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**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:30

The Apolyton 100
version 3.0

Ripping off the Forbes 500... here is the Apolyton 100, a listing of
the top 120 Apolyton posters and my knowledge of them.

Apolyton History Condensed
(Please feel free to add anything or correct dates! Or write your own reflections on posters!)

Guide to Chart
Regular Entry
01. (01.) Ming 15226 UP 0
Current Position. (Previous Position) Name #of Posts (Old #of Posts from March 2002) / Number of Positions Gained/lost since version 2.0

Symbols
*** Has not posted or been seen in chat in past 6 months
** Has not posted much in last 3 months
* Has not posted much in last 1-2 months
aux Auxiliary Poster on List: He Lost Posts/Changed Loginname.

Version 3.00

Top 120
Ranking Data from 06/Jan/03
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The Deities
01. Ming 17777 (12074)
02. MarkG 16227 (15226)
* 03. Mao 12162 (12074)
04. Imran Siddiqui 11772 (11697)
05. Alexander's Horse 10247 (10207)

The List
Number. Name. Previous Position

aux1. HershOstropoler (AKA Roland)
aux2. Thorn (AKA Evan von Christoph)
aux3. MichaeltheGreat (6426)
aux4. Ecthelion (previously 25. DOWN 10 to 35 Was banned when list was compiled)
aux5. Lazarus and the Gimp

120. Shiber 2500 NEW
119. GeneralTacitus 2504 NEW
***118. Dominikos 2507 DOWN 42
117. Arrian 2508 NEW
116. knowhow2 2508 NEW
**115. Winston 2517 DOWN 36
114. FlameFlash 2507 NEW
113. TKG 2538 NEW
***112. Par4 2543 DOWN 38
111. Estilpón 2544 NEW
***110. Empress 2682 (2745) DOWN 45
109.H Tower 2599 NEW
108. Sir Ralph 2632 NEW
107. Henrik 2656 NEW
106. MrWhereItsAt 2684 NEW
***105. John-SJ 2706 DOWN 35
104. Kassiopeia 2714 NEW
*103. blackice 2716 NEW
*102. Willem 2728 NEW
**101. Hueij 2733 DOWN 26
100. Mark_Everson 2741 NEW
99. korn469 2787 NEW
98. cavebear 2811 NEW
***97. Atahualpa 2873 DOWN 32
***96. Comrade Dan 2919 DOWN 33
95. Googlie 2932 UP 8
94. reismark 2945 DOWN 31
**93. MagyarCrusader 2960 DOWN 21
92. UberKrux 2997 NEW

EMPERORS (91)
91. loinburger 3032 (2290) DOWN 1
***90. Starchild 3033 (3029) DOWN 32
***89. Giant_Squid 3045 (3036)DOWN 33
88. DinoDoc 3048 DOWN 17
***87. Bob Dornan 3066 (3047) DOWN 42
**86. Kropotkin 3091 (3004) DOWN 26
*85. Lefty Scaevola 3095 DOWN 12
**84. Seeker 3096 (2986)DOWN 23
*83. phoenixcager 3099 DOWN 19
***82. Victor Galis 3105 DOWN 14
81.GhengisFarb 3119 NEW
*80. Shadowstrike 3213 (2972) DOWN 15
**79. SuperSneak 3217 (3075) DOWN 26
78. DanS 3277 (3189) DOWN 30
77. Skanky Burns 3281 NEW
76. Sprayber 3294 UP 1
75. Waku 3303 NEW
***74. ProvostB 3304 DOWN 32
73. vmxa1 3306 NEW
***72. Berzerker 3331 DOWN 28
*71. Colon 3346 DOWN 21
70. SnowFire 3353 (3105) DOWN 16
*69. monolith94 3356 DOWN 25
68. Big Crunch 3395 NEW
67. civman2000 3396 NEW
66. orange 3412 (2417) UP 18
***65. Djugashvili 3423 DOWN 26
64. Snapcase 3441 (3318) DOWN 8
63. jasev 3517 NEW
62. Velociryx 3548 NEW
61. DarthVeda 3588 (3154) DOWN 12
60. JohnT 3597 DOWN 22
59. Sten Sture 3599 DOWN 22
*58. Docfeelgood 3631 DOWN 24
*57. Misotu 3656 DOWN 17
56. yaroslav 3691 NEW
55. Ted Striker 3712 DOWN 18
54. Smash 3714 (3150) UP 5
53. Sir David 3749 DOWN 19
52. Trip 3786 NEW
***51. MLeonard 3798 DOWN 19
50. Boddington's 3822 DOWN 36
***49. The Brain 3849 DOWN 18
**48. n.c. 3894 DOWN 16
47. Immortal Wombat 3986 NEW
46. Fiera 4051 UP 43
45. Keygen 4068 (2368) UP 42
***44.Monk 4071 DOWN 15
43. St Leo 4079 (3164)UP 5
42.Locutus 4150 NEW
41.yin26 4169 UP 41
40. panag 4190 NEW
39. Shi Huangdi 4190 DOWN 10
38. Rasputin 4248 (3603) UP 14
37. Eli 4267 (3307)UP 10
36.El Awrence 4312 NEW
35. Chris 62 4324 (3352) UP 21
34.connorkimbro 4326 (4142) DOWN 5
*33. MikeH 4333 DOWN 7
**32. Theben 4346 DOWN 8
31. TheBirdMan 4364 UP 36
30.DanQ 4425 (3951)
29.Scouse Gits 4490 UP 45
28.Hydey 4492 (2282) UP 68
27.Gibsie 4576 DOWN 5
+26. Dissident 2932 +1317+399=4648 NEW
25.DarkCloud 4709 (2700) UP 43
24.Boshko 4772 DOWN 4
23.notyoueither 4849 NEW
22.Solver 4957 (1964) UP 88
21.Caesar the Great 5031 DOWN 2
20. LordStone1 5127 DOWN 4
19. Albert Speer 5170 DOWN 4
18. War4ever 5181 (2374) UP 67
17. Stefu 5289 UP 1
*16. Lancer 5297 DOWN 5
15. GP 5301 UP 9
14. Gramphos 5339 NEW
13. rah 5419 UP 36
*12. My Wife Hates CIV 5542
11. Paul 6290 UP 10
10. *End Is Forever* 6444 (6369) UP 1
***9. Narck 6638 (6638) DOWN 2
8. Provost Harrison 7806 (10001) DOWN 2
7. Urban Ranger 8554 (7552) UP 1
6. Jay Bee 8685 (6009) UP 35

DEITIES (5)
1. Ming 17777 (14074)
2. MarkG 16227 (12026) UP 1
**3. Mao 12162 (12074) DOWN 1
4. Imran Siddiqui 11772 (11697)
5. Alexander's Horse 10247 (10207)

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Biggest Gainers
Gramphos (at least 105 positions)
notyoueither (at least 88 positions)
Solver (88 positions)
Dissident (at least 84 positions)
El Awrence (at least 75 positions)
panag (at least 71 positions)
Locutus (at least 69 positions)
War4Ever (67 positions)
Hydey (64 positions)
Immortal Wombat (at least 64 positions)
Trip (at least 59 positions)
yaroslav (at least 55 positions)
Velociryx (at least 49 positions)
jasev (at least 48 positions)
Scouse Gits (45 positions)
civman2000 (at least 44 positions)
Fiera (44 positions)
Big Crunch (at least 43 positions)
DarkCloud (43 positions)
Keygen (42 positions)
yin26 (42 positions)
vmxa1 (at least 37 positions)
TheBirdMan (36 positions)
Waku (at least 35 positions)
rah (35 positions)
Skanky Burns (at least 33 positions)
Jay Bee (31 positions)
Genghis Farb (at least 30 positions)
Chris 62 (21 positions)
UberKrux (at least 19 positions)
orange (19 positions)
Dissident (at least 15 positions)
cavebear (at least 12 positions)
korn469 (at least 11 positions)
Mark_Everson (at least 10 positions)
Paul (10 Positions)

Biggest Losers
Empress (45 positions)
Dominikos (42 positions)
Bob Dornan (41 positions)
Par4 (38 positions)
Winston (36 positions)
Boddington’s (35 positions)
John-SJ (35 positions)
Comrade Dan (33 positions)
Giant Squid (32 positions)
Atahalupa (32 positions)
ProvostB (31 positions)
Starchild (31 positions)
reismark (30 positions)
DanS (29 positions)
Berzerker (27 positions)
Hueij (26 positions)
Djugavashili (25 positions)
SuperSneak (25 positions)
Kropotkin (25 positions)
monolith94 (24 positions)
Docfeelgood (23 positions)
Seeker (22 positions)
JohnT (21 positions)
Sten Sture (21 positions)
MagyarCrusader (20 positions)
Colon (20 positions)
MLeonard (18 positions)
Sir David (18 positions)
phoenixcager (18 positions)
Ted Striker (17 positions)
The Brain (17 positions)
Misotu (16 positions)
DinoDoc (16 positions)
n.c. (15 positions)
SnowFire (15 positions)
Monk (15 positions)
Shadowstrike (14 positions)
Victor Galis (13 positions)
DarthVeda (11 positions)
Lefty Scaevola (11 positions)
Shi Huangdi (11 positions)
Theben (8 positions)
Snapcase (7 positions)
MikeH (6 positions)
Lancer (5 Positions)
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+Dissident’s two former logins are included in his total: Krushala with 1317 posts. And Puaxant Tuvip with 399 posts.

*Boddington’s wins the award for falling the most positions without falling off the list due to the various massive PCRs he has suffered.
*Provost Harrison has probably lost the most posts to PCR’s but has managed to only fall two positions since losing his deity status.
*DanQ’s position didn’t change at all

**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:34

The List Proper

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aux1. HershOstropoler
Former Usernames: (Roland)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Roland?
Age Group: 30?-40?
Nationality: Austrian
Lives: Salzburg, Austria
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Debates, AC-Fiction, The Apolyton Economicist!

Description:
Roland, along with Sergeant Sheets, Rang, Imran Siddiqui wrote the Chronicles of Chiron, the first collaborative story about the computer game Alpha Centauri on Sidgames before Alpha Centauri was released and had it posted in their stories section. Sadly, however, Sidgames is now defunct. Although DarkCloud still possesses the story on his harddrive, and perhaps Imran, Dookie or fjxorc may also have it; if someone is interested. When reading the story, this was created in the days before the Hive had its current name and when Provost Zakharov was known as Provost Sakharov.

He mostly visits debates on Apolyton as of March 2001.

Around November/December 2001, Roland changed his Username to HershOstropoler, which, according to research done by Sagacious Dolphin, happens to be the name of a court jester to an C18-19th Rabbi. Supposedly, he had his former account locked and the post count zeroed because he only wanted to post in the off-topic economist threads.
He carries the EU flag as his flag of choice on the forums.

Entry Last updated 18/jan/03

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aux2. Evan Von Christoph
Current Username: Thorn
Former Usernames: EvC, EVC, Cecil, Evan Von Christoph, Chris EvC (et. al.)
Former Titles: Apolyton Daffy Duck (Given to him by JohnT)
Famous DL's?: (Lucifer D. Satan [A satanist], General Steelman (supposedly an 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

)
Usernumber: #2366
Real Name: Chris Evan VonChristoph
Age Group: 20 [Aug 9, 1983]
Nationality: American
Lives: Pennslyvania?
Registered: 5-13-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Spam. Micronations. Spam. Apolytown. Spam. "Funposts". Humor.

Description:
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, and/or he returns from a banning) he will change his name and post a lot.

July 1, 2001, EVC received a 10% PCR and a week ban for spamming the OT and ressurecting dead threads, the ban courtesy of Ming… Then on the 17th he was banned for another week by another OT Mod, this time, MichaeltheGreat… EVC manages to receive bans quite regularly…

EvC was finally de-facto permabanned after he gave his password out to people in the Apolyton OT some time during 2002. However, he returned as his regular old self in the guise of Thorn, and continues to post under the login.

Then, on December 30, 2002, Thorn managed to get restricted again for spamming. This time by DanQ, completing his round-robin moderator ban- EVC is perhaps the only poster to be banned by Mleonard, MarkG, Ming, MichaeltheGreat, AND DanQ… Which says a lot, since DanQ hardly ever bans anyone

Last Updated 9/mar/03

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aux3. Michael the Great
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (LTEC!)

Real Name: Michael
Age Group: 30-46
Nationality: American
Lives: Tijuana, Mexico
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: FreeFireZone (Formerly a site for the game Combat Mission; had a thriving Off-Topic Community)
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 countinued to run his FreeFireZone as a portal for general posting and the "Combat Mission" game until he sold it to MBloom III sometime in 2002. MBloom III tried to convert the forum into a football [soccer] forum, but failed, and received a total of zero new registered members since he assumed moderatorialship. As of Jan 1, 2003, the only occasionalvisitors to the forum are MBloom himself, chegitz guevara, DarkCloud, The Bursar and Chris62. .

MichaeltheGreat stared FreeFireZone as a forum for the internet game Combat Mission. He had about 2 Combat Mission joineess, but the majority of the traffic came on the off-topic sections of the site from former ACOLers and Apolyton spammers. The main contribuitors during that time were; devilmunchkin, DarkCloud, *End is Forever*, Venom, David Floyd, Asher, Chris62, Sir Penguin and The Bursar. Although, Eli and a few others dropped by from time to time. However, about the time that FFZ was converted into a football [Soccer] forum, many of the ACOLers left for Counterglow.

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)

Also, around April 4, 2002, he stepped down from his moderatorial position as an april fools joke, giving moderator powers to his wife, who closed a thread because people were making fun of cats… Then he semi-disappeared from Apolyton after setting his post count at zero.

Now, he is presumed to be spending more time taking care of his young children, although he still moderates the OT from time to time.

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aux4. Ecthelion
Former Usernames: (Andz83, Chaos Warrior)
Famous DL's: (Diplodocus, Outlaw [created for Eli], Thranduil, Strategist)
Usernumber: #5441
Real Name: Andy
Age Group: Oct 6, 1983 (20 yrs)
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.

The only reason he is on the auxiliary list is because he was banned (either by choice or request, I still have to figure out which happens to be true) while I compiled this listing; thus, apologies in advance to any who would try to place him higher on the list.

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aux5. Lazarus and the Gimp
Former Usernames: (Trappist, Bugs ****ing Bunny)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: (1971) 32
Nationality: British
Lives: Britland
Registered: before 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Humor, OT

Description:

I racked up about 1500 posts as "Trappist", then got the username deleted because I got bored of it (this predates the name change facility).

Then I notched up another 1500 as "Lazarus and the Gimp" before the "Curse of Apolyton" corrupted my user details and I had to register again.

The postcount you see here is what happened between re-registering as "Lazarus & the Gimp" and the abolition of "post counts that count" on the OT.

So add about 3500 to the postcount you see on my profile to get an idea of my true figure.

Bugs ****ing Bunny is an extremely humorous poster who hails from Britland and has frequently gotten into flame wars with other posters, but, for the most part is enjoyed by all for his strange antics.

In the months of Nov 2001- Dec 2001 he visited FreeFireZone and posted a fair amount, but has not been seen there since and has returned to Apolyton's OT and continues to post there.

He frequented ACOL for a time; and currently posts on Counterglow from time to time. Also, in the glory days of FreeFireZone, Laz was known to drop by from time to time.

He has never received a PCR…

He once interviewed AH (Alexander’s Horse) for a Faces of Apolyton article that was rejected for being too rude. It was subsequently involved in a dispute over copyright that got MarkG permanently banned from ACOL.

Every now and then in the OT, he has published “Historical Filth” articles where he researches into the ‘secret’ lives of great men and hidden histories, uncovering strange and unsettling information about Kings, Queens, Scientists, Priests and “Holy” Men. As of March, he his currently researching a new edition- reading histories and searching for a topic.

He is exceedingly well written and very good at writing. You can find some of his fiction in the Civ III-Stories section, and I encourage you to read them. He has a very unique style; with terse language that nevertheless flows.

Entry Last updated 17/mar/03

**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:37

120. Shiber
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #21379
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 24-36?
Nationality: Hebrew/Israeli
Lives: Israel
Registered: 07/21/02
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III Demogames

Description:
The man who had 2500 posts at the beginning of this 3rd compilation of The Apolyton 100 starts the list proper. This man is a Civ III and Civ III PTW demogamer.

Shiber is an Israeli teen, from Haifa. He studies in the Gifted Kids program and is a class-mate of Sirotnikov .

He knows alot about computers and computer networks.

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119. GeneralTacitus
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality:
Lives:
Registered:
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III Demogames/NationStates

Description:
A heavy poster in the NationStates game, GeneralTacitus is also well known in Demogame circles- such as the Alpha Centauri Democracy game, the Civ III democracy game and the Civ III intersite democracy game.

He participates in the Roleplaying PTW team and also palys in the Never Ending Stories tales in the Stories/Diplomacy section.

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118. Dominikos
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 19-23?
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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117. Arrian
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #10585
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: 07/04/01
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Democracy Games/Civ III

Description:
Much loved Civ III Demo-Gamer.
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116. knowhow2
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality:
Lives:
Registered:
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton:

Description:
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115. Winston
Former Usernames: (Legman,winston)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Winston
Age Group: 30-50
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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114. FlameFlash
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #16515
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 24?
Nationality: United Station
Lives: United States
Registered: 12/18/01
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Macintosh

Description:
Mac Player. Keeps the Mac Section alive. He also posts occasionally in the Community section.

He also participates in the CTP democracy games.

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113. TKG
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 15 (1988)
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Eastern ontario, Canada
Registered: feb/17/01
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: ACDG, SMAC,

Description:
NationStates Participant.

Active participant in ACDG. Spammed his way to emperor there after lurking for most of 2001 and 2002

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112. 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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111. Estilpón
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #11130
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 24-32?
Nationality: Spaniard
Lives: Spain
Registered: 8/16/01
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Spanish Civ II

Description:
Spanish Civ II poster.

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110. Empress
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Title: Queen
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 24-32?
Nationality: American
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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109. H Tower
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous DL's?: (none that he’ll admit to)
Usernumber: #10647
Real Name: Dave
Age Group: Sept 4, 1982 (21 yrs)
Nationality: American
Lives: Illinois, USA
Registered: 07/10/2001
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II, CTP2 Democracy Game

Description:
A member of the Civ II Democracy game, Civ II Democracy Game, and Civ II PBEM, he used to be a member of NationStatess and compiled a table of Contetnts for all NationStates member-nations.

He was once the president of the Civ II Democracy Game and gave the people what they demanded, many screenshots, etc. and was/is the mini-mod for the Civ II DG. He was also the High Court Judge in the CTP2 Democracy Game.

He also participates in the CTP 2 Democracy game and the MOO3 sections of the site; and still finds the time to hang out in the Other Games section of the site every once and a while.

As for his other NationStates accomplishments, he designed a preliminary civgroup icon and came up with the idea of a civgroup icon for the NationStates site section (before it was a section; when it was still a subset of the Diplo/Stories section)

He is a semi regular in the Scenario League forum; and is a regular in the Apolyton Coffeeshop, and met Ming, rah, Theben, loinburger, Che Guevera, -JRabbit, and bunnygyrl at the Chicago Poly meet last December.

Last Updated: 17/3/03
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108. Sir Ralph
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #?
Real Name: Ralph?
Age Group: 24-36?
Nationality: German
Lives: Bavaria, Germany
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ??
Contribution to Apolyton: Democracy Games/CivIII

Description:
Once a fairly important Civ III ideas poster; Sir Ralph also posts at Civfanatics nowadays. He has been a member of several Democracy games at Apolyton; and joined the IntersiteDemogame but had a change of heart at the last moment and jumped ship for another team.

Although he still plays the Civ III Democracy game itself at Apolyton.

Last Updated:17/03/03
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107. Henrik
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #8061
Real Name: Henrik
Age Group: March 1, 1986 (17 yrs old)
Nationality: Swedish
Lives: Lund, Sweden
Registered: dec/26/2000
Had/Has A Website: http://indalciv.lohmander.org/
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II Creation/ PBEM

Description:
Civ II Creation and Civ II/III PBEMer.
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106. MrWhereItsAt
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #14580
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: New Zealeander
Lives: New Zealand
Registered: 11-15-01
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Democracy Games

Description:
Big Democracy-Gamer and Nation States Player.

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105. John-SJ
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #3402
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.

Religion: Christian
Attend Mass: Never
Inner Beliefs: I believe that Jesus is The Christ, the Son Of The Livin God, and that He is the Savior both of myself and anyone who believes.

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104. Kassiopeia
Former Usernames: (kassiopeia)
DL's: (not known)
Usernumber: #10609
Real Name: Antti Helin
Age Group: 16 (1986)
Nationality: Finnish
Lives: Finland
Registered: 07/05/01
Had/Has A Website: http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/attinor/index.htm
Contribution to Apolyton: AC/ AC-fiction

Description:
A heavy Alpha Centauri poster. Kassiopea currently posts in Sprayber/LMP’s Beyond Alpha Centauri roleplaying game as well as filling the AC section with ideas, hints, cheats, etc.

Kassiopeia also posts heavily in the Other Games and Off Topic section.

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103. blackice
Former Usernames: (none known))
DL's: (not known)
Usernumber: #6773
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Canada
Registered: 9-19-00
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: OT

Description:
blackice knows more than a thing or two about computers and sometimes posts in the OT.

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102. Willem
Former Usernames: (none known))
DL's: (not known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: ?
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III

Description:
Civ III creation/play the world/general poster

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101. 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...

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100. Mark_Everson
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Mark Everson
Age Group: 20?
Nationality: American?
Lives: America?
Registered: (before) 2/15/99
Had/Has A Website: http://www.clash.apolyton.net (?)
Contribution to Apolyton: Clash of Civilizations

Description:
The man behind the Clash of Civilizations game. One of Apolyton’s premier programmers and game designers. Mark Everson’s free game has been under development since 2000 and has had many team members contribute ideas and/or coding.

However, he has spearheaded efforts and continues to produce quality code.

Clash of Civilizations is a civilization-like game that improves on Civilization II in some ways and has graphics that much resemble Civ II’s… some graphics which were taken from those designed by Scenario Designers for Civ II.

Last Updated: March 15, 2003

**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:37

99. korn469
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #2181
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 20? June 10
Nationality: ?
Lives: ?
Registered: (before) 2/15/99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: The List

Description:
korn469 was one of the major players in “The List” for Civ III ideas, archiving many threads and running many discussion s as threadmaster for the ideas.

In addition, his work in finding bugs in Civ III after the release is also to be admired. However, he abandoned the bug-list in October 2001.

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

Description:
Did a list or two. Posts in the community section.

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97. 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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96. 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.

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95. Googlie
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (Rynn)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 17
Nationality: Canadian (French?)
Lives: Quebec, Canada
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: Spartan Chronicles Website (Host of Velociryx's Alpha Centauri Strategy Guide)
Contribution to Apolyton: AC-Fiction, AC Mulitplaying

Description:
Has a neighbor, Rynn, who posts from the same computer.
Creator of the Spartan Chronicles, and major poster in the Spartan Chronicles.

He also created many major stories in the Alpha Centauri section of the website. His tales are of remarkably high quality.

Googlie, at one point, played over 9 AC-Multiplaying games AND participated in the Spartan Chronicles.

He also posted at the Civilization Gaming Network for a time and assisted people with Alpha Centauri on the website and participated in two of the Multiplaying Succession games there.

Googlie continues his AC-MPing and posts in the Fiction section from time to time.

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94. reismark
Former Usernames: None
Famous DL's: None
Usernumber: #1719
Real Name: Known only to a select few
Age Group: aug 5, 1982 (21 yrs)
Nationality: Italian-American
Lives: New York City, USA
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: http://www.civgaming.net
Contribution to Apolyton: ACS Picks the Winners/Fantasy Gaming

Description:
Reismark was the creator of the original series "ACS Picks The Winners" for football predictions. Now known as the "Lombardi Handicappers' League", it recently completed its third season of football and will soon begin its third season of predicting the NCAA men's basketball tournament. He was also the original mind behind fantasy sports on Apolyton through sandbox.com, though that pandemic has spread in recent years to other sites and to the control of his friend Imran Siddiqui.

In September 2000 he created the Civilization Gaming Network and sucked several Apolytoners away from Apolyton, though his intention was not to compete with but rather complement all Civilization sites. It was a worthy opponent of Apolyton and received 500 members in 6 months, which works out to nearly 100 members a month.

CGN went under in May 2001 after his host discontinued its hosting plan with only one week's notice (luckily, however Reismark managed to put off disconnection for an entire month.) During the time when CGN was down, discussion moved to ezboard sites. However, CGN resurfaced in October with the help of many throughout the Civilization community, thus partially achieving the site's original goal

In June 2001, Reismark left the bulletin-board world in June when he had a 'family-emergency' but has since returned.

Reismark's frequent hangouts are Apolyton & CGN, though he can be spotted from time to time on the Frontier & CFC. Likes include football, the Yankees, dropping 15-ton safes on posters in the Coffee Shop, the various seasons of Survivor, and Chris Jericho, professional wrestling's first ever undisputed champion and personal god to many.

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93. MagyarCrusader
Former Usernames: Michael Jesczenka
Famous DL's?: Magyar Crusader, mjeszenka, Michhael Jeszenka, Polar Kracken, Archanger
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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92. UberKruX
Former Usernames: None
Famous DL's: (jenocide,kutnpaste,bobbert)
Real Name: ??
Age Group: ?
Nationality: American
Lives: New York, America
Registered: May 23, 2001
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:
Major civ III player/poster/participant in democracy games. He is also known for being the person with the most ideas for civ III just prior to its release (sadly he, like many others came too late for his ideas to be added to “The List”)

UberKrux’s DL’s jenocide,kutnpaste,bobbert were all created using the same IP address. And all had identical passwords, and email from the same service provider: r0x0rz.org

(little known fact: his father died in the WTC bombing

)
Last Updated: March, 15,03
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91. loinburger
Former Usernames: None
Famous DL's?: (Herr Glockenspiel, who was not famous)
Real Name: Kevin
Age Group: 22 (1981)
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:
He majored in Computer Science at Wittenberg University in Ohio, and graduated 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 is pro-abortion.

He enjoys useless polls.

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90. Starchild
Former Usernames: (The Starchild, Transcendii Starchild)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #1198
Real Name: ?
Age Group: Aug 4, 1984 (19 yrs)
Nationality: British
Lives: England
Registered: (before) 2/15/99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II/OT

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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89. 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: November 7, 1984 (18 years)
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: Hyperborea http://hyperborea.cjb.net/
Email: giantsquid@home.com
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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88. DinoDoc
Former Usernames: Squalodon, Tyrant Lizard King, Baronyx
Famous DL's?: ?
Usernumber: #3859
Real Name: Kent Hovind?
Age Group: 23 (1/3/1980)
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: 9-30-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Off-Topic

Description:
Unknown. He seems to be addicted to Dinosaurs.
Republican.
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87. 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.

If you like Bob Dornan, you might also try: Natan, GP, Derek, Ming (The People he believes are most similar in ideas to him.)

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86. 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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85. 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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84. 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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83. phoenixcager
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #6697
Real Name: ?
Age Group: Nov 30, 1974 (age 29)
Nationality: Singaporean
Lives: Singapore
Registered: September 2000
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Various, he is omnipresent, CTP-Multiplay

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 been posting less to the forums, though he still visits occasionally because he doesn't have free internet access anymore. (and of course; he now spends more time with his family.

)

He is currently in the CTP-Multiplaying section where he is still playing 2 PBEM games.

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82. 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.
OT-er.
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81. GenghisFarb
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: (1986?) 17
Nationality: American
Lives: USA
Registered: 5-21-02
Had/Has A Website: http://www.genghisfarb.com
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III

Description:
A member of Civ III Multiplayer, PBEM, and democracy game, GenghisFarb is overlaoded with Civ III activities. And, in addition to that, he participates in NationStates.
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80. Shadowstrike
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: (1986?) 17
Nationality: Chinese
Lives: Ontario, Canada
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, Comrade Dan, Hodad [El Awrence], and others.

He used to post frequently at CGN, but in December 2000 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- and since disappeared as time has worn on), he only appears at various times in Apolyton, sometimes in the Community section of the site.

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

Although, now (as of March 2003) you can probably see him in either the Coffee shop or the Other Games section of Apolyton. And, it should be noted, he also enjoys a good game of Heroes of Might and Magic III in addition to Civilization III.

He also enjoys and visits Rollercoaster Tycoon websites.

Last Updated: March 15 2003

**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:38

79. 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: June 2000
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.

If you Like SuperSneak… You might try: Bugs ****ing Bunny

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78. DanS
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: American
Lives: Washington, D.C., USA
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Debates, OT

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

I have heard he was a big conservative debator and economist.

He was back at Apolyton January-March 2001 for a time, then disappeared again.

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77. Skanky Burns
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #11127
Real Name: ?
Age Group: June 24, 1980 (23 yrs)
Nationality: Australian
Lives: Sydney, Australia
Registered: 8/16/01
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Democracy Games/NationStates

Description:
He was also active in the Civ3 community, and of course, everything is his fault. (A tradition starting in the Demogames)

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76. Sprayber
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 32-36?
Nationality: American
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, and 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.

He continues to participate in the Beyond Alpha Centauri group-tale in the AC-fiction section as of february 2003, and was one of its main organizers during its creation when it rose from the ashes of the Chiron Chronicle.

Last Updated 9/feb/03
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75. Waku
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #7330
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 21-32?
Nationality: Spanish?
Lives: Spain?
Registered: Nov/20/2000
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Spanish Civ II Site

Description:
Spanish Civ II Poster

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74. ProvostB
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 17-23?
Nationality: ?
Lives: America?
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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73. vmxa1
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #14358
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: 11/13/2001
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: ??

Description:
A riddle wrapped in a mystery held inside an enigma?

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72. Berzerker
Former Usernames: (Berserker)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 34?
Nationality: American
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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71. Colon
Former Usernames: Cylon
Famous DL's?: Collon, Histori049, Dominicos
Real Name: Cesar
Age Group: 21 (27-Feb-1982)
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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70. 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...
SnowFire speaks out:

1) knowledge/interests
Diplomacy, Video gaming, history, some random sciences, etc.
2) discussion style
My discussion style is mostly stolen/ in homage to Octopus, who left Apolyton a good bit ago and I mostly knew him on the SMAC boards. The person closest to him in style left is probably Wraith, whom I have also stolen liberally from.
3) opinions/positions
Good question. I'm not sure anybody here at Apolyton is really that close. There are plenty of psuedo-libertarian conservatives here, but I think I'm the only psuedo-libertarian liberal. Giant Squid has a quite unique political position. Ramo is a bit too socialist for my tastes, and while n.c. is an excellent reflection of me 3 years ago, I'm a bit farther from that now. And of course all the real libertarians are all pretty strong in it, placing them far away from the moderate types like myself or Imran who might concede some terms of the debate, but then proceed to find 10 zillion loopholes to stick our (liberal/conservative) agenda through.

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69. monolith94
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: John Richards
Age Group: (1984) 19
Nationality: American
Lives: Massachusetts
Registered: 2-15-98 (Possibly)
Had/Has A Website: http://www.artconspiracy.com/conspi...3553&counthit=1
Contribution to Apolyton: Off Topic. Occasionally visited on topic sights, especially the mac board.

Description:
He is an occasional poster, who has gone through phases of regular posting combined with a sparse presence entirely. He has contributed to many story threads, many philisophical discussions, and always tries to keep a cool head. Is the real life friend of MLeonard and Emperor Fabulous (the three of us are all really tight.)

He is interested in history and creative writing and often contributes to threads of those nature. He was also once the head of the Apolyton Veterans Party, a political party that once existed on the now non-existent Apolyton Nation/Audentior.

He has also met Giant_Squid in real life.

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68. Big Crunch
Former Usernames: (Sagacious Dolphin)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #240
Real Name: ?
Age Group: July 6, 1979 (24 yrs)
Nationality: English
Lives: Kent, Great Britain
Registered: before 2-14-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: OT/CTP??

Description:
Big Crunch plays the Civ III PBEM and is a physicist who (well at least when he first registered) believed that the universe would end in a “big crunch”, thus his name. For a time, he switched to Sagacious Dolphin, then, when he had finally got everyone to call him Sagacious Dolphin, switched back to his ‘classic’ login name.

He is a heavy poster at CGN the Civilization Gaming Network and goes by Dauphin Sagace there because the management decided to have some fun with him when he did a name change.

He has been a heavy OT and Civ III-Civilization sections poster in the past.

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67. civman2000
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #10207
Real Name: Eric Robert W.; he goes by "Ricky".
Age Group: 13 (1990)
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: may/21/2001
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Stories Contest, NES

Description:
civman2000 was one of the men who got the second stories contest season started in 2002. He ran the session for twelve elections and encouraged budding authors to continue posting. In addition, he ran a history thread on the issue and created revised rules for the contest.

civman2000 abandoned posting in the Stories section in August 2002 (although he claims to still lurk) when the Never Ending Stories section split off from the Stories section and was moved to the Stories/Diplomacy section, and continues posting in NESes to this day (March 2003). In addition to posting in NESes, civman2000 previously played Diplomacy (but has now ceased playing that game) as well as the Civ III intersite democracy game, Civ III, and Civ II democracy games; and is a member of the game NationStates.

Also, a post by him in the Community section prompted the creation of the Civ the Boardgame forum.

He also plays Europa Universalis II and occasionally posts in the Paradox Games forum.

Last Updated: 3/17/03
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66. orange
Former Usernames: (OrangeSfwr)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 19 (1984)
Nationality: English
Lives: America
Registered: 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 "Social Democrat" (read: hardline liberal/socialist

)
orange is also an agnostic atheist.

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))

orange continues to moderate the off-topic at the Civilization Gaming Network and does so quite liberally.

If you like orange, you might try: Caesar the Great

**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:39

65. Djugavashili
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #4633
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: American?
Lives: New York?
Registered: 12/24/99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ, OT

Description:
Djugavashili was a spam master, but contributed in the Civ III section and the Civ II sections before his spam period. He also frequented Sidgames and Dracon’s Mod Asylum (IIRC)

Nowadays he only visits Apolyton infrequently.

Known to some as Jug-as-Willie

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64. Buck Birdseed
Former Usernames: (Snapcase, 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)
Famous Titles: ACS News Editor
Usernumber: #7122
Real Name: Johan Palme
Age Group: June 10, 1981
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 August 2001. He wrote news from the beginning of august (first on a trial basis) to mid-december. He has stopped now because, er, I can no longer access the script and Civ3 bores him.

He is one of the Civilization III players who have experienced SiDAPPOINTMENT in Civ III and have become disillusioned.

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63. jasev
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Javier Arriaga
Age Group: June 2, 1978 (24 yrs)
Nationality: Spanish
Lives: Seville, Spain
Registered: February-5-2001
Had/Has A Website: http://www.geocities.com/jasev (owner) and http://spanish.apolyton.net (co-admin)
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II scenarios and the Spanish Civilization Site co-administration.

Description:
He usually posts in the Spanish Civilization Site Forum; jasev has two scenarios about Spain and three about other topics published on the Spanish Civ II site. He translated into spanish the Civ2 Fantastic Worlds edition and some people says he also is "Félix de Montemar", Civ3 non-official spanish translator; of course, he denies it.

He joined the Spanish Civilization Site staff October 2002, and he is currently in charge of the Civ2 section.

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62. Velociryx
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ??
Age Group: ?/
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Ottawa, Canada
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/hartpence (A Site for authors, etc)
Contribution to Apolyton: AC-Strategy!!

Description:
Velociryx is best known for his published book on Alpha Centauri Strategy; published by a major hints and cheats publisher about 2 years after the game’s release. His book on strategy is the definitive guide to Strategy.

He also has a book professionally published in summer 2002. The book was something of a mystery/triller novel IIRC.

He posts a lot in the Alpha Centauri sections of the site and loves the game. He has also participated in a few AC-Fiction stories and writings, IIRC.

He is the lead programmer, supporter and publicist for the game Candle’Bre, who happen to have a subset on the Apolyton Forums, much like the Stella Polaris team did. Candle’Bre is going to be an internet run game that allows people to lead nations, manage them, etc.

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61. DarthVeda
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #326
Real Name: Kevin Chulski
Age Group: 22 (Nov 13, 1981)
Nationality: American
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.

He is also a MOO2/1 fan… although he despises Moo3 because it “plays like a spreadsheet.”

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60. 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.

He compiled the original Word-text version of the Apolyton:The Book; converting the HTML of DarkCloud’s website into easily readable text.

As of March 2003, he runs the Apolyton Science Fiction Reading Club and moderates the discussion threads, trying to find meaning in books as diverse as Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game and Issac Asimov’s Foundation book series.

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

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59. Sten Sture
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Sten Sture?
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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58. Docfeelgood
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #3434
Real Name: ?
Age Group: Nov 14, 1963 (40 yrs)
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: ?

Description:
He mostly posts in the Off-Topic.
I don’t know much more about him.

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57. 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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56. yaroslav
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none)
Real Name: Javier
Age Group: 23 (1980)
Nationality: Spaniard
Lives: Malaga, Spain
Registered: (before) 17-06-2001
Had/Has A Website: no
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ2PBEM Diplomacy Utility.

Description:
For a long time, yaroslov only posted in the Civ III/II sections, then in late 2002, he migrated to the Spanish Civ II Site section and currently posts there in addition to his usual postings in the Civ2-Scenario Creation Forum and the Civ2-PBEM Forum.

He also posts from time to time in the Off-topic forum.

He has programmed the Civ2PBEM Diplomacy utility that can be used in Civ2 PBEMs to exchange techs, maps, cities, gold and to sign treaties.

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55. 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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**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:40

54. 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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53. Sir David
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Famous Titles: Apolyton Whiner
Usernumber: #1149
Real Name: David Josefsson.
Age Group: dec 26, 1983 (age 20)
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; although he participated in numerous OT flame-wars.

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52. Trip
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #18837
Real Name: ??
Age Group: march 15,1985 (18)
Nationality: German/American
Lives: Colorado
Registered: april/9/2002
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III Democracy Games

Description:
One of the most prolific-posters in recent history; Trip is known for his participation in and starting of the Civ III democracy game. As one of the founding players of Democracy Games at Apolyton, Trip is wistfully remembered and accoladed for his accomplishments and spearheading of efforts to keep democracy games going.

In addition to participating in Civ III Play By Email games; he is currently a member of every Civ III: Play The World democracy game; from Legoland, to Vox Controli, to Roleplaying, to Lux Invicta, to the other two, as well as being the Minister of War for the Civ III Intersite Game, where Apolyton plays against other Civ sites’ in a competition for honor and glory.

Trip, in addition to helping start the Civ III Democracy Game, and being its first President; he also started the PTWDG, the and founder of the PTWDG team Lux Invicta.

Since February 2003, he has been also seen in the OT from time to time. He used to do a lot of scenario work and some stuff in the general and creation forums, but hasn’t done much since December 2002.

He started playing Civilization Games around 2000 and has been playing war games since he was 10.

He lives in Colorado, and goes to Colorado State University, majoring in Computer Science and History, and he’s not married.

An interesting Fact
(courtesy obiwan18) (created in January 2003)
Assuming Trip maintains his current post count rate of 13.8 posts per day, and everyone else sustains their own, it will take Trip:
129 days to reach top 20 apolyton list, passing Stefu.
448 days to reach diety.
4858 days or 13 years to pass Ming!
If Trip increases his post count to 28.36 posts per day, he will become the next deity, ahead of Urban Ranger.

Nevertheless, Trip is almost De-facto Mao reborn (except that he posts on topic and contributes a bit more than Mao did… in the form of Democracy games, etc.) In fact, even though the script lists him as having 20 posts a day- he truly claims to be Mao-esque, truly managing about 34 posts per day since there were many months in which he posted hardly at all.. It was not until late-June that the Civ 3 DG started, which is when he started posting the most. During that time, he had over 30 posts per day, and that was after being inactive for April, May and most of June. After he left from being President of the C3DG he was inactive for another 2 or 3 months, then came back for the PTW DG. So that's 3 months and another 3 months, so he’s really been active for only 4-5 months which is an average post per day of around 34.

Last Updated Mar/14/03
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51. 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

Poster he is most similar to: monolith94

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50. Boddington’s
Former Usernames: (Infatuation, 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.

He also received a week ban on december 3, 2002 for trolling and insulting people in the Mrs. World pool thread… and received another weekly ban on january 7, 2003 for anti-gay and racist comments in the off-topic.

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49. The Brain
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #3028
Real Name: ?
Age Group: june 27, 1984 (18 yrs)
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: (before) 2/15/99
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. (and was followed quickly by Par4, another poster known for his humor, in late 2000/early 2001)

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.

His DoH is a humor site, and has all sorts of strange jokes, things, etc.

He was last seen on the Apolyton Birthday Chat in 2001- although I seem to remember seeing him in the chat room at odd times.

Last Updated: Mar/14/03
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48. 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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47. Immortal Wombat
Former Usernames: (None).
Famous DL's (None)
Real Name: Ben
Age Group: 18 (1985)
Nationality: British
Lives: Britain?
Registered: registered Dec 2000.
Had/Has A Website: http://www.weaver1.btinternet.co.uk/theimmortalwombat
Contribution to Apolyton: CTP2/OT

Description:
The Perpetual Prince. He may have over 4000 posts, but he still retains the title of “Prince”, believing it to be a grander title and more reflective of his beliefs. And besides, it just sounds good.

He has, for a long time, included an avatar of a brown wombat and sword as his avatar.

He is a major CTP player, single and Mper as well as being a well-known frequenter of the Apoltyon Off-Topic and Community sections.

He is one of the most important modmakers in the CtP2 community. Graphics and SLIC are his specialties, LOTR (Lord of the Ring) and Visible Wonders among his favourite themes...

Last Updated 3/17/03
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46. Fiera
Former Usernames: (None).
Famous DL's (None)
Real Name:
Age Group: 21-23?
Nationality: Spanish
Lives: Spain
Registered: ??
Had/Has A Website: http://www.geocities.com/fiera_com/civ2/index.html
Contribution to Apolyton: Spanish Civ/ OT

Description:
A heavy poster in the Off-Topic section during late 2000/early 2001; Fiera was a big proponent for the rights of new posters in the Off-Topic.

However, he has, of late, 2002-2003, mostly spent his time in the Spanish Civ II section, in succession games and spanish debates on current events.

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45. Keygen
Former Usernames: (None).
Famous Titles and Occupations: (None)
Famous DL's (None. Never attempted to create one.)
Usernumber: #4780
Real Name: Constantine
Age Group: March 13, 1975 (28 yrs old)
Nationality: Greek
Lives: Greece, Athens
Registered: January 9th, 2000
Had/Has A Website: http://www.geocities.com/costas_ctp
Contribution to Apolyton: CtP PBEM Mod, CtP Recruitment Center, CtP-Multiplayer Cafe, Apolyton CtP League (on recruiting stage yet), Tau Ceti's interview in Apolyton Faces, converted Civ2 tips and hints word & text documents in html documents (still waiting Markos to post them ) and about to finish my greatest project in Apolyton the CtP-Multiplayer Info Center. Triggered the idea of "Forum Wars" (team PBEM games between ACS, ACOL & CGN).

Description:

Keygen is mostly known for some things in CtP-Multiplayer forum, helping people on several aspects there, and organizing new PBEM games for newbies.

He Posts on OT once in awhile.

He won the first CtP PBEM finished in Apolyton and is involved in several CtP & SMAC/X PBEM games.

He believes that people in the CtP-Multiplayer community trust him for good advice and look up to him as a CTP veteran.

He still makes (very) few posts in ACOL & CGN. as of march 2001… as of February, 2003- he is hardly sighted at either locale and continues to make his home at Apolyton.

He is currently (slowly) working with a group of CtP funs to create a Civ/Ctp related site, CivLeague, and with Solver to create an Age of Empires site, Epochi. (As for March 2001… it is unknonw how well these sites have succeeded as of February 2002.)

Last Updated 9/feb/03
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44. Monk
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #869
Real Name: Morton Munk
Age Group: dec 18, 1982 (age 21)
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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43. St Leo
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #1192
Real Name: ?
Age Group: dec 29, 1983 (age20)
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Toronto, Canada
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: Civ II Ziggurat
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II, humor, spam

Description:
St. Leo was one of Apolyton’s first to 2000 posts; making short and spammy posts. He was one of the original ‘funposters’ and ‘arguers,’ lumped into a group of people including Infatuation and the notorious History049. He posted heavily in the old Off Topics, in the days when there were two of them; but eventually left Apolyton for Sidgames. However, he returned when Sidgames went out of business in 2001.

He managed to get a 300 post count reduction for posting a message "This is a spam message" after being dared by another poster (Jay Bee?). Thus, it is apparent that he truly doesn’t care that much about post counts and probably spammed just for the thrill of it, and/or the fun of creating interesting semi-useless and humorous posts.

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 has recently (march 2003), conducted an interview with a prominent Civ II Scenario-designer for the SLM Magazine and is currently awaiting its publication.
He had his "Civ II Ziggurat" hosted by Sidgames until Sidgames disappeared.

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**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:42

42. Locutus
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Titles: ACS CTP1/2 Manager
Real Name: Wouter Snijders
Age Group: 22 (10/16/1980)
Nationality: Dutch [Netherlandish

]
Lives: Hengelo, The Netherlands
Registered: 23-nov-99
Had/Has A Website: http://ctpmodmakers.250free.com
Contribution to Apolyton: CTP modmaking

Description:
Locutus is an active participant in the CTP II and CTP I democracy games as well as being an active CTP PBEMer. In addition, he sometimes posts in the NationStates forums and currently runs a nation in the game; accessable at http://www.nationstates.com and is a member of the Mac Civ Group.

He has also but contribuited a bit to CTP II strategy by cracking a few formulas and disected the CtP2 resource system.

He has not participated much in CTP Mplaying, but he did once organize a MP tournament, although it proved, in the end unsuccessful.

He is better known for his modmaking prowess; especially his SLIC programming.

He is a heavy poster in the CTP sections, sometimes blanketing the forum in his sometimes informative and always respondable to posts.

He constantly organizes succession games and tournaments, maintains lists of links and file databases (and is currently the CTP section manager for the Apolyton Directory), writes news, moderates the CTP forums maintaining the topped threads,and promotes the CtP series outside the CtP community to recruit new people, in addition to defending the CTP series from the constant derision that Civ II purists heap upon it; quite evident when you go into the chatrooms and watch the CTP-bashing, etc.

He also did a few mods for Civ III.

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41. yin26
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Sid Meier
Age Group: 25-34??
Nationality: American?
Lives: South Korea
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: The List

Description:
The main compiler of “The List” of ideas for Civ III, a huge project taking many hours and spanning many pages… 426 word pages I believe.

He also hates Alpha Centauri considering it a sub-par game that does not deserve the name “Sid Meier” in front of it. In fact, his hate and his experssion of it were so vitupritive that the old Alpha Centaurians still remember him blackly, claming that he drove away posters.

Nevertheless, his work for Civ III ideas is to be admired, as well as his 2000-2001 moderation of the Civ III sections… Until he decided that he hated the game, becoming disillusioned with Civ III and Sid Meier; making the fateful prediction that Sid’s next game would be “about something stupid- like golf.”

Since that time, with the advent of SimGolf, a joint venture by Sid Meier and Will Wright, the maker of the Sims, yin26 has been considered to be Sid’s alter-ego on the forums; created as an alias so that he could express his true feelings on the games.

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40. panag
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #8675
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 19-22?
Nationality: Israeli/Jewish/Hebrew
Lives: Israel?
Registered: Jan/27/2001
Had/Has A Website: No.
Contribution to Apolyton: OT debator, Playtests Scenarios

Description:

“Hi,” “Have a nice day

”
Israeli.

Poster voted most likely to be put on others’ ignore lists due to his quirky style of posting, leaving large lines between words and sentences, spaces and always ending with “have a nice day”… strangely enough, people seem to be insulted when he tries to be friendly to them… telling him to shut up and to not tell them to have a nice day; but he persists, even in the face of adversity, despite calls of spammer and likewise.

He is a member of the macintosh civgroup, helping keep that forum section alive along with FlameFlash; and is a member of the Civ III intersite-democracy game as well as the Civ III-Democracy game… In which the December 2002 spoof of him by Aro has become an instant classic.

He is kindhearted; but many of his posts are along the lines of “I agree, etc.” That’s not to say that posts of that sort are bad or anything, in fact, in many cases, they are needed to encourage the threads’ author; but panag takes posts of that sort to an all new level. (Of course I may just be adding this last bit because I am bitter that he has overtaken me in postcount despite registering after my registration date!)

Last Updated: Mar/14/03
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39. Shi Huangdi
Former Usernames: (Black Dragon)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #1978
Real Name: ?
Age Group: Sept 30, 1983 (20 yrs)
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.

Shi Huangdi was, in the early days of the site (1998/99) an ally of the conservative poster Michael Jeszenka (altough he himself was never a proponet of theocracy or genocide.)

He later, like David Floyd and the rest of the Libertarian horde (wraith,etc), adopted a more libertarian stance on social issues.

In the old days he was involved in both the AUP and SSOM rebellions, altough now gets along well with Ming and MTG.

He is a longtime conservative debator on Apolyton Off Topic forum, and also helped playtest some civ II scenarios.

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38. Rasputin
Former Usernames: (Rasputin00)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #2612
Real Name: Robert
Age Group: Sept 20, 1966
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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37. Eli
Former Usernames: (Builder, BuilderR)
Famous DL's: (Outlaw)
Real Name: Eli
Age Group: 18 (Feb-21-1985)
Nationality: Israeli
Lives: Israel
Registered: July 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… However, until the release of Civ III he mostly stayed away from the Civ III forums after a few months spent initially in the forum section for Civ III ideas… much like many Apolyton veterans.

He did not start to gain lots of posts until he discovered the Off-Topic in June and began to spam it.

He was banned during the Area 25 affair... and since then 3-4 more times by MichaeltheGreat for slightly racist jokes against Palestinians. He also received a 10% PCR For posting in Colon's "Close the Earth 2025 Forum" thread.

Good friend of Ecthelion and DarkCloud. He knows Sirotnikov and just about every other Israeli poster on Apolyton

In the past couple months (Nov 2002-March 2003) he has been heavily into Civ3PBEM and the PTW demo game (under the team of Vox Controli)… also, on March 12th, he joined the Civ III intersite game and plans to participate there more in the future.

He continues to debate in the off-topic about the palestinian situation and currently supports Bushs’ push for war against Iraq.

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36. El Awrence
Former Usernames: (Hodad, Dr_Strangelove)
Famous DL's?: (Not really a dl, but 'Hodad' was originally used by two people, which later got his own handle as 'hsfb')
Usernumber: #6852
Real Name: Martin Carreras
Age Group: June 31, 1984 (19 yrs)
Nationality: Argentinian (Argentine)
Lives: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Registered: October-2-2000 (Originally September-9-99 as Hodad, later reregistered to change my username. Hodad's gone unfortunately)
Had/Has A Website: http://www.spanish.apolyton.net (tecnically)
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ II scenarios/Sleague/Civ II PBEM/Spanish Civ II/ OT/Civ Dip Club

Description:
A major poster in the Spanish Civ II section; El Awrence currently works on severals scenarios for civilzation II. One of which is published on the Spanish Civ II site. (One is in the drydock under repairs and one more is in the works).

Around July 2000, he worked with Fiera to create the first Spanish Forums for Civlization on an ezBoard. However, thankfully for the Spanish Civilizationa t Apolyton, JayBee took pity on them and asked MamaG to move the forum onto Apolyton.

He currently spams and smites newbies at www.tb3.org.uk/phpbb2

Currently, El Awrence and the other Spanish Posters, continue a campaign protesting Infogrames “Infogreed’s” horrible butchering of the Spanish Civ III edition!

Last Updated: 3/17/03
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35. Chris 62
Former Usernames: (cpoulos)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #8252
Real Name: Chris Stavropoulos
Age Group: 41 (Oct 25, 1962)
Nationality: Greek/American
Lives: America
Registered: January 4, 2001
Had/Has A Website: www.civfanatics.com/ www.freefirezone.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.

Chris 62 served in the US army from 80-86 with MichaeltheGreat in the same division.

He is a major opponent of Post Counts.

He frequents the Spanish Civilization II, Scenario League, OT, General, Multiplayer website forums.

He is a co-admin at CivFanatics as well as being; off-topic moderator, senior moderator of all Colloseum forums, except the tech section, and also moderates the other games forums. Working with Lefty Scaevola and Thunderfall, his job at Civfanatics, helping to keep the posters in line, is much like Ming’s job here at Apolyton.

He also, ( in January 2003), helped MBloomIII revive the FreeFireZone website from a dead-soccer site into a more eclectric site, featuring a “babes” section, “music” section, and once again thriving off-topic. He is currently (as of March 2003) a co-admin at the site; which is now oriented toward Americans (especially evident in its ultra-rightwing Off-Topic)

He is also a card-carrying member of the Apolyton Hall of Fame, inducted in August 2002... and ran the Faces of Apolyton Interview for Jay Bee as well as assisting Solver on several others.

"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."

Last Updated mar/9/03

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34. connorkimbro
Former Usernames: (Apathetic Dreamer, The Unconquered)
Famous DL's: (The Devil's Nightmare)
Usernumber: #1486
Real Name: Nathanael
Age Group: Dec 6, 1978 (age 25)
Nationality: Lithuanian/American
Lives: America
Registered: December 1998
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Counseling, Civ III

Description:
Connorkimbro joined the United States army after a few years at Apolyton 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.

Last Updated mar/9/03
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33. MikeH
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #2313
Real Name: Mike Hunt
Age Group: 20-40
Nationality: British
Lives: England
Registered: 5/10/99
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.

He was the Science Editor of BAC (Beyond Alpha Centauri) before apolyton merged it.

He likes sheep.

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32. Theben
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #1272
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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31. TheBirdMan
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #3687
Real Name: Max
Age Group: ?
Nationality: Danish
Lives: Denmark
Registered: 9/9/99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: CTP MP/CTP II MP

Description:
TheBirdMan lives in denmark and hangs in CTP-Mplaying.

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

Last Updated 9/feb/03

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30. DanQ
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #2
Real Name: Daniel Quick
Age Group: 22 (June 21, 1981).
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Canada
Registered: 2nd to register (7-26-1998)
Had/Has A Website: Apolyton

Contribution to Apolyton: Apolyton: The Site, ACSR Radio

Description:
The webmaster of the "Ultimate Civ II Site," and later owner after the founder ran out of time to run his website, 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 moderating the boards.

He was the second to register on Apolyton.

He also runs the ACS Radio daily, a news reporting radio service on-line.

He does a lot of the HTML on the site, and adds many news items… Probably because he is the head of Apolyton’s news department!

We all hope that he keeps working for Apolyton for a long time

**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:44

29. Scouse Gits
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #4373
Real Name: SG1- Stu SG2- Ivor SG3- Claire
Age Group: SG1- sept 28, 1947 (56 yrs) SG2- 40-60 SG3- 17 (1985)
Nationality: English
Lives: Near Liverpool, England
Registered: 11-24-99
Had/Has A Website: The Scouse Gits' Civilization Site
Contribution to Apolyton: Scenarios, Civ II sections, The Great Library

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. (SG1’s name is Stu and He’s a University Lecturer on Information Systems)

SG2 is much like SG1, except his relation to SG1 is that of friend. (His name is Ivor and He’s a Printer)

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 best known for their work on the Great Library for Civ II, trying to catalogue all the strategy threads on Civlization II into an easy-to-use thread. The Great Library project was started around 2000 and continued on for many years.

The SG's are currently the most active Civ2 succession game players. (March 2003)

The Scouse Gitses are British.

Last Updated: 3/17/03
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28. Hydey
Former Usernames: (hydey)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #5404
Real Name: Peter Hyde
Age Group: 36
Nationality: Austrailan
Lives: Victoria, Australia
Registered: march/19/2000
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: OT

Description:
One of Alexander's Horse's good friends. AH refers to him as his DL and actually had me thinking for 4 months that Hydey, SuperSneak, and AH were the same person.

Allegedly Alexander's Horse's son

Hydey posts humorous posts and... I don't know much more.

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27. Gibsie
Former Usernames: Gibster, Gibsie el Magnifico
Famous DL's: Insincere Dave (not really famous, but he did get in some guy's sig...)
Usernumber: #836
Real Name: ?
Age Group: may 5, 1981 (21 yrs)
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.

He posts in the AC-Demogames, General/Help/Strategy forums as well.

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26. Dissident
Former Usernames: (Krushala [1317 posts], Puaxant Tuvip [399 posts], Black Bart, Dissident Agressor)
Famous DL's: (Barfasm, Fistful of Steel, Ass Clown, Ass Puppet, Capo, Dark Helmet, Hellfire, Maryjane, ***** Galore, Rock Superstar, Thrasher)
Usernumber: #5009
Real Name: Jim H. (James)
Age Group: June 24, 1973 (30 yrs)
Nationality: American
Lives: Las Vegas, America
Registered: April/May 1999
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Humor, AC, OT

Description:

His former login- Krushala had a 660% victory rating in the AC ladders on thinker level but he’s not really involved in Alpha Centauri more; he’s more into Civ III PBEMs, the PTW democracy game and the intersite democracy game.

He also expresses a major interest in RPGs such as Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II. (although is copy of BGI isn’t functioning correctly)

He, of course, is best known for his OT posting.

He’s a retired US Navy veteran in addition to being a Libertarian-Conservative-Troll.

Here’s some information on dissident’s DL’s and their registered emails:

Ass Puppet evilbeavisempire@aol.com
Barfasm gridironbeavis@aol.com
Capo gridironman@freewwweb.com
Dark Helmet beavis3zeus@aol.com
Dissident dssdt@lvcm.com
Hellfire edgcrusha2@aol.com
Krushala jimkrsa@aol.com
Maryjane maryfreakinjane@aol.com
Puaxant Tuvip nuvagantu@aol.com
***** Galore armenius3hermann@aol.com
Rock Superstar ahaymo@aol.com
Thrasher

And on May 26, 2001 he received a 50% PCR for the DL-ish work described above; setting back his post count considerably; however, he persevered and managed to reach emperor level once again in Februrary 2003!

And of course, some time in December 2002, he received a 10% for spam in the Apolyton/Community forum section.

Last Updated 30/mar/03

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25. DarkCloud
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #6391
Real Name: Francis
Age Group: ? (4-april-xx)
Nationality: ?
Lives: ?
Registered: July 27, 2000
AIM Login: DarkCloud100
Had/Has A Website: Civil Warring Civilizations, RCT United, SimWood Mall, Francis' Kaleidoscope, Civ IV Ideas
Contribution to Apolyton: Lists, Civ III ideas, Alpha Centauri Fiction, Civ II, Earth:2025

Description:

DarkCloud was born in Stavanger, Norway. He is a Catholic who attends mass quite often; but tends toward a deistical-interventionist interpretation of the bible.

See his biography here: http://home.att.net/~sjcfg/main.html At APOLYTON: The Book

DarkCloud found the Ultimate Civilization Site in July 1998 and downloaded the Star Wars Modpack, this was the first modpack I ever downloaded, and was one of the few which resided on my computer since 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.

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, coming up with tons of good 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.

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)

I had one of my posts in the "Let's Clear Up Usernames!" threads Transferred from OT to the 'Apolyton' section by Ming. This got me started looking in the Apolyton section of the site. Which is now, probably the section of the site where I have posted the most.

I was there on September 12. 2000 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.

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AMENDMENT: (All above was written in October, 2000.) (Below written Jan 2001)
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... he did, however, offer hints and tips to the other players.

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 December 2001, about a week before Christmas DarkCloud reached Emperor level, then received a 150 PCR from MichaeltheGreat for posting a "spam message" in the OT saying "Bow to the Emperor." By mid-January, DarkCloud had returned to his former Emperor position and currently sits in the hallowed Hall of Emperors along with many other mighty and revered personages.

DarkCloud became an Emperor around Dec 2001, when there were about 60 other deities, compared to the now Jan 2003 listing of 90 Emperors and 5 Deities! Thus, with averages; Apolyton has gained about 30 Emperors a year since 2000… Although some managed Emperor status in 1999, but they were few; St Leo, Bob Dornan, etc., and one managed Deity status by Aug 2000- Apolyton seems to have exploded since 1999 and has, since 2000, continued a steady growth despite the elimination of post counts from the OT… Some might even say that it is stronger than ever, considering how there are less opportunities to gain posts nowadays (considering that the OT is the most popular section) and the numbers remain constant.

(AMENDMENT: July 2002)

In January 2002, DarkCloud wandered around the official Europa Universalis forums after a short spurt posting in the EU section of the site and receiving little help. At the EU forums DC met Carlous Rex and BiB, (Carlous is registered at poly I belive, but Bib Ain’t

) And received an enormous amount of help on the subject of EU. Posted an average of 14 posts a day, then left after reaching 200 posts and the level of First Lieutenant.

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)

In March 2002, DarkCloud debated in the OT a bit. Posting in the abortion threads and several religion threads, arguing mostly with technophile. Technophile may have won some of the debates. DC refuses to admit anything else other than DC won the abortion argument by making an almost absurd claim that DC wouldn’t even follow, thus, technically DC won the argument technically, but technophile won it practically. And practically is what counts.

In April 2002, DarkCloud joined Philosophyforums.com, under the direction of “Paul” (not registered at Apolyton.) DC searched for Philosophyforums after a discussion in the OT with Technophile and Immortal Wombat about “Several Givens about life” in which DC tried to prove that man does exist. DC thinks he proved it sufficiently. But Immortal Wombat and technophile had misgivings. Then on April 5th, one day after DC’s birthday, MarkG reinstated the Birthday List. DC was slightly annoyed.

Eventually DC managed to become a moderator at philosophyforums.com and, to date, has about 500 posts there. The second most.

In May 2002 DC doesn’t remember much.

In June 2002 DarkCloud visited a norwegian poster’s website: Historic-Battles.com and posted a bit. The site has now grown much and is very successful, (as of July 17,2002, it has 200 members or more) DarkCloud also had fun with the new features (the D&D [later civ-unit] stats) DC also posted a bit in the Stories forum, interacting with cbraund, CivMan2000, WTE-OzWolf and other story posters.

DC also received a virus and with help from blackice and panag, managed to rid it from his system; then bought a new super-computer

In July 2002 Apolyton Hit 21000 members! DC tried to submit some banner ideas for the Apolyton Store, all three were rejected due to poor image quality

But Sirotnikov thought they were ‘cute’ ideas

DC also got ICQ but quit the program after repeated attacks on his system through his firewall.

August thru November 2002 are unmemorable.

Also, through some strange freak occurrence, DarkCloud and one of the 30-40 odd Norwegian-born posters were born on the same day, April 4.

(MARCH 2003 Addenum)

Also, in December 2002, DarkCloud became official Story Contest Editor for the Civ III section; and IN January 2003 was given his special title and access to the moderators section of the site for his hard work in running the Stories Contest and updating the titles in the Directory.

DarkCloud also, along with several others, ressurected the NationsStates forum section around Februray 2003, with large amounts of posts, organization of a military thread, and a campaign for new members- as well as opening of relations with other nations. The thread, from Feb to March 2003 went from 3 threads commented on a day to 20, nearly a whole page shifiting daily.

DarkCloud continues to run the Apolyton Hall of Fame and does other freelance work when he feels like it. The January 2003 HoF was fairly infamous due to the Counterglow powers’ alleged rigging of the election; and DarkCloud’s reaction to the ‘rigging’ nearly resulted in the Hall of Fame getting closed down by Ming.

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Civilization Information
A civer since 1994 when I first played Civ I at a relative's house. I owned 2 copies of civ II in 1995

Never played Deity until 1997. I have only won deity twice and tried it five times; but created the ultimate in deity difficulty (non OCC) with placing 7 nations on a 5x5 island or something like that and won the game... with a specific expansionist strategy (before the year 1000) sometime around 800

I always end up at war with everyone despite any peaceful trials and have the nations gang up on me.

I have about 20-40 MB of scenarios on my harddrive and over 2000 units

Demogame Work
Along with Gramphos, I ran the Civ III demogames' memberlist in the days before civgroups.

Also, I was one of the first members of the AC-Demogame, and the Civ II demogame... as well as being in the first 100 (I think) of the civ III demogame.

I compiled memberlists for about 2 other demogames and was a member of the Multisite Demogame.

My strategy is mostly militaristic and was for the games; but I didn't post too much- mostly did statistics for members registered. [as per my Emperor of Lists title

]

Other
In my time at Apolyton, I have probably created close to 40 lists, over 20 of them in the Off-Topic, another 5 in the Community section, and the remaining 15 being small demogame lists, lists for nationstates/chiron chronicle/ the stories contest, or huge Civ III/IV ideas compliations. DarkCloud’s list sizes run the gamut from small to medium to large undertakings.

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24. Boshko
Former Usernames: (Zhu Yuhanzhang, Dave Boshko)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #171
Real Name: David Boshko
Age Group: 19-22
Nationality: ?
Lives: America
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
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. For example: CivNation and other of his type.

His login is a take on Chu Yuanchang, the Emperor of China who united it under the ___ Dynasty.

If You like Zhu, you might try: Ramo, PH, The Mad Viking, monolith

**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:46

23. notyoueither
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #11049
Real Name: ???
Age Group: age= under 20? (sept 4-xx)
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Canada
Registered: August 13 2001
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III Democracy Games

Description
Major player in the Civ III and Civ III Intersite democracy games; he also plays Civ III PBEM (play by email) and is a founder of the Gathering Storm Civ III Democracy Game team (along with Sir Ralph). He is quite well known around the Democracy Game world.

He was one of the first members of the Civ III Democracy game and seems to have been a member of their Court.

And for some strange reason “Case Pink” seems to be mentioned in relation to him quite often… I’m not sure what it is, but he claims that UberKrux and Sir Ralph inspired him to write it.

notyoueither is currently one of the serving consuls, for the Intersite Democracy Game, where the various players compete versus other civilization sites, such as CivFanatics and the Firaxis team. Notyoueither was elected in February 2003 to serve along with two others.

He has played Civilization games since the original was released on DOS. It continues to be his favorite game. He first joined apolyton in 2001 looking looking for information on Civ 3. and stuck around discussing many aspects of the game with many people as well as dusting it up with some of the more vocal critics.

He was also one of the playtesters for Civ III.

Personally, he doesn’t care about his post count; but notices that no one registered after him has more posts than he does. Most of his posts came in the democracy games or civ III flaming/discussions.

He also claims to be a “bit cantankerous” and can sometimes get quite spammy in the demo-games.

Also, he created the case pink plan for destroying France in the Demogame and making the nation of Apolyton a world power! Much calculation was done as a result of the plan... and this wouldn’t be mentioned here except that it has become somewhat of a legend in the Demogame world.

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22. Solver
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous Titles and Occupations:
Currently ACS CTP/AC PBEM Ladder Admin, Interview Chief,
Formerly Apolyton Staff Member/ FoA Interviewer
Famous DL's: (All the Finnish Apolytoners)
Usernumber: #6796
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 30-32?
Nationality: Nationality he is allegedly one of the nation of the "Hebrews"
(My supposition is that he plays alltogether too much CTP)
Lives: Latvia
Registered: Sept/24/2000
Had/Has A Website: Age of Kings Website, aoe2.com (of which he is the co-webmaster)
Contribution to Apolyton: Faces of Apolyton, SMAC/CTP MP Ladder Administrator.

Description:
He was the originator of the smash hit interview series, Faces of Apolyon (FoA). Faces of Apolyton has so far interviewed 11 posters; Tau Ceti, yin26, Velociryx, WesW, Lancer, Xin Yu, Stefu, Jay Bee, Ming, DanQ (For the landmark 10th interview; a two-parter), and DarkCloud (Which DarkCloud formatted himself… But who did NOT answer his own questions… somewhere along the lines, the posters’ names who asked the questions were accidentally lost. That being the only technical blunder in Solver’s illustrious leadership of this much-lauded and much-controversial series.)

Speaking of the controversiality of the series, it sparked several imitators, including an interview of Lazarus and the Gimp, which was supposedly remarkably funny, done by Provost Harrison. (NOTE: Was this who interviewed him?) and a series of three interviews of OTers by derek, including Imran Siddiqui and Provost Harrison. Also, many Apolytoners objected to Solver intervieing 2 SMAC players in his first two interviews and a CTP player in his fourth interview instead of focusing on Civilization II players; however, this conflict was resolved after a few months bickering in the Community forum, and now has interviews scheduled from more varied realms of Apolyton; currently working on a real-time interview of Locutus (CTP), planning an interview with UberKrux (Civ III), and planning a follow-up with DanQ.

The Faces of Apolyton series centers upon asking the Apolytoners questions about what they think the game industry is doing nowadays and where it is going; as well as their thoughts on major issues in the real world and their thoughts on other posters.

He was a staff member of Apolyton sometime in 2001 and has access to the Apolyton staff room as a result of his work around September 2000, shortly after he registered, when he created a thread proposing that PBEM games be registered and the players have a ladder, getting points assigned according to their performance.

It took him than a month's worth of various debates till the system was enacted; with himself at the helm.

In addition to being the SMAC PBEM Ladder admin, he is the CTP ladder administrator and as of January 18, 2003 has over 1287 posts in the CtP-Multiplayer forum. Most of his posts have come due to his PBEM ladder administrations, some posts in the Civ III section, the Faces of Apolyton posts in the Apolyton/Community section, and through spamming the Staff Room.

Entry Last updated 18/jan/03

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21. Caesar the Great
Former Usernames: (Caesar)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #198
Real Name: Paul
Age Group: 18 (27-april-1985)
Nationality: American
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.

He is a decent civ 2 player, plays aok (Age of Kings) and red alert from time to time, chess sporatically.

He greatly enjoys running and is, of course, a huge fan of the Rolling Stones.

He was 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.

He 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.

22, 414 CHARACTERS SPLIT POST HERE

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20. LordStone1
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #784
Real Name: ?
Age Group: june 26, 1981 (22 yrs)
Nationality: ?
Lives: Europe
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Debates, OT

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.

**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:47

19. Albert Speer
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #41
Real Name: ?
Age Group: may 1, 1985 (18 yrs old)
Nationality: Palestinian
Lives: New York, America
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: My Life... Threads, OT, fascism

Description:
He seems to have a hard life, his mother beats him, his girlfriend (Lee-Ann) is a drug addict, and is famous for admiting to stealing from a department store... And strangely enough, he posts all this on the site for others to read.

He has created thousands of threads on his girlfriend and his life; thus causing some Apolyton posters to ridicule him since they didn’t seem to think that he took their advice; although personally, I think he took some of the advice, just not enough to satisfy the Apolytonian OT hordes.

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. (although since then he has been seen; according to hearsay evidence)

His username is the same as that of a prominent Fascist German member of Himmler's forces who died in 1986; reflecting his fascist beliefs… And no he is not an anti-semite, merely a moderate fascist.

One of his main beliefs was to use peer pressure on weaker students to “make them into whopping supermen like he claimed to be.”

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18. War4Ever
Former Usernames: (EthnicCleanser)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Usernumber: #6762
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Vancouver, Canada
Registered: 10-17-99 (although the forum says before 2/15/99)
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Civilization III ideas, "The List", Civ II

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

He also posts somewhat in the Civ II section.

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17. Stefu
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #1203
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 17
Nationality: Finnish
Lives: Finland
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ??
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… Including his infamous AnnC parody.

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 has created many smilies on demand for Apolytoners, and a few of his are on the current smilies list. Stefu created between 10-15 “national” smilies in 2001 for Finnish, American and other nationalities, a bunch of smilies holding little flags, acting patriotic. Many people thought they were cute. He is also the inventer of the “Kittens in Peril” “Save these Kittens” advertising slogan for Apolyton T-Shirts that were introduced in Summer 2002. (You know the shirt, the one with the green background and the evil bag-monsters)

Stefu is also renowned for his lists of ancient Apolyton history

The following is just posted here because Banana-Gate needs to be posted somewhere

Interesting events on the forums; in July or August 2001, someone (stefu?) 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 DC’s poll)

However, due to consistent need for 16 options in polls (for 16 civs in Civ II) The moderators, within a month, allowed all posters to use up to 16 options in all polls... Before this change, the moderators manually edited several polls to allow 16 choices.

Last Updated 21/feb/03

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16. Lancer
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #2065
Real Name: Lance
Age Group: 30-50
Nationality: American
Lives: Oregon, America
Registered: 4/22/99
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. Although, he manages to return from time to time, staying long enough to get banned for starting 5 threads in one day in the Off-Topic in early January 2003.

Last Updated 9/feb/03

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15. 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.

He again went on a self-imposed ban around Summer 2002 and, as of November 2002, has yet to emerge from it, although he does sometimes have other posters post things for him under his name… and was once implicated in sharing DanS’s login, which resulted in DanS being banned because GP posted drunk under DanS’ username (in addition to a 10% PCR.) GP has quite a record for posting while drunk… And has experienced quite a few bannings as a result of it.

On December 14, 2002, GP recently emerged from his “vacation”, also known as a “GP”, to quote the technical term on the site for such an asked banned-disappearance.

Last Updated 8/feb/03

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14. Gramphos
Former Usernames: (vgriph)
Famous DL's? (none known)
Title: ACS Civ III Files Manager, Directory Developer
Usernumber: #9561
Real Name: Viktor Griph
Age Group: 20?
Nationality: Swedish
Lives: Sweden
Registered: april/8/2001
Had/Has A Website: no
Contribution to Apolyton: Demogames/Site Directory

Description:
Gramphos designed many of the alternative smilies that are currently avaliable at Apolyton.

Gramphos also ran the Alphabetical list of members for the Civ III Democracy Game in the days before the Apolyton Civgroups

Gramphos does a lot of coding for the civgroups and working out the basic code behind them. He made the civ III files index; and currently helps out a lot in the Civ III files and creation sections.

Last Updated: march/15/03
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13. rah
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous DL's?: (... he "could" be a DL of Ming

)
Title: ACS OT Vice-Moderator
Usernumber: #1708
Real Name: ? (Rich/Ming2?)
Age Group: 49 (10-14-1954)
Nationality: Italian/German/Irish
Lives: (north of) Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.

He is also famous for using Ming’s login sometime in 2000/1 to mess around in the Off-Topic for a day.
He was made Vice-Moderator of the Off-Topic following MichaeltheGreat’s resignation. (sometime in summer 2002, IIRC)

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12. My Wife Hates CIV
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #911
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 30's?-40s?
Nationality: American
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 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) One of the best known america-supporters, along with Ted Stryker [derek].

He is also known for logging onto Apolyton drunk on numerous occasions, all of which resulted in a gentle banning by Ming.

**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:48

11. Paul
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Paul
Age Group: 30 (1973)
Nationality: Dutch
Lives: Zwolle, The Netherlands
Registered: 3/21/99
Had/Has A Website: Civ 2 OCC
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ 2, CTP 2, CTP 1

Description:
Omnipresent poster. Writer of the Civ2 optimal Occ strategy - the OCC Paulicy. Also wrote ModSwapper for CTP2, and is an all-round CTP lover. 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

)

He also plays PBEM for SMAC and CTP 1

Some of his creations: Apolyton Pack for CtP1, MedMod for CtP1, MedMod for CtP2 (helping out on the previous two) ModSwapper, ModSwitcher, , CtP1-OCC and Civ2 OCC (One city Challenge)

Some of his creations: Apolyton Pack for CtP1, MedMod for CtP1, MedMod for CtP2, ModSwapper, ModSwitcher, CtP1-MP, CtP1-OCC
(I'm 100% certain I left out a thing or two, my apologies to Paul for forgetting)

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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: before 2/15/99
Had/Has A Website: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~jdl100/
Contribution to Apolyton: Off-Topic/Music

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. He is very interested in music.

In addition, he is one of the heaviest posters on the FreeFire Zone forums.

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09. Narck
Former Usernames: (none)
Usernumber: #1933
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 on June 13, 1975, currently 28 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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08. Provost Harrison
Former Usernames: (AI)
Famous DL's: (ProvostHarrison)
Real Name: Richard Harrison
Age Group: 25-26
Nationality: British
Lives: Great Britain
Registered: feb/3/2000
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 2000.

He was studying to become PhD Biochemist, but quit sometime during 2002 and now works in a _____.

Provost Harrison reached the Deity level in December 2001, but received a large PCR 25-30% from 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 in the on-topic regions.

Since then (March 2002-Jan 2003), I think he has received a further 5% or 10% PCR for some reason or other, because at one point in my records he has 8600 or so posts, and now when I look, I see that he has about 7800 or so. Thus, Provost bears the distinction of being one of the few posters who can claim to have reached Deity multiple times; a distinction only shared by Mao and perhaps Alexander’s Horse.

derek also did an interesting interview of Provost in 2001.

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07. Urban Ranger
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: #2565
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 30-39 May 11
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.
Doesn’t seem to like the United States.

Currently roleplays in NationStates as a nation called “Noosphere.” reknowned for its _____.

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06. Jay Bee
Former Usernames: (Sable)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Title: Moderator
Usernumber: #1090
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 (http://www.spanish.apolyton.net) 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.

Around 2002, Jay Bee became the Moderator for the Spanish Civ II section; and along with many other Spanish posters, dislikes “Infogreed” for the horrible mess that is Civ III (see El Awrence entry for more information on that)

viva españa!

Last Updated 8/feb/03

**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:49

05. Alexander's Horse
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous Titles: (Apolyton Troll, GigaTroll, MegaTroll, GigaTroll, Troll Machine, Apolytoner of the Season)
Famous DL’s: (rimmer)
Usernumber: 2445
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, Civ II MP

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)… and has probably been banned a second time for another fight with Lancer since then, IIRC.

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 for the Off-Topic. (Velociryx won for the entire site, beating AH by a narrow margin).

In January 2003, Alexander’s Horse and Ming had quite an interesting conversation on the topic of his alleged DL-rimmer… Alexander claimed that rimmer was not a DL despite some incriminating information: namely, he shared the same IP addresses and servers as AH; and the only time he posted were during the interims in which AH was banned. And also, his first two posts after AH’s banning were in AH’s defense… and then disappeared the minute AH was unrestricted… and hasn’t posted since, except when AH is restricted!

He also participates heavily into Civ II multiplaying (one of the reasons that his post count is so high- but not the only one…)

Around summer 2001 his wife gave birth to a son… and AH is already hard at work teaching his colt how to make DL’s.

Last Updated: 14/Mar/03

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04. Imran Siddiqui
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (Arthur Dent)
Usernumber: 597
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.

He also frequents the following forums: Front Office Football Central, Out of the Park Baseball, and Counterglow.

Imran is now a certified ACS News Editor.
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03. Mao
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: 2855
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: 6/15/1999
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". "Shadowstrike" and several other Apolytoners.

He sometimes posts in the Scenario League.
He chose the username because in a Civ II game, the Chinese leader, Mao, was an ally to him.

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02. MarkG
Former Usernames: (MarkG)
Usernumber: #830
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Markos Giannopoulis
Age Group: dec 18, 1976 (age 27)
Nationality: Greek
Lives: Greece
Registered: 1st to register (7-26-1998)
Had/Has A Website: APOLYTON CIVIZATION SITE http://www.apolyton.net; (before that: The First Greek Civilization Site), Top 40 Charts: http://www.top40.com , http://egnatia.ee.auth.gr/~markg
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.

The First Greek Civilization Site was a fairly small site, but worth visiting before the Merger with the Ultimate Civilization II site.

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

)
The upgrade helped him manage the new load of visitors to Apolyton… For a time an average 500 were on simultaneously. By March 2002, however, the flood receded to 200-300 on simultaneously and Apolyton has stayed stable for much of that time, excepting a short time in February when Mark Moved the server.

After Feburary 2002, Apolyton moved to reside on a non-profit server and cannot run any for profit ads, thus it only hosts Red Cross and charity ads. The days of the popup, popunder and UGO ads are over. As are the days when the ads advertised his other forum, "Top 40 Charts." Which he runs with his friend, Paris.

He has posted over 200 news items; not quite as many as DanQ, but still a large number nonetheless, the second most on the Most News Items listing.

You can find his picture in the Apolyton Yearbook (or at least you should be able to- he’s posted it enough times that it should be available there)

Currently, he adds new features to Apolyton for every 1000 users; including such useful features as the Quick Reply box and such infamous features as the D&D/Civ stats that used to be in every users’ sidebar, but which now reside in the users’ profiles.

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

Entry Last updated 8/feb/03

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01. Ming
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous Titles: (ACS Civ II, Civ III & OT Forum Moderator)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Usernumber: 6411
Real Name: Bill
Age Group: 49 (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)

Ming started posting frist in the Civ II forums. Most of his first posts came in the Civ II strategy section; and he participated heavily in the discussions and OCC (one-city-challenge games); then when Civ II MP:Gold came out, he posted much there and sent his turn reports and multiplayer strategies.

After the Civ III wishlist forums came up, he became heavily involved in putting together the list of Cheats and Bugs for the Official Civ III List

In the early days, all of his friends were Civ II people, and he shied away from the new Off-Topic section; but his posting style and frequency became noticed by Mark, who made him the moderator in 1999. He only started posting heavily in the OT; however, after being recruited by Mark.

During his time as OT Moderator, he has been joined by Mleonard (who made a successful campaign for off-topic moderator in 1999), who then, after becoming moderator, gradually faded away, and in March 2001 was joined by Michael the Great, who remained for some time, until his baby was born and he had to devote more time to household duties. In 2002, Ming’s evil-twin brother rah joined him in moderating the Off-topic.

Ming is a sometimes serious poster, as well as being a sometimes humorous one. His well-knowncatch phrase for a closed thread is "CASE CLOSED".

His other trademark happens to be a

(wink) at the end of each post, and he is infamous for the amount of winks that he uses in his posts.

Ming and the other moderators have recently been overworked by the massive amounts of new posters present after the release of Civ III. (As of Dec 2001)

Ming manages to be online both at work and at home; certainly earning the honor as one of the most diligent moderators of all time. He has full banning rights and Post Count Reduction rights, able to access any forum section on apolyton and moderate it, including the staff room, where he maintains the sacred ban log… once a rumored secret… but now an incontrovertible fact. With all this power, Ming is almost as powerful as a Forum Administrator!

Last Updated: 7/mar/03

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Thanks go out to Stefu, Gregor, Colon, Solver, H Tower and various other posters for information collected.

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*Final Note. Between versions 2.0 and 3.0, there was an unpublished version 2.5 so some of the ‘old post count’ and moving positional data might be out of date- version 2.5 is the reason why that is true.

**DarkCloud** · March 15, 2003, 20:50

Overflow Post.

*Whew!

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