Civ6 free for 3 days' play on Steam
Noticed this on a social media site. Checked: true; Feb 22 till Feb 26. So I created a Steam account and went to the Civ6 section. All true. In fact, I can buy the game, up till 8 March, at a 90% reduction for $NZ9.99.
Then I read our Civilization VI page, noting but not following all those "Main page" links. How could anyone get a handle on such a complex game in 72 hours (minus comfort stops)? I may just go back to C-evo.
Civfanatics alerted me to playable forks of C-evo
Idly browsing our "competitor" Civfanatics, I noticed a page about C-evo Distant Horizon. I downloaded it and played it. It works. Not obvious what the improvements are, from a player's viewpoint, apart from a bigger possible map size on the menu, and the interface is in some ways poorer, but the documentation suggests distinct improvements from a programming viewpoint. Lazarus and free Pascal languages. It's a fork of another enthusiast's Lazarus version, called C-evo: New Horizons.
Available on both Linux and Windows. Maybe the game has a bright future even if the creator, Steffan Gerlach, stops working on it.
Links now on the C-evo page. Maybe a separate article desirable? --- Robin Patterson (Talk) 09:45, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Played a bit.
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Which is the best civ - poll on mastodon.nz
- Børge A. Roum @forteller@tutoteket.no
The people have spoken. These are the civs that are going to the final civ-off!
Which one is the best civ?
65% Civ IV
9% Colonization
26% Freeciv
· 23 people · Closed
How about Featured Articles?
Some wikis have a section of their front pages introducing featured articles. I see that this one has a featured video, but there are still some people in the world who like to read good articles. One obvious candidate must be Chinese (Civ6)/In-depth strategy guide by ThinkingNut. I doubt if I will ever see Civ6 but I'm impressed at the length and apparent quality of that guide. Surely a small slot on the home page could contain an introduction to a featured article and a "More..." link to it?
Unsorted photos
Special:UncategorizedFiles contains over a thousand uncategorized photos. When there are over a thousand you can't see them all. If you know the first part of a file name you may find it using Special:Allpages but if you don't you are probably stuck.
I have just categorized all with names starting with "Cevo" or "C-evo". There may be other C-evo images that aren't so clearly named.
Someone should categorize most of the remaining thousand-plus in categories relevant to their games - as an example, see the subcategories of Category:Images (Civ2). Other games may have even more useful subcategorization schemes.