I find their track record quite trustworthy.
We are talking about people, who made Alpha Centauri, Pirates!, Civ III and IV, and you discredit them because CIV V was not to your liking? It was not a bad game, unlike Simcity Societies, I didn't like it, but I admit it was a fine quality game.
Their record is varying between simplistic to great. AC was awesome, Civ is good(but not my taste), Pirates!(Pirates Gold was great for it's time) & Railroads was simple arcade games where everything you can do was exhausted in a few hours, unless you wanted to do the same thing again.
Personally, I hope they take a new approach or draw from the originals rather than thinking "it worked for civ so lets use that here".
Also, I'm one of the guys that did like real time mode in apoc.