We’d start by looking at the original six or seven civs and do our best to identify patterns in those civ selections.
So we would again want to be transparent and explain our reasoning. It’d be a discussion lots of players would be keenly interested in. If we were presented with an opportunity to continue development of new civs, we would have to choose very carefully. But it’s anybody’s guess who would have been 8 or 9. Maybe we are 100 percent certain the Romans were next at civ 7.
Certainly the more content we create the further we get from the original game and the more speculation is necessary and the larger the likely margin of error. Following design rules are up to us, but we consider the opportunity to expand AoEO a privilege so we take great care to try to reverse engineer the mindset of the original Devs so we can pick up where they left off and produce something that follows the game’s natural trajectory as best as possible.
