Hollandazed: Thoughts, Ideas, and Miscellany — civilization games

One of the many projects I've got on the backburner is a solitaire civ-building kinda-sorta legacy game. It has a neat twist that I'm going to keep to myself for the time being, but when I tell people about the game and about that twist, they get pretty excited and they very much want to know when the game is coming out, and why am I not working on it right now? And the reason why the thing is still on the backburner is that I have a problem with civ games in general, and that is the tendency of...