[CTP] Civilization Call To Power Communities & Resources

[Blake00]

It makes me sad that Call To Power has sort of slipped through the cracks of the various Civilization fan communities and has almost become lost to time. A few times I've come across lost people asking for help on CTP issues as they just had nowhere to go and ask. I hope to maybe rebuild a bit of a CTP community here at CFC in the future and also grow its presence on social media so that CTP fans know that there's places they can go and talk about the games and get help on issues and exchange cool mods etc. Stopping the rot and righting this wrong will be a bit of a side project I plan to work on over the next few years.

In the meantime I feel it's important to build a database of just what's left out there so that CTP refugees can find each other...

Firstly where can fans even get the games now? CTP1 is stuck in licensing hell due to its use of the Civilization name however maybe with pressure GoG might release a modified version with the Civ branding removed. Thankfully CTP2 didn't have that problem so its available!
NEEDS VOTES! https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/civilization_call_to_power
https://www.gog.com/game/call_to_power_2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/572050/Call_to_Power_II/

Secondly for forums this is pretty much everything I can find now...
https://forums.civfanatics.com/forums/other-civ-related-games.534/?prefix_id=173
https://apolyton.net/forum/other-games/call-to-power-1
https://apolyton.net/forum/other-games/call-to-power-2
https://steamcommunity.com/app/572050/discussions/
https://www.gog.com/forum/call_to_power_2#1646684053

Thirdly for social media groups there's an old reddit group and I'm working with others on building up some new CTP Discord & FB groups too..
https://www.facebook.com/groups/956118938898676
https://discord.gg/mVBDgyVRhT
https://www.reddit.com/r/ctp2/

Fourthly for patches/mods/resources we lost the old Apolyton downloads area a decade ago so I've been working to rebuild it here at CFC. There's also some barely used ModDB pages that could be a good place for large mod files too!
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/categories/civilization-call-to-power-downloads.155/
https://www.moddb.com/games/civilization-call-to-power/
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/categories/call-to-power-2-downloads.156/
https://www.moddb.com/games/call-to-power-ii/

Lastly amazingly the Apolyton Edition of CTP2 built from it's source code is still being worked on and some of the guys have been dropping by the new CTP Discord. They hope to fix CTP2's infamous multiplayer bugs in future versions.
https://github.com/civctp2/civctp2
I also backed up what I believe to be the last official compiled Apolyton CTP2 Edition Revision 1111 release back in 12-Jun-2011 to CivFanatics here a while back:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/reso...yton-edition-addon-12-jun-2011-release.27588/

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[Blake00]

A few interesting updates..

@Kull is working on a CTP2 Apolyton Edition enhanced version of the popular Cradle mod:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...tp2-apolyton-edition-project-cradle-5.683439/

There's now a fellow called Spyroviper working on a special optimized, faster bug free portable SDL2 version of the CTP2 Apolyton Edition:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...2-port-for-modern-windows-linux-macos.688176/

The admin of the CTP Discord Ninja is working on an enhanced modern mod loader & swapper for CTP1&2 as well as a new multiplayer server:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/call-to-power-1-2-new-mod-manager.688175/
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/open-call-to-power-1-2-server-project.688177/

There's also the old excellent CTP2 Bureau mod knowledge base site still up:
http://ctp2.info/

Which also hosts the Apolyton Edition modding wiki:
http://www.ctp2.info/aewiki/

And the Modern Times mod:
http://motmod.ctp2.info/
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