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**Dauphin** · April 27, 2002, 14:49

What is the largest bulletin board site out there, in terms of registered members? Is Poly the largest in the Civ-esque game category?

**MarkG** · April 27, 2002, 14:49

well the aok heaven forums have 29 people right now

but that doesnt mean that we're 10 times bigger than them

**Andemagne** · April 27, 2002, 19:00

there were something like 4900 when I registered
(IIRC of course).

Originally posted by lockstep
Yes, I noticed that also when I registered as the 10792th member and my user id was 10858.

where I can find my ID number?

**Skanky Burns** · April 28, 2002, 01:26

Click on your user profile, the icon with a folder and a person standing next to it. In the address, it will have something like
userid=4616

Which is your ID number, btw

**TCO** · April 28, 2002, 03:11

When did we surpass AOE? Di they go downhill?

**MarkG** · April 28, 2002, 04:10

i'm not sure on what happened with them. it might simply be that they have a different way to measure "currently online" visitors...

**Grrr** · April 28, 2002, 16:14

19000 Members. Yet less than 3000 active? That is silly. I assume that activity increases drastically when a patch or so is announced.

**MarkG** · April 28, 2002, 16:16

That is silly

no, that's life. we didnt start yesterday, we started over 3.5 years ago. people come and go....

**DarkCloud** · April 28, 2002, 19:02

visited(and logged in, one can have an account, lurk without log in and therefore not be counted) in the last month: 2705
posted in the last month: 1651

visited in the last 3 months: 4947
posted in the last 3 months: 2932

no, that's life. we didnt start yesterday, we started over 3.5 years ago. people come and go....

...And the rest are unused DL's

But you have to admit, those aren't good numbers- we need to get the post in last 3 months up to 5000 at least!
There will one day be too few people here to post- I fear that we have about 2 years of good activity, 2 years of slipping, and 2 years of dying- if Mark and dan keep the site up

and the site does not expand to other games

Hopefully Civ IV will be released in 6 years... It was 4 yrs between I (1992) and II (1996) and 5 between II and III (2001)

**Jon Miller** · April 28, 2002, 19:44

when a new game is announced people will start coming agian

it will live

Jon Miller

**Spiffor** · April 28, 2002, 20:10

I still don't get why so many people come, register, and don't post at all. These mute registered are more than 1 half of the members !

**Richelieu** · April 28, 2002, 20:12

Aren't you deleting accounts after they've been inactive for a certain time? Doesn't the inactive user info take up space on the database ?

**MarkG** · April 29, 2002, 02:48

Originally posted by Richelieu
Aren't you deleting accounts after they've been inactive for a certain time?

no. you never know when someone will decide to return

Doesn't the inactive user info take up space on the database ?

not really. the user tables are currently 26mb.
meanwhile, we have over 800mb of attachements on the forums

**MarkG** · April 29, 2002, 02:50

Originally posted by DarkCloud
There will one day be too few people here to post- I fear that we have about 2 years of good activity, 2 years of slipping, and 2 years of dying- if Mark and dan keep the site up

and the site does not expand to other games

you probably didnt notice the expansion of our coverage over the last few months

**Imran Siddiqui** · April 29, 2002, 03:17

Ooooh... very nice

.

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