October 30, 2003, 12:44
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Poly mentioned on BBC
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October 30, 2003, 12:50
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Just another peon
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Congrats to the site. Too bad they didn't include a link.
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October 30, 2003, 12:58
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Wow... congratulations. I'm glad to see this story on BBC.
As I was thinking last night, this is a very important piece of news, even though CtP2 is a little known product.
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October 30, 2003, 14:42
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woohoo! 
we're superstars!
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October 30, 2003, 15:23
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cool.
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October 30, 2003, 15:34
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Not bad!
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October 30, 2003, 15:37
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cool
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October 30, 2003, 16:34
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Hey...that's really cool.
Now let's get Firaxis to do the same with the Civ3 source code. That would get us on CNN prime time, at least 
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October 30, 2003, 16:39
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OYu really think they'll do that while the game's still being developed and XP'd?
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October 30, 2003, 16:41
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cool
thanks lotm!
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October 30, 2003, 17:20
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Kickass!
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October 30, 2003, 17:26
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See, even the lowly soldier in the trenches can cheer something like this. 
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October 30, 2003, 17:49
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Excellent
First slashdot, now the BBC. Not bad for a silly old game that most people considered dead a few months ago
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October 30, 2003, 17:56
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And reading through the article, they obviously got much of their info from my FAQ 
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October 30, 2003, 18:09
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The power of Poly, Bravo!
Kai eis anwtera!
So long....
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October 30, 2003, 18:12
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Originally posted by Locutus
And reading through the article, they obviously got much of their info from my FAQ
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No doubt via Slashdot
Woo!
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October 30, 2003, 18:21
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Cool. Let's see how this affects the registration stats. Locutus. do you have any graphs ready over registrations during this week yet?
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October 30, 2003, 19:01
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Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
No doubt via Slashdot
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I guess that's possible as well. Still means I'm the source though
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Cool. Let's see how this affects the registration stats. Locutus. do you have any graphs ready over registrations during this week yet?
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As luck would have it, we just passed the 42k milestone Monday, so yes. So far 225 people registered in about 4 days, which is not much more than normal, although it does stop the trend of a slight decrease in the number of registrations that had set in over the past 2 months.
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October 30, 2003, 19:43
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Very nice!
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October 30, 2003, 19:48
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hey hey hey
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October 30, 2003, 19:51
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What sorts of game modifications could be done with the source code that could not otherwise happen?
Anyway, no publicity is bad publicity. 
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October 30, 2003, 19:56
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Good news, especially for the CtP guys.
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October 30, 2003, 20:00
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What sorts of game modifications could be done with the source code that could not otherwise happen?
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To quote myself from aforementioned FAQ:
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For CtP2 this means that we could do anything with the game we want, there are no boundaries whatsoever to what we can change (contrary to the mods). If we wanted to, we could turn this game into a Real-Time Strategy game, or even a First Person Shooter (though in that case we'd have to change so much code it'd probably be better to start from scratch ) The only boundaries to what we can do with the source code are our own capabilities to understand and change the game (since most of us aren't professional game designers, and there are a few caveats to the release of this source code, some things may simply prove to be too difficult to be worthwhile).
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October 30, 2003, 20:15
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I submitted the Slashdot story, though they made some mods to my submission.
Either that or some one submitted a story extremely similar to my wording.
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October 30, 2003, 20:29
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October 30, 2003, 20:33
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I believe Markos submitted the story to Slashdot as well, maybe they merged the two submissions?
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October 30, 2003, 21:09
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Congrats Poly!!!!
 ACK!
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October 30, 2003, 21:27
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Woah, that's cool.
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October 30, 2003, 21:49
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Anyone considering tinkering with the source will need a copy of Call to Power 2 to use it and faces a tricky task as Activision has removed all comments from the 1.8m lines of code just in case any of its developers words prove libellous or damaging.
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That is funny. 
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October 30, 2003, 22:46
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One step closer to Apolyton world domination. 
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