So, someone did delete my posts. And the Poly Admin didn't have the balls to tell me.

[ZEE]

Good for you. In the timeframe I referenced SMAC wasn't even released. So we are not talking about the same thing.

Nice way to dodge the bullet there, but I was talking about Civ 2 as well. Your efforts to make me look like a... whatever you were going for here, have obviously backfired and you have resorted to selective quoting and strawmen.

Now I could go on the offensive here, since you are clearly against the ropes, but i will show something that you have never once shown me [or anybody] on this site.

class.

[Theben]

Nice way to dodge the bullet there, but I was talking about Civ 2 as well. Your efforts to make me look like a... whatever you were going for here, have obviously backfired and you have resorted to selective quoting and strawmen.

yes this place was interesting because of all the egotistical Civ 2/SMAC players.

We didn't have SMAC players at the time.

Now I could go on the offensive here, since you are clearly against the ropes, but i will show something that you have never once shown me [or anybody] on this site.

class.

When have I ever said anything bad about you in the past?

[Guynemer]

Jesus Christ, people. Seriously. Calm the **** down. What is with all this hostility? What is the purpose? Take some deep breaths, grab a cold one, spank one out and just come back to reality.

Christ on a crutch. I've never seen so many people in need of getting laid in my life.

[Asher]

You're going to have to deal with it another week because my SO has bronchitis and is 130km away trying to study for final exams and finishing his year-end engineering project. Nothing for me there.

[ZEE]

We didn't have SMAC players at the time.

You are the one who started spouting off dates and selective time periods. Poly went downhill after the launch of Civ 3 which was after SMAC.

When have I ever said anything bad about you in the past?

irrelevant to my statement.

[Ming]

It's one thing to throw barbs at eachother, it's another to blatantly lie (in a string of never-ending lies) and slander somebody's character.

You throw more than barbs
Frankly, both types of behavior translate to being an ass, and are just as bad, so claiming what somebody else does as bad while condoning your own behaviour is kind of funny.

Heck, I see a bunch of slander and lies about me in this thread, and you don't see me banning people or whining about it

[Theben]

Jesus Christ, people. Seriously. Calm the **** down. What is with all this hostility? What is the purpose? Take some deep breaths, grab a cold one, spank one out and just come back to reality.

Christ on a crutch. I've never seen so many people in need of getting laid in my life.

I'm bored.

You drink beer when you wank?!

[Theben]

You are the one who started spouting off dates and selective time periods. Poly went downhill after the launch of Civ 3 which was after SMAC.

When I said it was before your time, I was referring to my statement when poly 1st launched and Orcus and werefox were here. You obviously thought I was referring to your quote.

You are correct that poly started to decline after Civ3.

[Asher]

You throw more than barbs
Frankly, both types of behavior translate to being an ass, and are just as bad, so claiming what somebody else does as bad while condoning your own behaviour is kind of funny.

Heck, I see a bunch of slander and lies about me in this thread, and you don't see me banning people or whining about it

Can you at least clarify that I've not been permabanned elsewhere for stalking Ben? (He seems to imply you're in the know on this).

[rah]

You are correct that civ started to decline after Civ2 but made a rousing comeback with IV.

Corrected.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Ben and Asher, sitting in a thread?

[rah]

B i t c h i n g

[Ben Kenobi]

Even I have to laugh at that one.

[Krill]

dp

[Krill]

Corrected.

I'd like to call bull****, but take what I'm about to post with a pinch of salt, I wasn't around when civ 2 was the latest release. Apolyton was the website that had the most effect on the designing of CIV, moreso than the other sites spread around, becuase of A. Alex, Trip, nye, Dominae (I'd add Aeson but he was also prolific at CFC) were all mostly active over here in various guises. Friedreich, the MP lead also originated here IIRC, so it's not like we weren't a leading site back then.

If you look at the number of posts Civ 3 was a huge part of the site. Look at the archives:

C3 general: 225765
Strategy: 56321
Demogames (total): 359254
Total: 641340 posts

And that's just the archives.

By comparison civ 2 only has 173732 posts, less than a third that of civ 3. There are only 85827 posts in the open forums as well, compared to the 109000 in the civ 3 forum. CIV only has 168213 posts in it's non-MP fora in it's entire history.

If anything civ 3 was the golden age of this site, and your think otherwise because you have an axe to grind. I don't think any of the admins here were ever active in the civ 3 sections, although I remember snoopy in his (our) first PBEM game here.

You really ought to consider that what made this place great in those days was not the admins, or anything driven by the site owners, but that the regular posters got their hands dirty and made something useful, from tournament games to strat articles, and unfortunately very few of them are still around, or are to disillusioned to do anything.