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  • The Column: #05 -- Our First Month

    By Markos Giannopoulos
    September 5, 1998

    Note: This is The Column, a part of Apolyton where Markos and Dan write whatever we want . Well, not just Dan and me. The Column is open to everyone. If you feel like writing submit your article to us.

    INTRO

    It's one month since Apolyton CS started and it's a good time to make a round up(ok, this was easier to write than a comparison of the upcoming civs, which I first thought of writing

    PREVIOUS ARTICLES
    #3 WILL THERE EVER BE A CIV3?
    Frank Johnson of CivLeague explains why we will never get to play civ3
    #4 THE FUTURE OF "OUR LITTLE WORLD"
    Reismark I writes about the problems of the civ community and what could be done
    COLUMN ARCHIVE

    RESPONSES, GOOD AND BAD

    The ancient question: what do you want first? The good or the bad? Yes, we had a couple of bad responses: insulting posts on our and others forums, even a banner appeared on another site(don't ask me, I wont tell you). But mostly, the reponses were very good: mails, entries in our guestbooks, posts on the "Site" forums. It will sound too sentimental but these things keep us going.

    WHAT WE'VE ACHIEVED

    To start, for the first time a civ site, covers three games: Civ I, Civ II and Civ:CTP. The forums has been a great success, getting over 2000 posts in both civ2 and ctp sections. The MultiPlayers List gets at least a new member every day(in average). In general, we are in the top 5 sites of GameStats, getting about 9000 hits/day(the whole site not the first page), and transferring 120MB/day(only from civilization.gamestats.com, not from download.gamestats.com where the scenarios and modpacks are). But that's only the start!

    OUR NEXT MONTH

    Kwang has created a database script for Apolyton CS, and with the help of our "Helpers", which will be announced in a couple of days, we hope it will go public with a part of our archive in the next 2-3 weeks. The Civ1 section will have a redesign next week, and we are working on a Civ2/Mac section. Finally, we have a couple of suprises coming on the CTP section, byt I'm not going to say more, so stay tuned!

    P.S. POPULARITY CHARTS

    These are the people whose profiles on our forums where accesed more: on the civ2 forums benedetti, MarkG , St Leo, Confuciuz, Ming; on the ctp forums St Leo, Lt John, Draco, Lodi, Otaku.

    Markos Giannopoulos is the co-owner and co-webmaster of Apolyton CS

    The opinions expressed on this page doesnt necessarily express Apolyton CS or GameStats.
    It is just the personal opinions of the writer.

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