After the game comes out...

JellyDonut · October 7, 2001, 02:23

...how will the forums be set up? I think there will need to be more than 2 Civ III forums. Will there be a Civ III Strategy forum, a Civ III Stories forum, etc. like for Civ II? Will the Civ III Civilizations forum still be up?

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

El hidalgo · October 7, 2001, 02:57

The Civ3 Civlizations forum would be a good place for modders and other interested parties to talk about civs to add.

August Borms · October 7, 2001, 04:47

There were about 6 forums for CTP2 when it was released...
So there better be AT LEAST 6 forums for Civ3

Crouchback · October 7, 2001, 05:01

From the current mania on this board someone had better open a Therapy forum ASAP.

Or better still Firaxis could release a certain game...

David

Solver · October 7, 2001, 06:38

When Civ 3 is released, you'll see what we'll do.

red_jon · October 7, 2001, 07:30

I just hope there won't be any need for a "Civ3 bugs" forum

Solver · October 7, 2001, 07:34

No, but there will be a "Civ3-HowDoIStopPlayingTheGame" forum.

red_jon · October 7, 2001, 07:40

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Originally posted by Solver
No, but there will be a "Civ3-HowDoIStopPlayingTheGame" forum.

Lol. Aren't you worried that people will stop using poly for a couple of months?

tonic · October 7, 2001, 09:21

The Civ2 Forums might give an idea. I'd reckon strategy and debugging might loom large. There was really quite a mountain of interest with ideas before the official announcement of the release date and judging from Yin26's recent thread, a fair bit of disappointment as well.

Akron · October 7, 2001, 11:35

Well, I know there won't be a "Civ 3 Multiplayer" forum.

But I hope there is eventually (as in 3 months or less from now).

jdd2007 · October 7, 2001, 12:27

i suggest there should be-

scenario and mod forum
strategy and advice forum
bugs and suggesitions forum
expansion pack forum
multiplaying forum (eventually)
civ 3 general forum

i dont see why we would need any more...

Provost Harrison · October 7, 2001, 12:43

I am not keen on subdividing forums into many parts, it gets very confusing, very quickly, trying to keep track of all the individual places. Personally i don't think there should have been a split into Civ3 - Civilisations, but that is just my opinion...

Oligarf · October 7, 2001, 12:49

Reading a post like this, I am almost beginning to think that Apolyton has become to BIG (yes it is possible). I am sure that I will lose track of things. But whatever, I won't have time to post when the game comes out.

Uncle Thade · October 7, 2001, 13:08

The only time I'll have for the forums is months after my initial foray into the game. And even then I be getting weaned of my daily "crack" habit. So methinks the last place I want to go is some place where the game is talked about.

Why send a druggie to a detox ward, don't they just give them alternatives?????

I rather like the therapy post....

Alex · October 7, 2001, 13:31

Hmmm, I already lost track of things here on Apolyton...

When Civ3 comes out, I will be here more than never. The reason is simple: I'll still be waiting for Civ3 to be released here where I live. AFAIK, there is no release date and I will be suffering while I read the posts stressing how fun the game is, how one can not stop playing it etc...

JellyDonut · October 7, 2001, 13:42

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Originally posted by Alexnm
When Civ3 comes out, I will be here more than never. The reason is simple: I'll still be waiting for Civ3 to be released here where I live. AFAIK, there is no release date and I will be suffering while I read the posts stressing how fun the game is, how one can not stop playing it etc...

Aah! Don't do that! The worst thing you can do is know everything about a game before it comes out. I will have to wait a week or more after the release date to start playing the game while my computer's being repaired and as soon as I see a thread like "I just got my copy!!!" I'm going to leave Apolyton and not come back until I've played a few games. This is part the reason I'm secretly happy Dan hasn't been handing out new information

That and arguing about unconfirmed information from details in screenshots and little blurbs from Firaxians was fun; it was quite a shame when they told us what the civs were and killed the Civs Included thread...

red_jon · October 7, 2001, 14:03

I hate havving things divided into seperate forums - it means you hafta have lots of windows open.

Alex · October 7, 2001, 14:47

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The worst thing you can do is know everything about a game before it comes out.

Well, JellyDonut, maybe you're right. Before I got CTP2 (yes, I did

), I read a lot about it here on the forums, and, somehow, when I first started the game, I almost knew what I would see and feel. That, in a sense, has reduced the fun of the game to me (and... yes, I think CTP2 can be a little fun...

).

So I may run away from Apolyton until I get my own Civ3 copy, but that's going to be a herculean task...

Oh, and for those who might be asking themselves "If he had read about CTP2 on the forums, then why did he buy the game?", I would say that I'm just a shameless masochist.

tniem · October 8, 2001, 00:05

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Originally posted by Solver
No, but there will be a "Civ3-HowDoIStopPlayingTheGame" forum.

How many people honestly are going to be posting in that forum? I mean come on. Anyone that could give advice is going to be busy playing the game himself. I think you might want to rethink that one.

October 8, 2001, 01:43

Quote:

quote:

Originally posted by Solver
No, but there will be a "Civ3-HowDoIStopPlayingTheGame" forum.

How many people honestly are going to be posting in that forum?

It depends how well Civ3 performs under alt-tab.

Sarxis · October 8, 2001, 04:21

Well, today is the 8th. If C3 is going to be on time, then I suppose we will probably be seeing changes anywhere between now and the 30th.

Akron · October 8, 2001, 09:07

Quote:

Originally posted by red_jon
I hate havving things divided into seperate forums - it means you hafta have lots of windows open.

But at the same time more threads get replied to and the forum content is more specific.

Oligarf · October 9, 2001, 14:45

I am not quite able to react on all the posts I would like to react to. There are already too much and with more different forums it would probably become only worse. But Akron is also right. It would become a real mess if everything is dumped in one forum. I hope the guys here at Apolyton know what they should do.

Crouchback · October 9, 2001, 14:58

Quote:

Originally posted by Oligarf
I hope the guys here at Apolyton know what they should do.

They certainly did when it came to CTP, it wasn't their fault the game was so crap.

IMHO there should be forums for:

Mods
MP
Strategy
General celebration of Firaxis (or complaining for the few).

David

Pembleton · October 9, 2001, 15:16

Keep the number of forums to a minimum!!

I'm even annoyed that there are 2 right now. The Civs forums is really slow and doesn't get as much feedback as I would like. I think one forum right now would be just fine.

However, after the game is released I can understand that one forum would probably be too messy, and the best threads might get lost in a sea of useless crap. However, at least we have the advantage of not having a lot of kids with floods of one-liners like you would get in a forum such as one for Starcraft and its ilk.

I think Civs could be subsumed under strategy after the game is released, thus eliminating one extra forum. Bugs, MP, General, and Scenario/Mods could round it out.

Oligarf · October 10, 2001, 14:17

Maybe that some kind of voting system could work. If a thread has a certain number of replies it is promoted to a 'no-crap-forum'. That might make not the mess we fear for now.