Deadlock II: Shrine Wars (don't know about #1) falls into the same category as Civilization and Alpha Centauri but is probably cheaper to acquire.

I loved that game, still got in in my closet somewhere

How about Master of Orion

Master of Orion is a no-go. Wargaming (world of tanks) bought the rights to that franchise when they were auctioned of recently. Stardock made a bid on it too, but apparently not high enough.

Ah did not know that, thanks. Too bad Stardock was not able to get it.

Stardock needs a FPS in its arsenal: NO ONE LIVES FOREVER 3!

Seriously. . .

I'd love to see Kohan rescued, but don't know who if anyone owns the rights now.

Well in that same year of the train wreck known as Moo3 (master of orion 3) release.   A game company also released a game called GalCiv,

though they don't have the name, they have the spirit which made Moo & Moo2 great.  

I love trying to find the best ways to spend Brad's money.  I could be such a good wife to you Brad!  If only our wives and heterosexuality wasn't in the way!

Anyways, back to spending Brad's money.  I want a new Buck Rogers game.  Loved that on my Sega Gen...  Let's see...Dune could use some love...

You just want to ride Brad's worm...

Brad doesn't need to acquire other game franchises.  He's too busy founding whole new game studios every time he gets bored.  

Which makes me even more jealous of Brad's life.  I want to have millions of dollars that I can use to found new game studios.  I want to be like "Hey, I'm working on a strategy game, so lets call in some famous strategy game designers to help out, yea, get Soren Johnson and Jon Shafer in a meeting and throw wads of cash at them until they come help me at my game.  And if they do a good job, lets help them create their own game studio.  Oh, and I feel like honey so I'm going to raise some mother fucking bees."  That sounds pretty sweet, although the Lord Xia version might be a bit different.

"Fuck honey, I like cheeseburgers so I am raising some mother fucking Cattle, I'm raising my own beef for Kobe burgers.  God damn these burgers are good, lets make a game about these great burgers!  Yes, god damn it, I want a game made about these delicious ass Kobe burgers I make.  What's Brian Reynolds doing?  Give him a few million and his own studio and make me a god damn game about my Kobe burger!"

It's gotta be more than money, though. Kingdoms of Amalur...anyone?

Brad and Notch need to get into a war and try to one-up each combo in starting up strategy game franchises/studios.

Deadlock and Deadlock II are now available on Gog.com and are Windows compatible.