Hey guys,
Since this seems like the the thread where wiki work has been discussed in the past I thought I'd give the good news that I've successfully located all the missing files I posted about in
this thread, uploaded them to the wiki and repaired their broken links! If anyone else posts about broken links on the wiki just tag me and I'll try to help them.
In the case of
@CurtSibling 's
Kaiser &
Soviet Steel scenario wiki pages I noticed after fixing their broken downloads that they didn't have that nice bonus section on the bottom that a lot of other MGE scenarios on the wiki have where it has a little ToT icon and a link to a ToT conversion by Gapetit or Catfish or someone else at CFC (essentially advertising that there's a superior ToT version out there). So I looked at how
@McMonkey (or whoever it was) did these little extra sections, brought the code across to the bottom of both the Kaiser & Soviet Steel pages, changed the links to Gapetit's respective conversions of them at CFC, and it worked! Now that I know how to do that there's probably a bunch of other MGE or older scenarios on the wiki that need links to their upgraded ToT versions too as you guys have obviously been busy with lots of super cool conversions over the years! So if anyone has old scenarios on the wiki they want this bonus ToT link section added to, let me know, otherwise I'll probably find & fix them myself at some point when I start digging more into converted ToT scenarios for my ToT tribute video.
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I notice a lot of resource links have been posted in this thread too so the other piece of good news I may as well post here for SL members is that after weeks of work I have finally completed my massive Civilization 2 website archives search and created huge list of over 400 sites that either have or had scenarios, maps, graphics, strategies and general info on Civ2. I've downloaded quite a few long lost scenarios from them and will be adding them to the CFC downloads area over the weeks to come (& eventually other places too) however there's plenty more on these sites I didn't get to so if you're looking to expand your personal scenario collections or simply want to browse and reminisce over that great late 90s era (where every man and & his dog had a cool looking Civ2 fan page on geocities lol) then go check it out! I've posted a copy of it across all the big Civ sites so hopefully it'll be a useful resource to the Civ2 community for years to come!
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ-fanatics-civ2-information-thread.355722/#post-16071407
And finally I was hoping it might be okay with SL members/admins if I resurrect your old Official "Looking for scenarios" thread here in the SL? As now that I've had my hands in so many old websites and collections that I can probably help people find stuff. When people post around the forums trying to find stuff you can direct them to this thread (which will also lure more people into the SL), tag me and I'll try to help them! There's also a few missing scenarios I wouldn't mind eventually listing in there too after I've tried all other search avenues.
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/the-official-looking-for-scenario-thread.409415/
Speaking of which I'm about to dip into the last great frontier of 'scenarios attached to ancient forum posts' to try and find some more rare stuff and once that's done I really will have exhausted all possible options in my
scenario hunt work. The advanced search options here at CFC are pretty good but the one at Poly is friggin awful and the ones on the German & Russian forums are going to be tough too, so it's going to be an 'interesting' final treasure hunt lol. Once the treasure hunt is over I can finally get everything uploaded and finish my Civ2 MGE video, not to mention release all my own scenarios which have been sitting on ice through all this lol, and then move on to ToT & beyond!
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