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Date: Jun 17 1999 07:25:50 EDT
From: "Apolyton Announcements (Apolyton Civilization Site)"
Subject: Apolyton&Friends News 10-16/June/99


Greetings everyone,

This is the news of last week(10-16/June/1999).
On Apolyton, our "Power Up!" contest closed on the 15th and we contacted
the winners yesterday. Since we must wait for them to response to confirm
their mail addresses, the names of the winners as well as the correct
answers will be announced in a few days.
Also, we are happy to host the archive of The First Civilization 3
Homepage. 25 Pages of civ3 suggestions!

In the "Friends" part of the newsletter, news from Dustin Dunn's Civ2
Site, History of Civilization, Mike's Civ2 Scenarios, MJ's Civilization
Empire and Mr Temba's. If you have a civ2, ctp or smac site and want your
news included here, mail Dustin Dunn at dustind@concentric.net

Finally, the patches for the x86 and ppc version of the linux CTP port has
been released, you can find them in our CTP Files Database

=========The news from Apolyton=========
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**Civilization III Section

TFC3H ARCHIVE
(June 16, 1999) TFC3H stands for The First Civilization 3 Homepage, the
first fan site devoted to civ3 suggestions. Created and maintained from
1996 to 1998 by Dorian Cred?, TFC3H had eventually a quite large number of
suggestions. We are happy to have all these suggestions archived here in
our Civ3 section, as a reference for the ongoing discussions in our forums
and comparisons with the newest civ games as well as of course Civ3, when
it comes...
In our suggestions area we will also be posting the first version of The
List, which is coming in a few days, as well as the future versions.
RANDOM EVENTS: YES, BUT OPTIONAL
(June 15, 1999) Our first poll on random events ended. After 827 votes we
had: 41% saying yes, 56% saying that it should be optional and only a 3%
saying no. On our second poll, we ask if civ3 should have a unit workshop
like smac. Vote now! Our thanks to Tore Kullgren, Harel Eilam and Ata who
suggested the second poll, and to Bill Kalb and Sam0307 who sent us other
poll ideas

MAC SALES HIGH AGAIN
(June 16, 1999) PC Data released their US sales listings for May. The PC
versions were not in the top 20(looks like the bargain offer ended), but
the Mac versions continued to sell well. The Gold version was on the 4th
place, one higher than it's first month, while the original version(at a
lower price) took the 6th. The first place was taken for a second month by
Starcraft...

5 NEW FILES
(June 11, 1999) 5 New files in our DB today. These are The Great Clash,
Fighters, French Fascist Patch, HiRes and Title. There are plenty more
coming. so stay tuned. We also have a new page for
those who want to submit a new file. As always we do need your help in
making this Database bigger. If interested, mail Sven Muencheberg

*Site Updates
12.May Column #45; By Reismark
"Notes from the undermunity"
11.June 5 New files in DB.

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**Civilization: Call to Power Section

WINNERS NOTIFIED
(June 16) Less than 24hrs. after the "Power Up!" Contest closed, all the
entries have been marked and we have ten lucky winners who have been
notified via email today that they are a recipient of either a copy of the
game, C:CTP, or its Official Strategy Guide, depending upon which form
they originally filled out. We should mention that the competition for the
copies of the Game was quite stiff, and as a result we had to use a
lottery system to choose the final winners.
We would like to take this time to thank all of those who participating in
our contest, the first to be held by us here at ACS. If you were one of
those 104, again, thank you! And of course, a big round of thanks from
everyone to Activision, who really made this contest possible in the first
place.

We ask that each and everyone of you who entered to check your email to
see if you are one of those winners! If so, as reminded in the email, you
have 72 hours in which to respond to confirm your prize; otherwise, it
will be passed onto the next contestant down until we do have ten
responses for all the items up for grabs.

And to our visitors not living in the continential United States, Canada
and Mexico and were thus ineligible to enter, we hope that you will keep
your browsers pointed here for future contest possibilities.

STAR WARS: CTP
(June 16) If Activision makes an add-on or a second version of CTP it
should name it Star Wars not Civilization! Why? "Star Wars Episode I:
Phantom Menace" with only two weeks in the market grabbed the first place
is PC Data's US sales listings for May. It also took the 3rd place in the
all-categories listing. Back to the pc games category, Baldur's Gate
Add-On was in the 2nd place, SimCity 3000 dropped one spot down to the
3rd, while the other SW game, "Star Wars Episode I: Racer", was 4th.
"Roller Coaster Tycoon" stayed on the 5th, and 6th, who else, C:CTP
falling from the 1st spot. In the all-categories listing, C:CTP fell from
the 6th to the 11th place.

DESIGNING MP MAPS
(June 10) Summer has started, schools are closing, seems like it's time
for some multiplayer battles! But as Brad Santos writes "In a multiplayer
game, map balance is perhaps the most crucial factor in determining
whether the game is going to be enjoyable, close fought match, or just an
unfair stomping". So, what should one take in mind when designing a map
for multiplayer games?
Dr No has the answer...

*Site Updates
15.June Power Up! Contest closes
14.June The 4th Calling is now up
13.June Three new sprites
10.June DC #6


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**Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Section

All Kinds Of News
--(June 16 1999) Instead of doing several very small news items, all the
news of the week in one.
Sad News: We read it on SidGames, ACZone has closed down due to lack of
time. Apparently, it has. It's a pity as it was one of the best.
Jokes: You should definetely check out the SMAC Jokes thread in the
official forums. How many Believers does it take to change a lightbulb?.
On Firaxis.com: Stephen Lee is doing a creat job on the official forum
site. A new The View from Firaxis Games page is up and a poll on the theme
for a future Gettysburg engine based game in on the front page.
Very soon here: new files are coming, the Hall of Fame is coming in a few
days.


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**Scenario League(hosted site)

Tips section remodeled.
--(June 13, 1999) In our Forums we have learned that many people were
unhappy with the previous interface of the Design Tips section. Opinions
stated that it was tedious to surf through so many pages to read the
earlier tips. In response, the SLeague just piled all the tips into one
long list. Enjoy.

--(June 13, 1999) A new review on the scenario "Homeric Age" and another
review on "Clouds".

--(June 10, 1999) 4 new round of four scenarios are up for reviewing on
the downloads page.


=========Apolyton's Friends News=========
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Dustin Dunn's Civ2 Site

13/06/99
- Put up temporary site with Links Page
- Added 8 Links and Updated 2 others.

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History of Civilization

15/06/99
- "Playing Civ II Multiplayer Gold Without CD-ROM" - New page in the
"Historian's Workshop" section.
- As you know Civ II Multiplayer Gold requires CD-ROM presence in CD-drive
for running. Sometimes this requirement can cause a problem for you. How
to overcome such problem ? Read "Historian's Workshop" section on my site.

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Mike's Civ2 Scenarios

6/12/99
- A preview of The Second Reich, is up. And I added War of the Roses, by
Nick Clark.

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MJ's Civilization Empire

16/06/1999
- Discussion Forum online.

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Mr Temba's

6/16/99
- Surveys Updated. New Link to Ambras Scenario World, New Scenario Preview
section.
6/14/99
- Ice Age by Kestrel is now in the Homeless Scenarios section

6/10/99
- Added version 2.2 of The Fall of Rome by Mark L. to the Best on Net.
Also I have added Struggle for Empire by Gothmog to the Best on Net.


That was all for this week ladies and gentlemen,

Until next time
Markos Giannopoulos - markg@apolyton.net
Apolyton Civilization Site - apolyton.net