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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 1686200" data-attributes="member: 907">My favorite boardgame is unfortunately out of print - Civilization with Advanced Civilization. I'm talking about the old game, not the one based on the computer game.Unfortunately, Advanced Civ is unlikely to ever see the light of day again, on account of rights issues. As I understand it:* Civilization is made by some company (I *think* Gibson Games, but I'm not sure).* Avalon Hill licenses it, and produces their own version with slight differences.* Avalon Hill makes an expansion called Advanced Civilization (they also made the Western Expansion Map, but that's beside the point).* Long time passes.* Avalon Hill goes bankrupt, is bought by Hasbro, and placed under the WOTC umbrella. The rights to Civilization revert to Gibson Games (or whomever).This means that AH-via-Hasbro/WOTC doesn't have the rights to the basic Civilization game, and Gibson Games doesn't have the rights to Advanced Civilization. Which is a darn shame, because Advanced Civilization is a lot better than original Civ (two types of trade goods and two different calamities for each trade number, no limit on the amount of techs available or how many you can have, more techs, all techs have game effects, and so on, improved trade system).</blockquote>