u/PresidentOfYes12

Civ's first long-form history content (? i think) it's very long and not finished yet

This should be done by the end of the year, the script definitely by the end of the summer, but ive never edited a video so i'll need to learn how to do that, three months is probably enough to learn how to edit tho

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Anyways fun fact,. when citadel was first being conceptualized 14 years ago one of the reinforcement materials that was being considered was wood

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Edit to note that this is the editing quality I need to match now

This has not aged well at all

From here

Made this post a while ago. To reiterate, the idea is combing through all IDs from the time period where Rg might've been on the servers, and then HOPING that someone copied Rg and re-published it as their own work, and HOPING that the stolen copy got enough views to avoid Robtop's purges of low-view, low-like, unrated slop over the years, and HOPING that the stolen copy has few enough views that it explains why no one has found it over the ten years since it was uploaded.

With the program I made still running, so far I've got over 10000 IDs, 138 of which I've gone through. "Surprisingly" none of those 138 were Element 111 Rg.

Because it'd take forever and a day to go through over 10000 IDs to find one (1) level, I stuck a little over 2000 of them (all IDs between Rgs publication on April 7, and the earliest date I've seen it said could've been deleted, April 19th) into a spreadsheet and made it public for other people to look at if they want.

While it might seem boring (and might be boring) to go through a bunch of IDs, as I said in a single comment earlier today, it may yield "some absolute gold mines. Gold mines being levels that are like insane demon in difficulty except for some random frame perfect or physically impossible part, which was verified with a seldom clever secret way".

Of course it'd be ridiculous to go through all of them so if you feel like marking a single section of a couple levels you want to comb through, I made the spreadsheet publicly commentable so you can note which ones you want to go through on your own, and note if any one of them is Rg or isn't Rg, any notes you want to add on a given level, etc. To be clear, all these levels were made when Rg was most likely still on the servers, all these levels are rated Harder or Insane (without stars), and all of them are Long.

I'll add more of the IDs I have to the spreadsheet later if anyone cares for it. I don't have Discord rn so coordination is hard

Edit:

I learned from u/lrexx_ below that the old version of The JanuS Miracle was actually found from an old copy that was sitting on the servers under a different name and with a different song, according to the Restoration Union. So that gives hope that a similar case exists here!

However a downside to that is the fact that TJMs ID was probably in the 700ks since it was released in May 2014, while the ID of the stolen/saved version was 4132476 (January 2015), which if you do the math is about 3.4 million levels published between the original and the stolen copy. If even 5% of those levels escaped Robtop's purges then that means about 170k levels would've needed to be quickly looked through using the method we're using here.

Of course they definitely didn't use this method to find it, but still, this new discovery I just had is a mixed bag

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If you make a comment on the spreadsheet do make sure to not use an email with any PII. I don't think anyone has done this yet but just be aware because people will be able to see that