I'm not surprised that Firaxis ceased to post on apolyton

[Sabre2th]

Double Post

[Sabre2th]

hm, this was posted a couple of minutes ago

That is actually from an old thread of mine.

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Since that time, Infogrames has released requirements. I don't know if these are Firaxis's official specs, but they sound about right.

Pentium 300 mhz
32 megs or ram
100 megs of hard drive space (+50 for swapfile)
4X CD-Rom
DirectX 7 compatible video card (must be able to display 1024x768x16bit)
DirectX 7 compatible sound card
Windows 95/98/ME/2000

Infogrames Civ3

[Fidel]

cyber
mr president,
any chance you can check your private messages?

[loinburger]

It could be worse; Firaxis could have pulled an Ion Storm and began flaming Yin and the other critics. The fact that they haven't shows that they have SOME people skills...

[Steve Clark]

You guys and children are sick and pathetic. I really, really hope that all you that are so pessimistic about not having your ego stroked by Firaxis that you will just go away and never concern yourself with Civ3 ever again.

That would leave the intelligent types around to discuss Civ3-Strategies and Civ3-Scenario Leagues when Civ3 releases without all of the immature, whining clutter.

So there.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Jeez, Buc... that was harsh .

Ah well, I'm a damned blind optimist anyway. Down with the Pessimists!

[One More Turn!]

I think the problem is that there has been no new information upon which to base discussions of strategy, tactics, features, etc.
The screenshots that have been released have created some good discussions about what civs and units are in the game, as well as giving the graphics a good beating. With the vast Apolyton crowd commenting though, we go through those bits of information very quickly and are left wanting more. In the end, more information = more quality discussion as opposed to threads on pessimism and realism.