wondering what makes a game qualify for a forum section

vee4473 · November 23, 2003, 13:13

How come there isn't an Age of Wonders forum section?

I don't play the game as much anymore, but it is a TBS game that is very good i think, and a place to come and talk about it would be nice.

How did RON get in? Simply because it's a Brian Reynolds game?

vovan · November 23, 2003, 14:15

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Originally posted by vee4473
How did RON get in? Simply because it's a Brian Reynolds game?

Yup. This is supposedly a civilization site, that is why, say, Age of Wonders wouldn't qualify for its own forum.

Now, the owners apparently thought that RoN qualifies as a civilization game... And to further support that claim that it wasn't just because it is a Brian Reynolds game, they say that Pirates! will never get its own forums, even though its a Sid Meier game.

vee4473 · November 23, 2003, 14:43

right, the only reason i even asked was because of the other games that are TBS yet not civ.

oh well.

DrSpike · November 23, 2003, 15:13

You can dicuss AOW here, and several threads have. There would not be enough traffic to justify a forum.

Nubclear · November 23, 2003, 15:57

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Originally posted by vovan

Yup. This is supposedly a civilization site, that is why, say, Age of Wonders wouldn't qualify for its own forum.

Now, the owners apparently thought that RoN qualifies as a civilization game... And to further support that claim that it wasn't just because it is a Brian Reynolds game, they say that Pirates! will never get its own forums, even though its a Sid Meier game.

Thats cause BR created Civ2 and SMACX, both of which are leaps and bounds ahead of Civ1 and Civ3 for that matter

Asmodean · November 23, 2003, 16:45

I'll say out loud, what many think.

That a game like RON is covered here at Poly, is nothing less than a travesty

Asmodean

St Leo · November 23, 2003, 18:30

Yeah. It's total crap compared to Total Annihilation, Kohan, and Warlords Battlecry II.

Asmodean · November 23, 2003, 18:36

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Originally posted by St Leo
Yeah. It's total crap compared to Total Annihilation, Kohan, and Warlords Battlecry II.

Neither of which I play....and neither of which are, to the best of my knowledge, covered by Poly.

Asmodean

Dis · November 23, 2003, 19:01

RON seemed okay for a RTS

It seemed to have most of the civilization type things in the game- but in a RTS kind of way. I played the demo, didn't get the game because I don't care for RTS gameplay that much.

vovan · November 23, 2003, 19:11

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Originally posted by Dissident
I played the demo, didn't get the game because I don't care for RTS gameplay that much.

Well, if you look at the amount of activity on the RoN forums, you'll find out that neither do most Apolytoners...

Dis · November 23, 2003, 19:53

*glances at RON forums*

yes they do seem slow.

perhaps they should condense them all into 1 forum.

Skanky Burns · November 23, 2003, 20:22

A game qualifies for its own forum if Mark and Dan say it does.

vovan · November 23, 2003, 20:25

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Originally posted by Dissident
perhaps they should condense them all into 1 forum.

Make them into one and stick it into the "Other Games" or "Alternative Civs" category, where it belongs.

Alex · November 23, 2003, 22:12

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Originally posted by Skanky Burns
A game qualifies for its own forum if Mark and Dan say it does.

now you're almost talking like a mod. you just forgot the "

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vovan · November 23, 2003, 22:14

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Originally posted by Alex
now you're almost talking like a mod. you just forgot the "

"

No. The mods are supposed to refer to them as "The Owners

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Urban Ranger · November 23, 2003, 22:35

vovan,

Interesting sig... now what is a Wig-Wam?

General Ludd · November 23, 2003, 22:51

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
vovan,

Interesting sig... now what is a Wig-Wam?

A native-american dwelling. But I'm not sure if it's used to refer to tee-pees, huts, wood lodges, or what.

Dis · November 23, 2003, 23:50

It's also a name of a street in my city.

DrSpike · November 24, 2003, 11:28

I think we used to have a chocolate bar called that.

Skanky Burns · November 24, 2003, 12:47

Very successful thread-jack, by the way.
Who started this thread-jack, again?

General Ludd · November 24, 2003, 13:07

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Originally posted by Osweld

A native-american dwelling. But I'm not sure if it's used to refer to tee-pees, huts, wood lodges, or what.

Actually, I seem to remember it being some sort of portable dwelling... perhaps what the nomadic buffalo hunters used.

rah · November 24, 2003, 13:25

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Originally posted by Skanky Burns
A game qualifies for its own forum if Mark and Dan say it does.

Best and only good answer so far.
And if the threadjacking continues, I'll slam it down.

RAH

And yes we do

the owners.

Adagio · November 24, 2003, 13:26

I'd say Ron should also just be a minor forum to Other games, since it's never used... and only have a general forum, not 4 different...

Alex · November 24, 2003, 13:29

a mod threadjacking a thread?

vovan · November 24, 2003, 14:46

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Interesting sig... now what is a Wig-Wam?

Where an Apache lives.

EDIT: OMG! I should have read the thread to the end before replying to UR! Sorry, rah.

This won't happen again. Promise.

You can delete this post if it's bad.

rah · November 24, 2003, 15:44

I'm so confused by Alex's post that I'll cut you some slack on that one Vovan. Maybe you can help. Which mod is he talking about? If he thinks my post was a threadjack, he is quite confused.