So I figured I'd fix it up, convert to a scenario, and stick it on CFC to preserve it properly. This terrain set and map is too damn cool to disappear and it's half a miracle I even clicked on it as I was actually browsing in those archives looking for other stuff lol. Perhaps the lack of great content to go with the terrain and the bugs rendering it unplayable plus the closing of the old Ultimate Civ2 site when it merged into Apolyton is why his modpack and terrain just disappeared seemingly to never be played or even used by anyone else in their scenarios. His renamed rules file is broken too and it took me friggin half an hour to find and fix the problems lol. The author renamed a handful of techs and units but sadly there are no actual custom units or city graphics so you're literally just walking about on an alien world with half naked warriors in thatched huts lol. Which makes sense as the map and his terrain does match the surface style and colours of the real rocky & ashy Iapetus world! There's no scenario file but it does include a map called Iapetus, which is a moon of Saturn. I've seen thousands of scenarios & mods now including many alien world ones and I cannot recall seeing this terrain set before so that makes it quite unique. Presumably the rest of the terrain was then made by the author and it looks great! Nothing mind blowing of course but pretty darn good as far as classic Civ2 alien world terrains go.
In a weird renamed rules file it says mods done by "Luka Rejec & co" so I guess that's the author since in a very small credits txt file it does not specify the creator and merely thanks some sources ie it thanks Mike Kennedy for sound files (which are missing lol), Jeff Head for highways and monorails, and Micheal McCart's Allterrain.gif file for rivers and coasts. There's no info on the Apolyton or UC2 pages where it's accessed and there's very little documentation inside the zip. It's a 1997 modpack zip called "Dedworld" that I found it in the Apolyton file archives for their predecessor site The Ultimate Civilization 2 Site. As I close in on the end of my Civ 2 total conversion scenario/mod treasure hunts and site archive searches for good stuff to showcase in my Civ video series I've come across something very old and probably very lost that was incomplete yet I just couldn't throw it in the trash as there was something special and unique about it.
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