[HoneyBadger]

When you've got a game so old, and so influential, as the "Master of..." games, the idea of making a true sequel at this so very late date is a dubious fantasy, at best. I'm not certain that would even be very desireable.

It's pretty easy to list the things we (plural) liked about MoM, and create a game that utilizes those ideas, while discarding the body of outdated "stuff" that 20 years of programming has improved on.

For that matter, I suspect it probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to just mod the latest version of Civilization into a more or less MoM clone, if all you want is a fairly straight copy.

Personally, my wish is for a turn based strategy game that was deeply generic, and that let you create units/structures, and harvest resources, right from the ground up, in a Spore-like fashion, maybe with some user-defineable universal physics, along the lines of a user-created tech and resource tree--discarding the trappings, and inherant limitations of "fantasy/science fiction/historical" strategy games. With a deep and broad enough level of gameplay, you could end up with something with a whole lot more replayability than any given rehash.