At present we have to trawl the archives to hunt for relevant threads. When a topic is located there may only be a few postings of any value. At the start of the year, Inca made a valiant attempt at trying to produce a thread of distilled wisdom. This never really worked as too many aspects were being discussed under one heading. The wisdom became diluted - not distilled - and the idea slipped away.

My proposals are as follows:

1) The currently under used Civ 2 "Help" section be transformed into a reference section.

2) This would consist of locked threads only. Many examples spring to mind as I write.
Paul's OCC Guide
Dave V on his approach to ICS
William Keenan's Paper on Barbarians
The information on Spaceship times/configurations
Oedo's discovery on the years for revolutions without anarchy
Xin's analysis of approaches to the game, covering the three main strategies of money/science/shields. (I can't tell you the thread he wrote this into …… see my point!)
My apologies if I have not included your wisdom! There are many more not mentioned.

Heck, I'll even update my cheat write up for inclusion

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BTW The "Fire" paper was written by Marc Fisher.
The original e-mail adress I found is mfisher@mail.cjnetworks.com.
I don't know if he still uses this adress

I think we need a section where we can have only locked threads - once the advice/wisdom has generally been agreed by the experienced players. (I can hear Ming saying "Case Closed!" - if you see what I mean!) If posters wish to submit a paper, they would first publish it on the Strategy Section for all to discuss the work.

My first thought was to use the Civ 2 Help section - which does not seem to have much traffic. However, you and Dan may think that a new Reference Section is a better idea. In short, we need a library to store the information.

Once this space is provided - we can start work.

These are only my thoughts. I am sure that those interested in the concept will add to the discussion.

Things are moving!

So let's hear peoples ideas!!!!!!

(and thanks for your support MarkG)

P.S. added in edit - MacUser only another 73 needed for that new title anyway! [and noone can accuse us of spamming when I use Edit to say this rather than another post!!]
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Name:

Rating of Library 1-5 (5 being the highest ):

Sugestion(s)/Comment(s):

Also don't forget credits!

Good civin'

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What if the Hokey-Pokey is really what its all about?

Another possibility would be to build a small number of cities, and delegate a task to each city. One could be the SSC, another could be the military force (think Sparta in ancient Greece), and perhaps other selected purposes could be chosen for however many other cities you have. Perhaps 1 dedicated to producing caravans every round for example, another for engineers at certain times in the game.

I think the only threads there should be locked and only include the "white paper" on the subject. All discussion for new topics, or revisions can continue in the strategy section.

So, what do people think... I'm not locked into this, and I'm open to suggestions.

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SG (the Great Librarian) compiles a first draft of Library ideas to date (without any new suggestions, for now) perhaps by the end of this month...? A working draft can then be placed online so a panel of reviewers (see below for more info) can look for gross omissions and false information. The intent of this draft is not to get everything included immediately! The feature creep on such a task would be hideous. The intent of this first draft is to encompass the solid, well-known Civ nomenclature, facts and tips to provide a document that can be used to open the Library and that can be used to establish a meaningful first format that Mark/Dave/Webmaster/??? can use to create the Library's home. I recommend that the working draft be reviewed both for content, and for Library filing topics (e.g. OCC, Trade, ICS, etc). The filing topics review should be completed by October 7. The content review should be completed by October 10, allowing 5 days for general tidying up of the word doc prior to the Library's opening.

Upon review of the first draft, Mark/Dave/Webmaster/??? creates a suitalbe home for this MSWord? document to reside on Apolyton. It doesn't need to be perfectly formatted yet, but the formatting review should be helpful. Formatting can be refined in time adding appropriate index topics and the like once the subject matter is better known. I think this task will take less than a couple of days, but a week is assigned to it to allow for some flex in intial formatting options.

A small review panel--say 5 people--is established for review of the intial library postings and for new submissions. I recommend a vote thread be started immediately to name the panel. However, the Librarian is automatically included in this panel so the voting will be for the 4 other panel members. I nominate Ming, Xin Yu, Paul and MarkG. Any objections or other nominations? If the majority of these 5 people agree to the content of a new submission thread, then the Librarian cleans up the submission for better organization and formatting and emails it for review to the panel one last time. If the majority are ok with the final version, it gets put in by Mark/Dave/Webmaster/???.

Future submissions are started via Great Library suggestions threads (as is already being done!). If enough positive votes are posted by the panel members, then the topic gets in. If enough negative votes are posted by the panel members, then the topic stays out. A timeline is placed on a new submission and is posted so appropriate review and feedback can occur in a timely fashion. 2 weeks should be appropriate.