Hello!  I played GalCiv for ten billion hours!  I loved Stardock!  Then War of Magic came out and the press was so bad I got scared away, and sort of felt I'd lost a friend.

Then (you may have heard) Fallen Enchantress came out!  The reviews were good!  Could I regain my old friend?  DARE I JUMP BACK INTO THE POOL?

My caveats are that this is my first game, and I'm only three or four hours into it, and I still don't have a REAL strong grasp on what's going on.  Those caveats mentioned:

I haven't had this much fun with a game since...  well, I can't even remember.  And I'm an old man.  Maybe that's why I can't remember.  So far I have ZERO complaints, and the joy of building cities and doing magic and taking my sovereign galavanting around the countryside is a, if you'll pardon the term, magic I haven't felt in gaming in a long, long, LONG time.

Probably since GalCiv.

Stardock, I am glad we are friends again.  Wonderful, wonderful job.