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CTP2 DIPLOMACY EXPLAINED (25 May 2000, 9:46 EST) Wonderfull information on diplomacy from St Swithin Stuff you can demand/offer/give/swap: It's not only 1-for-1, you can give a map for a city, gold for an advance, etc. You can also give gold and offer a peace treaty, or offer a cease fire and request an advance. You can only make a counter proposal to an original proposition. If a proposition that you sent is rejected, that is the only time you can threaten. So for example: 1) The Americans offer you Religion for Iron Working. You counter propose trading Religion for Monarchy (or you reject or accept). 2) You request the Irish map. The Irish offer to give you their map if you give them 1000 gold. You threaten to invade their land if they continue to refuse. They will either give in if they're weaker or refuse if they're stronger. Related forum thread -MarkG
 (31 May 2000, 5:20 EST) Here is our new ctp2 poll: Stacked Combat Public Works Units, Terrain, City Graphics Wonder Movies, Music Customizability Don't know/Don't Care Results Discussion thread -MarkG
YOUR REACTION TO THE RELEASE OF CTP2!
(21 May 2000, 21:47 EST) We recently had the opportunity to talk to Dracon, author of the second incarnation of his RipOff MOD Pack for Civilization II, about the method to his madness behind it all. The collection contains more than 30 units "ripped" from other leading strategy games. "Well, I had this Ripoff Idea last year with the release of Call To Power", Dracon recalls. "I thought that maybe I could somehow convert CtP units to Civ2 format. CtP units were difficult, so I decided to try some other games. Alpha Centauri cities were very easy to convert, as were Age of Empires Units. This basically made up Ripoff Pack version 1. St. Leo was also good at doing this, having Ripped off AOE and Caesar II graphics. In the latest Ripoff Pack, I have inproved and increased the number of SMAC cities, including some from Alien Crossfire, I have added many Warlords 3 units and also SMAC terrain. You will have to cut out the graphics that you wish to use, and paste them in their appropriate places in the Civ2 graphics files. In the future, well, I'm always looking for new games to Rip Off :-)" Downloaded more than 450 times since it was first released last July, click here to grab the latest version. -DanQ
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