Explosion in numbers

[MrWhereItsAt]

Has anyone else noticed the number listed as citizens (part of the Civ3 Demo game civgroup) has exploded from under 100 to near 150 in but a week or two? Do we have a DL alert here or are the news updates drawing in new members? And if these new members are around, please can you make yourselves known?

It would be great to have some perspective beyond those that we cantankerous old establishmentarians have about our game. After all, it is your game now too.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Maybe they are a flood of immigrants from other civ sites who wish to study us for some upcoming inter site game.

18 of them have made a whopping 0 posts total between them and almost twice that many have made less than 9 posts each. Not that that tells you anything.

[Kloreep]

It's solely because of the Newz Update.

Wow, that is quite a population explosion... but, except from a few posts like pardan's, I haven't seen many new people around. Hopefully all the new members will start posting once they've lurked a while and know what the heck is going on. I know I pretty much observed for a while when I first joined the game.

[Arnelos]

When I first joined, I almost immediately jumped into the discussions of esoteric topics that had little to do with gameplay at first and then progressed to discussing gameplay-related stuff when I got the chance to look closely at the save file...

I'll admit that my experience is probably atypical, though

[ManicStarSeed]

Originally posted by Arnelos

I'll admit that my experience is probably atypical, though

Not as atypical as you think. I myself found myself first posting in the Ethics thread as that's all I had to contribute at the time.

Mss

[Meshelic]

Re: Explosion in numbers

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
Has anyone else noticed the number listed as citizens (part of the Civ3 Demo game civgroup) has exploded from under 100 to near 150 in but a week or two?

You can thank the Labor Party for that.

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[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by Arnelos


I'll admit that my experience is probably atypical, though

You certainly qualify for the status of specimen of Aros biodiversity.

[Aro]

[Nolan]

Heya,
I'm a newbie that's newly signed on, I ain't said much because I've been trying to read all the old posts and stuff and see whats going on, also I don't have a personal comp with which to look at the saved games yet, not till after xmas when I'm getting one off a mate.
I'm still new to Civ 3 in general, but played Civ 2 for years the classic as it was, if anyone has any advice on what I should do as a new senate member it would be good to hear

Regards

[adaMada]

Nolan -- Welcome to the game . We're always looking for new players, and if you have any trouble figuring out what's going on, feel free to ask -- we all remember how confusing it was when we first joined .

-- adaMada

[Aro]

Welcome, Nolan!
As said by AdaMada, feel free to ask. We are very friendly here (well, not everybody, but you can't have all... ). Keep an eye on the Gazette and the Directory Thread . To see what's happening without the save, go to this thread and you'll find the maps of the game (well, what's wrong with some advertisement? ).

[Shiber]

Originally posted by Aro
(well, what's wrong with some advertisement? ).

The Senate should pass a bill that states that anyone who performs a public service should be allotted advertisement space.

Nolan, welcome to the game!!!
Here, have a free banana. We Apolytonians worship bananas as all-powerful deities, you see. If you ask me that's just remnants from our Pagan era.

[Nolan]

Thanks for being friendly guys.
It's been good reading all the interesting things you guys discuss in your posts it must all be a lot of work.
After xmas I hope I'll be able to say more about the game as I'll actually be able to view the saves (the computer I'm using here doesn't have civ 3), one thing I'm interested in is do you think that the rush of new members will cause a number of new political parties to be formed, or just result in a larger proportion of people being independents?
Thanks

[Aro]

Mostly independents, I guess. Talking about parties... Here's the Labor Party's thread (It's my Party ). To be fair, here's the DIA's thread.
Beware of that guy with the Senator Palpatine's avatar (just kidding)! He's our next Prez.

[Aro]

Originally posted by Shiber

... just remnants from our Pagan era.

For a moment I thought I've read "Panag era"!