It looks like the final rulesets of the first 20 dynasties were never archived, and the archives of the old website don’t seem to contain snapshots of old rulesets either. Does anyone know of a way to retrieve the necessary pages? Apart from going through every single enacted proposal in each dynasty, that is.
Ah! Looks like it was being hosted on one of the player’s (now defunct) personal wikis. Archive.org has some random snapshots, although they’re unlikely to have captured any final rulesets.
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Looking at the old wiki, there’s a file containing every edit in its history, and this actually only goes back to midway through The Petri-Dish Dynasty. If anyone wants to dig through this and reassemble the final ruleset for dynasties 18, 19 and 20, I’ve put them in a single page on the new wiki (it’s easy enough to pull out the dynastic rules, as they get deleted en masse at the end of each dynasty; the core rules are a little trickier).
I really can’t remember where we were keeping the ruleset prior to Dynasty 18, though. Maybe archive.org could help?