Helping restore Apolyton

[KrazyHorse]

2. The community is abrasive.

**** you too.

[Grandpa Troll]

You are looking at it the wrong way, Gramps.

The OTF, the community here, thats all good but its not the answer.

People go where the money is. Money is a form of power. Winning competitions is power.

therefore Fast and Furious Civ Competitions = money.

Not necessarily

Im a manager, one thing I learned many years ago, dont be constricted to old ways, think outside of the box, plug away, cold calls, promotions, target many venues.

Im hoping to draw some interest here, and have it expounded upon.

I dont mean to shooty you down, more share we need to look everywhere, address any open avenues

GT

[ZEE]

AAHZ, is thera reason it cannot be started?

Heck, Im not that good but would enjoy a game of CIV2....

Why not head something up, send a PM to one of Staff/Admin and see how they feel, not sure if it has ever been tried but seek some approval or input, I think i remember Ming/rah/jrabbit at one point were, I trhink, playing a weekend game????? (hmm..some years back)


But why not just try


I remember CTP being almost dead, I was hurt that we had such a community at one point, i didnt ask, just started promoting and keep active, next thing many others joined in, not what i personally did but collectively what we did

If I had all my copies of Civ back i would love to play dual games all day long and show all yall a REAL Civ Lesson. Im the man, baby.

But I cant code an entire page with automated leaderboards, player stats (possible incorperated into profiles) the network capabilities to link the games together, etc.

But LOGICALLY if done this site would eclipse CFC possible within a few months.

[Docfeelgood]

Start a consracy area.
Yall be suprised at all the nuts that will show up.

[Ben Kenobi]

Ben, the fact that you want people who care about post count posting is enough reason for me to doubt your sanity

It's just an observation that the forum has been killed since post count was restored to the off-topic. Cause and effect?

[Asher]

I don't think anyone here cares about post count.

[Murg]

In the Off or On topic?

In my opinion, in both places. The threads about the podcasts are generally good, as are the posts in the creation forum. But outside of that they tend to go downhill.

[ZEE]

Also Firaxis should make Civ 2 MGE Downloadable freeware from their site.

[DanQ]

This is a tough question, but Im so glad Grandpa Troll asked it.

Same here.

If Diplogames are not your thing, AAHZ, there is the Tri-League which has been running continuously since September 2007 by Nugog and RobWorham.

As for your suggestion, if there are people willing and able to assist in the organization and operation of such an effort, that would go a long way to making it practically possible.

Poly does have going for it PolyCast. While the OT posters mostly like just the OT, quite a few people listen in that don't post here. I'm an exception. PolyCast is fun, more people should go on the show and listen in.

1. The name is obscure/non-intuitive.

Said as "Apolyton" and not "Apolyton Civilization Site", it can be non-intuitive but I disagree that it's obscure.

I think of DanQ and GarretSidzaka as personal friends and I would do anything for them.

Thank you kindly, Murg. I feel the same.

Design isn't very sleek. There are a lot of buttons and things to click on, almost to much. I dont think the color scheme really matters, but new posters may be confused by the layout.

That has been and continues to be a long-term project, continually being drawn out due to a number of factors including a need to harmonize hundreds if not thousands of existing pages to a consistent layout.

Now the strengths.

3. Kael never posts here. That guy is such a drag.

[Docfeelgood]

Also Firaxis should make Civ 2 MGE Downloadable freeware from their site.

AC! @ AC the add on other one.

That would boost things up here!

[KrazyHorse]

Have they ever talked about remaking SMAC? Poly should grab the lead on that. SMAC was cool. Much better than civ3 and even civ4

[SpencerH]

I havent been to CFC for many years and I just posted some unit animations I'd done, I never discussed anything about CIV there. The site seemed too young for me. Maybe its changed, I dunno (but I doubt it)

Personally, I dont want the kiddies here (we have enough here already - see numerous Asher masturbation threads) so my answer is PORN. Turn poly into an adult CIV site.

[KrazyHorse]

Jesus. What a ****ing good idea.

[Grandpa Troll]

I may be off the path allowed here, but picture this (actually it will be audio, not video)

In the opening of MODCAST/POLYCAST/REVCAST, a short maybe 30-45 second blurb, kind of like the man on the corner type reporter, Dan with a voiceover "Why do you Come to Apolyton"

Have several or at least 2-3 short blurbs as the introduction.

Somefolks listening on the internet may take interest???

who knows, I dont have permission to offer or even suggest but was trying to brainstorm ways we could draw some interest

[KrazyHorse]

Ming on rah. Hot twin action.