Originally Posted by Wulf
With all its glitches, patch 1.12 is as near (albeit ammended) to improved vanilla of the concept as possible. Iv'e even contemplated installing pure vanilla G3 to play in a retrospective manner to compare the original and quantify the differences.

While I respect your opinion, I don't agree. CP 1.7 brought too many improvements to ignore. Once I tried it, I couldn't go back to an earlier version.