Old News

Old News
29/09/2006
Some important changes for the incoming 16 players game:
1- A new gamebox for the game has been uploaded.
2- The game sequence document has been updated, I hope this would be the definitive version.
3- The espectator .gam and the setup.gmv files have been uploaded for those ones wanting to follow the game.
4- A scenario file ( *.GSN ) has been developed for those ones who want to setup their games easily.
The estimated begininning date would be : 02-10-06. Next monday!, please update your files and documentation to the last versions.
23/09/2006
First autumn day, summer has gone and civiboard games are now at 100 %. Some important updates : New gamebox for 16 players game, some minor changes and a new board added only for documentation purposes, now you can find the game sequence document only opening this new board from your cyberboard “Playing boards screen”.
Game sequence document updated, mayor changes regarding trading, please read carefully. The estimated beginning date for 16 players game will be the 9 of october, if all the players are ready for that date. Now we are checking players availability.
18/08/2006
After a little rest here I am again with some news about the 16 players game. The raffle is over and all civilizations have an owner now, you can see the result in the game webpage, now I have to do a slightly review of the game sequence document and some minor changes in the game board, I will try to finish it during this month so I have everything OK for the beginning of september. Anyway please don’t forget to read the game rules and game sequence documents before the game starting. I have added a new version for quick credit calculator, made by Kar-de in openoffice format, really an awesome work, thanks Kar-de. I recomended all of you to use it during the game to don’t get wrong doing the calculations during purchaising stage.
25/07/2006
I have been working hard doing the first preparation of the incoming 16 players game. Some important changes have been implemented in the game webpage. The game sequence document has slightly changed, some minor fixes trying to improve the game play and looking for a game as independent from the game master as possible. I also have added the first GSN file for the game, I’m sure this will not be the last version but will be close, so if you are curious and want to have a look you can do it downloading it from my web. The gamebox has suffered some mayor changes, I have published a new version that must be used with the previously commented GSN file, a second board has been added containing the game sequence document so it is available directly from the GAM files. The game sequence document is the soul of this game so please, read it carefully, now if you have any doubts you only have to open it from your .GAM file. A new area has been added to solve pillages without the GM participation, speeding up the game. Some other changes have been only cosmetic, regarding the appearence of the gaming area. If you have any comments and you are subscribed to this game yahoo group: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/civprojectgame/ please don’t hesitate and post , I would gladly read them.
22/07/2006
Hellenization map has been slightly redone, some cities change location and population limits from some areas have been incresead looking for a better game balance. I have made some other minor cosmetic changes that will not affect the gameplay. You can download this new version from the downloads section, the map. AST files remain the same.
22/06/2006
Several updates due to the incoming 16 players game. Downloads section has been updated, you can find there an improved and revised version of the tutorial, (HTML and PDF versions). I have tried to adapt them to september incoming game. The game sequence document has been totally rebuilt, it continues as a BETA version but now it’s closer to me real intentions so please delete previous versions and download this new one. During the following weeks this web page will be updating continuosly, all the changes will be published in this news web.
18/06/2006
Long time has passed since the last update. I have been really busy with some other issues but I have not forgotten civiboard project. During this time I have been gamemastering Hellenization betatest, we are currently in turn 13 and everything seems OK, you can obtain more information about this game in the betatest section.
I have done some changes in www.civiboard.com webpage, mostly formats, but also in the contents. The main new is that I’m finally preparing the big Cyberboard game. We will use the full civproject’s map and 16 rooms are available. Soon I will contact those ones who have applied for one room for this game, those ones wanting to play can apply for a seat in the following email:
The estimated starting date for this game will be the 15 of september, I will be out during all august ( On holidays through south of Italy and Sicily ) and my intention is to let everything prepared for the end of July.
All the information for this 16 gamers PBEM will we published in civiboard’s web page , in this section.
03/02/2006
Since now you have available in gamebox section a new Hellenization gamebox but without cities in the map. You can customize it setting cities wherever you want.
I have designed this new gamebox due to a great amount of people asking me for different settings (most of them about cities distribution) seeking for a more balanced game. I don’t have a unique solution for all the different requests so I have decided to create this new gamebox for all those who have enjoyed my work and want to do their own setups. To all of them thank you very much for your comments.
I like the original Hellenization board and I’m sorry but I will not do drastical changes on it. When I though in current distribution was from a historical perspective ( see map section ), but also looking for a balanced gameplay. In the future I will correct found bugs and other little details, perhaps the number of cities and also sure some area’s value, but like I have said before nothing drastical.
Anyway I hope this new gamebox will be a good solution to those gamers looking for his own city-balanced games.
Thanks again for your comments!!
25/01/2006
-I’m currently printing my first Hellenization copy. During this process I have detected some little bugs in quality of impression, I have fixed them and now everything looks fine. I also have add the missing treasury tokens for each civilization, now you can download the full complete set from tokens section. Some other little bugs found in the map during the betatest will be fixed when we finished it. At the moment we don’t have found nothing serious.
Anyway I’m receiving feedback from other guys from different parts of the world playing PBEM Hellenization using my gamebox, I have to give all of them sincerely many thanks for your confidence, and please report all the found bugs to thehabitual email :09/01/2006
-The new high resolution map for printed version has been published today, it’s available in downloads map section. More resolution added and some bugs corrected, for those wanting an Hellenization extra quality board. I have upload two different qualities, 300 dpi and 150 dpi, both of them looks great ( I hardly can distinguish the differences ). Each quality range has two different PDF files : One for the map and other for Census & AST. I hope you would like this near definitive drafts. At this moment we are playing a BETA-TEST Hellenization game, once we have finished this test I will publish another version with detected bugs corrected. Anyway if you detect some bugs in this new version please let me know at this email :
22/12/2005
-Hellenization beta test beginning date will be the 2th of January 2.006. All the game files have been distributed among different players, also it’s available the spectator.gam and HellenizationSETUP.gmv for those wanting to follow the game. You can obtain all this files in the game section in Hellenization web.
-Most of the downloable stuff of the web has been updated, from the gamebox to the documentation , more updates will come in the near future but I hope they will not be critical for the game.
-A new high resolution map has been designed (to be printed). More resolution added and some bugs corrected . A new draft will be published this christmas for those wanting an Hellenization extra quality board.
12/12/2005
-Hellenization beta test incoming, I’m doing some minor updates correcting a bunch of minor bugs detected in the map. The civilizations raffle it’s done, you can see the result in the game section.
-Since now you have a documentation section available in downloads, with all the rules and other helpful stuff for your Hellenization game. I’m also preparing a very visual tutorial for PBEM gaming using the gameboxes designed by me.
-A new high resolution map it’s being developed, with some corrected bugs. I will wait until the cyberboard betatest it’s advanced to correct the (more than sure ) detected new bugs and to have the security that everything it’s OK to be printed.
28/11/2005
Hellenization beta test it’s going gold, all the players are confirmed and this week we will proceed to the civilizations raffle. The estimated beginning date for this beta testing will be the nine of January. You will be able to follow all the things concerning this game in this section.
18/11/2005
Several updates in Hellenization section, first ALPHA cyberboard gamebox has been published.
-Most of the sections have been reworked.
-Now you can find all the needed to print your Hellenization map at 85 DPI.
-We are preparing a BETA test game using cyberboard, those wanting to apply for this game-beta testing can do it at this email : .
-At this moment only 1 of the 9 places is vacant. The estimated date for this beta testing will be after christmas holidays.
-A new webpage has been opened to follow the evolution of this BETA-TEST.
14/11/2005
New upgrade in our three gameboxes. BETA8 is available in our downloads section. Civilization cards have been updated and some parts of the eastern map have been redrawed.
27/10/2005
Due several serious problems in our server the web has been down for a long time , we have located it in a new domain so from now the NEW and DEFINITIVE web adress will be the following : www.civiboard.com . So please update your bookmarks!. During this time I have been working hard in hellenization section , soon I will publish massive updates and the first ALPHA will be prepared to be download. After this I will open a BETA test game using cyberboard , those wanting to participate in this game-beta testing can apply for a place in this email : . At this moment 8 of the 9 available places are vacant. The estimated date for this beta testing will be before christmas holidays.
11/10/2005
Hellenization downloads section is open. You have available playermaths and tokens first ALPHA version . The board is coming soon.Some minor changes done in the web ( some tokens and playermaths art ).
29/09/2005
New upgrade in our three gameboxes. BETA7 is available in our downloads section. Credits tokens are now included into the gameboxes.
22/09/2005
Mayor updates in Hellenization project web , the map is close to its first ALPHA version , added the playermaths for each civilization , one screenshot available for cyberboard version board. Soon I will open the downloads section with the tokens and playermaths.
19/09/2005
Statistics section added for our currently playing EASTERN GAMEBOX GAME.You can find at this link all the INFO about victory points , calamities suffered by each civilization and more. If you have any ideas about more statistics to add please we are open to suggestions at this email : .
16/09/2005
History section in Hellenization web finished.Added Epirus , Thrace , Ionian League , Minoa and Persia.I still have to polish some details and look for my ortography XD , but the general objective of this section is finished.
13/09/2005
Macedon section added in Hellenization web , you can see the tokens artwork and some background of the civilization.Soon I will finish with this little history section and I will start with the AST development , new trade cards and new advances.
09/09/2005
Dale Larson has published Cyberboard version 3.01 to fix some bugs detected in the previous official version.For all our players please upgrade your version as soon as possible.You can download it from now from Dale’s webpage : http://cyberboard.brainiac.com/cyberboardv301.exe or from our downloads section since tomorrow 10 of september.

* Cyberboard version 3.01 - You can now double-click files in Windows Explorer to launch CyberBoard.This turned out to be a bug in Microsoft’s latest MFC (MSoft Foundation Classes) libraries.
* Cyberboard is now multi-monitor friendly .You won’t lose the program because it was on a non-primary screen when the game was last saved.
* A crash bug was fixed for some rare problems with upgrading V2.0 files.
quick chart and the automatic credit calculator.You can downoad all this 2.06 version material in the expansion project webpage or from our downloads section.