New Civ III Downloads for December

[IMG=right]http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/8734/dec10c3prevsmall.jpg[/IMG]Whichever one & however you celebrate it - here are some shiny new toys to play with during the holiday season.

UNITS

• Adeptus Sororitas by LMR
• 44 British units 1650-1780 by Sandris
• Tharks of Barsoom by tom2050
• Ferrari F430 by tom2050
• German Explorer 1.0 by Virote_Considon
• Fallschirmjager by Gary Childress
• Spy by ruby_sauce

MODS

• The Mod of Modness by georgestow
• Civilization III: Worldwide Mod by AnthonyBoscia, changing just about everything you can think of from the standard game.
• Tides of Crimson (Beta v. 0.53) by haluu, remaking the standard game into an Epic Fantasy Mod

INTERFACE GRAPHICS

• Completely New Interface by georgestow
• CoMM3 Complete Interface Graphics by tom2050

TERRAIN

• Wide Bank Rivers (v. 2 2.0) by Pounder including Goldfool's Docks, larger banks, and a lot of other tweaks
• Ruins by Goldfool

CITIES

• Ancient cities by Kyriakos: Greek, Persian, Egyptian , Japanese , Scandinavian
• Medieval cities by Kyriakos: Scandinavian, Japanese, Arabian, Almohad, Byzantine, Mughal

# Tharks of Barsoom by tom2050
# German Explorer 1.0 by Virote_Considon

These links doen't work (for me - 404 error)

Yes, that's because the links they gave me to work with are not correct.

Tharks of Barsoom:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=9955026&postcount=1003
German Explorer:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=399760
Sandris British units:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=399259

Could this be fixed ?

It could be but I'm not willing to. I spend hours of time getting the announcement ready. Additional time to spend minutely checking the material provided is not available. The posters have been repeatedly told to post proper links. Guidelines for how to do so are available. The only way to get them to do so seems to be to let them experience the consequences. This isn't subject to debate with me because it's already been thrashed out in the thread where they post what they want announced. Unfortunately their failures mean the community as whole experiences it as well. Complain to them if you want them to change the way they provide material for the announcements.

I totally agree with you and wouldn't, in any way, debate on this subject. Anyway I might be wrong but it looks like Steph's link to Sandris British units was ok (he did not edit his post like tom2050 and ruby-sauce did) in the "Announce your new/updated Civ3 files for front-page coverage" thread.

themanuneed said:

I totally agree with you and wouldn't, in any way, debate on this subject. Anyway I might be wrong but it looks like Steph's link to Sandris British units was ok (he did not edit his post like tom2050 and ruby-sauce did) in the "Announce your new/updated Civ3 files for front-page coverage" thread.

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Since it's not a debating point it must be an argument???

Look at what the guidelines state. To be absolutely clear this is not part of the clarifications I recently added. It has been there for many months, and the italics for emphasis are there in the original.

Blue Monkey said:

Make sure that the entire URL shows as posted.

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This is what Steph posted:

Steph said:

File Entry URL: Link to thread

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Is the entire URL shown?

Hope that removes any doubt in your mind that the guidelines were clear and that they were not followed.

Oh come on, Blue, those are simply copy-paste errors. The forum itself abbreviates URLs, so anyone could have highlighted, Ctrl+C, Ctrll+V instead of copying link location, etc. etc.

Takhisis said:

Oh come on, Blue, those are simply copy-paste errors. The forum itself abbreviates URLs, so anyone could have highlighted, Ctrl+C, Ctrll+V instead of copying link location, etc. etc.

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December 2009: start at post 159 and read through 174. Don't stop after Plotinus' perspective (post 164). Read all of it. 16 posts of discussion to reach the point where people understand why these guidelines exist and the importance of following them.

The same things apply for the URLs as for the images.

November 2009:

Blue Monkey said:

georgestow said:

I don't think he was talking about the pictures, but instead about the links. The site sometimes shortens the url in a post so that the link still works, but the whole url isn't actually displayed.
eg. http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=8233232&postcount=2
You see how the ... is in the middle, but I didn't put it there, the site did, so the link still works. However, you can't just copy the url, because the ... means if copied and pasted, it won't work.

At least I think that's what he was on about.

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... Right on the mark.

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Blue Monkey said:

@ Vuldacon: it's a fairly common occurrence & straightforward to deal with. The issue is one of each person checking their own post (a few seconds) vs. me having to deal with the same in every post.

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Vuldacon said:

Bluemonkey... I corrected the Links. Never realized the links were being incorrectly placed that way. Good that you brought this to attention.

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It's outlined in the OP. At this point it's no longer open to debate because it was all thrashed in 2009. I can't force people to follow the guidelines. OTOH, I don't have to do their work for them, Takhi.