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Around January 28, 2012 01:00 GMT+1 Apolyton crashed down. The reason was that we ran out of space. Looks like you uploaded to many big attachments. Well, I freed some space. Well, it took me some time to figure this out. And probably it didn't help that I was a bit sick. We were shortly back on Monday, but had problems with posts displaying, we restored the site from a recent backup, so your noise from Monday is gone. But well, we still have the search index , which probably took the longest to fix. ...

Apolyton's download section has been back for a while. So it is time to introduce it to you. You can upload your files, like screenshots, modding resources, and finished mods to Apolyton, so that all civers of of the world can play your mods. You can upload up to 250 MB per file if you use the rar or the civ5mod format. So there is no need to host your files on some third party site, this way we can make sure that they stay available. Your files are published immediately. We do not review them, because we trust you.

If you need new categories or for a certain file type more space, ask for it here and if reasonable we will grant it.

How does it work: ...

Apolyton has upgraded to vBulletin 4.1.5. The forums have been opened again. There are still some issues with the forum ...

Apolyton is upgrading to vBulletin 4.1.5. vBulletin 4.1.5 comes with new features, fixes, and allows us to use some cool traffic enhancing plugins. However this comes with a small cost. To upgrade Apolyton from vBulletin 4.0.6 to vBulltein 4.1.5 we must close the forums for a short while.

This is the plan: ...

Martin Gühmann becomes new co-owner of Apolyton Civilization Site on June the 1st 2011. Martin is known for modding Call to Power 2 and maintaining the Apolyton CTP2 Edition. He has been a Senior Staff member of Apolyton since the site has been moved to its new environment in 2010. Since then he contributed substantially to Apolyton. He restructured and imported the entire Call to Power 2 section, he imported Apolyton's Archives into Apolyton's new forums and fixed the attachments from Apolyton's old environment. These are just a few of his contributions.

When Jeroen Schweitzer and Arno Zwaag departed the Apolyton Administration the only left over owner and admin, Robert Plomp, knew that Martin was the right choice to co-lead Apolyton with. "His technical skills and knowledge and his ability to learn anything he doesn't know yet, combined with his friendly nature and his reliable and pro-active attitude make him the perfect choice for Apolyon" Plomp commented. Plomp and Gühmann will both be co-owners of Apolyton, both will share ownership and responsibility, equally. Martin will mainly care about the technical issues like server administration, software maintenance, and site configuration. Robert will mainly be responsible for the community, staff, content, and PR.

"This way we will turn Apolyton into what it once was and should be again, a home for all civers" Martin Gühmann commented.

We are looking forward to improve Apolyton and make it a primary source for all civ-related things!
Keep on civin' ...

After 2 years of giving enormous important contribution to Apolyton's move from it's old environment into the future, Jeroen and Arno are leaving Apolyton's administration. Jeroen designed and configured the entire new Apolyton look and feel, based on a concept of Rutger van Overbeek. After that Jeroen migrated and imported the Apolyton forums. A hell of a job considering the old age of a lot of the data. Arno set up the new servers and configured the environment to host Apolyton in a very convenient way. Without the input of Arno and Jeroen Apolyton would not exist today anymore.

Both Arno and Jeroen picked up new responsibilities that made it more and more difficult for them to contribute to Apolyton. That lead to the decision to leave the Apolyton administration and transfer all ownership rights to Robert Plomp.
Apolyton owes a lot to Jeroen, Arno and Rutger (who left a couple of months earlier) for all their work. As a sign of our gratefulness they will receive the honorary member title on Apolyton. ...

They were gone, we missed them, we already gave up hope, but we found them: The archives.

We just had to place them back, so enjoy.
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Since Apolyton's move to the new server and vBulletin 4, there is still some work that needs to be done. We still have the legacy avatars, the archives, and the download database. But today we can celebrate the return of the old attachments.
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Initially, Apolyton had some ugly blue message icons. They were left on the old server. Then we had the ugly message icons from vBulletin. And now we have some new shiny message icons from our smilie database.

Let us know whether you like them, whether we forgot some. Or whether you just dislike the order in which they are displayed.

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