To All Fellow Civ Fanatics
First, I would like to apologize to anyone who has been offended by my first post.
I do claim ignorance as cause for my offense at the incorrect posting location, though I do not mean this as an excuse. Zulu is correct; he posted several places that questions should be directed to the questions forum. I was over anxious with my send key, and could not revoke the action once done. I will do my best to see that I never repeat this error.
Second, I have nothing but respect and admiration for all those who post their labor, wisdom, and advice to Civ Forum.
Although I am relatively new to the internet and Civ Fanatics, I sincerely love the game Civilization.
I was first introduced to it when it was a Win 3.1 game and have followed its progression ever since.
I am not personally connected to the internet and must rely upon College and Library computers for access. Fortunately, many of them have Zip drives and high speed connections now, so I am able to download decent sized files in a hurry, but I am limited to my access time, hence, my first anxious mis-posting blunder.
I have modified my own unit icons etc, since Civ 2, and was trying to find a way to create, or modify the Civ 3 units to suit my quest for more specific flavor units, when someone directed me to your forum. I was overjoyed to find others that enjoyed Civilization as much, or more than myself, and the plethora of already designed units, scenarios, and Mods available by likeminded fans, such as you. Practically every unit that I wanted to create, someone had already thought of, and created. I am a history buff, and appreciate the great attention to detail that Ive seen.
Each week or so, when I have an opportunity to check, I am continually amazed at the new things I discover here. Its been a little bit like Christmas, checking to see what new units, multi-units, maps, scenarios, and Mods have been added.
I know that each represents countless hours and many days, and sometimes weeks and months, of effort put forth by incredibly dedicated, creative and selfless individuals whose joy seems to be to share the fruit of their labor with others.
I have been wanting to be a contributor and not just a user of the forum since I first discovered it four months ago.
I have a few older games (WW2, and ancient period, etc.) that I am sorting through for sound files, etc. that may be usable for Civ units.
I am still attempting to upload my first contribution (a revision of Resource Icons, with some original work), excerpted below. I was having some difficulty in attaching the zipped file, and running out of time, when I committed my offense last Thursday.
Once again, please accept my apology for my mistake. It was careless of me. Im normally quite attentive to detail and I will make every effort to not repeat this error. I post this apology where I made my error, so that it will reach those whom I have offended.
My thanks to sims2789 for directing me to where I can locate a Free trial of the RAR zip program. I am grateful to those of you who took the time to assist me in what may have appeared to be a rather simplistic question. Sometimes the simplest of solutions are easily overlooked.
Thank you Zulu, for setting the judicious tone of respect necessary for the continued operation of a great forum. If there were more people making the same hasty mistake that I did, the Forum would indeed degrade in its efficiency to do what it does best by providing what people are there looking for.
Hopefully others will read what you addressed to me, and be far more careful than I was when attempting their first post.
Thanks you.
Sincerely, Casus Belli.
