Buying Civilization 2 Gold

[Farazh]

Hi I have somehow managed to lose my cd and now I want to buy the gold edition. Unfortunately it seems as if it is no longer available anywhere. As far as I know TOT and CTP are significantly different to MPG right?

Appreciate any help anyone can give me.

[Scouse Gits]

Yes - CtP is a different game completely, ToT has an 'original game' setting that makes it into 'conventional Civ2' whatever that might be, but is not compatible with either v2.42 or MPG when it comes to things like save games.

Here in the UK copies of MPG are like hen's teeth - rather hard to find and currently even SP Civ has been very thin on the ground - if anyone knows a supplier that has stock and will ship internationally there could be quite a demand ...

[Eyn]

ToT compatible MGE... no.... and yes

with Civconverter v1.4 ( from Angelo Scotto ) u can "convert" Civ2
scenarios to ToT version. I used it easily for 5 of my scenarios
Antic, Mafia, Egypte, WW2 and 1804.

[Farazh]

If TOT DOES have the original version in it then I might as well order that. Hopefully by 'conventional' they mean the MPG version without stuff like 'multiple dimensions' which I don't much like the sound of.

Thanks for your help. In the meantime if anyone does find a copy of MPG somewhere or find they are 'bored' of it (shock! horror!!) then please please please let me know.

[rwprice]

MPG is available in my area. If you're really desperate to get it, we could agree on a price and I'll get it and send it to you. The only thing for us to discuss would be shipping price. The cost of the game itself is $15 plus tax.

[Farazh]

that would be great! Shipping is no problem. I have a friend in the US coming over here soon so if you could ship to him then everything would be fine. I'll give you the address if that's ok with you?

Thanks alot.

[rwprice]

Sure, that should be no problem. My guess is that $25 US should cover everything, but that's without checking on shipping. I would assume that would even allow me to pack it in a padded envelope or wrap it up. I would prefer to receive the money before I send it, so let me know if that's acceptable to you.

[Farazh]

Naturally I'll pay you first. Just give me your e-mail address or mail me at

Faraz Hasan

that way we can sort out all the details.

[Cedric Greene]

though you seem to have this under control, if you already have MGE installed but just can't play it there are other solutions. One is the no cd crack, though I don't know if the cd will be required during installation. Another is buy the ToT cd, MGE looks for ANY civ 2 cd be it 2.42, CiC, FW, MGE or ToT.

[rwprice]

Cedric is right--any Civ2 cd will work. I have both ToT and MGE, and I can use either cd to play either version. If you'd rather go the route of picking up a copy of ToT locally, let me know. Otherwise, I'll plan on going forward with getting you a copy of MGE and sending it.

[Gatekeeper]

Farazh. RWPrice:

Are there any compatibility concerns that might crop up? I bring this up because companies sometimes make varying versions of their games that aren't always compatible planet-wide. This is especially true in the console market, but I'm not sure as to how extensive it is in the PC/Macintosh market.

CYBERAmazon

[Farazh]

Cedric I don't have MGE installed any more so I don't think I can do that. Of course if TOT was available here then I could have just gone for TOT and pretended like it was MGE but alas it isn't.

Cyber, compatability shouldn't be an issue. I have bought games from the US and UK before also and they have all worked fine. You are right about this being an issue in the console market though.

[Gatekeeper]

Farazh:

OK. Just thought I'd play it safe by raising the possibility ... didn't want anyone to find out until it was too late in case compatibility issues were relevant.

CYBERAmazon

[Farazh]

Cyber thanks for your concern. I'll let you know if everything works out when I get it here.

Rw It is the weekend here on Friday Saturday and I can't access my work e-mail from home so if you have mailed me since my last mail then send it again here .

[rwprice]

Sold out!

Farazh,
I went out at lunch today to buy the game for you. Bad news. The copies that I have seen over the last four months were sold this week! I checked with a sales person and she told me that she sold them just yesterday! So, I went to two other stores where I had seen it, and it's nowhere to be found! I can easily find the original Civ2 for Windows 3.1, the one that's not multiplayer. I also found 3 copies of Test of Time for $15 each, the same price that I seen for MPG. Let me know how you want to proceed. I'll keep looking in other stores, but hold onto your money for now.

I also sent this via email, but I'm posting it here in case you don't get the email. Does anyone else have any ideas on how to help Faraz?