JULY 98
-3/July Kent Wang and Frank Johnson decide to merge CivLeague and the Civ2 Ladder and Tournament Page to make CivLeague
-5/July Microprose faces financial problems, closes down a studio. meanwhile, for thw whole summer, on tfgc2s and apolyton,
mark hunts down mge release dates.... :)
-mid July Talks between Dan and Mark start to merge the two bigest civ2 sites. discussions last for a couple of weeks
and for the first time in the hisory of mergers, the only issue is the name of the site!(not really, but jut to show how
good the communication was from the start :))
-15/July Microprose, activision and avalon hill agree to settle their lawsuits! microprose gets the rights of the civilization
trademark, activisions gets a licence to put the civilization name on ctp
-26/July The merger is announced on both sites, work starts immediately.
-29/July Official ctp site opens, meanwhile it is a decision that apolyton will have a separate ctp section

AUGUST 98
-6/Aug. The CTP section is ready
-7/Aug. Apolyton opens it's door for the first time. Tips page uses the script used on tfgc2s, the MP list is moved too,
lots of pages are reformated, while a new forum system based on ubb is implemented.
-8/Aug. the first article in the Column is posted
-9/Aug. Hasbro buys Avalon Hill! Avalon Hill's 30 year history ends, while Hasbro plans to make pc versions of popular AH board games
-11/Aug. We learn for the first time about a new civ-like game, Ancient Prophecy
-11/Aug. Lt John of Activision makes his first post on our forums
-12/Aug. Hasro buys Microprose! civ2:mge is officially sill going to be published, but obviously the deal will delay the release until Christmas
-23/Aug. The CTP general forums gets 100 posts/day and we created three more forums: Peace&Prosperity, War&Strategy and Game Engine

SEPTEMBER 98
-all Sep. Mge's release date(several times) and pricing(once) changes, while Hasbro completes the deal to buy Microprose
-10/Sep. Activision runs the "castle, throne or..." contest for ideas of what could replace the throne room of civ2. some of the winners are Apolytoners :)
-12/Sep. Markos write a preview of CtP(based on what was known at the time) for Gamecentral
-23/Sep. We start a new tournament, continuing the UCIVIIS tradition...
-25/Sep. In our first ctp interview, we interview Cecilia Barajas, ctp's director. Apolyton is the second civ fan ste to do an interview with a member of development team, the first being Beyond AC. A day later, Gamecenter, posts an interview of Cecilia too(we got them first! :))
-late Sep. Sidgames is formed after a merger of 8 civ2 sites

OCTOBER 98
-all Oct. The mge release date goes back and forth(or at least the date that some gaming sites think it is a the real date)
-3/Oct. We hold a public chat with Mark Lamia, the producer, Steve Mariotti, the lead programmer and Joe Rumsey, networking and game Engine programmer of the CTP team.
-6/Oct. The "Story of CivII" by Jaspers is posted. A great piece of civ fiction.
-6/Oct. We interview the Lead Designer of CTP, William Westwater
-15/Oct. Our Alternative Civilizations Section opens! We cover Ancient Prophecy and Stellar Civilizations for start.
-mid Oct. In our Civ2-Hacking&Programming forum(now dead) a move to create a civ game by the fans starts. a site is organized, a chat is held. the project will be eventually on hold due to lack of time
-18/Oct. We chat with three members of the Ancient Prophecy team
-25/Oct. We talk with Jason Kozak, the man behind Stellar Civilizations.

NOVEMBER 98
-1/Nov. We chat with Ron Hiller, the lead programmer of Manifest Destiny
-3/Nov. The winners of Activision's contest are announced. The idea which replace civ2's throne room is at that time called "Your own Forbidden City"
-9/Nov. Our Civ2 Database goes online! We started with 60 files and we are currently reaching number 250. That's thanks to the work of several people, more noteably of Kent Wang, who wrote the script, and Sven Muencheberg, our Civ2 database manager.
-17/Nov. An Apolyton Exclusive, a source from Microprose confirs to DanQ that MGE not only exists but is almost at the doors of the distributors!
-20/Nov. CTP is officially announced that will be delayed from the initial Christmas release for a spring '99 one
-21/Nov. The Zone opens a room for MGE. The room wont be very much used
-22/Nov. Activision announces it's plans(which were part of the deal with Microprose) to create a port of Civ2 for the Playstation.
-23/Nov. We "score" yet another CTP interview, this time is Mark Lamia, the Producer
-28/Nov. The first civ2 Scenario Contest begins

DECEMBER 98
-1/Dec. Apolyton is mentioned in PC Games magazie
-4/Dec. For the first time a civ fan site previews a civ game. DanQ previews Civ2:MGE. A strange tradition begins as on the same day...
-4/Dec. Civ2:MGE appears in the stores!
-6/Dec. We hold a second CTP chat, called "CTP Designers Chat", with 5 members of the development team.
-8/Dec. Scenario League is the first hosted site of Apolyton which opens it's doors
-10/Dec. CivLeague starts the first Civ2 multiplayer tournament
-10/Dec. In our Park Ranger poll in the CTP section, 36% of the voters want it's name changed to Eco Ranger. The future will show that the developers listened :)
-19/Dec. Brian Reynolds announces that SMAC is finished. The demo will appear on Christmas day and the game will eventually be released on February 9th
-24/Dec. Hodadian Award Central is finished and becomes the second hosted site of Apolyton
-24/Dec. Steve Mariotti, CTP's lead programmer, answers our questions in our fourth ctp interview!
-30/Dec. The cow unit in ctp is slaughtered. Fred starts his "bring back the cow!" campaign :)

And the trip continues...