I've been dreaming and praying for an Alpha Centauri II for years, too. It could be done on the engine for Civilization IV or V, like the Colonization remake,

I've been dreaming and praying for an Alpha Centauri II for years, too. It could be done on the engine for Civilization IV or V, like the Colonization remake, and pick up on all the technological and gameplay advances in the franchise since SMAC. Alas, the constraint is that Electronic Arts owns the intellectual property for Alpha Centauri and isn't at all interested in reviving it. But Brian Reynolds leaving Zynga is an awesome piece of news, if it'll get him producing real games again rather than addiction-center manipulators. I seem to remember he joined Zynga genuinely believing that mobile-social-freemium was the future of gaming, which actually was a reasonable prediction in 2009, and it's also reasonable for that opinion to fall by the wayside now.