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**DarkCloud** · February 8, 2002, 22:19

91. only human
Former Usernames: (onepaul)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Paul
Age Group: 18
Nationality: ?
Lives: America
Registered: 2-28-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Alternate Civs section

Description:
A poster who is best known for helping with the Alternate Civ projects. He compiled a list of all the Alternate Civ Projects and posted their comparisons, etc. The full list is posted in the Alt.civs section on Apolyton.

He disappeared in December 2000.

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90. loinburger
Former Usernames: None
Famous DL's?: (Herr Glockenspiel, who was not famous)
Real Name: Kevin
Age Group: 21
Nationality: American
Lives: Illinois/Ohio
Registered: July 1999
Had/Has A Website: no
Contribution to Apolyton: "Threadmaster" for Units and Combat for the Civ III list v. 2.0, did summaries for Units, Combat, Civilizations, and some other thread (Terrain Improvements?) for the list.

Description:
Majoring in Computer Science at Wittenberg University in Ohio, will graduate in May 2002 with a BS.

Has mostly been posting on OT since the completion of the Civ III list. 10% of his posts are on religion and philosophy, 90% are on other forms of trivial garbage.

He enjoys useless polls.

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90. orange
Former Usernames: (OrangeSfwr)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 18
Nationality: English
Lives: America
Registered: before 2-24-00
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: The Apolyton Yearbook

Description:
Orange was one of the first Off-Topic posters who I identified with and bonded with and created a friendship with. He is also the first Apolytoner whom I contacted with Instant Messenging.

He contributed to the Civ III ideas section, but it was truly in the OT where he left his mark with The Apolyton Yearbook, a guide to all Apolytoners that included their pictures.

His stances on Civ III issues are that: He hates the Iroquois and hates lots of wonders.

He is pro-abortion and anti-death penalty. He is a hardline liberal/socialist.
DarkCloud, orange, laser, and Colony Pod participated in some very long debates (4-6 pages) at CGN, which, overall were unresolved. (DC and laser were the fascist/nationalistic/centrists), whereas orange and Colony Pod were the (Communists/Socialists/Anarchists))

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87. War4Ever
Former Usernames: (EthnicCleanser)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Canada
Registered: 10-17-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Civilization III ideas, "The List"

Description:
I don't know much about War4Ever except that he has many quotes on "The List"

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85. TheBirdMan
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Max
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: ?
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: CTP Multiplay

Description:

TheBirdman Lives in denmark. He hangs in CTP-Mplaying. He is sometimes a very trustworthy and dedicated ally who walks softly with a big stick and goes beyond that of which an ally is expected to do.

He is a good friend and ally of faded glory in the PBEM games.

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84. Eroberer
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 18
Nationality: German
Lives: America?
Registered: before 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Build the Apolyton culture

Description:
I am Eroberer, and I've been Eroberer on here for almost three years now. I came here and argued with Red Trotskyite until I became a leftist, argued with Berzerker until I became a rightist, and gently settled back into leftism due to, I'm sure, the lack of proper libertarian posts around here now (or maybe 'cus I just don't read those anymore anyway). I long for the early days of Apolyton, in all honesty, although the middle era was great, too, even if I didn't post in it

I'm atheist, 5'10", blondish hair, blue eyes, resigned to philosophical skepticism, 18 years old, just finished advanced high school courses, going off to the Univerisity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill next year...

My real contribution could be having helped build Apolyton culture, while never really participating in it.

Or the enormous debates that gave Starchild something to do while sipping coffee in the morning, even though I blame myself for Porphyrogenitus's departure.

He once had an idea to create an "Apolyton Debate Books" series and sell it. (This was when the debates were worth commenting on)

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83. Sprayber
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: United States (Arkansas)
Registered: 9-10-00
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: AC Fiction/ Off-Topic

Description:
He is in the United States Army and is based in Arkansas.

He used to be a major contributor to the Off-Topic until he discovered AC-Fiction and joined the Chiron Chronicle where he has written the story as the Spartans.

A member in the US National Guard.

He doesn't post in the Off-Topic much any more.

He has a great talent for writing and for telling a story.

He is a true gem of Apolyton, he is a versatile poster, having a humorous side, a serious side, a factual side, a joking side, and anything you could ask for in a poster.

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82. Bolo

Former Usernames: Always Bolo
Famous DL's?: Blacktide, Bismark, and Serpico
Real Name: Withheld
Age Group: 20
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Alberta, Canada
Registered: before 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: Nope
Contribution to Apolyton: A member of the PROT (Peoples Republic of Topics; Run by AH), I was the drug dealer and Kingpin of the PROT Drug Empire and Associates.

Description:
He cannot even remember how I stumbled upon this handle.
I am most definitly a Canadian, I hail from the fine city of Calgary in the even finer province of Alberta, the closest thing to God's Country this side of heaven.
I have been described by some as the Canadian Texan, that explains my political beliefs far better than I could or would want to.
Blacktide was a joint creation of YYYH and mine back in May 1999, we were going to make an anti-semite but decided to make him a Frog hater because it would be much less controversial, besides Joe was around so that niche was filled.

During July 1999 Blacktide was banned many times for swearing and cursing his head off when they permabanned YYYH and Spink. Later when YYYH was gone I decided to start making up fake histories about how the Frogs would surrender to anything that could breath.
I stopped posting in Apolyton sometime near the end of 1999 as I was quite involved in Thirdwar and found there were far too many newbies around for my comfort. I occasionally posted for Reismark's football pool but for all intensive purposes I stopped posting here. Now I mostly lurk a few minutes a day and if i see a thread I like I read it, but I rarely post.
I can be found at the Frontier these days, with YYYH, Coug, Comrade Dan, Evil Capitalist, Mao, Polaris, Fjorxc (Fjorxc the Maniac/Forks N' Freerunner), Ghen (Fast_Eddie), and a bunch of other vets who left after Stories went the way of the dinosaur here at Apolyton.

Player of Earth:2025, retired member of the ARROW clan.

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81. Winston
Former Usernames: (Legman,winston)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Winston
Age Group: 30-60
Nationality: Danish
Lives: The Netherlands OR Denmark
Registered: 3-13-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: unknown

Description:
winston left Apolyton in December 2000 after an argument with MarkG about moderation, or something of that sort.

Before leaving he had made an Apolyton Locations thread with over 150 Apolytoner's locations identified.

A Conservative European who supports the war on some drugs

Winston is a good technical poster and, upon his return in April has mostly posted in the Apolyton/Community, and Civ II sections.
He is also a major opponent of post counts.
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80. Gary
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Gary
Age Group: 40-50?
Nationality: British
Lives: Britan
Registered: 4-29-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: OT

Description:
Somewhat of a "techie"

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79. Sergeant Sheets
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (Comstar (the 1st known Apolyton DL, the 2nd being Comstar's Mother, Leftenant Lawrence))
Real Name: David Sheets
Age Group: ?
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: before 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Unknown

Description:
Conservative and lover of America. Started the legendary-in-early-days thread "Long Live America", which was reason for thread America Bashing, which spawned Mongolia Bashing, which spawned Suriname, first story thread in Apolyton. Founder of Green Army. I don't remember what Green Army was for, though.

Sarge is American and had a ton of DLs, "Comstar" (juvenile spammer) and
"Leftenant Lawrence" (left-winger Sarge argued with) being most famous.
Real name is David Sheets.

Still posts occasionally in the Off-Topic
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78. darkgrendel
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: ?
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III ideas?

Description:
Unknown... (before my time)
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77. Lefty Scaevola
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 50-60
Nationality: Norwegian
Lives: South Texas
Registered: 10-28-00
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Off-Topic posts, Apolyton/Community, AC General/Help

Description:
Has declared a

War on Stupidity

and posts stupid posts in any thread he deems 'stupid'

He is always bragging about how rich he is now that he is a retired lawyer in Texas, and yet he has only once said exactly how rich he was Feb or March 2001 in the Off-Topic Thread by Winston"Just how Rich is Lefty?"

About the only place I metion being outside my signature "Older , richer, and wiser than you" is in Winston's thread

Lefty was a rising poster in the Off-Topic and Apolyton Community sections for a few months in November through March. Since April he has spent less time at Apolyton than before, but still posts.

He is also a regular at CivFanatics... And left me with the parting words in a PM: (That I forgot to mention

AND WHAT ABOUT MY HUMOR & SATIRE!!!!

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76. Scouse Gits
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: SG1- Unknown SG2- Unknown SG3- Claire
Age Group: SG1- 50's SG2- 40-60 SG3- 15
Nationality: English
Lives: England
Registered: 11-24-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Scenarios, Civ II sections

Description:
There are three Scouse Gits.
One, the original, SG1 is the father of SG3 and a good friend of SG2. SG1 is a civil war and ironclad buff. He likes all things related to war and Civilization II.
SG2 is much like SG1, except his relation to SG1 is that of friend.
SG3 is known to Apolyton as SG1's

brat daughter

(SG3- please do not be angered at me, that is a quote from your father in the Apolyton/Community section

)
SG{3}'s a 15 year old named Claire

Currently SG3 is trying to petition for an avatar of her own, because she does not appreciate the ironclad that her father and SG2 use for their posts.

I first got to know the Scouse Gits in August 2000, where someone made a reference to there being three of them.
I did not confirm this until the threre SG's posted in a thread made by CornMaster in November 2000.

The Scouse Gitses are British.

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75. Dominikos
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: before 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Belgian Chocolates

Description:
Previously he distribuited Colon's free Belgian Chocolates to certain Apolytoners courtesy of Colon.

He is the only Apolytoner to have working smilies in his signature.

Afraid of Illuminati

He appears every six months, spams like crazy, then returns to the abyss of the internet.
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74. Par4
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: ?
Registered: 5-12-00
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Spam. Humor. Civ III ideas

Description:
He hung out in the Civ III ideas section for a long time, then came to the OT and continued his crusade of spam and humor.

Eventually he got bored with the lack of response to his humor and left Apolyton around December 2000/January/February 2001.

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73. Hueij
Former Usernames: (Huey)
DL's: Dale Arden (used twice, once when Flash Gordon changed his handle and once to ask Ming to delete it )
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 46
Nationality: Dutch
Lives: Arnhem, The Netherlands
Registered: 5-12-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II Help/Strategy Apolyton section; Helped Narck with Age FAQ

Description:
His original name was Huey after the Ducktales character; changed his name to Hueij because it sounded good and no one else had taken the name.

Started posting in Civ2 strategy and Civ2 help but moved to OT and occasionally Apolyton. Biggest contribution: asked Markos if he needed help with HTML and stuff and is still waiting for an answer...

**DarkCloud** · February 8, 2002, 22:22

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72. Victor Galis
Former Usernames: none at apolyton
Famous DL's: (classified)
Real Name: Victor Galis
Age Group: 1-100
Nationality: Romanian/Canadian
Lives: US
Had/Has a Website: Yes
Contribution to Apolyton: unknown

Description:
Unknown.

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71. MagyarCrusader
Former Usernames: Michael Jesczenka
Famous DL's?: Magyar Crusader
Real Name: Michael Jesczenka
Age Group: Middle Age
Nationality: ?
Lives: Los Angeles, America
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: Michael Jesczenka's Civ II Website
Contribution to Apolyton: Great scenarios and in-depth Civ II posts

Description: Michael Jesczenka once had a great civ II site that I discovered in August 1999 while using the internet for the second time.
(The first time I used the internet was an AOL Free Trial... thus It really didn't count as 'using the internet' so much as 'Using AOL')
His website had in-depth historical scenarios and other goodies for Civilization II.

When I came to Apolyton's Forums for the second time in August 2000
(The previous time I visited Apolyton's Forums was May 2000, but I didn't want to register, so I couldn't read any posts

)
Well, when I first came to Apolyton and entered the OT I asked about Michael and heard that he left the forums after a messy argument with Giant_Squid.
Later however, I learned that he still lurked in the Apolyton forums as "Magyar Crusader", but I did not believe that Mark and Dan would allow a DL to roam free, so I did not contact him.

In December 2000 or so, his excellent Civ II website disappeared and I searched for Michael to try to contact him.
I found him on Master Angel Bob's website and attempted to talk to him; but he did not return to the forums there.

Eventually, In May 2000 he returned to Apolyton under his original username and asked it to be changed- then he disappeared and I could not ask him where his website had disappeared to.

Very very conservative. Also very very Christian. Used to loathe Turks. Still loathes Rumanians. He was often banned and flamed by other posters on Apolyton.

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70. DinoDoc
Former Usernames: Squalodon, Tyrant Lizard King, Baronyx
Famous DL's?: ?
Real Name: Kent Hovind?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: ?
Registered: 9-30-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Off-Topic

Description:
Unknown. He seems to be addicted to Dinosaurs.
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69. John-SJ
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: John St.John???
Age Group: 40?
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: 8-8-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Off-Topic

Description:
Unknown.
Conservative American.
I have seen many of his posts, but unfortunately do not remember what he was interested in.

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68. DarkCloud
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Francis
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: ?
Registered: July 27, 2000
Had/Has A Website: Civil Warring Civilizations, RCT United, SimWood Mall, Francis' Kaleidoscope
Contribution to Apolyton: Lists, Civ III, Alpha Centauri Fiction, Civ II, Earth:2025

Description:
Born in Norway
See my biography here: http://home.att.net/~sjcfg/main.html At APOLYTON: The Book

Or... Read it below:

I found the Ultimate Civilization Site in July 1998 (I think?) and downloaded the Star Wars Modpack, this was the first modpack I ever downloaded; however I did not regain internet access again until August 1999.
When I regained internet access, I found Apolyton in August of 1999 when I was searching for Civ II sites. I immediately logged it in my favorites bar and then went off to look for more sites. I found the forums in March 2000, but did not post.
When I finally used the forums during the end of July 2000, I posted in AC-Fiction and met some colorful and interesting people, such as Googlie and Hydro, the main writers in The Spartan Chronicles, a major publication of Alpha Centauri Fiction.
I proceeded to save all the Alpha Centauri fiction posts on my computer for later reading. Then I quickly wrote the first 5 chapters of "University Saga" on July 27. This story later spanned about 15-25 pages in Word and was as yet incomplete by July 30th, but since interest in the story had waned, I decided to quit writing it.
By this time I had reached "Chieftan" level, for I had began to split my time between AC-Fiction and Civ III Ideas. In Civ III ideas I immediately got acquainted with a Dutch poster named Dr. Oogkloot who made some interesting Civ III idea posts.
After that, I entered into some discussions with a 13 year old American named Christantine the Great. Christantine had some good ideas about revolutions and colonies, but I claimed that they were too complicated for Civ. Next I got into several debates with an Australian and a Canadian UltraSonix and Shadowstrike, who, I believe are my closest supporters in Civ III and other debates. We three formed a team in August and September, cranking out Civ III ideas a mile a minute.
UltraSonix was the thread finder, if you wanted a thread, it was likely he could find it. Shadowstrike was the idea man, he came up with tons of good ideas. Among the other people I met in Civ III ideas were wernazuma from Graz, Austria and Youngsun, an avid Unit Workshop supporter from America. Finally, there was the joke man- phunny pharmer from La Jolla California, he created many amusing and interesting Civ topics in Civ III ideas.
In those days we exchanged many ideas. However, my view of Apolyton widened in late August (11th), early September and as I acquired my "Warlord" level tag, I came up with a quick joke and became "Warlord of the Ring" after JRR Tolkien's "Lord of the Ring" book series. I also moved to Civ II general, Alpha Centauri general, Civ II strategy and Civ II Creation.
I met there such colorful posters as kcbob and Oldman who always had a good joke ready for Civ. I also met an interesting fellow by the name of CornMaster, a Canadian living in Ft. Pierce Florida who created several good surveys for Civ playing. The Civ General forum was ruled by CornMaster and Dr. Oogkloot
at the time I was there, it was filled with their many funny and witty threads.
On September 1, an interactive game was beginning to be discussed in AC-Fiction, this game would later become "The Chiron Chronicle", GMed by myself and [LordLMP]. Some of the most active players in the game were XWaste and Argonaut. Later the game grew and we gained a new active player- Christantine the Great and some other dabblers.
I first entered OT and posted in this thread "Harry Turtledove: Master of Alternate History?" on September 4 and discussed Harry Turtledove's literary works. It was from OT where I got the idea for Civ Survivor (read below) On September 5 I created a parody of Survivor in Civ II General and the winner of it, from over
28 Apolytoner Civ Fanatics who were locked in a room turned out to be Smash, who came all the way down from Vancouver Canada to receive his prize (of being a Civ III advisor )
Rand Al'Tor's absolutely funny post on "The Apolyton Family in the Sims" where he
placed The Brain, Ming, Provost Harrison, Mao, Imran Siddiqui, Empress, and Comrade Dan in the Sims game and watched what happened gave me the idea for Civ Survivor.
I witnessed the leaving of The Brain on October 2nd, (I think his last post) and had one of my posts "Let's Clear Up Usernames!" Transferred from OT to 'Apolyton' by Ming. This got me started looking in the Apolyton section of the site.
I was there on September 12 when "The Guild of Emperors" was first started by Provost Harrison, and then locked on September 14 for excessive spam by Ming. I was there when "The Guild of Emperors" was again posted on September 25 in the "Apolyton" section of the site and locked by MarkG. On the same subject, I was also instrumental in the reinstatement of "The Guild of Emperors" in late December.
On September 17 I started "The Apolyton Army" with people listed by their 'Posts Per Day'. General Mao ruled this army with 24 posts per day under his belt. The Army was ended on October 29 after a month of posts and two topic threads. September was also the month where I became "Prince of Posts."
In October, one of the funnier Apolyton Posters- Par4 coined the phrase Spamgate(TM). Which referred to the "Area 25 affair" in which many posters were banned for spamming in an unknown forum connected to Apolyton to increase their post counts.

The List: 3 weeks disablement from posting, 50% post count reduction(pcr)
Dookie, Bulldog, Comrade Dan, Provost Harrison, The Call of Snapcase, OrangeSfwr, Andz83(also having the DL Diplodocus), Caesar the Great, Bill3000, Builder, Faboba, WarVoid, Kropotkin, Giant Squid, Iain Lindley, Black Dragon, Coug 3, Dalgetti, Mao, Monk, Ramo, Rural Ranger, SuperSneak

In poster names: I was here when Dookie was first Dookie, then when Dookie was Nimrod, then when Dookie was Warning:, and: Dookie became Dookie, then Chasing Rainbows... and finally Dookie once again… Then Infatuation and now Boddington's (When will he stop!) I was also here when Caesar the Great was but Caesar. I was here when Giant Squid was Alexander the Great and when he was, once again, Giant Squid. I have not been here long, but I have seen much. I have seen everyone get locked out of Apolyton for a day, and Mao achieve Deity status three times. Mao was a Deity, then he was reduced in Spamgate to a mere Emperor, then he came within 50 or so posts of Deity and a scripting error reduced him to a Settler. Soon he reached 23 posts, but then MarkG reinstated him as a Deity. (Whew )

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AMENDMENT: (All above was written in October, 2000.)
Since then; I became one of two Off-Topic moderators for the Civilization Gaming Network (The other being orange, which went down in early June 2001, and migrated to ezboard; I did not follow it, due to the fact that ezboard happened to lock out my account!!!! However, I was one of the first 20 to return to the Civlization Gaming Network in October 2001, when they returned to vbboard forums.
In February 2001, I joined Earth: 2025, an internet game- then interested OmniGod and others in it... He started a myriad of threads on Earth:2025 in the Other Games section. As well as a clan in the game, the "Apolyton" Clan, which, at its height, boasted about 18 members, 5 of whom were apolytoners

Eventually, an Earth: 2025 forum was created on Apolyton; which was abandoned in about June or July 2001, when Ribannah exposed a "supposed" scandal and quit the clan... OmniGod attacked several members who were accused of being multis- and the interest in Earth:2025 eroded. DarkCloud quit the game in August 2001; but was never part of the Apolyton clan... I did, however, offer hints and tips... And today, East Street Trader and OmniGod are some of the highest net-gainers in the game. Krazy Horse also continues to play.

Interesting events on the forums; in July or August 2001, someone started a survey thread poll for psychological reasons. The choices were completely random. One of the choices was "banana". Several posters picked "banana" before the thread was closed. However, the phrase "banana" became immortalized as a phrase describing a useless poll... Also; a large amount of posters started spam threads allowing people to choose various poll options; all of which included Banana. Many posters were banned one day. Including Imran Siddiqui. DarkCloud joined in on the fun; petitioning to allow polls to have more than 10 options. However I was not banned

(Probably due to the fact that Banana was not an option in my poll)
However, due to consistent need for 16 options in polls (for 16 civs in Civ II) The moderators allowed all posters to have up to 16 options in all polls... Before this change, the moderators manually edited several polls to allow 16 choices.

Also, In September 2001 orange and myself participated in a long war with Ribannah
who was attempting to convince the world that the Iroquois was a more important and glorious race than the Iroquois.

From Sept 2001 through January 2002, I spent most of my time between the Civilization Gaming Network and FreeFireZone… Then I left FreeFireZone as it became boring when less people posted there, and then I semi-abandoned CGN after achieving my title of "Historian"… And after participating in a few long debates (average 4-6 pages) that actually accomplished nothing other than informing me that it is not a good idea to attempt to vent anger in a discussion if I want the people to actually LISTEN to what I am saying. Even if they are horribly, horribly wrong

.

With Civ III's release in November 2001 came my new "List for Civ4" which is accessible here: http://home.att.net/~civgames/ideas.html (It was much touted in the Civ III section for the period of two weeks)

In February 2002 the Chiron Chronicle Alpha Centauri NetFiction guide was restarted with myself as the GM again… (even though LMP had renamed himself Mellian and gone on vacation he remained co-GM)

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In conclusion, Apolyton is a place made up of diverse people and diverse ideas from many places. Hopefully Apolyton will live a thousand years, perhaps it won't, but Apolyton will always live in my mind. So, currently the Emperor of Lists- DarkCloud wishes all current and all future Apolytoners peace and good cheer in the New Year.

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68. phoenixcager
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 20-30
Nationality: Singaporean
Lives: Singapore
Registered: September 2000
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Various, he is omnipresent

Description:
DarkCloud's favorite poster at Apolyton and best friend.

phoenixcager first appeared on Apolyton in the Off-Topic and Apolyton/Community forums and quickly became liked by many posters.
He has posted most everywhere on the Apolyton site, but his posts are lost because they are so well spread throught the forum.

Phoenixcager has trouble accessing the site because of the new "vBulletin" look as opposed to the old "UBB Board"
He is also present on CivWorld and many other forums run by old Apolytoners.

I seem to remember him saying that he was a military reservist in Singapore.

On the Civilization Gaming Network (CGN) he was the most active poster, posting many useful threads and keeping CGN alive, he was eventually gifted with moderator ship of several forums at CGN, until it disappeared.

phoenixcager has since more or less retired from forums, though he still visits occasionally, he now spends more time with his family.

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67. Atahaulpa
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: German
Lives: Germany (near Ecthelion)
Registered: 3-23-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III Ideas/The List

Description:
He is best known for his many contributions to "The List" and has had some of the most unique Civ III ideas.
Other information is unknown.

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66. Empress
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Title: Queen
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: Louisiana, United States
Registered: 3-23-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Off-Topic, Civ II sections

Description:
She has always strived to be the first Female Emperor, an Empress if you will. She stopped within 200 posts of her goal and disappeared.

For a while I thought that she lived in South America, due to a Canadian's comment that

I just received a Christmas card from way down south America

However this was later cleared up, when in the Off-Topic she said that she lived in Louisiana... Which is in Southern America, but not South America.

She contributed greatly to the Civ II support sections with many good hints and strategies

She left Apolyton to play Asheron's Call
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65. Shadowstrike
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 15
Nationality: Chinese
Lives: Ontario
Registered: 7-4-00
Had/Has A Website: http://www.crosswinds.net/~shadowstrike/civ/main.htm
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III ideas, Off-Topic

Description:
He currently hangs out at The Frontier story forum along with Chairman_Milo, Mao, and others.

He used to post frequently at CGN, but in December he faded from the boards.

I first met Shadowstrike in the Civ III ideas section where we helped craft many ideas together with UltraSonix. Together the three of us created many ideas for Civ III. Shadowstrike specialized in wonders and technology.

He later frequented the Coffee Shop in the Off-Topic, but never truly deserted the Civ III ideas section, and now posts there infrequently.

Currently, with the Coffee Shop gone (It has since reappeared under the control of himself), he only appears at various times at Apolyton.

Shadowstrike also frequents the official Europa Universalis boards as well as the Europa Universalis boards at Apolyton.

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64. reismark
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 18-21?
Nationality: ?
Lives: America, Chicago?
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: http://www.civgaming.net (now defunct)
Contribution to Apolyton: ACS Picks the Champions

Description:
He was the creator of the ACS Picks the Champions threads for football predictions.
In September 2000 he created the Civilization Gaming Network and sucked several Apolytoners away from Apolyton (part time).

The Civilization Gaming Network was a worthy opponent of Apolyton, receiving 500 members in 6 months, nearly 100 members a month.
They disappeared when the server began to charge for server space on their server and Civgaming could not pay their prices.

Reismark left the bulletin-board world in June when he had a 'family-emergency'
He has only been seen sporadically since.

However, CGN returned in October 2001 with the help of buster and others and now, once again resides at its old locale at http://www.civgaming.net

63. Comrade Dan
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Dan
Age Group: 15-18?
Nationality: English
Lives: New Zealand
Registered: 5-11-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Spam. Funposts. Civ II

Description:
Comrade Dan was well known for his spam and his strange posts supporting Communism and other 'interesting' ideals.

Notable Spammer and civer. He has been confused for icedan at times, and once was insulted in a thread for insulting Australians. He was baffled.
After 50 posts and 2 hours the two eventually got things straightened out and it eventually turned out that the man offended was talking with icedan (another New Zealander) on ICQ
He was also a notable member of Rand Al'Tor's Apolytoners house in the Sims.

Comrade Dan had several arguments with Geography Dan (A Jew) and icedan (A New Zealander).

Comrade Dan left Apolyton about a month or two after the Area 25 fiasco, in which he was banned for about a month because of spam and vulgarity.
Near the end he became bitter.

**DarkCloud** · February 8, 2002, 22:24

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62. mrtemba
Former Usernames: (Phoenix)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Mr. Temba

Age Group:
Nationality:
Lives: NY or Philadelphia? America
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: Mr. Temba's Civilization II Site
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II

Description:

Active scenario creator. Organized unsuccesful "Bring back the cow!" campaign for CtP.
Creator of Mr Temba's Civilization II site, a great civ II site and participator in The List.

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61. Seeker
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Canada
Registered: (before 2-15-99)
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II, CTP?

Description:
Sadly, not much is known about this poster.

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60. Kropotkin
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 23 years old
Nationality: Swedish
Lives: European Umeå, Sweden
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II, CTP, Civ III and OT

Description:
Sadly, not much is known about this poster.
He came back in February 2001 and stayed till June, debating in the Civilization II and III sections, then, more or less, disappeared from the On Topic.

I am assuming that he is an anarchist considering his username.

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59. Smash
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Vancouver, Canada
Registered: July 1999
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: The List, Civ II

Description:
Before my time...

Smash is now at CivFanatics, posts mostly civ II stuff. He moderates the CivFanatics Civ II sections.

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51. Starchild
Former Usernames: (The Starchild, Transcendii Starchild)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 16-21
Nationality: British
Lives: England
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II

Description:
British.

Starchild wasn't just teased about being gay, he was/is gay and flamboyantly so.
He was, I think, first poster to come out of closet, and that provoked lots of flaming,
mostly against Michael Jeszenka who was against homosexuality. This led to his banning, IIRC.

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57. Giant_Squid
Former Usernames: (Alexander the Great, Kubla Khan, Celestion the God)
Famous DL's?: (Cuttlefish, DarkCloud, many, many more)
Real Name: Scott Siskind?
Age Group: 16
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Giant Squid Pictures

Description:
He once had a DL, Cuttlefish which argued positions completely different from his.
Now, he is involved in Micronations with Jasonian and visits Apolyton infrequently.
He gained notoriety when he first came to Apolyton by posting pictures of various Giant Squids on the boards.
He claims to be aesexual and able to produce by himself (Just like DarkCloud

)
DarkCloud is his most prominent DL at this time.

I belive that he received a PCR in the Area 25 fiasco.
He continues to visit apolyton and post about once every two or three months.

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56. Snapcase
Former Usernames: (Hugo Rune,... but not Snapcase, Ceci n'est pas Snapcase, Mad Lord Snapcase, Like a Preserved Snapcase on Stage, Snapcase on Snapcase, The Call of Snapcase, Snapcase's Temporary DL)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Johan Palme
Age Group: 21
Nationality: Swedish
Lives: England
Registered: September 1999
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Hacking, Area 25, News, Off-Topic

Description:
The now ACS News Director, Snapcase had an illustrous history before his new task. He had changed his name from The Call of Snapcase to "Like a Perserved Snapcase on Stage" when he had 2757 posts and then had his posting ability disabled becasue that name was too long for him to use.
He was banned during the Area 25 fiasco for 1 month because he discovered Area 25

His total posts are His current number plus 1645 from his disabled login and 1600 from a 1/2 PCR that he got in the Area 25 scandal.

He is currently in College in York, England, but lived in Sweden for much of his life.
He is partially of Hungarian descent.

Snapcase is now one of two News Editors for Apolyton Civilization Site after applying for the job in November 2001??? (Or was it August?)

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55. SnowFire
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Peter Trevelyan
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: European
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II, The List

Description:
He hates popularity contests and polls...
He has contribuited a lot to "The List" for Civ II and was one of the great idea men for The List.
Goes to Weyeslawn College.
Not much else is known...

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54. Chris 62
Former Usernames: (cpoulos)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Chris Stavropoulos
Age Group: 39
Nationality: Greek
Lives: America
Registered: January 4, 2001
Had/Has A Website: www.civfanatics.com
Contribution to Apolyton: Scenario League, Multiplayer

Description:
He joined in January 2001 and made 3000 posts in 7 months. (He proclaims vendetta against any whom accuse him of spam) Most of his posts have come in the on-topic.
Not much is known about this poster except that he served in the US army from 80-86 with MichaeltheGreat in the same division.
He is a major opponent of Post Counts and seems to dislike DarkCloud.
He frequents the Spanish Civilization II, Scenario League, OT, General, Multiplayer website forums.

"I have zero fear of taking unpopular stances on things, and will argue adnausium on points if I think I'm right about.
I have a fierce temper, but I calm just as easily, if given a little space.
I lean neither left nor right, so manage to anger both sides in equal measure, depending on the issue.
I appreciate honest people, loathe ultra leftists and ultra rightists.
I will take up causes if I believe in them, often even when I'm all alone in my belief.
I will listen to anyone once, but if I consider you a fool, I will ignore you, and not bother with you in the future. If I consider you intelligent, I will talk to you, even if you don't agree with me on things.
I almost never start topics in the Off Topic.
I was married in 1993 and my son was born in 1997.
Served in the US Army from 80-86, and am a colege grad, with a degree in modern European history (for all the good that does me ) and hardware engineering.
I supplement my income by writing.
I like Apolyton, but post in other places as well, but lately, haven't cared much for the OTs or a lot for some of the people who post here.
I also have made some really good friends here, but I will not name them, for fear that they would be assaulted by my many enemies."

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53. SuperSneak
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (claims to be AH's DL)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 30-40
Nationality: ?
Lives: Portland, Oregon
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II, Off-Topic

Description:
He recently had a child and has not devoted as much time to Apolyton.
He is one of Alexander's Horse's better friends along with finbar and Hydey.
He has contributed a fair amount of debates to Apolyton, but has mostly hung out in the Civ II section and Off-Topic
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52. St Leo
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Toronto, Canada
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: Civ II Ziggurat?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II

Description:
He left Apolyton for Sidgames, but returned when Sidgames went out of business.
He managed to get a 300 post count reduction for posting a message "This is a spam message" after being dared by another poster.
In the old days, he was one of the first to get to 2000 posts, making short posts and spam posts. He was one of the original 'funposters' and 'arguers' along with History049
He is active in the Scenario League and his most famous scenario is the "Roman Riots" scenario (ed. note- This was an immersive game with all custom units)
He had his "Civ II Ziggurat" hosted by Sidgames until Sidgames disappeared.

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51. Rasputin
Former Usernames: (Rasputin00)
Former Titles: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Robert
Age Group: 35
Nationality: English
Lives: Australia
Registered: May 1999
Had/Has A Website: Yes
Contribution to Apolyton: Spam. Civ II/III sections, MP Civ

Description:
In Multiplayer civ he was one of the few posters who has beaten the excellent Eyes of Night

He Found a bunch of Aussies in Civ 2 MP section and stayed. Rasputin is currently spamming the Civ II and III sections with useful and useless ideas. His famous quote:

Spam is in hte eye of the beholder

He also posts heavily in the Apolyton/Community sections. He only goes to the Off Topic when he is bored.

To "Pull a Rasputin" is to make 200 posts in one day or 1000 posts in a month even after a 300 PCR. Another Rasputin quote:

Unjustified PCR too

He is a fairly humorous poster. And a last quote:

Very Humourous

**DarkCloud** · February 8, 2002, 22:25

52. St Leo
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Toronto, Canada
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: Civ II Ziggurat?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II

Description:
He left Apolyton for Sidgames, but returned when Sidgames went out of business.
He managed to get a 300 post count reduction for posting a message "This is a spam message" after being dared by another poster.
In the old days, he was one of the first to get to 2000 posts, making short posts and spam posts. He was one of the original 'funposters' and 'arguers' along with History049
He is active in the Scenario League and his most famous scenario is the "Roman Riots" scenario (ed. note- This was an immersive game with all custom units)
He had his "Civ II Ziggurat" hosted by Sidgames until Sidgames disappeared.

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51. Rasputin
Former Usernames: (Rasputin00)
Former Titles: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Robert
Age Group: 35
Nationality: English
Lives: Australia
Registered: May 1999
Had/Has A Website: Yes
Contribution to Apolyton: Spam. Civ II/III sections, MP Civ

Description:
In Multiplayer civ he was one of the few posters who has beaten the excellent Eyes of Night

He Found a bunch of Aussies in Civ 2 MP section and stayed. Rasputin is currently spamming the Civ II and III sections with useful and useless ideas. His famous quote:

Spam is in hte eye of the beholder

He also posts heavily in the Apolyton/Community sections. He only goes to the Off Topic when he is bored.

To "Pull a Rasputin" is to make 200 posts in one day or 1000 posts in a month even after a 300 PCR. Another Rasputin quote:

Unjustified PCR too

He is a fairly humorous poster. And a last quote:

Very Humourous

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50. Colon
Former Usernames: Cylon
Famous DL's?: Collon, Histori049, Dominicos
Real Name: Cesar
Age Group: adolescent
Nationality: Belgian
Lives: Antwerp, Belgium
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: none
Contribution to Apolyton: OT, minor contributions civ2, civ3 and other games and one viking scribe.

Description:

I’m mostly known for my Belgian chocolates (Colon’s Chocolates©) distributed by Dominikos in the rare occasions he’s present, although I sometimes give as a present on birthdays.
My greatest accomplishment is my longevity at Apolyton, although I wasn’t here yet when the site was born. Minor accomplishments are my contributions to the Suriname threads and the fact I was once 4th in the rank of post-count. However, my position has decayed ever since, so I’ve decided to support abolishing PC’s as consolation.

He also received a 200 PCR for saying "Please delete the earth:2025" forum.

An amateur Economicist
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49. DarthVeda
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: 16-19
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: America
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III

Description:
His name came from a joke in high school about the Hindu Veda and Darth Vader.
He was the 3rd person on the Apolyton Forums after the merger, having come from "The First Greek Civ II site"?
He has contributed many ideas for Civ III and been a presence at Apolyton for many years.

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48. rah
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous DL's?: (... he "could" be a DL of Ming

)
Real Name: ? (Rich/Ming2?)
Age Group: 46
Nationality: Italian/German/Irish
Lives: Chicago, Il (north of)
Registered: From the beginning
Had/Has A Website: no
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II/Civ III sections and creator of the On The Road Ferret adventures with Dolph, Vito and Kiki.

Description:
The TWIN brother of Ming, he posts a lot in the Civ II general/MP sections and is happy to give advice to civvers in the Strategy section. Posts in the OT when he's bored at work.

Famous for Vito, his ferret who who provided side commentary to his posts and once went on a road trip.

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47. DanS
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: America
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Debates?

Description:
Unfortunately, not much is known about this poster.
I have heard he was a big debator.
He was back at Apolyton January-March 2001 for a time, then disappeared again.

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46. Eli
Former Usernames: (Builder, BuilderR)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Eli
Age Group: 16-18
Nationality: Israelite
Lives: Israel
Registered: February 2, 2000
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Spam. Funposts. Middle East Threads

Description:
A major contribuitor to Middle East threads and Middle East debates, Eli is the poster formerly known as Builder, the Civ III ideas poster.
He did not start to gain lots of posts until he discovered the Off-Topic in June and began to spam it.
He has only been banned once, during the Area 25 affair... Which is strange considering the amount of useless threads and PCR's he has received.
Good friend of Ecthelion and DarkCloud. He knows Sirotnikov and just about every other Israeli poster on Apolyton
He got a 10% PCR For posting in Colon's "Close the Earth 2025 Forum" thread

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45. Bob Dornan
Former Usernames: (History049)
Famous DL's?: (The series of TV Newscaster DL's, Most famous: Dan Rather and Dan Rather (with 10 spaces after "rather")
Real Name: Not "Bob Dornan"
Age Group: 16-19
Nationality: American
Lives: Orange County? California
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: spam. Debates. Flaming, BGate Tips

Description:
He used to be a frequently PCRed, though never banned member of Apolyton, arguing for the Jewish peoples in the middle east, despite the fact that he was not a jew.
He created a series of TV Weathermen DL's and spammed the boards with them.
He returned in July a changed person, claiming that 'those days are behind me' and adopted the name of a California congressman for his use instead of keeping History049 because the name had a 'bad aura around it'
He was the first Apolytoner to make enough posts to qualify for 'emperor'
A contribuitor of hints for, and player of Baldur's Gate I and II.

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44. monolith94
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 17
Nationality: ?
Lives: Not Pennslyvania
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III, Civ II

Description:
Real Life friend of MLeonard who has met Giant_Squid and other Apolytoners.
He has been around on Apolyton for a very long time.

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43. Berzerker
Former Usernames: (Berserker)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: America
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: "The French Poster", Civ III, OT

Description:
He was active in Earth:2025 but didn't post much in that section at Apolyton

An Ardent Libertarian who used to reply sentence by sentence to his opponents posts and thus created pagelong posts.
He used to call his opponents liars and thieves.

Nowadays he lurks at Apolyton.

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42. ProvostB
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: ?
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Spam

Description:
Also known as the Provost Bug he was the largest spammer on Apolyton since ____. ProvostB, according to legend, did not truly contribute anything of worth to apolyton other than 'funposts' and jokes as well as a bucket of spam.
He is gone now and does not wish to return.

ProvostB was known as "ProvostBug" because we suspected him of being advanced forum bug that spammed. History049 was the first forum bug.

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41. Jay Bee
Former Usernames: (Sable)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Jay Sinde
Age Group: older than Giant Squid, younger than Ming
Nationality: Spanish
Lives: California
Registered: Aug 1998
Had/Has A Website: The Spanish Civilization II site and the Civilization Scenario Collection; Both ACS hosted sites
Contribution to Apolyton: Spanish Civ II, Civ II

Description:

He is currently the webmaster of the Spanish Civilization II site and moderator of the Spanish Civilization II sites' forums.

Jay Bee found the history of his family name, "Sinde", at SeaWorld.

He has contributed much to Apolyton in the Civ II, particularly the ethical approach to the game (his code of honor became famous in the pre-Multiplayer Gamers Edition times) and the scenario design area

He currently lurks in the Apolyton section of the site and in the Spanish Civ II section giving spanish lessons to Chris 62 and others.

He also frequents the SLeague forum. He used to be a OT regular when there were two OTFs (CTP and Civ Off Topics).

Nice chats with Dominikos

.

After the two (OT) forums merged he got a bit tired and quit. I visit from time to time though, and post primarily in the soccer (football for you non-Americans

) threads.
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40. Misotu
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: ?
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III, Civ II, SMAC

Description:
A good SMAC player and ranked on Tau-Ceti's list
I should know more about this poster... But I dont.

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39. Djugavashili
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: Russian /// American?
Lives: Moscow, Russia/// New York?
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ, OT

Description:
Apolytons only Russian Poster, Djugavashili was a spam master, but contributed in the Civ III section and the Civ II sections before his spam period.
Nowadays he only visits Apolyton infrequently.
Known to some as Jug-as-Willie

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38. JohnT
Former Usernames: (none known)
Former Titles: Apolyton Librarian
Real Name: John Thornton
Age Group: 34
Nationality: American
Lives: Knoxville, TN
Registered: 3-17-99 (The same day as TNapolean)
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: OT

Description:
He is the only person at Apolyton who has received an honorary title and have it revoked.
He started out in the Off-Topic and, for the most part, only posted in the Off-Topic
He received his title "Apolyton Librarian" after he rated a large amount of books in the Apolyton Links directory and had his title stripped of him in either December 2000 or January 2001.

John is a serious debator and supports Republicans in most debates.

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37. Sten Sture
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 25-41
Nationality: Sweedish
Lives: San Francisco, America
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III, Civ II

Description:
Frequent Civ III and Civ II poster.
Not much else is known.

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36. Ted Striker
Former Usernames: (D2K, ProvostD, Ted Striker, derek)
Famous DL's: none
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 26
Nationality: American
Lives: Los Angeles
Registered: July 1998
Had/Has A Website: no
Contribution to Apolyton: Wrote "They Were Legends," a column recognizing the top 10 posters in Off Topic, to commemorate Apolyton's birthday, in July 1999 and July 2000.

Description:
Ted Striker was the first to give money for Karen (of Karen Mills fame), and did so without being asked.

He left Apolyton for a time after Michael the Great became Off-Topic moderator.

He has conducted interviews with two Apolytoners, Imran Siddiqui and Provost Harrison. He has done the interviews as a service, since Solver, (of FoA fame) has refused to interview many currently primarily off-topic posters.
The interviews were, for the most part, professionally conducted and informative, although not featured.

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35. Docfeelgood
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 25-41
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: ?

Description:
I have no idea who this poster is, or where all his posts have come from.
I have seen him post several times in the Off-Topic

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34. n.c.
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 30-51
Nationality: ?
Lives: North Carolina, America
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Debates

Description:
n.c. is a large environmental-supporter debator, he hates George Bush and does not seem to like 'Big Oil'. He is a major opponent of opening Alaska to oil.
He used to post in the AC sections, but now mostly stays to debates.

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33. Sir David
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Famous Titles: Apolyton Whiner
Real Name: David Josefsson.
Age Group: 16-18
Nationality: Swedish
Lives: Sweden
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: OT

Description:
He was manily an Off-Topic poster until he deserted Apolyton in June 2001 after an absence beginning around August 2000.
He seemed to have been well-liked by the other posters.

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32. MLeonard
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Matt Leonard
Age Group: 16
Nationality: ?
Lives: America
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: OT Moderator

Description:
He is an Off-Topic mod who does little moderatorship as Ming and Michael the Great close the threads before he has a chance to even investigate them.

He is a real lover of music, both playing and listening, he knows how to play instruments that I didn't even know existed. A really nice guy, although he does have his share of problems which are relatively standard for guys his age.

Hasn't posted on Apolyton much recently

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31. The Brain
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 18
Nationality: ?
Lives: America
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: DoH
Contribution to Apolyton: Spam. Funposts. Jokes. Humor

Description:
Well liked by all, the Brain is the founder of DoH a website with humor and much, much, more.
He left Apolyton because he found it was becoming boring.
He was an integral member of Rand Al'Tor's first Apolyton Sims House and contributed many laughs to it. After the sims house aired, he left Apolyton forever in September or October.

Recently seen on the Apolyton Birthday Chat.
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30. DanQ
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Daniel Quick
Age Group: 20
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Canada
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: Apolyton

Contribution to Apolyton: Apolyton: The Site

Description:
The Founder of the Ultimate Civ II site, he joined with Markos G. to form Apolyton on 7/26/98 and has contributed to Apolyton by running a Daily radio show and working with the boards.
He was the second to register on Apolyton.
He also runs the ACS Radio daily, a new reporting radio service on-line
We all hope that he keeps working for Apolyton for a long time

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29. connorkimbro
Former Usernames: (Apathetic Dreamer, The Unconquered)
Famous DL's: (The Devil's Nightmare)
Real Name: Nathanael
Age Group: 22-30
Nationality: Lithuanian/American
Lives: America
Registered: December 1998
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Counseling, Civ III

Description:
Joined the army after a few years at apolyton. The "real" United States Army. He joined it to pay for College.
He had contributed much to Apolyton in the Civ II and III sections and had become a regular hang-out in the Off-Topic.
He disappeared for a few months during basic training, then appeared again around December 2000 or January 2001.
He counsels the occasional distraught poster, and trying to positively influence the development of civ3

I joined the army to pay for college, among other reasons. . but i guess partly to pay for college. also used to post regularly in the CTP sections, until CTP came out and i found out that it sucked. lurk and occasionaly post in civ2 strategy, lurk and sometimes post in civ3-general, apolyton community, and s&d.

**DarkCloud** · February 8, 2002, 22:26

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28. Monk
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Morton Munk
Age Group: 17-24
Nationality: Danish
Lives: Denmark
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: ?

Description:
From what I have heard he smokes marijuana. This leads me to believe he is from the Netherlands since that is legal there; however, I think Stefu called him Finnish once.
I know nothing more...

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27. Shi Huangdi
Former Usernames: (Black Dragon)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 17
Nationality: American
Lives: Maryland, USA
Registered: April 1999
Had/Has A Website: No.
Contribution to Apolyton: OT debator, Playtests Scenarios

Description:
Originally he wanted a different name than Black Dragon, which was 5th on his list, but his first four were already taken.
Eventually he changed his name to Shi Huangdi.

Originally an ally of Jeszenka (altough never a proponet of theocracy or genocide), later adopted a more libertarian stance on social issues with the coming of the Libertarian horde.
Involved in both the AUP and SSOM rebellions, altough now gets along well with Ming and MTG. Longtime conservative debator on Apolyton Off Topic forum, also helped playtest some scenarios.
Conservative poster.

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26. MikeH
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Mike Hunt
Age Group: 20-40
Nationality: British
Lives: England
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Funposts. Spam

Description:
ACOLyte and frequenter of Apolyton, MikeH has posted numberous times on both boards.
He can spam with the best of all spammers. However, he was most active at Apolyton December 2000- March 2001 when he and "Dancing with MikeH", now "Loud Medicine" created numerous threads and posted numerous times in the OT and the Apolyton/Community sections.

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25. Evan Von Christoph
Former Usernames: EvC, EVC, Cecil, Evan Von Christoph, Chris EvC(and many others)
Former Titles: Apolyton Daffy Duck (Given to him by JohnT)
Famous DL's?: (Lucifer D. Satan [A satanist], General Steelman (supposedly intelligence officer looking for dangerous terrorist named Evan von Christoph), Emperor Craetsezar, advocator of Roman imperialism with whom Evan had lengthy flamewars.) ...though popular speculation holds that Giancarlo and CivNation2001 are his DL's

)
Real Name: Chris Evan VonChristoph
Age Group: 18-21
Nationality:
Lives: Pennslyvania?
Registered: 5-13-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Spam. Micronations. Spam. Apolytown. Spam. "Funposts". Humor.

Description:
[He belongs in 20th place in posts, I was too lazy to move him after the list was compiled]

My first introduction to EvC was when he was using the login Evan VonChristoph and announced in a thread that he was homosexual.

Well... after that colorful introduction I soon learned that he was one of Apolyton's legends! He had been one of the major spammers of 1999 and had joined Giant_Squid and Jasonian in Apolyton Micronationalism in the Audenitor Independent Nation- which was formerly called Apolyton Independent Nation, but, because MarkG and DanQ raised legal issues, the name was changed.
The AIN disbanded in late 1999 and EvC moved to the FIoJ "Flying Islands of Jasonia", but he soon became bored of Micronationalism and returned to Apolyton where he has since appeared at varying times... Mostly every 3 months (when the name change feature becomes active) he will change his name and post a lot.

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24. GP
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: George Palmer
Age Group: 20-40
Nationality: ?
Lives: Atlanta, Georgia, America
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Debates

Description:
A frequent debator and frequentor of the Apolyton/Community section, GP also frequents the Civ II section, giving hints and advice as well as taking it.

GP wants Apolyton to convert to the "Branching Thread" formula that The Civilization II Universe employs. He believes it is more efficient, allowing the most important and discussed posts to be given priority and for there to be less discussion on the same tired old topics, as they disappear to the bottom of the pages.

Former Navy crewman (or officer?)

Went from 2000 to 4000 posts in 4 months.

I have taked two several-month voluntary bannings. Outside of these times I've been a very frequent poster (to explain the sudden jump in # of posts.) I'm primarily an OT guy.

From January 2002-Febuary 2002 he was under a self-imposed ban from FreeFireZone and Apolyton Civilization site due to the fact that he was spending too much time at the websites.

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23. Theben
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 30-50
Nationality: ?
Lives: Indianapolis, Indiana, America
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III, The List

Description:
Everyone likes to misspell Theben's name inventively. I.E. "Thievin", "Thubbins", "Thoven", "The bin", "Benthay"
He has contributed greatly to The List, compiling a directory of material on it.
A true Apolyton legend.

Supposedly chegitz guevara is his brother

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22. Gibsie
Former Usernames: Gibster, Gibsie el Magnifico
Famous DL's: Insincere Dave (not really famous, but he did get in some guy's sig...)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 19
Nationality: English
Lives: Surrey, England
Registered: At the UCIVII Site, then moved to Apolyton
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Spam, a cute little jumping kitty

Description:
Simply a face in the crowd. Generic English poster.

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21. Paul
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Paul?
Age Group: 25?
Nationality: Dutch
Lives: Zwolle, The Netherlands
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: Civ 2 OOC
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ 2, CTP 2

Description:
Omnipresent poster. Writer of the Civ2 optimal Occ strategy - the OCC Paulicy. Also wrote ModSwapper for CTP2, and is an all-round. Is Dutch, lives in Netherlands, has a website (Civ2 OCC).

Uses the word "an" a lot (You can blame Immortal Wombat for THAT useful revelation )

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20. Zhu Yuhanzhang
Former Usernames: (Boshko, Dave Boshko)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: David Boshko
Age Group: 19-22
Nationality: ?
Lives: America
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Humor

Description:
He has contributed much to Apolyton.
All I know about are his OT contributions which include humorous posts and a comic book series, "The Adventures of Bald Assertion Man" and his humorous takes on other posters.
Example: CivNation and other of his type.

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19. Caesar the Great
Former Usernames: (Caesar)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Paul
Age Group: 16-20
Nationality: ?
Lives: New York, USA
Registered: 4-5-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II Strategy, Some Off-Topic

Description:
Over his years here at apolyton, has become good freinds with several posters, Orangesfwr, Albert Speer, Mleonard, EvC, Provost Harrison, Andz, Empress and others to a lesser extent.
It has been interesting, very interesting people, some kind and considerate, other not so much.
Decent civ 2 player, plays aok (Age of Kings) and red alert from time to time, chess sporatically.
Greatly enjoys running and of course a huge fan of the Rolling Stones. Banned in the area 25 scandal and many other times (anyone remember f'uck in my smilies.. numerous times, bastards limited # of smilies in post now )
I was originally Caesar the Great, long before there was a registered user, Caesar. I change my name temporarily, but I got tired of it and changed back asap, in the meantime some newbie had taken my former username.
Is becoming tired of apolyton to some extent, but still reflects his issues strongly on subjects such as music, religion and anything involving teenagers (suicide, depression etc)

He sometimes visits CGN.

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18. Stefu
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 17
Nationality: Finnish
Lives: Finland
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: Pre 2-15-99
Contribution to Apolyton: Humor, Memories

Description:
Creator of the "I have the leadership abilities of a small cantelope" quote and immortal humorous author of Apolyton.
He has spoofed everyone and everything at Apolyton during his career.
He has created numerous memory threads on Apolyton and knows a lot about many of the posters on Apolyton.

I first met him in the Civ II General section and saw his "I have the Leadership abilities of a Small Cantaloupe" quote on the waiting quote section when a post is made.
Then I noticed his main realm, the Off-Topic and his numerous posts in it. I believe he was a member of Rand Al'Tor's October edition of the Apolyton Family in the Sims.

Stefu is also renowned for his lists of ancient Apolyton history

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17. Ecthelion
Former Usernames: (Andz83, Chaos Warrior)
Famous DL's: (Diplodocus, Outlaw [created for Eli, then known as Builder], Thranduil, Strategist)
Real Name: Andy
Age Group: 17
Nationality: German
Lives: Germany
Registered: March 23, 2000
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Spam [humor] , OT

Description:
Andz83 started on Apolyton and posted in the Civilization II and Off-Topic, where he discussed his favorite topics, History and Civ II.

In the Area 25 incident, his DL, Diplodocus was disabled permanently, and he was banned for 2 weeks.

He then came back as Andz, but disappeared and started posting as Chaos Warrior, without telling the other posters that he had changed his name, and being a strange and elusive figure. He gave himself away when he asked Eli to post something for him.

His main Civ III idea thread was a comprehensive terrain thread.

He admits that, over time, he turned into a spammer on Apolyton...

He then changed his name to Ecthelion and disappeared from Apolyton in May 2001, then returned in the summer. After a week of posting, he was PCRed by MarkG. Since that time, he has not been seen at Apolyton, apart from a thank you comment in the happy birthday thread dedicated to him

He was known as Provost A on the Civilization Gaming Network.

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16. LordStone1
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 21-26
Nationality: ?
Lives: Europe
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Debates?

Description:
Winner of the first Apolyton Presidential Elections in either 1999 or 2000.
Not much else is known about him except that he is a legend.

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15. Albert Speer
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 16-20
Nationality: Palestinian
Lives: New York, America
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: My Life... Threads

Description:
He seems to have a hard life, his mother beats him, his girlfriend (Lee-Ann) is a drug addict... And he posts all this on the site.
He has created thousands of threads on his girlfriend and his life.
Some people insult him and make fun of him, but others attempt to help him.
He seems nice and helpful, and something may have happened to him as he stopped posting forever at Apolyton in January 2001, and before that he last posted in August 2000.
He took the name of a prominent Fascist German member of Himmler's forces who died in 1986

He was a fascist who

was great believer of using peer pressure on weaker students to make them whopping supermen like he claimed to be,

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14. Infatuation
Former Usernames: (Dookie, Warning:, Nimrod, Chasing Rainbows)
Famous DL's: (none known; Has a picture of Stewart Spink as his avatar )
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 18-22
Nationality: British
Lives: Great Britain
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Humor, Spam, Trolling

Description:
A notoriously spammy poster, his posts have mostly been spam with a few humorous exceptions.
He is a regular on the forums and has been for quite some time.
He trolls a lot about Americans, Christians and Guns and does not like any of them, however, I think his perception of Americans has changed after he visited America.
Dookie recently (In June 2001) visited America.
I think he was one of the people banned in the Area 25 affair.
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13. Roland
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group:?
Nationality: Austrian
Lives: Austria
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Debates, AC-Fiction

Description:
A participant in the great Chronicles of Chiron which were written by Sergeant Sheets, Rang, Imran Siddiqui and himself on Sidgames before Alpha Centauri was released.
He mostly visits debates on Apolyton nowadays.

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12. My Wife Hates CIV
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 30's?
Nationality: ?
Lives: America
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II Multiplayer, Civ III, Civ II, Debates

Description:
An old poster who sometimes posts humor and used to debate in the Off-Topic, but has grown tired of the off-topic and now mostly playes Multiplayer succession games with Civ II.
He has contribuited a lot to the Civ II and III sections on Apolyton.
Over the Summer of 2001, he revived interest in Civilization II Multiplayer Succession games by posting in the Civ II-General Section. He created a tiny story about his first succession game in a thread that contained over 150 posts and overflowed into another thread.
Also, he seems to have disappeared from Apolyton. Hopefully he will return when Civ III is released.
He was America's biggest defender during the early days of the forums and constantly posted about how the US was going to destroy the Serbians (During the Kosovo crisis)

**DarkCloud** · February 8, 2002, 22:30

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11. Lancer
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Lance
Age Group: 30-50
Nationality: ?
Lives: Oregon, America
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: The Apolytoner's House

Description:
An Apolytoner who has had an experience with a Poltergeist while delivering things to a megastore on the graveyard shift on freight delivery.

Lancer invented the Apolytoner of the Season contest, an award for whoever has contribuited the most to Apolyton's OT.

He helped organize the Apolytoner's House, a charity home for a woman in the Phillipines, Karen Mills. The home was built from the funds of Apolytoners.

Alexander's Horse and him got into an argument about the house, I'm not sure why, AH ended up banned because he took the argument from PM's to the board and spent a week at ACOL.

Formerly served in the US Cavalry (airforce) ???

He has met Sten Sture and SuperSneak in real life.

He started the longest thread ever on one topic at Apolyton. The "What is the best MBT?" (Main Battle Tank) thread. It is archived (currently unavaliable as of Feb 2002 after the upgrade of the forums) and has over 1000 posts.

He also arranged the first ever official date between two Apolytoners with his thread, 'Apolyton Personals'. The Apolytoners are Tiamat and self biased (now engaged as of Feb 2002.)

He came up with 'Get Civilized', which is the first place slogan that appears on the new Apolyton T shirt (Available through the Apolyton Store.)

And according to Stefu he's always trying to get Apolytoners to date Phillipine Girls

He is humble and says:

'The Apolytoner's House' was my project but it could also be just as easily listed in about 30 other posters bios. I sure as heck couldn't have done it alone...

The Apolytoners house is up and providing refuge for Karen and her Mom, Sofronia, and her Mom's two other children. They were very poor, and suffering psychological abuse (at least) at the hands of Sofronia's sisters husband. Karen is the daughter of Sofronia and Terry Mills. Terry Mills is a Canadian who abandoned Sofronia, his wife, while pregnant w/ Karen. As the Philippines is a third world country, what they must have endured until Apolytoners came along is beyond my imagination.

Around December 2001, Lancer seemingly disappeared from Apolyton.

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10. *End Is Forever*
Former Usernames: (Iain Lindley)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Iain Lindley
Age Group: 17-22
Nationality: British
Lives: Great Britain
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Off-Topic

Description:
Referred to Apolyton by Stewart Spink, Iain has mostly posted in the Off-Topic and rarely in the On.
After visiting Apolyton he began to play Civ III more often, but never was a major Ontopic poster.
Currently frequents Trashtalk.com???'s Music website (its focus is alternative rock and punk) and posts on their forums.
In addition, he is one of the heaviest posters on the FreeFire Zone forums.

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09. Michael the Great
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Michael
Age Group: 30-46
Nationality: American
Lives: Tijuana, Mexico
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: OT Moderator, Debates

Description:
For a long time MtG was a poster at Apolyton in the OT, then in December 2000 his wife had a baby and he took some time off from Apolyton.
In April 2001 he became Off-Topic Moderator when Ming supposedly quit (there was a thread 'Ming is quitting moderatorship) and has moderated the forum since.
He is an avid poster and used to be one of Apolyton's great debaters.
He came to Apolyton from the old .owo Alpha Centauri forums and ACOL, where most posters now flame him since he became an Apolyton Moderator

Served in the same Army Division as Chris 62.

A player and poster in the Alpha Centauri section... retired from that posting job now that he is moderator.

He currently has a feud with ACOL Kitty; whom he considers to be an obnoxious DL... However, he keeps true to his word (on his forums, The Free Fire Zone) he promised not to ban anyone unless they were messing with the site; and despite several provocations, did not ban Kitty.
MichaeltheGreat continues to run his FreeFireZone as a portal for general posting and the "Combat Mission" game. He has several visitors to the Combat Mission forums, but the majority of the traffic comes on the off-topic sections of the site which are populated by DarkCloud, Venom, David Floyd, Asher, The Bursar, and several others from Apolyton and ACOL.

He was a major advocate of using force against Afghanistan's ruling Taliban government.

Michael the Great is married to LTEC! (Let them Eat Cake)

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08. Urban Ranger
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 30-39
Nationality: Chinese
Lives: Hong Kong
Registered: May 1999
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III, SMAC, OT Debates

Description:
Posts often in the Civ III and Off-Topic

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07. Narck
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous DL's: (Britney Spears, Off Topic Moderator (created sometime in 1999, when he was in a rebellious mood)
Real Name: Philip Casteren van Cattenburch
Age Group: born in 1975, currently 26 years old
Nationality: Dutch
Lives: Houston, Texas
Registered: April 15, 1999
Had/Has A Website: Had. Was about the Apolytoners' House.
Contribution to Apolyton: Apolyton Age & ICQ FAQ, & Apolyton Birthday Calendar

Description:
He is best known for his creation and upkeep of the Apolyton Age & ICQ FAQ & Apolyton Birthday Calendar, which listed all current and previous username logins and ICQ's and Apolytoners birthdays and ages.

He administered the fabled "Apolytoner of the Season" contest that was created by Lancer

He is now Retired from that position (it is now automated

Ah. the horrors of lost jobs to computers

).

He found the 'Christmas Smilies' for Apolyton

He was previously the Apolyton Forum Helper. Also helped out with polls in the Apolyton forum in 1999 and early 2000, and with setting up a website for the Apolytoners' House, which was a noble effort (he thinks) of Apolytoners to donate money to give a poor girl from the Filippines a home of her own. The house was eventually built, fully funded by Apolytoners' donations.

He has not posted much since November 2000.

He intends to post more, but somehow is not finding the time

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06. Provost Harrison
Former Usernames: (AI)
Famous DL's: (ProvostHarrison)
Real Name: Richard Harrison
Age Group: 25-26
Nationality: British
Lives: Great Britain
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III, Off Topic, Debates

Description:
Major contribuitor to Apolyton, Apolyton's newest Deity, Provost Harrison has posted heavily in the Civ III and other sections of the site during his career.
He is a student Scientist in Britain and has met a number of British Apolytoners, Iain Lindley, Stewart Spink, etc.
He used to be a major debator in all types of threads, but has since abandoned Religious threads and has tired of debating the same old threads year after year.
Once when ProvostB, Provost Harrison, and Provost D were all active at the same time, PH created a "Chat thread for the Provosts" Chat threads have been since outlawed.
He also compiled a list of the Emperors in August or October, The Guild of Emperors and updated it with the statistics of all emperor's number of posts.
He had it compiled in Excel, and released it again in December.
He is a PhD Biochemist.

Provost Harrison reached the Deity level in December 2001, but received a large PCR by the moderators and was banned about a week. He then created a DL and complained about his ban and said that he was not returning.
Surprise of Surprises, he did return after his ban was over, and is now recompiling his Post Count and once again posting frequently.
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05. Alexander's Horse
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous Titles: (Apolyton Troll, GigaTroll, MegaTroll, GigaTroll, Troll Machine, Apolytoner of the Season)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 30-40
Nationality: Austrailian
Lives: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: PROT (A Delphi-Based Forum)
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III, Off-Topic, Spam, Trolling

Description:
A notoriously spammy Deity, Alexander's Horse has started numerous "Troll" topics in various forums, saying things just to get a response.

He spammed his way to deity, posting short posts for nearly 2000 posts, but the majority of his 10000 posts were useful Civ III questions and Off-Topic debate subjects.

He received the title "Mega Troll" by fighting against Lancer in the "Karen Mills" threads. He wears his "Troll" title like a badge. However, after July 2001 or such, he lost his troll title. Nevertheless, in October or November 2001 he managed to receive the Deity label.

He was banned once for insulting Lancer (by taking a private message post [after being told to take the argument to PMs] and posting it on the boards)

He caused the entire population of Area 25 to be banned when he reported their rules violations after he saw some of the

younger posters posting porn

.

He was once the Apolytoner of the Season winner for the Off-Topic. (Velociryx won for the entire site, beating AH by a narrow margin).

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04. Imran Siddiqui
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (Arthur Dent)
Real Name: Imran Siddiqui
Age Group: 21
Nationality: Pakistani
Lives: New York, America Toms River, NJ, USA or New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III, OT

Description:
ACS News Editor as of June 2001, he and Snapcase now control all news on Apolyton.
Before that time Imran debated and argued with Red Trotskyte and more recently, anyone who opposes George Bush Jr.
He is a diehard Republican and is one of Apolyton's more colorful members.
He also argues a lot with n.c. a Democratic American poster who hates George Bush Jr.

For his Arthur Dent DL he invited Apolytoners to guess who was behind the DL.
He considers himself a Deist.

He created the famous "Excellent Adventures" thread and participated in the original Alpha Centauri Ficitional story at Sidgames along with Roland, Sergeant Sheets and others.

He is also the Apolyton Fantasy Sports guy for the United States and was the VP of the Green Army.

Imran is now a certified ACS News Editor.
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04. MarkG
Former Usernames: (MarkG)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Markos Giannopoulis
Age Group: 18-25
Nationality: Greek
Lives: Greece
Registered: 1st to register
Had/Has A Website: APOLYTON CIVIZATION SITE; (before that: The First Greek Civilization Site)
Contribution to Apolyton: Apolyton, Civ III

Description:
One of the creators of Apolyton, MarkG is now a deity. He has created numerous Civ III threads and maintains the site and forums.

In August 2001??? He updated to VBBulletin forums and took the archives (temporarily offline

)

He has done much work to benefit the Civ III community and deserves much thanks.
Thank you MarkG!

02. Mao
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: May 1999
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III, Spam, SLeague

Description:
Most people hardly ever see a post by Mao. He is the master of spammy posts, posts with little content and that just seem to fade into the background.
Mao is a poster of few words.
I first heard of Mao when he reached Deity level (the first time) and was disgusted, I posted on all on-topic forums except for the CTP ones and I had never seen a post by him at all. Then I discovered the Off-Topic.
He lost his Deity status first when a PCR of 1000 posts hit him (or 10%) then he regained it and a forum bug reset his #of posts to 0. Mark fixed that and returned to him 10100 posts and he was a deity once again.
Longtime owner of the Coffee Shop.
He posted for a while, then disappeared to "The Frontier" an online story forum with "Chairman Milo" (Who has since disappeared) and "Shadowstrike" as well as other Apolytoners.
He sometimes posts in the Scenario League.
His username was chosen because Mao was an ally to him in a Civ II game.

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01. Ming
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Bill
Age Group: 47 (10-14-1954)
Nationality: American---> german/italian/irish
Lives: Chicago, Illinois, America
Registered: Registered originally at the Original Greek Site... and just continued at Apolyton when the merger occured.
Had/Has A Website: NO
Contribution to Apolyton: The List, OT and Civ Forums Moderator,

Description
The original deity and advertising executive of Apolyton. Also the first Off-Topic moderator, (before MLeonard begged to be an assistant moderator for the off-topic)
He Put together the list of Cheats for the Official Civ III List
He got extra help with Off-Topic moderation in March, 2001, when Michael the Great joined him as moderator for that forum.
A sometimes serious poster, sometimes funny, his catch phrase for a closed thread is "CASE CLOSED".
His other trademark is a

at the end of each post.

Ming and the other moderators have recently been overworked by the massive amounts of new posters present after the release of Civ III.

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Thanks go out to Stefu, Gregor, Colon, Immortal Wombat, and various other posters for information collected.

**Zopperoni** · February 8, 2002, 23:25

Re: The Apolyton 100: ver. 2.00

(delete this)

**Lefty Scaevola** · February 8, 2002, 23:43

Cool work.

David floyd is in his young 20s.
Now if you really want to make yourself useful, Make a list of the 100 hottest babes who will have sex with me.

**faded glory** · February 8, 2002, 23:54

TheBirdman Lives in denmark. He hangs in CTP-Mplaying. He is sometimes (except WS. Zulu basterd, But in monkey

) a very trustworthy and dedicated allie who walks softly with a big stick and goes beyond that of which an allie is expected to do(dragging into unwinnable wars, *ahem Monkey).

If we were any closer during our PBEM games, we would be like drinking mates

His real name is max.

**Zopperoni** · February 9, 2002, 00:05

MikeH's real name is...Mike

(Hunt)

**Alexander's Horse** · February 9, 2002, 01:00

Hey! what happened to my posts? I was well over 10,700

**Immortal Wombat** · February 9, 2002, 14:54

Solver - 4th Interview was with WesW
Is CtP and SMAC Ladder admin, has/had an AoK website. Can't find the address right now.
Nationality: not greek. Slav or something I thought

David Floyd
Age: ~25

Giancarlo
Nationality: American born Spaniard with an Italian mother I think
Lives: Argentina
Hasn't left. Yet.

Mark L
Now Saint Marcus
Nationality - Dutch

Seneca
Enthusiastic Mornington Crescent player

Stewart Spink
-> Never met Dookie, except in front of mirrors etc.

technophile
->Now loinburger (Use capital letters dammit

)

Winston
Danish, lives in Denmark

Reismark
CGN is no longer defunct

Bob Dornan
If he's 16 its only recently. He's certainly not older

derek
Now Ted Striker
contributions to Apolyton: Those little underwear pictures he drops into spam threads

Sir David
Sweden only has two e's

How long has MLeonard been 16?

Paul
Superfluous use of the word "an". (My fault from last time actually

)

Ecthelion
age: nearly 19

Roland
Lives: Austria/Switzerland, not Australia

Provost Harrison
age: 24, 25 in June

Zopper: MikeH's name really is Mike Hunt? Poor guy...

**Paul Hanson** · February 9, 2002, 15:48

As I said before when v1 was done, I resent the suggestion that it is possible to overuse the "Spam" section of the Mod Asylum.

(Check the description for Dracon).

**Immortal Wombat** · February 9, 2002, 16:07

Top 137 next time DC

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