I know many of you were getting concerned about the recent sound of silence from civ_steve. You will be as relieved as I was to hear that he has now contacted me, and he is recovering from a severe back injury. He has been unable to sit, and has certainly not been able to type to contact us.
He is now on the mend, but still very stiff. He hopes to be back in the business of making games for the Civ3 community very soon.
Meanwhile, PaperBeetle has generously offered to put a map together for COTM 85 this weekend, and I'll try to release it early next week.
Please join me in wishing civ_steve a full and rapid recovery. If you manage to read this, Steve, please don't come back before you are ready.
He is now on the mend, but still very stiff. He hopes to be back in the business of making games for the Civ3 community very soon.
Meanwhile, PaperBeetle has generously offered to put a map together for COTM 85 this weekend, and I'll try to release it early next week.
Please join me in wishing civ_steve a full and rapid recovery. If you manage to read this, Steve, please don't come back before you are ready.
to PaperBeetle for volunteering to put a game together for COTM85! (I know it must be hard for you not being able to compete...)
I spent about 5 days doing nothing but lying down most of the day; sitting up was really painful and almost impossible. Gradually it has gotten better. I'm trying to get caught up in all sorts of things, so finally I'm getting to the Civ3 games. COTM86 is out, and I should get GOTM117 out later this weekend (probably Sunday). I've missed a lot of things, and I'm glad to be "back". 
Well, it's a relief that you're back, Steve. And I was a bit nervous about how, as probably GotM's slowest player, I was going to build and test a CoTM over a weekend. But my offer still stands: I'll try and work on designing a couple of games on the back burner, so if you want or need to take a break from the schedule, please let me know.
