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SEVENTY-FIFTH WEEK ON G100
STAYING IN PLACE ON G100
G100: HANGING TOUGH
G100: SLIPPING AGAIN
SLIP, STILL COMPETITIVE ON G100
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MOVING UP TWO ON G100
(17 October 2001, 21:00 EST) Attention all readers from Australia and New Zealand. The November edition of PC User (PCU) magazine has made in full Civilization II: Test of Time available on their cover CD. The issue is on sale now at newsagents across the said countries and the cover price is only $7.50A.
For more information on this release, consult this document on PCU's website. Our thanks to Jel for the news tip. -DanQ
(24 May 2001, 7:29 EST) In our HS-Scenario League forums, Kull has brought to the forum's attention Angelo Scotto's new Event Creation tool (called CPSL). CPSL creates a bunch of new events that were impossible before in TOT. This tool will allow scenario designers to create more interesting and better scenarios, according to Kull.
CPSL is found on the Ancient Empires Tool Page -MarkG
(11 February 2001, 0:27 EST) In the 423rd installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization II: Test Of Time raises the roof climbing back into 11th position this week.
To vote for ToT this and every week, click here! -DanQ
(4 February 2001, 16:58 EST) In the 422nd installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization II: Test Of Time dips from 12th to 11th spot this week.
To vote for ToT this and every week, click here! -DanQ
(28 January 2001, 14:05 EST) In the 421st installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization II: Test Of Time soars from 15th to 11th spot this week.
To vote for ToT this and every week, click here! -DanQ
(21 January 2001, 20:43 EST) In the 420th installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization II: Test Of Time slides one down into 15th position in its seventy-fifth week on the countdown.
To vote for ToT this and every week, click here! -DanQ
(14 January 2001, 19:19 EST) In the 419th installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization II: Test Of Time stays in 14th place for the third week running.
To vote for ToT this and every week, click here! -DanQ
(7 January 2001, 14:23 EST) In the 418th installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization II: Test Of Time hangs tough in 14th for a second week in a row.
To vote for ToT this and every week, click here! -DanQ
(28 December 2000, 22:49 EST) In the 417th installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization II: Test Of Time slips again from 13th to 14th spot.
To vote for ToT this and every week, click here! -DanQ
(21 December 2000, 11:30 EST) In the 416th installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization II: Test Of Time has slipped from 13th to 12th position but is still very much alive on the intensely competitive countdown.
To vote for ToT this and every week, click here! -DanQ
(19 December 2000, 20:41 EST) With something that may only be definable as revolutionary, Civilization Fanatics' Center's (CFC) Thunderfall posted a most intriguing piece of email he received from a Mr. Tony Toon. Here is an excerpt:
I got Test of Time today at Wal-Mart, and was playing it with a friend, when we quickly got upset that we couldn't play in simultaneous mode like in CivNet. Anyways, I got tinkering about in the .EXE file, and figured out that if you add "Simultaneous=1" to the CIV.INI in your \WINDOWS directory, it allows you to choose the humans move simultaneously option. It seems it was removed from the game officially, but it so far has worked fine. Dunno if it'd work in Civ2MPG or not, but it might, since they look to be based on the same engine.
Stephen Arnott emailed us this evening alerting us that John Possidente, former MicroPROSE staffer and ToT team member, responded to this revelation in our forums yesterday which laid confirmations on the feature's origins.
The simultaneous human movement thing was actually a leftover from the Multiplayer Gold Edition. The team put it in and it seemed to work, but in testing we found that it caused major game play problems, including opportunities for blatant cheating. So, we nixed it in the shipping version, but the code, like a trick knee, remained in place waiting to cause trouble. We developed ToT based on a version of the MGE code-base--thus the legacy simultaneous human turns code.
If you have ToT, go ahead and try it! -DanQ
(15 December 2000, 13:42 EST) In the 415th installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization II: Test Of Time bounces back into 12th position -- it had been there two weeks prior but had slipped a notch in its performance last week.
To vote for ToT this and every week, click here! -DanQ
(7 December 2000, 0:27 EST) In the 414th installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization II: Test Of Time looses some footing and falls down to 13th (last week it was in 12th).
To vote for ToT this and every week, click here! -DanQ
(29 November 2000, 18:10 EST) In the 413th installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization II: Test Of Time continues to gain headway in the midst of heated competition driving itself up into 12th, only one spot away from tying its all-time record.
To vote for ToT this and every week, click here! -DanQ
(19 November 2000, 23:25 EST) In the 411th installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization II: Test Of Time regains some footing by moving into 14th over its performance last week, when it resides in 16th.
To vote for ToT this and every week, click here! -DanQ
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