10-04-2005 01:12									#1
	A.C.S. Announces "CivIV" Coverage Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Apolyton Civilization Site ( http://apolyton.net ) [ACS], one the premiere online fansites for the Civilization computer strategy gaming series and its extended family, is today announcing its formal intention to cover the fourth incarnation of the Civilization series. From developer Firaxis Games and publisher 2K Games, a division of Take-Two Entertainment, comes Civilization IV with an anticipated release this coming winter. It is to be covered in full on ACS as are any and all expansion packs that may follow. News items for the up-and-coming title are currently housed in the ‘Miscellaneous’ section of the site, and will continue to be so until a complete section for CivIV is compiled and online.

"It is the long-standing endurance and superior reputation of the Civilization series that keeps us going", says ACS Co-Owner/Administrator Daniel “DanQ” Quick. "Almost seven years ago ACS was formed to better serve the growing Civ community online. Since then the strength of this community has permitted us the opportunities and resources to expand our quality coverage to closely related turn-based and even real-time strategy series. There has never been any doubt in our mind that should CivIV go into development, we would cover it too. We are pleased that our commitment can be realized".

ACS’ original coverage was limited to Civilization, Civilization II, and Civilization: Call to Power back when it officially launched in July of 1998. Since then, Apolyton has added coverage to Civilization III, Call to Power II, Alpha Centauri, Master of Orion III, the Galactic Civilizations series, Rise of Nations, the now-defunct Dinosaurs endeavour and numerous so-called ‘Alternative Civs’ most notably Freeciv.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

Last edited by DanQ on 10-04-2005 at 09:05

	10-04-2005 01:43									#2
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Good. But it was on time. Now it's all up to Firaxis!

	10-04-2005 01:47									#3
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I'd rather it be late then crap. Personally, I'd lock them in a room with nothing but a computer and CTP2 for a week or to so they can see how to design a good interface.

	10-04-2005 02:01									#4
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Great! Hopefully Civ 4 wont be the suckfest Civ 3 was at the beginning

	10-04-2005 02:41									#5
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Perhaps they should use the smax engine and just fix the bugs.

	10-04-2005 02:56									#6
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I´ve wanted a combination of SMAC/X and (the final version of) Civ III for a long time. Alas, that will never happen

	10-04-2005 03:00									#7
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Poo. Why?

	10-04-2005 03:13									#8
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Well the reason why Civ3 is so buggy is that it's based on an old enginee to start with. I say that I hope thay start from scratch rather than rying to same a few weeks of development byadapting obsolete code from an old game. That only creates bugs, trying to extend on an existing base.

	10-04-2005 03:36									#9
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quote: Originally posted by spartak Poo. Why?

Because Civ III eventually became a great game, albeit lacking in certain departments. Combine the greatness of SMAC with the best bits of Civ III and you would have a killer game IMO.

	10-04-2005 11:07									#10
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I think it can and may well be neither late nor crap. But what we should do is lock them up until the end of November with Civ2, Civ3, Colonization, Axis and Allies, Lord of the Rings, a manyvolume encyclopedia of world history, and access to our Civ4 forum, the CFC Civ4 forum, the CivWiki, and the Civ3 list. Maybe throw in a time machine somewhere too. They might need some food too. Maybe toss in the Dune strategy games. They can spend some of the time playing Risk and Chess too.

	10-04-2005 11:44									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Kamrat X Because Civ III eventually became a great game, albeit lacking in certain departments. Combine the greatness of SMAC with the best bits of Civ III and you would have a killer game IMO.

Actually, I meant why would it not happen?

	10-04-2005 14:54									#12
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Oh, and Dan, could you please not use coloured text, it's quite difficult to read using certain themes(in my case MoO3).

	10-04-2005 15:29									#13
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quote: Originally posted by spartak Actually, I meant why would it not happen?

Well it haven´t happened so far, and Firaxis seems reluctant to dig up the old SMAC/X engine. But you never know, maybe a few years down the road? If there can be a Colonization II, there might very well be a SMAC/X II

	10-04-2005 16:39									#14
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ACS announces Civ4 coverage - who would have guessed that

	10-04-2005 18:33									#15
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It had to come, of course, but it's nice anyway

Asmodean

	10-04-2005 20:42									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Atahualpa ACS announces Civ4 coverage - who would have guessed that

It would´ve been a greater surprise if it were announced that they weren´t going to cover it.

Apolyton Civilization Site ( http://apolyton.net ) [ACS], one the premiere online fansites for the Civilization computer strategy gaming series and its extended family, is today announcing that they won´t cover the fourth incarnation of the Civilization series. From developer Firaxis Games and publisher 2K Games, a division of Take-Two Entertainment, comes Civilization IV with an anticipated release this coming winter. Judging by earlier promises this should probably be read as sometime in 2007.

"We won´t get our hopes up says Apolyton Co-Owner/Administrator Daniel "DanQ" Quick". "We won´t cover this, until Firaxis gets their **** together and give us a playable game right out of the box. A game that is seriously playtested and complete"

MarkG, the other Co-Owner/Administrator of Apolyton could not be reached for a comment at this time as he is chasing sheep in the hills of Greece.

Now that would be a surprise

	10-04-2005 20:55									#17
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quote: and give us a payable game right out of the box

Payable? Don't you mean Playable?

	10-04-2005 21:30									#18
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Oops...

	11-04-2005 00:15									#19
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quote: MarkG, the other Co-Owner/Administrator of Apolyton could not be reached for a comment at this time as he is chasing sheep in the hills of Greece.

And think of the kittens; he also needs them for the hecatomb!

	11-04-2005 01:54									#20
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True

	11-04-2005 01:58									#21
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quote: Originally posted by alva ... Dan, could you please not use coloured text, it's quite difficult to read using certain themes(in my case MoO3).

Hi alva.

The formatting of the announcement corresponds to the news item. Given that the entire write-up is an Apolyton press release, I use the coloured text to indicate "speech" and quotation marks within to indicate speaking within the press release itself (if you follow ).

Still, given the different themes available on the forums I will consider removing the coloured text from the forum versions of such write-ups (thread and announcement texts) in future releases.

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P.S. Kamrat, what am I going to do about you...

	11-04-2005 02:09									#22
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quote: Originally posted by DanQ P.S. Kamrat, what am I going to do about you...

Give me a custom title?

	11-04-2005 03:03									#23
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Then you should pray it isn't he who decides what title you get.

	11-04-2005 03:21									#24
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You mean like Village Idiot?

	11-04-2005 03:35									#25
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That or something even nastier. You really can't know with a person writing in such an impersonal way all the time...

	11-04-2005 03:45									#26
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You know, I´m not even sure DanQ even exists. No one has met him AFAIK, maybe he´s just a forum bot. That would explain the impersonal writing

	11-04-2005 13:52									#27
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Kamrat

	11-04-2005 20:27									#28
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But surely such an "important" forum bot would write in a personal way to cover up the fact that he is a forum bot?

It's good to know that cIV has been noticed to be Civilisation.

	12-04-2005 11:17									#29
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To the list of games to keep Firaxis company in their swotbox (*) I would add Master of Magic, so that SidCo get the concept that enjoyable combat is not only for Pirates! and Antietam!

(*) I imagine the cramped, spartan cell that candidates for academic degrees had to spend weeks in while studying and doing their exams during Chinese imperial times.

	13-04-2005 22:49									#30
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