08-07-2004 13:14									#31
	Re: Re: Re: Re: Ack! Ads for Civ III: Gold Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

quote: Originally posted by MarkG there, i broke my promise....

How do you sleep at night?

	08-07-2004 16:36									#32
	Re: Re: Re: Re: Ack! Ads for Civ III: Gold Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

quote: Originally posted by MarkG allow me to say that you have a peculiar way of 1) how to register a complain to a free volunteer-run site 2) what a civil answer is and isnt there, i broke my promise....

1) My intent was a little humor. Oh well. And it was just a comment. Good grief.

2) Excuse me.... Heck.

	08-07-2004 17:35									#33
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

I must say that dunk has a point with that. (hides for the anger of Markos)

	09-07-2004 00:05									#34
	Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ack! Ads for Civ III: Gold Got spare money?

quote: Originally posted by dunk 1) My intent was a little humor. Oh well. And it was just a comment. Good grief.

advice: smilies help get your intent across

	09-07-2004 03:09									#36
	Get a bigger avatar today!

i mean, imagine ming's post above without the smilies

	09-07-2004 05:17									#38
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

(just for reference purposes)

I see the ad. Instead of non-smiley humor, why not

"Why not replace this advertisement with one for Conquests?"

EDIT: Seeing your complaint at CFC, I note a few things.
1) Your post there actually explained why it was bad, which would be much more useful here. Most of the people who spam off in this forum don't even play CivIII and probably wouldn't know the difference. While CFC is only a Civ site, Apolyton includes a far wider range of games--from SMAC to (once upon a time) Dinosaurs to CtP.
2) Your post there didn't include a bad joke.
3) You'll have to excuse Ming. He works in the advertising industry and thus lacks a soul. (Also, he's not even the official site owner, so comparing him to Thunderfall is irrelevant )

Last edited by mrmitchell on 09-07-2004 at 05:26

	09-07-2004 11:57									#39
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Ad saturation can lead to sales. The more you see an ad, the more you want to buy a product, until the saturation is too high and you start to get turned off by the product. Since usually people zone out ads before that, there isn't much of a problem. I might be wrong here because I'm tired, but I'm at least close on some point.

	09-07-2004 17:58									#40
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

quote: Originally posted by mrmitchell (just for reference purposes) I see the ad. Instead of non-smiley humor, why not "Why not replace this advertisement with one for Conquests?" EDIT: Seeing your complaint at CFC, I note a few things. 1) Your post there actually explained why it was bad, which would be much more useful here. Most of the people who spam off in this forum don't even play CivIII and probably wouldn't know the difference. While CFC is only a Civ site, Apolyton includes a far wider range of games--from SMAC to (once upon a time) Dinosaurs to CtP. 2) Your post there didn't include a bad joke. 3) You'll have to excuse Ming. He works in the advertising industry and thus lacks a soul. (Also, he's not even the official site owner, so comparing him to Thunderfall is irrelevant )

There's already an ad for Conquests right above the Civ III: Gold ad.

1) Yes that's true. I guess I should have explained my thoughts better. And used smileys.

2) Yes that's true.

3) Well, MarkG was who I was referring to. He made fun of my bad joke. I thought it was utter hilarity.

See, there's plenty of smilies there.

	09-07-2004 21:28									#41
	Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

Mark should take whatever Civ adverts he can, even for silly bundles like the Civ3 Gold one. It's not his remit to decide which products to advertise, but to raise money to fund the site we all enjoy.