(NOTE: the Essential Civ3 Vote is now closed) LAST CHANCE TO VOTE FOR THE ESSENTIAL CIV3!! (22 March 2000, 18:36 EST) If you're bored from seeing me post about the Essential Civ3, well, this is it! Today is the last day of the vote, today is your last chance to give your message to Firaxis! Vote for the FIXES and the NEWS IDEAS that are essential for civ3 to be worth of the number... 3 :) -MarkG EC3 VOTE ENDS IN TWO DAYS (20 March 2000, 19:39 EST) Unless there is a huge demand to extend the deadline even more, the Essential Civ3 vote will end on March 22nd. If you haven't voted so far, do vote NOW! -MarkG OTHER SITES Civilization Fanatics Center 03/21/2000 - A New Course Added to the War Academy Mark Fisher's thesis, Fire! Making War in Civilization II, is a very well-written paper that focused on the military aspect of Civilization II. It discussed many things in detail and is enriched with quotations. I consider it a worthy addition to the Academy's current courses. - New Timeline: Chronicle of Cyrus Eterna From the beginning, the Persian nomads were learned and prosperous. 20,000 men, women, and children carried with them the secrets of irrigating, trail marking, mining. They had tamed the wild horse and followed a settled code of laws. When a Persian crafter solved the puzzle of working bronze he also realized a nomadic people could not exploit this new knowledge. 03/20/2000 - Now Compatible with Netscape! All pages are reformatted and are now compatible with both Internet Explorer andNetscape. For best experience, please use Internet Explorer 5.0 or Netscape 4.7, with screen resolution greater or equal to 800x600. http://members.xoom.com/wilsong/ Civ Master Deity League The Master Deity League is designed for players who like to play complete games at deity level. Our points system rewards players who survive into the modern era and punishes players who surrender or quit before the modern era. Master Deity League games are played with a specially modified Rules.txt file. It is available on the site. MDL site has been reorganized. Categories have been added. Three complete games have now been recorded. Eleven more are currently in progress. Longest Game -- 1948 AD (Crustacean, Markus & Wonderdog) Earliest World Conquest -- 1730 AD (Markus) Current standings are posted at: http://members.home.net/ webcampaign/leaguestandings.htm MDL players are reminded that they need to complete 12 games by November 1, 2000 before being eligible for the playoffs. http://server6.ezboard.com/ bcivmasterdeityleague.html MJ's Civilization Empire 3/18/2000 - Unit Mod is ready. It includes the new units, that are also included in the SMAC2 modpack. This unit incorporates the new units and the Doctrine: Destruction Technology into regular SMAC. 3/12/2000 - SMAC2 version 2 is ready for download. The mod includes new factions, units, technologies and the Armageddon Scenario http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/ Chateau/2658/CivEmpire/

Apolyton &Friends News 19-25/Mar 2000

DOUBLE PRIDE, AGAIN (25 March 2000, 16:54 EST) The latest endeavor into the Pride of the World database has emerged with these two sites: for January, Apolyton's own GameLeague; for February, David Ledgard's Historic CivII Scenarios. Congratulations to both! If you would like further information concerning the Pride of the World award, go here. -reismark

WE`RE NOT DEAD YET!
(25 March 2000, 16:51 EST) Au contraire, my friends. Hodadian Award Central has been dormant for a while (due to technical and real-life issues) but we are back and are ready to be better than ever! Our Director's e-mail has changed; please direct any further requests concerning HAC to either hac@apolyton.net or reismark@nycmail.com. Thanks!
As always,
Reismark -reismark

(25 March 2000, 13:52 EST) Last week we began to publish the top-selling PC games out of the United Kingdom from Chart-Trak; this week, we are expanding our coverage of game chart toppers yet again by emmulating the findings of Mac-O-Rama, an online Mac game reseller, that gathers statistics on what gamers on Apple's OS are playing.

For the week of March 13-19, 2000:

1) Nightfall | Altor Systems
2) Unreal Tournament | MacSoft
3) Baldur's Gate | GraphSim
4) Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six | MacSoft
5) Allied General | Mindscape
6) iFlight for Mac | Aztech New Media
7) Total Annihilation Gold Edition | MacSoft
8) Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri | Aspyr Media
9) Myth: The Total Codex | Bungie Software
10) Quake 3 Arena | Activision

Mac Civer's will want to take note of the game in the #8 position this week. -DanQ

CHART-TRAK: MARCH 18, 2000
(24 March 2000, 9:46 EST) Chart-Trak has published the Top 5 Selling PC Games in the United Kingdom for the week ending March 18, 2000. There was absolutely no movement in the listing in comparison to last week's tally.

1) The Sims | EA
2) Championship Manager: Season 99/00 | Eidos
3) Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings | Microsoft
4) Half-Life: Generations | Havas
5) Delta Force 2 | NovaLogic -DanQ

PC DATA: MARCH 5-11, 2000
(24 March 2000, 9:41 EST) For the week March 5-11, 2000, those listed below are the Top 10 Selling PC Computer Games based on sales data gathered by PCData from 17 retail chains, comprising more than 60% of the U.S. market:

1) Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? | Disney Interactive
2) The Sims | Electronic Arts
3) Roller Coaster Tycoon | Hasbro Interactive
4) Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Firestorm | Electronic Arts
5) Age of Empires II: Age of Kings | Microsoft
6) Roller Coaster Tycoon: Corkscrew Follies | Hasbro Interactive
7) Might & Magic VIII: Day Of The Destroyer | 3DO
8) Unreal Tournament | GT Interactive
9) Scooby Doo Mystery Of The Fun Park Phantom | Southpeak
10) Hoyle Board Games 2000 | Havas -DanQ