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Well, I thank you for the compliment but I can assure you nobody wants to force anything down someone's throat. Rather, I'm still trying to get a beat on the pulse of the Civ II community and if the great shift over to ToT is indeed a reality or more just a passing fad.
I agree that a formal debate might be the best way to find out where the community is heading. I know for a fact there are quite afew who remain devoted to MGE.
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Eivind IV
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Originally posted by typhoon
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I have no good reasons, really. Graphics wise, sure TOT is better. But I don't really care much for graphics, and I think it amazing how goodlooking one can make a unit with only 256 colours. I need not go into specifics, Fairline has proven this many o times. Event wise, sure it is better. And more units and some extra small abilities is not something to scorn. But mostly the reason for sticking to MGE is really that I know it has a bigger audience. Not everyone has TOT. And not only people who post on the SL play scenarios. Besides, I know MGE in and out, and it's something familiar. I like that. TOT is new and scary   I certainly won't be foreced over to TOT, as for me Civ2 is all about amusement. And right now I enjoy myself with MGE. I'm just waiting for the source code to be released for MGE. If it doesn't, I don't know how much longer I'll bother making scenarios...
Last edited by Eivind IV on 23-04-2005 at 19:28
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Prince
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Of course, no debate would be necessary if some of the great code writers on this forum could finally get access to the source code and allow ToT style graphics to exist in the MGE enviroment. I still have faith it will happen soon, possibly in the next year or so.
Whats also surprising is how so many people on this thread jumped on my suggestion as some sort of act of forcing ToT upon players, an interesting thought except nobody, especially me ever suggested it. Sorry N35t0r but that wasn't even close to what I was saying  . I was talking about an effort between some designers to show people the advantages that ToT have over MGE, of which there are many. I'm sorry to see that so many respectable forum members misunderstood what I said and took it to mean I was supporting an undemocratic forced conversion to ToT. In any case, arists have to be free to create whatever style they wish of course, and I'd certainly take issue with any forum member who disagreed.
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Prince
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Well whats important is that this is resolved. I hope we need not waste another single post on this matter as it only does a dis-service to the Civ II community. If there is any more to discuss let us do it on our own time and not pollute important undeserving threads like this.
Now to get this train back on the tracks I'd better make this post relevant by adding some WW2 graphics. Now I can't quite claim these fella's as Sarsstock originals, they are however somewhat unique and unlikely to be found elsewhere.
From the great novel (Steph and Tom will vouch for this) Settling Accounts from the "How Few Remain" series we have a dreaded Confederate "Muel" dive bomber, an automatic rifle armed Confederate infantryman with experimental new camoflage and a Confederate heavy bomber as depicted in the cover artwork for the paper back eddition of Settling Accounts, I can't quite remember its name or designation being given.
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). In the units I have been posting so far I've been using the old MGE pallet out of fairness to the many players who have not switched to ToT. However, do you think that perhaps now is the time to deluge the forum with so many ToT style units that we convince every last player on the earth to convert? Or is there still a place MGE units from humble unit makers like yourself and me?
