Publicity Stunt

[Tassadar500]

I was thinking that AU needs to get more popular if we want to get a civgroup icon or whatever. I was thinking we could do some sort of "Publicity Stunt". Before you all start thinking naked people playing Civ, do that on your own time What if we try to achieve either an extremely high score or a whole group of people achieving something "great". What do you think?

[Krill]

what about a C3C intersite DG, using the AU mod?

(Difficult to work, I know, but fun )

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by Krill
what about a C3C intersite DG, using the AU mod?

(Difficult to work, I know, but fun )

I'm afraid that won't work. We already have two (three if you count the one at MZO) ISDG's going on at the moment so we just won't have the activity it needs.

[Tassadar500]

Any more ideas? I think I might have another one.

[Tall Stranger]

OK, but I must warn you, I'm not falling for the whole "get my website tattooed on your [insert body part here]" scam again. No sir-eee, I won't make that mistake more than 4 times.

Gotta go. Just got an email from this guy in Nigeria who needs my help in getting some money out of his country. Sounds like a big pay-off!!!

[ducki]

How about something a bit more traditional?
AU isn't really about "stunts".

It's a place to learn and have fun.
So how about a more traditional, yet semi-guerilla-marketing type posting "campaign" along the lines below?


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What do Aeson, alexman, Dominae and Theseus have in common?
Where can you go to read comparative reports of some of the most capable C3 players playing out the same start?
What Civ3 and PtW community introduced changes to the game that made it into the official game?
What one thing answers all 4 of these questions?

AU. (link to the Forum or one of the topped threads)

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I really don't see a need for publicity stunts if they are much more radical or gimmicky than that, since that doesn't really fit what we're all about. Or, at least, what I think we're all about. I could be overstepping my bounds on that one and it may just be my opinion alone.

[Tassadar500]

I didn't mean it like that at all I was either thinking of a kind of radical "CFC Challenge" or possibly if we take let's say three people, who are at Chieftan or one of the low levels, and we train them to be high level players. I think it would be a neat idea, increase activity and everyone get's excited about achieving hard goals

[Tassadar500]

What does everyone think?

[sabrewolf]

your idea sounds interesting, but... the 3 pupils need to have following conditions:
- chieftain level ==> not very experienced players. but civ3 is already 2.5 years old
- the pupils need a certain level of intelligence to understand concepts
- pupils need time to play a lot ((micro-)managing is the secret anyway)

and then... even if this works out...
how let the non-apolyton-community know that we have the best teachers?

i'm not trying to be destructive... i'm just a bit cautious

[Tassadar500]

I already have 1-2 people. It wouldn't neccessarily have to be three pupils either. I was thinking if we were to get this started, to post it on CFC, CGN, or whatever.

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by Nuclear Master
I didn't mean it like that at all I was either thinking of a kind of radical "CFC Challenge" or possibly if we take let's say three people, who are at Chieftan or one of the low levels, and we train them to be high level players. I think it would be a neat idea, increase activity and everyone get's excited about achieving hard goals

Good luck with that one. I have tried individual training and people just will not break their old habits and when they do not get better, they stop.


I have done many play alongs with people here and most just abandon their game and start a new one and soon stop posting.
Finding players that are serious about improving will not be easy.

[Tassadar500]

It was just an idea Anyways, what about if we make a series of articles about Civ 3 strategy?

[ducki]

The thing that drew me to AU was my "Ducki does" posts.
Many of those that helped me with my issues in the Strategy forum are also AU people.

I'm not sure if that's really leverageable or if we should try to (after a fashion) supplant the Strat forum - that's not really the right word. Not supplant, but something like it.

I dunno. I'll go reread our mission statement and see if anything strikes me.

[Tassadar500]

I'll see what I can muster up as well.

[Aqualung71]

Perhaps we could try to devise a more formal series of courses, designed to develop the important parts of the game for students. This could be a progressive course, tailored to each level and emphasising various aspects of the game, getting more complex as course difficulty increases.

This would be different to the current AU courses, which are more self-help and really assume that players already know most of the basics. There could be a panel of say 3 AU members who could analyse each submission.

This would not be a competitive thing, like with the CFC tournaments, etc. But players could get awarded certain benchmark achievement levels as they progress (not a status level), in a way that doesn't make it appear to be competitive or elitist.

Such a course would clearly establish AU as the premier place to come to learn how to play civ3 well, rather than a forum for us addicts to play and compare games.

The downside is, the success of this idea would depend largely on the availability and commitment of some AU regulars. There would need to be a fair amount of time spent to set it up and run it.