6000+ FORUM USERS (19 May 2000, 23:50 EST/About) Today the 6,000th user registered in our forums, a collection of message boards on various topics from the games that we cover to the operation of Apolyton itself.
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On behalf of the staff and administration of Apolyton CS, thank you to one and all for making us a leader in our neck of the vast online gaming culture. This latest milestone is just one of many testaments to that fact.
DOWNWARD TREND CONTINUES (20 May 2000, 11:57 EST/CtP) In the 385th installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization: Call To Power continues to lose ground as it falls to #32 on the countdown -- two weeks ago it was at #30.
STRONGHOLD IN THIRTEENTH (20 May 2000, 11:55 EST/Civ2ToT) In the 385th installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Civilization II: Test Of Time is once again moving on up in coming in 13th this week.
THIS WEEK AT NUMBER SIX (20 May 2000, 11:53 EST/SMACX) In the 385th installment of the Top 100 PC Games, published every week by Global 100, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire has fallen another notch to #6 on the countdown. This marks the second week in a row this duo has dropped a spot.
CHART-TRAK: MAY 6, 2000 (18 May 2000, 21:10 EST/Misc) Chart-Trak has published their list of the Top 5 Selling PC Games in the United Kingdom for the week ending May 6, 2000. In short: The Sims' dominance rolls on. 1) The Sims | EA 2) Championship Manager: Season 99/00 | Eidos 3) Soldier Of Fortune | Activision 4) Starlancer | Microsoft 5) Delta Force | NovaLogic -DanQ
CHART-TRAK: MAY 13, 2000 (19 May 2000, 22:59 EST/Misc)The Sims was the Top Selling Game in the U.K. for the fifth week in a row, according to Chart Trak for week ending May 13, 2000. Eidos' Championship Manager: Season 99/00 and Activision's Soldier of Fortune also held onto their respective positions for the third week in a row.
1) The Sims | EA 2) Championship Manager: Season 99/00 | Eidos 3) Soldier Of Fortune | Activision 4) Starlancer | Microsoft 5) Delta Force | NovaLogic -DanQ
Apolyton & Friends News
11-20/May 2000
NEW CIV2 FILES (17 May 2000, 15:58 EST) Here are eight new files in the DB processed by Tim Davis. We have 424 files now with over 135,000 downloads. Who wants to submit No. 500? Send your scenarios!
SDC UPDATE (19 May 2000, 12:23 EST/HAC) We are pleased to announce that the Scenario Design Contest staff has decided to extend the deadline for submissions to the Third Scenario Design Contest. The final day to request codenames has been changed to Labor Day; September 4th, while the final day to submit entries is now September 18th. In other SDC news, the Scenario League has developed an information page on the FW/MGE platform of the contest; for the full scoop, check out the rules. -reismark
NEW MEMBER OF HAC FAMILY (19 May 2000, 12:33 EST/HAC) We here at HAC are pleased to announce the hiring of WarVoid as Assistant to the Director. His responsibilities will include assistance in preparation for the Hodadian Awards and a review column each week beginning in September on the SDC entries, in addition to the general needs of maintaining the site. Please join the Director is welcoming him to the HAC family. -reismark
GAMELEAGUE Tourney Conclusion [05.20 19:08 est | civ2] Saturday Swis III just ended and even though there were only seven players the competition was great. Go to the tournament page to look at the bracket and read the players' reports.
Tournament Changes [05.17 17:40 est | civ2] Don't forget about this Saturday's tournament, starting at 1:00 PM EDT. If you plan on attending, please sign up. The winner will receive 150 points plus a choice of SMAC or CTP and more! However, we will not play unless at least 8 people show up. I have another event to attend, so BlueWaldo will be the director instead.
PC DATA: APRIL 2000 HITS (18 May 2000, 21:04 EST/Misc)The Sims was the Top Selling Game on U.S. retail sales charts according to PCData for the month of April, 2000.
The "top ten" for this period are:
1) The Sims | Electronic Arts 2) Who Wants To Be A Millionaire | Disney 3) MP Roller Coaster Tycoon | Hasbro Interactive 4) Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Urban Operations | Red Storm Entertainment 5) Age of Empires II: Age Of Kings | Microsoft 6) Soldier Of Fortune | Activision 7) MP Roller Coaster Tycoon Corkscrew Follies | Hasbro Interactive 8) Grand Slam Bridge III | Electronic Arts 9) Starcraft | Havas 10) Sim City 3000 | Electronic Arts
Based in Reston, Virgina, PCData generates its lists from sales figures of 17 retail chains comprising more than 60% of the U.S. market. -DanQ
PC DATA: APRIL 23-29, 2000 (14 May 2000, 13:53 EST) For the week April 23-29, 2000, those listed below are the Top 10 Selling PC Computer Games based on sales data gathered by PCData based in Reston, Virgina. This chart is developed from data provided by 17 retail chains comprising more than 60% of the U.S. market.
Disney's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was bumped down one spot by 989 Studios' EverQuest add-on, Ruins Of Kunark. Other debuts/returns to this week's charts include Phantom Menace, Soldier of Fortune and Jane's WWII Fighters.
1) The Sims | Electronic Arts 2) EverQuest: Ruins Of Kunark | 989 Studios 3) Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? | Disney 4) MP Roller Coaster Tycoon | Hasbro Interactive 5) Age of Empires II | Microsoft 6) Solider Of Fortune | Activision 7) MP Roller Coaster Tycoon Corkscrew Follies | Hasbro Interactive 8) Grand Slam Bridge III | Electronic Arts 9) Star Wars Episode I: Phantom Menace | LucasArts 10) Jane's WWII Fighters | Electronic Arts -DanQ
OTHER SITES
Civilization Fanatics' Center
[05/22/2000] More Civ2 Downloads - We have 12 more Civ2 scenarios in the collection. They are: Africa, Aftermath of WW3, Alpha Centauri, Crusade, Global Apocalypse, Gulf War, Mad Max, Native Americans, Viking Age, Sirius, Texas Revolution, and Swiss Confederation. There are also 4 reference files related to scenario creation and unit customization.
[05/15/2000] Big Multiplayer List Updates! - Ten more Civ2 players have joined the List! They are: Doug from USA, Shade from USA, Mark Blacks from Italy, CivWarrior from Brazil, Kirpus from Turkey, Chazwick from USA, Viking from Norway, Azeem from USA, Antdog from USA, and UralVitalik from Russia. Welcome aboard and happy civing!!
[05/12/2000] Downloads Collection Updates - Fourteen scenarios are added to the Civ2 Downloads Collection. They are Water World, The Italian Renaissance, USA 1640, Dracula, Exodus 1947, Star Wars, World War II, The Ascendance of Europe, East Wind, Rain, Final Fantasy III, Fall of the Roman Empire, Scotland, Quebec, and Blood Dawn.
[05/05/2000] Miscellaneous News- There was a small "incident". Earlier today when I used Netscape to surf the web, I noticed that it always crashed whenever I visited this page. It turned out that the cause of this compatibility problem was in the style sheet file. I made a few modifications and now it's back to normal (at least on my computer).
- Links Central is updated to contain more links to friendly sites. Click here to check them out. Also, three more players have joined the Civ2 Multiplayer List.
MJ's Civilization Empire
[05/18/2000] - Added two sets of graphics to base icons section, the Children Bases and the Remnant Bases by Christopher S. Wirick
[05/16/2000] - The move is complete. The Civilization Empire is now hosted at kalifoxmiller.com. Plus I have my own domain from Namesecure. The url is http://mj99.net/CivEmpire, if you've already been using that url when i was hosted a xoom, you shouldn't notice any difference other than the fact that those Xoombars are gone.
- Several new scenarios planned. First of all the Gungan Expansion Pack to SMACX2, that will include 4 new factions. - The Cool Clique Conquest Campaign, the first campaign for SMACX2. - Psi War Scenario for SMACX2. - Also I'm planning to release a 2nd version of my unit modpack. - The TLC faction has been removed from SMACX2, to make room for factions in future expansion packs. The TLC faction will be available as a separate downloadable faction shortly.
[5/8/2000] - The Beta Version of my SMACX2 modpack is ready for download. This mod contains 20 factions, and some new units. This mod is far from finished, as the faction graphics arenot complete. I hope to have a more finished version by the 15th. The mod is playable, and if you check the datalinks you can get some glimpses of things to come.
- About the site move, bear with me. I haven't been able to move to Kalifoxmiller.com and wont be able to until the 15th at the earliest because I'm not at my home computer right now. If I'm not moved in by the end of next week, I'll create a temp site at Crosswinds, and I'll keep things there until the move can be completed. The url of this site will still be http://mj99.net/CivEmpire 5/3/2000
- The move is underway!! I now have my own domain name!! The new address of the Civilization Empire is http://mj99.net/CivEmpire. The link will currently take you to back here to by xoom site, as I haven't moved in to my new spot at kalifoxmiller.com but as soon as the move is complete, the link will take you to my new site. So all visitors, use the new URL. I hope the move to the new server within the week.
