Front page of Kuro5hin!

[MattH]

Apolyton and the ISDG have made it to the front page of kuro5hin, a popular news site. It's a long, informative article about the Intersite Democracy game. Great work whoever wrote it!

[sabrewolf]

thanks for the link... good text!

With over three million posts among the fan sites, it almost seems like the players prefer talking about Civilization to actually playing it, and it's not without truth, either.

nothing new, but it somehow must hurt hearing that

[alva]

Nah, people talk more about football than playing it too, goes for many other things too, come to think of it.

[Solver]

They say that Poly and CFC have 39 and 34k users respectively. When was that, a year ago?

[MattH]

The bottom of the article says

Since this article was written in late 2003, three teams have been knocked out of the game: the Creative Design Group, the Grenouille team... and Firaxis.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Solver
They say that Poly and CFC have 39 and 34k users respectively. When was that, a year ago?

Last September.

[alva]

Good article

[:) Smiley]

From the article:

While a tank is likely to beat a group of cavalry in battle, based on their relative attack and defence strengths, there's still a small probability that the cavalry could emerge victorious, in effect by getting lucky and rolling two sixes.

Or a spearman rolling a full freight train of boxcars...

[Ming]

Actually a good story. A good read!

[Theben]

Very interesting. Has anyone heard of the concept of Demo games at another gaming forum (outside the Civ ones)?

[Arnelos]

Arian Hon is the author and a member of the Apolyton ISDG Team. He thought to post a link in the ISDG private forum, but I'm glad someone noticed and posted a link out here in public.

Needless to say, I'm glad his article made it in there.

- Consul Arnelos

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by MattH
The bottom of the article says

Since this article was written in late 2003, three teams have been knocked out of the game: the Creative Design Group, the Grenouille team... and Firaxis.

And both GCA and CGN are effectively out of the running for winning the game.

The game has ultimately come down to two alliances: One lead by Apolyton, the other lead by the German Webring Team (GWT). The allies of Apolyton are CFC and CGN. The allies of the Germans are GCA.

[MattH]

Is there anywhere I, as an outsider, can go to get the story on the game so far?

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by MattH
Is there anywhere I, as an outsider, can go to get the story on the game so far?

You could always, as a member of Apolyton, join the team.

Post in that thread and PM Beta if you want to join.

If you're just looking for a public story, I know we've had a few News updates on the Civ3 page, but I forget how long ago the last one went out. Lemme go look.

[MattH]

The thing is I don't have time or experience to add to the team so I won't waste anybody's time.