (had it made at printplayproductions.) It's really gorgeous and the components are very high quality, and there are no differences in play from the original, other than the errata are fixed. He makes a lot of them, so the turnaround time will probably be negligible. This is how the redesign looks.

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1598294/advanced-civilizatio...

I don't see it on the printplayproductions site. Has the setup work already been done, or would someone interested in a copy need to re-make the arrangements?

Email the address at the top of the prototypes page. He can only do it by request as a service to you. He doesn't market any game without an arrangement with the author. He'll probably respond with options. I haven't ordered from him in years, so I don't know how it works of late.

edit: this is how it used to work...

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/52127/item/2549854#item25...

haha, great game! https://archive.org/details/advanced-civilization

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