note: This is The Column, a part of Apolyton where Markos and Dan write whatever we want :). Well, not just Dan and me. The Column is open to everyone. If you feel like writing submit your article to markg@gamestats.com

INTRO
It's one month since Apolyton CS started and it's a good time to make a round up(ok, this was easier to write than a comparison of the upcoming civs, which I first thought of writing :)

PREVIOUS ARTICLES

#3 WILL THERE EVER BE A CIV3? Frank Johnson of CivLeague explains why we will never get to play civ3 #4 THE FUTURE OF "OUR LITTLE WORLD" Reismark I writes about the problems of the civ community and what could be done COLUMN ARCHIVE

RESPONSES, GOOD AND BAD
The ancient question: what do you want first? The good or the bad? :) Yes, we had a couple of bad responses: insulting posts on our and others forums, even a banner appeared on another site(don't ask me, I wont tell you). But mostly, the reponses were very good: mails, entries in our guestbooks, posts on the "Site" forums. It will sound too sentimental :) but these things keep us going.

WHAT WE'VE ACHIEVED
To start, for the first time a civ site, covers three games: Civ I, Civ II and Civ:CTP. The forums has been a great success, getting over 2000 posts in both civ2 and ctp sections. The MultiPlayers List gets at least a new member every day(in average). In general, we are in the top 5 sites of GameStats, getting about 9000 hits/day(the whole site not the first page), and transferring 120MB/day(only from civilization.gamestats.com, not from download.gamestats.com where the scenarios and modpacks are). But that's only the start!

OUR NEXT MONTH
Kwang has created a database script for Apolyton CS, and with the help of our "Helpers", which will be announced in a couple of days, we hope it will go public with a part of our archive in the next 2-3 weeks. The Civ1 section will have a redesign next week, and we are working on a Civ2/Mac section. Finally, we have a couple of suprises coming on the CTP section, byt I'm not going to say more, so stay tuned! :)

P.S. POPULARITY CHARTS
These are the people whose profiles on our forums where accesed more: on the civ2 forums benedetti, MarkG :), St Leo, Confuciuz, Ming; on the ctp forums St Leo, Lt John, Draco, Lodi, Otaku.
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Markos Giannopoulos is the co-owner and co-webmaster of Apolyton CS

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It is just the personal opinions of the writer.