"CivIV" Ships -- A.C.S. To Hold Release Party

[DanQ]

From ACS' About section:

To celebrate the release of Civilization IV, Apolyton Civilization Site (ACS) -- one of the oldest and premiere online fansites for the Civilization computer strategy gaming series and its extended family -- will be holding a party over its Internet Relay Chat (IRC) service in the #apolyton room on server apolyton.net.

The text-based get-together officially begins Tuesday, October 25th at 5PM Eastern Standard Time, and will officially end two hours later. ACS Co-Owners/Administrators Markos "MarkG" Giannopoulos and Daniel "DanQ" Quick will both be in attendance at both varying and concurrent times before and/or after official hours. Giannopoulos plans to be in attendance for some time before 5PM that day, and Quick for some time after 7PM.

ACS' IRC server can be access either by using an IRC client http://www.mirc.com" TARGET="_new">such as mIRC or through ACS' own web-based interface.

JOIN NOW!

http://apolyton.net/misc/chat/

if you had problem with the java chat room use this

http://apolyton.net/misc/chat/room/

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[Atahualpa]

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The text-based get-together officially begins at 22:00 Greenwhich Mean Time, and will officially end two hours later.
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[Locutus]

Ata, that would be BST, not GMT.

[JonahFalcon]

Hopefully, I'll have the game in my hot little hands BEFORE the chat.

[sabrewolf]

anybody who actually HAS the game at that moment should NOT be chatting in IRC but playing the goddamn game

[alva]

Originally posted by Locutus
Ata, that would be BST, not GMT.

Can we have a couple of different time notations cause I'm getting confused.

[Locutus]

23:00 alva time

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by Locutus
Ata, that would be BST, not GMT.

Do you honestly think anybody knows what BST means and do you honestly think anybody cares what it means? And does anybody care about EST?
Everybody knows his GMT offset, so why not use GMT?

[Locutus]

No, actually GMT is usually used to actually refer to GMT, BST is used to referred to current London time. Since not the whole world uses summer time, or switches at the same time when they do, this is actually pretty significant.

[Wittlich]

Locutus does make a valid point...

[alva]

Originally posted by Locutus
23:00 alva time

Thanks.

I was even spot on....for once.

[Fidel]

well, it is even better to alt-tab and have 10 minutes break bragging about it on mirc

[joncnunn]

The difference between current British time and GMT is extremely important in late October. Some northern hemisphere countries that observe daylight savings may be off it by then. (Neither the US nor EU will be)

While in the southern hemisphere among those that observe it, some countries will already be on, and others still off as well.

[JonahFalcon]

Well, people who have the game can simply spawn out to report what they're doing.

Wish there was an option to have spectators for a MP game.

[The_Aussie_Lurker]

I just need to know one simple thing-what time should I come online to participate in the chat, given that I live in Adelaide S.A. i.e. what time, Australian Central Time, should I check this out?

Oh and, any idea if Soren et al will be joining in the chat !

Yours,
Aussie_Lurker