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[Arnelos]

Geesh, the last one was a long time ago and I'm not entirely sure whether this made it on the front page because Togas sent it to MarkG when he was off on army duty. Anyhow, here's the last one that we tried to post back in December, 2003 on about Turn 140 (230 AD):

Originally posted by Togas
Heading into Turn 140 (230ad) of the Intersite Civ3 Competition (using PTW), Team Apolyton is still in the hunt and going strong against teams from the other major civilization sites!

On Apolyton's continent, the team from the Creative Design Group was the first eliminated. They were destroyed by the Gamecatcher Alliance team.

At present Apolyton and the Civ Fanatics Center are both at war with the Gamecatchers, and the Gamecatchers are close to defeat. Apolyton has conquered most of the former Gamecatcher territory on one side of a continental chokepoint, and the Civfanatics have conquered most of the territory on the other.

On another continent the Civilization Gaming Network and the Civilization Webring Team (aka German Webring Team) have both defeated their neighbors (Grenouille and Firaxis) and now face off as the world's top two powers. Relations are tense between the two super powers.

The Apolyton Intersite Team is now lead by a trio of "Consuls": NotYouEither, Arnelos, and Trip. Every month one of the Consuls is up for election. Most recently Trip won the election, replacing the retired former Consul BigFree.

The ministers who advise them are: Aggie (Minister of War), E_T (Domestic Minister), and Togas (Foreign Affairs Minister).

[Arnelos]

I'm going to see if we can get something of a "story thusfar" out here in public. Working on that now.

[Harry Tuttle]

and now I know the story about the modders at CDG. I've always wondered why they have so many WW2 mods...

[Arnelos]

Well, a few notes I can make right now in public:

* We just played Turn 185 (690 AD).

* Apolyton is 2nd in the world in most demographic statistics, behind the German Webring Team (GWT), which has 1st in most categories.

* CGN, previously the world's dominant economic and cultural power, has been all but wiped out by GWT's sizable army of Ansar Warriors over the past 20-30 turns.

* Apolyton has recently been involved in a massive REX effort to resettle the lands conquered from GCA. I don't think I've ever played a game where I was moving around that many settlers all at the same time.

*Apolyton and GWT are the dominant world powers now, with CFC in a distant 3rd and GCA in an incredibly distant 4th (having been gifted lands by GWT on their continent to save them from destruction at the hands of Apolyton and CFC). CGN has only two cities left, one on their home continent (whose days are most certainly numbered) and one on our continent which was gifted to them by Apolyton to keep them in the game.

That's probably all I should say out here until we can draft up a news report for public consumption.

[DarkCloud]

Great work whoever wrote it!

it is pretty good

funny to see the people who don't play civ (those who wrote back) wondering whether this might promote real life diplomatic activity... and all the concern about cheating
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by the way, adrianhon actually posts here at apolyton MattH, so you can send him a PM to congratulate him if you like

[Arnelos]

Hey, DarkCloud, *you* should check out last turn's report, seeing as your name appears in it.

[MattH]

Is there any chance that saves etc. from the various teams will be made public when the game is over? Screenshots maybe?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Arnelos
Geesh, the last one was a long time ago and I'm not entirely sure whether this made it on the front page

well you do have a civgroup where you can post news yourself

[Adrian Hon]

Thanks guys, I'm glad you liked the article. As soon as I heard of the ISDG I knew I had to write about it to get the word out to as many people as possible; hopefully I should be able to write up another article when the game finishes.

[MarkG]

Thank you for the article Adrian

[Solver]

Yes, again, it was a good read. I am not a fan of democracy games myself, but I have to admit that they are a very interesting phenomena and definitely worthy of attention.

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by MattH
Is there any chance that saves etc. from the various teams will be made public when the game is over? Screenshots maybe?

I hope my teammates don't mind, but here is an edited screenshot for turn 140.

Map removed for security purposes.

Originally posted by Togas
Heading into Turn 140 (230ad) of the Intersite Civ3 Competition (using PTW), Team Apolyton is still in the hunt and going strong against teams from the other major civilization sites!

On Apolyton's continent, the team from the Creative Design Group was the first eliminated. They were destroyed by the Gamecatcher Alliance team.

At present Apolyton and the Civ Fanatics Center are both at war with the Gamecatchers, and the Gamecatchers are close to defeat. Apolyton has conquered most of the former Gamecatcher territory on one side of a continental chokepoint, and the Civfanatics have conquered most of the territory on the other.

On another continent the Civilization Gaming Network and the Civilization Webring Team (aka German Webring Team) have both defeated their neighbors (Grenouille and Firaxis) and now face off as the world's top two powers. Relations are tense between the two super powers.

The Apolyton Intersite Team is now lead by a trio of "Consuls": NotYouEither, Arnelos, and Trip. Every month one of the Consuls is up for election. Most recently Trip won the election, replacing the retired former Consul BigFree.

The ministers who advise them are: Aggie (Minister of War), E_T (Domestic Minister), and Togas (Foreign Affairs Minister).

(PS, If you guys think this is too much, post here or PM me and I'll remove it)

[Kloreep]

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

You wouldn't be wasting anyone's time. You're not required to contribute, just follow certain rules like not spying for other teams etc.

Feel free to join.

[Arnelos]

Donegeal,

Posting here. Please remove map. GCA and GWT do not have maps of that entire territory and publicly posting it would allow them to see parts of our territory they cannot see in-game (basically everything north of about Karina).

If we could create a map that showed everything SOUTH of about Karina (which they already know) and left the areas north of it blacked out, that would be acceptable since it would reveal no new in-game info.

[Master Zen]

Originally posted by MattH
Is there any chance that saves etc. from the various teams will be made public when the game is over? Screenshots maybe?

Just join up!!!

There are a huge amount of members, many of who just lurk around and vote in polls. You are not required to contribute anything or post anything at all, just send Beta a PM and you'll likely be authorized.