The Original Simtropolis.

[Mayor Dylan Thomas 2]

Heya! I joined the forums in 2004 and its been a blast ever since... been on a bit of a hiatus until july last year.

I got a quick Q though... where can I find my old CJ? Is there anywhere I can dig up my old work dust it off and show the world how terribble I was? Some sort of an Archive or summat?

Any of the members from wayback still come here? Got some stories to share?? Anyone remember the "Peg scandal" when a bunch o' dudes were stealing Peg's work and claiming it as their own over at sim city central prompting him to yank everything of his off of the STEX and form his own site?

[Follarch 326]

well first off, welcome back to the world of ST 6 years later. lol

I'm very sure your CJ thread is still intact, but years of inactivity would most likely have it WAY back in the list of CJ's. You could try searching the name in the Google Custom Search bar above.

Edit: Hmm, didn't come up when I searched the name. Perhaps PMing an Admin for an inquiry would help.

[astronelson 339]

Sadly, after a while (about 2 years after the last post has been made, I think) threads completely disappear.

A complete Google search came up with 44 results, none of them your CJ.

[Duke87 1,070]

Oh hell, the "Peg Scandal". Now there's one I haven't heard in a long time! Yes, I remember that. I'm old.

As for your CJ, threads which haven't been replied to in the past two years aren't visible on the forum index.

You should, however, still be able to access it.... if you know the thread ID.

Basically, do you have the URL of your old thread saved anywhere? Maybe a screenshot that shows it? If you do, then follow this process.

The old (idealbb) topic URL format was thus:

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID={X}

where {X} is the topic ID. For a thread from 2004. it should be a five digit number, probably beginning with 4 or 5.

There may also be more after that, ignore it, it's unnecessary.

Okay, now we just need to convert this to the new (FuseTalk) topic URL format:

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid={Y}&threadid={X}

As before, {X} is the topic ID. Same number, didn't change.

What's different now is the presence of anpother variable, {Y}. This is the category ID - it identifies the specific subforum the thread is in. For City Journals, it's 36.

So long as the thread hasn't been archived (some old threads have been), you should be able to access it this way. But it hinges on knowing that topic ID number.

Failing all that, administrators can access old and/or archived threads readily, so an admin would be able to find your CJ for you... I wouldn't count on it, though. Whoever you PM likely has better things to do than find your CJ... and besides, a thread that's been inactive that long is probably best left that way.

[Mayor Dylan Thomas 2]

Yeah I got no idea what the forum ID is so it looks like Im SOL just wanted to dig it up for old times sake! Not gonna bother getting some mod to dig around for me! Im sure there is way cooler stuff for them to be doing! nice to see a few of the old folks still around here! Seems I lost my old post count too! Oh well, Ill be around for a while!

[BlackStar 0]

Hey! I'm an old Simtropolite, too! I joined in about 2004 under a different username, ATPjohn (had to make a new account in 2005  for whatever reason).

Can't remember exactly when I joined but usership stood at about 10,000 then. Like you, I went on hiatus, too. Have been back a few times.

And yeh, the Peg scandal lol. Many of us were encouraged to boycott another SC4 website. simcitycentral I think the name was. Weird site anyway, whichever it was.

Edit: *****. I read 'simcitycentral' in the original post as another website, lol

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Out of curiousity, what was the Peg Scandal? Does this have anything to do with the recent TG banning?

[beebs 129]

Originally posted by: ROFLyoshi

Out of curiousity, what was the Peg Scandal? Does this have anything to do with the recent TG banning?quote>

Not at all. That was way back in 2003/2004.

[BlackStar 0]

Lol I wondered where all the off topic boards went

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/index.cfm?FTVAR_SUBCAT=132&subcatname=Simtropolis%20Forum

And yeh, the Peg incident is pretty much was said in the original post. Pegasus was probably one of the most prolific authors on Simtropolis back then, so he came out of it fine and continues to make excellent BATwork to this day. This was arguably the start of overzealous copyrighting and having readme.html forced upon you by installers

which I helped popularize many years back

 

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Ah, I want to honestly express my opinion but this would get me in trouble with the moderators for language!

Seriously, how can anyone steal his work? He does fantastic work & I continue to use his mods today.