04-04-2002 12:39									#1
	What viewing format do you view Apolyton under? Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

I'm trying to get used to the default format. I like it because it is informative. But it sure looks cluttered.

I normally use light. I have no idea what the others do.

and yes I voted for my own thread . I'm trying something out.

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	04-04-2002 12:58									#2
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i use default with avatars turned off

	04-04-2002 13:00									#3
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OK I have been playing around with it now. I even read that post by markg I never paid attention to before

So now I know what each one does.

after all that wasted time- I have nothing better to do. I have settled on light- special. but I already voted for light. No biggie.

	04-04-2002 13:42									#4
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Light-Special

	04-04-2002 15:35									#5
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CtP2 Default. I have avatars turned on, but smiley shortcuts and script links turned off.

	04-04-2002 15:45									#6
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What's the difference between Default and Default Special anyway?

	04-04-2002 19:40									#7
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what are you guyz talking about

	04-04-2002 20:12									#8
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Viewing......format?

	04-04-2002 21:15									#9
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I am not familiar with this "viewing format" of which you speak. Perhaps you could enlighten me?

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	04-04-2002 21:29									#10
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In your control panel, under "user options" you have a choice of viewing styles. The default/civ3/ctp2 ones are color changes, and the light one disables certain things. I forgot what exactly the special choice does, but it relates to displaying ads.

	04-04-2002 21:33									#11
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Personally, I use the default style with everything turned on. Since I'm on a hispeed connection, it doesn't really affect my speed, plus I think the light style looks empty and boring.

	04-04-2002 21:41									#12
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I use the CTP2 default style with turned of avatars. I think the speed of your connection is not the problem it has/had to do with some server problems to make Mark to introduce the light style.

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	04-04-2002 22:57									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Ecthelion What's the difference between Default and Default Special anyway?

The difference is at the top of your screen...compare it

	04-04-2002 23:30									#14
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I use a variety, but always avoid default. The bright background hurts my sun-starved eyes.

	05-04-2002 00:00									#15
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well I use lite not for speed problems, but because it looks better and less cluttered. I think this is why he included it. When they changed over from the Old UBB style I couldn't stand the way it looked. I was very used to the UBB style. So I had to go to lite.

	05-04-2002 02:25									#16
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The colors of the non-default options are butt-ugly so I don't use them. I used Light for a while but they have much less info (ratings, views, etc) and I'm now on a high-speed connection anyway, so I switched to Default again ages ago.

quote: Originally posted by Martin Gühmann I think the speed of your connection is not the problem it has/had to do with some server problems to make Mark to introduce the light style.

Actually, the speed of the connection is exactly the problem and the reason why Markos introduced the Light version. The server problems made Markos temporarily disable avatars for everyone (although it no doubt would have helped if everyone had switched to Light style as well).

	05-04-2002 05:20									#17
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I use one of the normal full views, although I switch between them.

The difference between special and non-special is the ads. I think special has a popup ad, while normal has two ads on each page.

	05-04-2002 05:20									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Zopperoni The difference is at the top of your screen...compare it

Ah, now i see the difference. Looks a lot less cluttered up there now. So, I now use Default Special.

	05-04-2002 05:25									#19
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One thing though. The special view at the moment doesn't have popup ads because we can't use paid ads on the server. So for the time being, it is better to use the special view.

	05-04-2002 05:36									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Grrr One thing though. The special view at the moment doesn't have popup ads because we can't use paid ads on the server. So for the time being, it is better to use the special view.

Good point, hadn't thought about that yet. Switching to Special as we speak