Diplogamer Team in Civilization World Alpha Test?

[Germany (DoE)]

Don't you have any 'pull'?

I've heard he has...

[2metraninja]

2. 2metraninja (did you sign up officially already?)

I did immediately.

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 I\ll get one more friend to join us

[2metraninja]

It can't be worse than Civ V. Right?

Right?!

Hahahah - thats what a guy over the CFC said about the Civ World thing.

Let us pray.

[Robert]

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

[Robert]

Seems like we're not in the first batch of testers
Maybe later.

http://www.facebook.com/civworld

[OzzyKP]

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...

[2metraninja]

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.

[Robert]

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.

[LzPrst]

I want to join, PM me the details?

[Robert]

The details are in this post:

http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/194459-Diplogamer-Team-in-Civilization-World-Alpha-Test?p=5911212&viewfull=1#post5911212

[St Jon]

Can I come to the party too?

[OzzyKP]

Sure thing. Maybe they'll let us in to the next round, just follow the instructions.

[2metraninja]

To keep the interest and feed your thoughts, here is a conversation I had with one lucky ba$**** on another forum, which happened to be selected as an alpha-tester.

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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.

[OzzyKP]

Cool update.

[OzzyKP]

I made it in! Did the rest of you get invites too?

I've been playing a bit tonight, it is not bad.