Civ 6

[Buster's Uncle]

Just because most people don't read everything - Civ VI was announced the other day for 21 October release.  I wasn't sure I was going to do anything but a news item and spreading that around on Facebook on a day I didn't feel like it - half because the site's Facebook page was freshly due a new news item to keep the traffic checking by.

But Uno -who I was going to love forever anyway, but now I've committed myself with a promise- volunteered to take point, so I did throw up a new dedicated subforum.

Hey - please go comment and post there as much as you can bear to.  We're not giving this thing the full-court BERT got with the logo and top of the root, not least because 6 is a lot further off-mission for AC2, but frankly, I think not even the Civcentration Camp is rupturing itself even with active official support and their large membership, and WPC and Poly aren't even trying as hard as we are.  Seems like near 100% of everyone is feeling twice-burned, forever shy.

But you never know, and any Civ game, even a bad new iteration, draws Our Kind Of People.  Worth a better-than-just-cursory effort even if it turns out to suck - and it might not suck...

So, you know - we can talk about related community and community-building issues in this thread, but talking about the game, hopes and doubts for same, reacting to news about, what have you - the folder ain't hard to find and do me a solid talking there, not here, thanks.

Now to go post the same thread in one or two other folders for the same reason...

[Rusty Edge]

I quite agree about it drawing out our kind of people.

I also agree that it probably won't suck...after a couple of patches.

I like what I'm reading about diplomacy, in that the A.I. leaders have a rational/historical  basis for
liking or disliking you. Namely rivalry. If you are competing with them for most popular among the city states, most wonders, etc. They will dislike you.

That makes way more sense than "I hate you because you're human" for all of them, and it being a matter of degree.

[ColdWizard]

I'm marginally more interested in the new Star Trek tv series (that I have no interest in) than I am in Civ6. Civ4 Complete was the best Civ and I still barely played it.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm intensely interested in drawing Our Kind Of People.  Full stop.

I haven't even played SMACX in I don't remember how long, literally.  I play the forum game -pretty doggon high difficulty level setting at that, an old game that was a commercial flop at the time, for all that it's good- and I always remember What 5 Did To Us All.  I never believed in BE, never not for a second.  I don't believe in 6.  -But we got some profit off the BE excitement, make no mistake, mostly in oldtimers remembering SMACX and dusting it off.  We'll end up with a few extra members off 6 - and it might not suck and we might get a little 6 community going out of it.  We were actually in danger of having steady BE people until it released and mostly disappointed.  Sucking killed that, but there was people profit anyway.

[Buster's Uncle]

Somebody elsewhere was good enough to make an observation in the middle of the night that our Civ 6 folder is three guys spamming - which is bull in both parts.  Which three of the commenters in there?  What spam?  -I am pretty sure that no one participating thus far is a woman, so the guys part isn't a lie...

-But, I would like more people in the most active Civ6 in of a forum in our circles that doesn't start with a "C" - and has threads that aren't Instantly Long, so you can actually have a conversation...

[Oerdin]

It is more of there isn't a whole lot of new info available so other than posting links to different articles with the same information there is not a lot to do.   I suppose,  if I wanted,  I could go to poly and make threads like "which civilizations do you want to see in Civ 6?"  But that seems a bit like masterbating to me.   Besides,  I have started enough threads and would like to see other posters step up a bit so it isn't a solid wall of threads by Dinner.

[Dale]

To be honest with you, I'm just not that excited for the game.

Which leads to I'm not that interested in investing that much time into generating traffic. After civ 5 and BE I'm just not into it.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm actually spending more time on benign forum politics than 6 here.  -We already had the BE plan here, and are following it - not everything to do while the news is a little sparse and there's so little to work with for avatars.

O, what you need is a partner - being me, I've come up against that same thing where I worried about having too many of the last posts showing.  One guy dedicated is infinitely better than nothing, but TWO guys can have a conversation; if another member would jump on the bus the way you have at ACS, you have ballgame going.

And protip: Aeson's stopped using Poly's Facebook page, so I've been abusing it frightfully when I was promoting stuff on Facebook.  If someone was to get him to allow them access, a powerful promotional tool is going to waste, crying out for some news threads to be linked...  I need to point out same to Nik; WPC's page has been dead almost seven years now, except my promotional spam...

[Oerdin]

To be honest with you, I'm just not that excited for the game.

Which leads to I'm not that interested in investing that much time into generating traffic. After civ 5 and BE I'm just not into it.

BE and Civ 5 were pretty much stinkers compared to the Master Piece which is Civ 4.   Sadly,  Firaxis seems determined to change everything good and keep the disfunctional bad parts.
. Wrt the poly facebook site I believe it is here and it hasn't been updated since 2014.

https://m.facebook.com/apolyton/

[Buster's Uncle]

https://www.facebook.com/apolyton/  -I get 19 January 2015.  Aeson ain't the most trusting guy in the universe, but you've definitely earned a shot at all the FB promotion you care to do, so just ask him for access to post as the page on the page for as long as you care to push 6.

[Oerdin]

Well,  poly crashed today and so far it seems they lost every thread and post going back to February including the entire Civ 6 forum.   :lol:

[Buster's Uncle]

Oerdin?  Know anything about the Facebook link-post on the Poly page about four hours ago?

[Oerdin]

I haven't looked.

Edit: Now that I looked it seems Aeson posted that on facebook.   Sadly,  it happened on the same day they had a failure of the database deleting both the Civ6 and Civ 5 subforums.   They also lost fpur months of OTF threads and posts.   

I hope they can recover.

[Buster's Uncle]

Yep.  -My Spider Ghost Snake Man theme song post is dead dead dead.

-Also, seriously - you had a heck of a lot of hard work for the community disappear, and that just sucks SO hard.

[Buster's Uncle]

O, what you did for Poly 6 wasn't wasted, you know - you started something that turned it into a real subforum worth looking at -You.  You did that- and the momentum created didn't disappear, it was only dampened.  Get back to work Seriously.  It was still worth it.

Respect to you, sir.