uh, guys...

[Sava]

Jokes should only be original.

[The Mad Monk]

Keep in mind, too, that there are some neat features found nowhere else, including BE. Terraforming and screwing around in the unit workshop don't get old lightning-fast. All these years later, I still find a little terraforming habit-forming..

One of my favorite mini-games was creating an equatorial belt.

Also, I never cared how far inland my capital was, sooner or later it would have a beach.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I've often started a seabase at one of the poles, surrounded it completely with land, gifted it to the last opponent remaining, and wiped them out completely except for that useless one-square seabase when they eventually declared vendetta - and played out the game terraforming like it was Sim City. You just can't do that with any other Civ game.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Not to harp - but okay, to harp on it...

The BE thing is definitely pulling traffic and new people at AC2. I just had a PM exchange with a fellow who signed up this afternoon and wants to retromod Alien Crossfire into Alpha Centauri, and sounds like he's sharp/aware enough to do it - and all the people who don't like X could play it and not be left out on so many scenarios/mod/assorted goodies made for X.

My point being, please post in 'poly AC about your AC games. It's good for the overall health of the site, which has been an OTf tail wagging the (dying) on-topic dog for years. The tail needs a live dog to be/stay/survive as a healthy tail...

Go out of your way to post in the BE sub, too, for that matter...

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Keeping the dog you wag alive

The official 'poly Facebook page needs seven more likes - before Aeson wins a kewpie doll or something.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Apolyton-Civilization-Site/1485140898366746

Facebook -evil stalking, Big Brother knowing your business and all- is a powerful promotional tool, and if you have an account and haven't liked the official page, POLY WILL DIE AND IT WILL BE YOUR FAULT.

[Aeson]

I think all 12 of us have liked it, who knows where those others came from ... maybe spambots?

[Sava]

If I "like" Apolyton on Facebook, am I giving up my right to sue you?

[self biased]

I think all 12 of us have liked it, who knows where those others came from ... maybe spambots?

I know a few of my friends have liked it.

[self biased]

jonmiller.

[Lorizael]

120,000 members, 1,700 of which are considered "active"--we should totally be able to get 30 likes.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

The newb I was talking about above was afraid of getting flamed for not liking Alien Crossfire, and it took until after ten last night to talk him into posting about his retro-mod idea - and replies just rolled over to the second page. Everyone loves the idea. http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=8413.0 Most everyone uses X, but doesn't think it's much of an upgrade.

That's a benefit of establishing a civil forum culture, I guess. I wonder how many people never sign up and post here on-topic because they had a look at OTf? I'm not slagging; just thinking out loud. Would an autogreeting PM saying "Welcome! Post! Enter OT at your own risk, but none of that crap in the on-topic areas!" help, I wonder?

[Lorizael]

I've often thought that the descriptive text for the OT should essentially be a warning.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Dante?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

"What happens in scrofulous troll Vegas STAYS in scrofulous troll Vegas"?

[Lorizael]

Dante?

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Yeah, that'd be a good one.