The Altera Centauri collection has been brought up to date by Darsnan. It comprises every decent scenario he's been able to find anywhere on the web, going back over 20 years.
25 themes/skins/styles are now available to members. Check the select drop-down at the bottom-left of each page.
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Actually, I don't think he ever was a member here. I think it was me who "discovered" him (it must've been in 1999) when I found his website once, with his units and other non-civ2 artwork on it, and I posted about it on here.
He probably had contact with plenty of people by e-mail after that, but then somewhere in 2001 (according to the wayback machine), his site disappeared.
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Holy crap!! I think I just found his new site. I typed Antark (one of the fictional worlds he made drawings for) and Erwan into Google and this is what it came up with:
I'll mail him straight away. If this really is "the Erwan" it would be excellent news because he's one of the few old Civ2 greats I haven't been able to contact yet.
Hope this email is still active...
Skeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.
But I do have more clues about Erwan now...he's (still?) studying arts at UNIVERSITÉ RENNES.
BTW. check out some of his comic artwork on the site, very good. No wonder the guy was so good at unit making that early on, he's a natural.
Je m'appelle Erwan, j'habite a Rennes depuis quelques années maintenant et me suis lancé dans l'illustration après mes etudes à la faculté d'Arts Plastiques de Rennes.
Je travaille en ce moment sur une bande dessinée dans le monde de Barr-Avel, planète des vents. Vous trouverez également des illustrations personnelles sur les mondes Atlantes et Antarks.
Pour mieux me connaître, vous pouvez cliquer sur la galerie de photos qui se trouve sur cette page.
Skeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.
Harlan I contacted a long time (2 years) ago about using his LotR work for Freeciv. It was a bit of luck because on some occasions he checks his old email accounts.
I regret not asking Harlan's new email adres now.
I'll try and find some way to contact Erwan (and Harlan while I'm at it).
So who do we have left of the old guard?
Skeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.
well there used to be this 'tribute to Mr Temba' site kept by one of his fans who managed to keep in contact with him somehow. It had all his scenarios collected in one place. I haven't been there is two years so I don't kow if its still around.
That truck design (almost finished!) got me inspired to also do a camel. I found one based on Alex's and GlukGluk and here's the result.
In appropriate setting...
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What do the city tiles look like? Do you need any?
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Originally posted by fairline
Just out of interest, Merc and Kobayashi, as you 2 have been around since time imemmorial , who was the first guy to make a civ scenario?
Now there's a question... I have no idea. I've only been around looking for Civ2 on the Internet since 1998. In fact, I bought Civ2 in October 1997 along with CiC (I had an illegal copy from a friend for 6 months before that ). So the oldest scenarios I know are those "bestonet" scenarios.
Originally posted by Smiley
What do the city tiles look like? Do you need any?
If you have a nice collection of city tiles, please do!
Remember, if's going to be distributed with Freeciv it must be done under the GPL. So you must be sure the authors have given permission for their work to be used.
The vintage "isotrident" tileset looks like this. The Hires is a little better. Big advantage is that you can include city styles in the file. See the next post for details.
Skeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.
And this is the Hires tileset. The great thing is you can simply make this file longer and add more city styles at the end. Line-by-line. The style a nation uses is defined in the nation's ruleset. In principal each and every nation can have its own city style. Although it's easier to have a few generic ones.
Skeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.
Now there's a question... I have no idea. I've only been around looking for Civ2 on the Internet since 1998. In fact, I bought Civ2 in October 1997 along with CiC (I had an illegal copy from a friend for 6 months before that ). So the oldest scenarios I know are those "bestonet" scenarios.
Bought it the moment it came out. Way back in April '96. I still have the receipt
Even back then those "bestonet" weren't so good. In fact most of them weren't the "best" at all. The only decent one I remember was a fanmade WW2 Pacific scenario "East, Wind, Rain". No extra units or such but I played that to my hearts content because you could also try the Dutch.
Skeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.
Holy crap!! I think I just found his new site. I typed Antark (one of the fictional worlds he made drawings for) and Erwan into Google and this is what it came up with:
). So the oldest scenarios I know are those "bestonet" scenarios.
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