All the latest changes to the site's content and look, organized by date -- only from our distant past. For breaking news, see the main page.

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New Design Tip:

• The Palette Explained [Intermediate]

New Review:

• Gang Wars [Fantasy, 22/30]
• (Coming soon: Review of "Second Reich")

Typos in The Barbarian Paper were fixed.

Added CyberEagle Site of Prey award to our trophy gallery, as well as M. Jeszenka's Silver Fleece Award.

Fixed contest #2 link (Reismark moved it).

Fixed Ziggurat link on our links page (thanks William).

One more scenario up for review.

New Review:

• Hypoboria [Fantasy, 5/30]

Added Gothmog's site to the links page; deleted Temba's, as it seems to never be returning.

Added our HAC award's picture to the trophy gallery.

A few more scenarios up for review.

New Review:

• Charlemagne [Historical, 26/30]

Updated Design Tip:

• The Barbarian Paper [Advanced Tip]
  {link fixed 11/28/99}

Added "Games of Encouragment" banner.

Updated the Contests pages (at last).

Added the new SLeague logo, created by Markos Giannopoulos. (Doesn't it look great?)

Up to September, 1999 is now considered "old" what's new, which greatly speeded up the load time on this page.

Fixed today's stupid errors (thanks, Cam).

Fixed bad download links to Puma and Oryx on our contest page. Added link to Carl Fritz's new version of Oryx.

Fixed download link to Ansteig (thanks, benedetti and ANZAC).

Uploaded the new version of CivConverter (1.2).

New round of scenarios up for review.

New Review:

• Cromwell [Historical, 15/30]

New Design Tip:

• Details in Scenarios [Introductory Tip]

New Reviews:

• Operation Allied Force [Historical, 15/30]
• Operation Allied Force [Historical, 20/30]

Small fix to Great Northern War review.

The "View By Date" feature is now working (mostly), including some nice navigation features.

Corrected some old email address links on various pages, updated small things here and there.

New Review:

• Great Northern War [Historical, 17/30]

New Review:

• Australian Civil War: 1999 (Version 2.0) [Fictional, 16/30]

Added MarkL's trophy for the 2nd Scenario Design Competition to our trophy gallery.

Fixed the bad link to the joinus page on this page and on the older what's new page.

August and September are now old "what's new" months.

New Review:

• The English Civil War [Historical, 24/30]

New Review:

• Second English Civil War [Fictional, 6/30]

Fixed several bad links to the join us page.

Updated the downloads page a little bit to make it look nicer.

Front Page: New Reviews Editor

Contest #2 winners announced.

New round of scenarios for review. [Downloads]

Farewell to MarkL on the front page.

Fixed download link for Spartacus (thanks Allard, William, and others)

Fixed download button on Barbarian Techs page. (thanks Hu)

Changed download links on 2194 days of war to fit recent movement of files on other sites.

Added Markos' "links" script to the front page.

Added download links for sound files for Underdark. (Thanks, jodai)

Still to do: Update buttons again, review of Prince of Darkness coming.

New Review:

• Galactic Guardians [Sci-Fi, 18/30]

Fixed broken links to 1650 download site (thanks DSquared).

New more colorful buttons for front page to make things look nicer. And, to spare kwang's eyes, they are now anti-aliased!

Repaired weird formatting on Clouds review and Homeric Age review (thanks Cam).

Repaired many download links on the various reviews pages (thanks to Temba's diligent web searching).

Fixed broken link to Mike Jeszenka's Vietnam review (thanks Temba).

Added description text to Homeric Age link.

New Review:

• Mars [Fantasy/Sci-Fi, 21/30]

New Design Tip:

• Map Transport Relationships [Test of Time]

New Review:

• American Revolution [Historical, 16/30]

Article on SLeague's first birthday (see main page for details).

Date for end of contest voting announced.

Fixed date on the "by date" listings (oops).

Updated Contests page.

Fixed navigation tool on about a hundred pages. Moved the navigation tool and advertisements to the top of the page on all pages.

Fixed broken links in Features pages.

Fixed broken links to apolyton.net/civ2/ on our newer reviews pages.

New reviews:

• Russian Revolution [Historical, 24/30]
• SDC Entry: Moore [Sci-Fi, ??/30]

New design tip:

• Using Improvements

Fixed numerous small errors in older reviews and renamed some of the files to fit the SLeague's style.

Moved ad on first page, fixed ad problems on two pages. Brought main page up to "Gamestats Code".

Wrote new transit script for page tops, and started pasting it in. The old script is still on most pages (and it doesn't work properly). Will fix soon (thanks Markos).

Fixed font bug on one tips page [Cam].

Two new reviews:

• Magellan [Fantasy, 6/30]
• Ottoman Expansion [Historical, 22.5/30]

Redesigned the look of the 1650 scenario reviews by Cam Hills and St. Leo. Added screenshots and a new banner.

Added Nick Clark's link and St. Leo's link to the members page.

Added a guestbook to the front page.

Checked contributors page for accuracy in totals. I think only Giant Squid doesn't match up now - I can't find his second review on our site (?).

Added the Pride of the World Award to our trophy gallery.

Posted our first new review in several months, featuring screen shots and the new layout:

• Artaxerxes [Historical, 28/30]

We now have "curly corners" on the various colored text boxes on the front page. This experiment will soon spread to the reviews section. I think it adds a touch of professionalism to the site.

The new review format features screenshots and a nice looking banner. We hope to update some of the older reviews in the near future, and post the two remaining reviews I have in my inbox.

Temporarily closed "by date" for older months in order to fix broken links and formatting problems.

SLeague reopens! The great update fury begins today. We expect to work off some of the backlog of old reviews and changes in the next few weeks.

Cam has added five new tips to the tips page (see link at right).

Our sister site, HAC, has the contest entries for contest #2 available for download.

The new staff grabs power and starts making changes!

The tips section has been completely redesigned with a new look by our Web Editor, Cam Hills.

Fixed the  design tip #21 by Cam Hills

As you can see the What's New page has links to the various updates (like Blackclove did before). 

New policy concerning reviews announced. 

Modified the Index page to make it "better viewable" for Netscape users.

The Scenario League gets another editor. Nick Clark has volunteerd and he will do the updating now with Mark L. 

Also see the download page for our new policy concerning scenarios. They must be presented in zip files.

Our new web address is sleague.apolyton.net! All of the sites under the Apolyton banner are now on the new apolyton.net domain name. 

Fixed bug with forum link that caused lightbulbs to appear wrong sometimes. 

Fixed references to use new domain names, including front page navigation tool. 

Added download links to a bunch of old reviews (Thanks, Mr. Temba!). 

Fixed a few typos.

We've switched over to the new forums that Markos and Dan installed on Apolyton. 

We have two much-requested tips on advanced tech tree design, mostly covering how to do multiple tech trees. [Part I] [Part II].

Genne Raes is now correctly called Colon. All references have been fixed (I think). 

Gothmog's review of Dutch Republic was misindexed. It should now be correctly indexed. 

April tips page is up. I really need to get around to consolidating these onto a single page...

We have the results of the contest survey and have selected a topic. 

El Khan resigns! See front page for more details. 

New round of four scenarios are up for reviewing on the downloads page. 

Review of Fantasy Scenario: 

• Underdark (#2) 

Reviews of Historical Scenarios: 

• Europe: 1939 
• The Dutch Republic (#2) 

Updated front page. 

After El Khan's surprise resignation as Editor-in-Chief, we deleted references to emailing him to avoid confusion.

Essay - Whence the League? 

Reviews of Historical Scenarios: 

• Pelloponesian Wars 
• Spartacus (#2) 
• The Defense of Madrid: Spanish Civil War 

Review of Fantasy Scenario: 

• Underdark 

The "Join Us" page is now up to date with the latest information about the League, its contacts, and so on. 

New month page for bydate reviews. 

Updated contributors' page. 

Added "last day of voting" as Easter Sunday on the voting page and on the index page. Updated voting story a little bit and made the link more prominent.

Contest survey continues on the survey page. 

New Design Tip: 

• Instant Advice: What It's Worth 

Reviews of Historical Scenarios: 

• Spartacus 
• The Dutch Republic 

Small change to contests page (link to voting). 

Added contest date end to main page. 

Updated tips page to include all recent tips. 

Added my scoring for Zebra and updated reviews of contest entries to include correct author names. 

Although it's not posted yet, I have created the logo and color scheme for the Scenario League's Call to Power section. It should appear when I get CtP - if I do, anyway.

Contest voting has begun here and over at HAC starting today. To fill out the survey, visit the survey page. 

Reviews of Historical Scenarios: 

• Quebec 
• The "New" Germany 

Fixed a broken link. Added HAC image to the survey page. 

Links page now lists contributors and frequent contributors.

New round of scenarios are up for review on the Downloads page 

New Design Tips: 

• Governments 
• Domain 3 Units 

Review of Historical Scenario: 

• El Dorado 

Added download links for 11 reviews thanks to the tireless efforts of Mr. Temba, our web partisan. 

Fixed missing "next month" link on the January reviews page. (Thanks Mr. Temba) 

Our message boards have been merged together as per my request (Thanks Markos) 

Shortened whatsnew by moving January update info to Oldnew.

New Design Tip: 

• Map of Unit Sounds 

Fixed small error on March tips page. 

Continuing discussion of upcoming Contest #2 on message boards. 

Small update to front page showing blurb about Call to Power.

Review of Historical Scenario: 

• Toussaint L'Ouverture 

Reviews of Fantasy Scenarios: 

• Dungeon: Heroes of Beckhorn (#2) 
• History of Mythology 

Review of Fictional Scenario: 

• Europe: 2020 (#2) 

Added March tips page and updated tips links for Jan/Feb. 

Lots of piddly stuff got fixed, too -- 

Typo in my address on Joinus page was fixed. Also added link for our reviewing form so El Khan need not send it. 

Gothmog's Dungeon review was not properly linked to - it is now fixed (thanks Mr. Temba). This is in addition to the new review of Dungeon posted here. 

Spanish-American War download and preview links are fixed. 

Swampland download link is now fixed (thanks Mr. Temba) 

Fixed an alphabetical order problem on the fantasy/sci-fi scenario page.

Added a page with information on the contests. 

New design tip: 

• Using Multiple Events Files 

Review of Fantasy Scenario: 

• Dungeon: Heroes of Beckhorn 

Review of Historical Scenario:

• Spanish-American War: Cuba 

Added "solidarity" links to other Apolyton hosted sites on the front page. 

Slight redesign of front page to fit the new stuff. 

Built the "trophy gallery" page. 

Added trophy page and contest winners pages to the main index page. 

I have not yet linked all of the new pages in to the navigation tool. I'll do that when we finish up with the rest of the new additions.

Newest versions of the Puma and Lion scenarios are available on the contest winners page. 

Reviews of Fictional Scenarios: 

• World War III, 1998 
• Europe: 2020 

Opened Winners' Circle, but did not yet link it to a special place. 

Corrected small spelling error on downloads page.

New design tips: 

• "Embedded" Events 
• Flags and civilization colors 
• Update to barbarians tip 

Notes on Alpha Centauri and scenarios 

Update on the Africa Design Competition - the verdict is coming! 

Review of Historical Scenario: 

• Up the Deadly Boot 

Reviews of Historical Scenarios:

• Zebra [+1]
• Sable [+1]
• Indian Wars [+1]

Review of Fictional Scenario:

• (What If?) Cold War [+1]

Latest update on contest is now available.

Review of Historical Scenario:

• Danubian Empire [+1]

New message board section is correctly linked.

Short correction to a review of Swampland (version changed).

Began adding links to new stuff at left.

Added information on the People's Choice Award to the Features page.

Added brief on CTP playtest and scenario design experience.

Added brief on AC scenarios.

Reviews of Fantasy/Sci-Fi Scenarios:

• Day of the Dead [+1]
• Swampland II [+1]

Added dates of new additions to bydate.shtml file.

Added dates to stories on the index/features page.

Shortened this file to speed load time - older entries now have their own page. To get there, see the end of this file and click on the link there.

Eliminated a bad link (unnoticed by all until today) on this page.

Changed look of front page slightly - it's better than it was, but still needs something (salt?).

Updated our commentary on MGE, added announcement about contest change.

Tutorial Files:

• Adding descriptions to Wonders in the pedia.txt file
• Avoiding the bugs in Fantastic Worlds
• Fun with barbarians - creating barbarian units that won't vanish, barbarian cities, and events that create barbarians

Review of Fantasy/Sci-Fi Scenarios:

• Liortage [+1]

Corrected link problems for some temporary links.

Alphabetized and updated links page.

New look for front page, using links to reach features instead of having everything there on the page.

SLeague's official position on Multi-Player Gold Edition and how it relates to scenario design. Updated Jan 2 with new information.

Reviews of Historical Scenarios:

• Indian Wars [+2]

Reviews of Fantasy/Sci-Fi Scenarios:

• Liortage [+1]

Rushed to finally get an update ready to ship out to our loyal viewers!

Asked Markos about reducing number of forums. (It will happen in a week).

Added new page of the by-date listings for January.

New round of scenarios up for review:

• Liortage, by Tirin
• Danube, by M. Jeszenka
• Indian Wars, by Andrew Hoekzema

Reviews of Historical Scenarios:

• Hundred Years War [+2]
• The "New" Germany [+1]
• New Civilization Modpack [+1]

Reviews of Fantasy/Sci-Fi Scenarios:

• World of Charr [+1]

New round of scenarios up for review:

• Hundred Years' War by Gary Longo
• The "New" Germany by John Petroski
• New MOD Pack by LeMay

New Guidelines for Rating Scenarios (by El Khan)

Invitation for comments on beta-testing facilities on SLeague (see message boards)

Added links to two more members' pages.

Coming soon: anti-aliasing on the navigational buttons, to help with kwang's eye strain problem ;-)

Added call for submissions to the first page

Historical Scenario Reviews:

• Colonization by Gary Longo [+1]

The message boards were activated today. Go post a welcome message!

Updated the navigational javascript

Corrected several minor errors on the pages (thanks Gary, Markos, and Cam)

Historical Scenario Reviews:

• Colonization by Gary Longo [2]
• Alba de America by Jesus Balsinde

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Scenario Reviews:

• Swampland by Mr. Temba

Two new Tips:

• Creating title.gif files
• City sizes and populations

Moved to Apolyton site - chaos certain.

Updated the navigational javascript

Got our first page ready for the message boards.

Added download links for several scenarios that were lacking them (thanks, Mr. Temba!)

New round of scenarios for review.

Opened the downloads area.

Added a Reviewing Policies column linked to the main page. It includes unquoted material from Cam Hills, with his permission; it also includes quoted material from Leon Marrick's work.

Cam is running our first design competition - there's news on the main page about this.

New Tips Column:

• Web and Print Sources for Historical Maps

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Reviews:

• Final Fantasy

Fictional Reviews:

• Australian Civil War (another)

Historical Reviews:

• Alba de America
• 1650 (another)

- Fixed broken link on tutorials page

- Scenarios on pages other than "by date" are now alphabetized by scenario name

- Fixed a title problem on the by date page.

- Other site: Updated Platehead's for the first time in quite a while (it now has some link problems, but looks nicer)

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Reviews:

• Civilization's Fall
• Gangster [x2]

Historical Reviews:

• 1650

Tips/Tricks:

• How to write a good readme.txt file

- Eliminated background graphic and am now using white.

- New format for "What's New?" starts today

- Updated the individual review pages to improve the look a bit, using HTML tricks swiped from Apolyton to get text wrapping on a table

- Numerous other minor cosmetic changes to text sizes and colors

Fictional Reviews:

• Australian Civil War 1999 [x4]

Historical:

• Afrika

Tips/Tricks:

• New section added today!
• Three tutorials added from the old Artificer's Guild courtesy of Serge Walters

- You can now access all scenario reviews by date, in reverse order (oldest scenarios at the top)

- New format for "What's New?" starts today

- Many changes to the typeface size and style to make the pages more legible

- Changes to colors to make the pages more monochromatic

- I've expanded the navigation applet to cover the new places on the site and corrected some typos in it (thanks Monk for pointing out that I missed some)

- All buttons and most graphics now have a textual name that appears before they finish loading