Constructive commentary for Poly

[Axel Rhodd]

Hardly any new threads here anymore. Lot of activity on CivFanatics though...
Hmmm, sign of the game not doing very well or have ppl simply defected to CF?...
I used to enjoy cIV forums on this site a lot in the past - very different now

[ColdPhoenix]

It's a combination of the game and the number of people. There is a number of people (a critical mass) required to keep the forum active, to start threads and respond to them. This critical mass will change depending on how good the game is; the more a game enthuses the people, the lower the critical mass will be.

If the game was Civ4 we'd have an active forum. If we'd the number of registered players that CF has, we'd have an active forum.

When I bought Civ5 I was full of optimism and very excited. Now, I think it's a decent enough game but it's not filling my spare time like it's predecessors. Partly this may be due to me getting older and life changig events like a kid and marriage that have happened. But it's more than that, the game doesn't excite me the way Civ4 did.

This length of time after civ4 was released I wanted to play it as much as possible. Not that bothered about civ5. It's decent but not as great a game as it's predecessors.

I'm hopeful that expansions will improve it.

[Shogun Gunner]

I agree with you both. I've been coming to this forum for ten years. Its much different now.

I've also held off posting a thread called "Civilization V sucks" but that is how i feel. I've tried to get into this game, but it just doesn't grab me. I've purchased and enjoyed every single iteration of Civilization prior to this one (even Civ III), but as you say ColdPhoenix, its not as great as its predecessors.

[wodan11]

I agree with you both. I've been coming to this forum for ten years. Its much different now.

I've also held off posting a thread called "Civilization V sucks" but that is how i feel. I've tried to get into this game, but it just doesn't grab me. I've purchased and enjoyed every single iteration of Civilization prior to this one (even Civ III), but as you say ColdPhoenix, its not as great as its predecessors.

2kgames has an active forum for Civ now, also, that I'm sure is robbing people from both Poly and CFC.

Anyway, plenty of "Civ5 sucks" threads over there.

[vee4473]

Didn't a bunch of regulars go over to weplayciv? Or maybe some of them post both places. I missed what happened there though.

[Nikolai]

I post both places. But it is an either or thing for most I think.

[Adagio]

I believe one of the reasons is that Apolyton haven't really been able to follow up on Civ V, compared to Civfanatics, so everybody went there instead

[Proteus_MST]

...

When I bought Civ5 I was full of optimism and very excited. Now, I think it's a decent enough game but it's not filling my spare time like it's predecessors. ...

Similar to me...
for me its a combination of lots to do in RL,
and prefering to spend my spare time with LotRO at the moment.

At the moment there doesn´t seem to be any danger for me becoming a Civ V addict

[Jaybe]

After game updates, expansions or popular mods arrive, there will be a spike of interest in forums (including this one). As the game matures and more people have strategies to share, ditto.

Where's Vel?

[Robert]

I believe one of the reasons is that Apolyton haven't really been able to follow up on Civ V, compared to Civfanatics, so everybody went there instead

How did other civ sites follow up on civ where we missed?
I think that we did a pretty good job on creating unique content for Apolyton (interviews, Q&A's, early review, etc). We also introduced new stuff, like the Arena, the University and the List. Other sites did not, or at least not as much. It's a given, none of those features are completely satisfying yet, and some aren't even finished.

But I do not think that we did not 'follow up'.
Civ5 isn't over yet, it's still supported a lot. But I think there's quite a negative vibe about civ5 right now. Worst of all maybe b/c people aren't really playing the game too much.

I'm trying to find out what civ5 is lacking that gives the urgent need for people to just play more turns.

I may write a blog article about it.
If Firaxis is able to address this issue (Which is even more important then the bugs or the crashes or the AI!! imho), then civ5 will live up, and so will the forums.

But I'd like to learn how you think that we did not follow up. Feel free to be honest, we can only learn.

[Adagio]

How did other civ sites follow up on civ where we missed?

Maybe you did follow up on Civ news, but I just couldn't find it. When you're on a random forum page, you don't see any news, like you did on the old forum. The only way to find news was by checking if anyone posted a thread on it

But to be honest I didn't follow the news that much myself either as I have been busy the last year

[LDiCesare]

I believe one of the reasons is that Apolyton haven't really been able to follow up on Civ V, compared to Civfanatics, so everybody went there instead

Frankly, at the times of Civ 2 and 3, poly looked as big as cfc. It started dropping behind with Civ 4, in part because mod support and forums were just better at cfc. Thunderfall would help you host your mods, advertise them, etc. without your asking anything while 'poly didn't do squat. Then there was the weplayciv split, and the result is the community has shrunk a lot. Add to that the fact that CtP2 is getting old and it had brought a lot of players here but no longer does, and you'll get reasons why CFC gets more people.
The questionable quality of Civ V certainly doesn't help. Not that it's a bad game, but it doesn't seem as good as Civ 4 or 2 to many people.

[notyoueither]

How did other civ sites follow up on civ where we missed?
I think that we did a pretty good job on creating unique content for Apolyton (interviews, Q&A's, early review, etc). We also introduced new stuff, like the Arena, the University and the List. Other sites did not, or at least not as much. It's a given, none of those features are completely satisfying yet, and some aren't even finished.

But I do not think that we did not 'follow up'.
Civ5 isn't over yet, it's still supported a lot. But I think there's quite a negative vibe about civ5 right now. Worst of all maybe b/c people aren't really playing the game too much.

I'm trying to find out what civ5 is lacking that gives the urgent need for people to just play more turns.

I may write a blog article about it.
If Firaxis is able to address this issue (Which is even more important then the bugs or the crashes or the AI!! imho), then civ5 will live up, and so will the forums.

But I'd like to learn how you think that we did not follow up. Feel free to be honest, we can only learn.

I would like to request that we get a strategy forum (assuming there are enough still here to use it).

The feel of AU is wrong, for me. I do not want to write an article. I want to chat about strategy. Articles might follow from the chatter, but the way the V forums were set up seems forced. AU came about organically from the Civ3 strategy community. The community starts with a simple forum to discuss things. Of course, we can do that in this forum. It isn't crowded at this point.

[Ming]

Feel free to start a thread on strategy... I'd rather read and contribute to a strategy thread then some thread whining about how bad the game sucks

[hexagonian]

Where's Vel?

Not playing because his system cannot handle it. Plus real life...

Same here.