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Hey all, the new Civ game on Facebook is finally moving forward, a big new update was posted about the game. Apparently a closed alpha test is beginning on January 12, and in order to enter you need to enter with a team.
As veteran civers who have played together for years I'm wondering if any of y'all would like to join together as a team in the Alpha test? Apparently we need 5-50 to enter.
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Count me in!
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I'm new to the site, but if you want me, you can have me in the team
You are more than welcome.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
I1m interested.. but I guess i will have to make a facebook account then
Yup.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
So, I'm not terribly sure how to do this, but I think we are supposed to individually register and then pick the same team name and captain name. Maybe?
Try registering and using the team name "Apolyton Diplogamers" and captain name "Alex Koroknay-Palicz"
Register here: http://www.2kgames.com/civworld/alpha/
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
I signed up.
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Signed up
moi too!
"Old age and skill will overcome youth and treachery. "
*deity of THE DEITIANS*
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So, that's 6 already!
1. OzzyKP
2. 2metraninja (did you sign up officially already?)
3. mzprox
4. Toni
5. deity
6. Robert
c'mon, we must get 50
Where are all diplogamers of the past!?
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I will join too if my friends can't get their slow asses together to form our own team. or maybe I could bring them all in here...? theplaguerat and francisco are both former temporary subs in diplogames iirc.
Diplogamer formerly known as LzPrst
Not all teams will be accepted for the beta!
We'd better get more people here!
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Nice idea
Don't you have any 'pull'?Originally Posted by Robert Plomp
I've heard he has...Don't you have any 'pull'?
The question of whether modern humans and Neanderthals mated when they encountered each other 40,000 years ago is highly controversial.
I did immediately.2. 2metraninja (did you sign up officially already?)
BTW, I am a bit afraid that the game will look and feel like more Civ5, rather than to my beloved Civ4. Also, there are a lot of rumors that the game approach will copy those of all the other "free" online games - like SeaFight, Mafia and so on - you can play the game for free, but if you want to be something more than a poor beggar, you have to buy credits in the game for real money. I tried Sea Fight and it is cool, but when I hit level 5 or something, to me it became clear that if you want to buy a good ship, either you have to play 1 week without a break to gather the pearls needed by the normal way, or you have to buy these pearls with real dollars, which sucks.
But let the things happen one at a time - first our team have to be chosen to participate in the alpha
Hahahah - thats what a guy over the CFC said about the Civ World thing.It can't be worse than Civ V. Right?
Right?!
Let us pray.
Last edited by 2metraninja; January 8, 2011 at 06:55.
It will be completely different then any civ game, I expect.
I wonder what it'll be like. I've never played a facebook game. As a matter of fact I only signed upto facebook b/c of Civ:World (network back then).
So, people, stop adding me to your friends network, I'm not going to do anything with facebook except playing civ:World
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Seems like we're not in the first batch of testers
Maybe later.
http://www.facebook.com/civworld
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Yea, guess not.
I thought we had a pretty good case though! Maybe not enough of us played Farmville or the other annoying Facebook games they were trying to copy...
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Sadly, they seem to choose large teams - no matter the participants barely know each other, leave alone that they are not a team at all. A friend of mine joined a team with about 50 players and he got a message they are accepted, but not much information is available and nowhere more info can be found.
Well, many facebook teams may consists of people who don't know each other. So that's a good way for Firaxis to check how it works. Apparently more teams will be invited for the alpha/beta tests later.
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I want to join, PM me the details?
Diplogamer formerly known as LzPrst
The details are in this post:
http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/1...=1#post5911212
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Can I come to the party too?
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- Anon
Sure thing. Maybe they'll let us in to the next round, just follow the instructions.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
To keep the interest and feed your thoughts, here is a conversation I had with one lucky ba$tard on another forum, which happened to be selected as an alpha-tester.
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Originally Posted by 2metraninja
Well - this is strike straight to the heart.
Right now you made me green of envy
Sorry about that. Did you apply to be a tester yourself?
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Originally Posted by 2metraninja
Ok, I will not ask about specific details, as I suspect there was clause for being confidential,
That would be correct.
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Originally Posted by 2metraninja
but just tell me - is it looking like a good game - something like web-based Civ4 pitboss on a huge map with many players, or it is something like those crappy xxxxville facebook games where you need to plant and pick your strawberries every 5 hours and to make it even worst - hexagons and 1 unit per tile like in Civ5?
I still haven't had that much of a chance to play the game (it's down for maintenance quite a bit during the alpha, as you might imagine)... and I'm not permitted to say that much anyway. However, I'll say it's definitely proving to be a fun and addictive game so far. There seem to be quite a few clever innovations which don't make it too critical to play every few hours (although you might find it hard to stop yourself anyway ).
I don't think it's any kind of spoiler to mention that obviously (as it's a Facebook game) there are options to purchase stuff in-game with real money. I'm not sure yet how this will affect the possibility of playing highly competitive games - you can probably imagine that the option of purchasing stuff is rather close to having a "cheat button" available, which the extremely competitive might not like. Still, it's possible there'll be solutions figured out to that. Either way, it's definitely proving fun to play.
Cool update.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
I made it in! Did the rest of you get invites too?
I've been playing a bit tonight, it is not bad.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
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