Would ancient Civ II strategy threads interest you?

[Bloody Monk]

Originally posted by rah

The most glaring shortcoming in most of the early strategy discussions, was the lack of focus on trade. Fortunately, that was soon corrected.

I wish I could find a particular trade advice thread. There were multiple "build more camels" offerings. Then some wag offered one of the funniest things I ever read at Poly. I don't want to spoil the punchline so I'll just say it involved an "incident" growing out of having too many camels in one place. Does anyone who remembers have a link to that thread?? Or even the name of the poster?? Thanks.

Monk

[SlowThinker]

Originally posted by GP
I want the damn old threads. markos, do the conversion.

I think the conversion would be ideal - since we could also reply - but for viewing itself only the thread lists of archived forums could be made accessible again.

Originally posted by civman2000
Oldest thread I can find (from 2/99!):
http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum3/H...html?date=16:27

You see this is one UBB archive thread. So they still exist... Only the lists are missing.

[Bloody Monk]

Originally posted by civman2000
Oldest thread I can find (from 2/99!):
http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum3/HT...tml?date=16:27

What a fun read!! Who knew?? For OCC, GL and KRC are "essential".

But it was interesting to watch (from today's perspective) as the theory of OCC developed. If those old and lost threads were available reading them might spur someone to rethink some current, longheld belief.

Monk

[TCO]

I want to have the old threads (OT type ones) in Civ2general so that I can "accidentaly" bump them. Or so that some newbie will do so, not realizing that we have an OT (formerly 2)

[MrWhereItsAt]

I would be interested, as long as the strategies and info was valid. It would be a bit of a pointless exercise to resurrect old strats that were later deemed lesser due to more experience/knowledge about the game.

I'd particulary be interested in any threads that dealt with the exact game/AI mechanics - the existence of the Oedo years are a good example of this.

And what say you about a compendium of SMAC info Vel assembled? I have read the guide he wrote (the non-published one), but it tends to more strategies than to the facts and figures about the game and units. Where can I find this Uber-sources of SMAC info?

[Arrian]

People have done OCC in CivIII. I dunno about Deity, though.

When I first found 'poly, the CivII info blew me away. Oedo years! Reading about OCC. Size 1 OCC was just amazing. The tips on trade, which, prior to coming to 'poly, I practically ignored! Excellent stuff.

CivIII's strategy forum has an awful lot of good stuff like that in it too*, but obviously if you don't like the game, it isn't going to interest you much.

-Arrian

p.s. For absurdity bordering on the size1 OCC games, check out Aeson's "So Very Cold of the Map Generator." Unfortunately, I think the screenshots are toast now.

[Carolus Rex]

Originally posted by SlowThinker

You see this is one UBB archive thread. So they still exist... Only the lists are missing.

Wait a sec... Am I getting this straight? The old threads exist? You "only" need to know the correct url? Or what lists do you refer to?

Someone, please dig them up...

Carolus

[SlowThinker]

Originally posted by Carolus Rex
Am I getting this straight? The old threads exist? You "only" need to know the correct url? Or what lists do you refer to?

Yes, old URLs work, but not all.
By a list I mean a forum page, like http://apolyton.net/forums/forumdisp...?s=&forumid=14 .
I don't know if UBB lists exist now, but their dissapearance isn't related to the UBB/vBB transition. UBB lists existed even after the transition.

Maybe they could be easily reinstated.

[DrSpike]

What's the explanation for some working then?

[Carolus Rex]

But if old urls work, then the pages must be hosted by a server somewhere, presumably the same that hosts Apolyton, no (unless they have moved since then; I can't recall)?

Carolus

[SlowThinker]

Originally posted by DrSpike
What's the explanation for some working then?

Originally posted by civman2000
Oldest thread I can find (from 2/99!):
http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum3/H...html?date=16:27

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Originally posted by Carolus Rex
But if old urls work, then the pages must be hosted by a server somewhere, presumably the same that hosts Apolyton, no (unless they have moved since then; I can't recall)?

I think so.
I suppose mods disabled (or deleted ) the lists of archived threads some time ago because they thought nobody read them .

I thought somebody of mods would react in this thread...

[Paul]

Originally posted by Carolus Rex
Hm, it's only the first page that's viewable...
Carolus

Actually, the other pages are viewable, but the pagenumbers link to the wrong urls. This should work: page 2 and page 3. It's fun to read that old thread again.

[Theben]

Back when I finally won an OCC *sigh* memories...

[Carolus Rex]

Originally posted by Paul

Actually, the other pages are viewable, but the pagenumbers link to the wrong urls. This should work: page 2 and page 3. It's fun to read that old thread again.

How did you do that (get the right urls)?

Carolus

[Paul]

The links from the pagenumbers said forums-archives where the posted url for page 1 only had forums, so I took the -archives part out and got working urls.