Why someone want to rush pre-order is beyond my imagination: don't you want sand settle down and first gamers reviews appear, (don't mentioning first patch ), before pay your money?
Hmmm, sorry Mr.Gates, I don't know that's your Nickname here. Now I understand you mean you are pre-ordering the whole Firaxis, just in case...
Yah, you can pre-order it, they will start doing that in around, um... November 2002 if you have to wait that long .
The thing is if they say they are going to start pre-ordering then they have about 1-2 months until pre-orderers start getting anxious and mad that they don't have their game yet. And besides, they are not going to announce a date until about 1-2 months before it comes out anyway so hold your horses and find something else to talk about.