Babylon! Another poll? Come on now!

Alexander I · August 7, 2001, 00:22

Yes, I know it's yet another leader poll. So who's Babylon's leader going to be?

TechWins · August 7, 2001, 05:22

Hey dude this is getting annoying! Stop doing all these seperate polls. You fill up the first page of this fourm with all this poll crap. Now stop!

Adm.Naismith · August 7, 2001, 05:30

I voted the last choice, not because the poll is stupid, just because I don't remember anything about Babylonian rulers, so I pass on this

Nikolai · August 7, 2001, 06:31

I voted on the first option, but honestly, can't you stop!

OneFootInTheGrave · August 7, 2001, 06:35

The second option would be the most satisfying for me.. we need a littl bit of change from Civ 2.

shade · August 7, 2001, 08:30

these poll are becomming a bad habbit.:banned:

Shade

Provost Harrison · August 7, 2001, 08:54

Stop whining people, it gives us something to do.

I stay stick with Hammurabi, his inclusion is civ tradition

Alexander I · August 7, 2001, 09:15

Gosh! You don't have to get snippy about it! Fine! I won't do any more leader polls, ok? But I have been getting mixed signals about all these!

As for you, Techwins, I'm sooo sorry if I blocked all the "crap" that YOU like to look at with "crap" that I like to look at! But come on! There's no real new info on CivIII, so I'm trying to think of SOMETHING interesting. No one really cares just how many feathers will be in the headress of the Iroquois unique unit, or if Chairman Mao's mole is .0003 millimeters off! And then there are COMPLETELY random things on these threads! Like whether the Great Wall can be seen from space! I think everyone's just getting bored because there's nothing new to talk about. No one has anything really interesting to say, but there's no need to be rude!

Alexander I · August 7, 2001, 09:59

Incidentally, I think it's interesting that 75% of people that voted on the poll actually chose one of the leader selections, while only 25% voted for the "stupid poll" option. It seems the dissatisfied quarter is simply "more vocal" than the other three quarters.

Sabre2th · August 7, 2001, 10:01

Quote:

Originally posted by Alexander01
Incidentally, I think it's interesting that 75% of people that voted on the poll actually chose one of the leader selections, while only 25% voted for the "stupid poll" option. It seems the dissatisfied quarter is simply "more vocal" than the other three quarters.

That's possible, but if it were true, more people probably would have posted reasons for their choices in your thread. People can be annoyed and still vote.

loinburger · August 7, 2001, 10:04

Nebuchadnezzar is just such a cool name!

Sabre2th · August 7, 2001, 10:10

I remember saying this in your last poll (Persia). It's amazing how many people agree with me. I do recommend you stop before you make too many people mad. If you really want to learn how to spam, look up Alexander's Horse (a true pro

). These amateurish spam-polls are getting old.

shade · August 7, 2001, 10:11

especially when you know that in Babylonian it is something like this: NBCHDNZZR

=> let's add Nbchdnzzr as name

Shade

Sabre2th · August 7, 2001, 10:14

Nebuchadnezzar was the name of the hovercraft in The Matrix.

Great movie, if you haven't seen it.

Ecthy · August 7, 2001, 10:35

I voted for good ol' Hammurabi. He's been the Babylonian leader for 9 years, and he should stay there. Hey, there even is a music track on the CIV 2 disk named after him1

splangy · August 7, 2001, 12:57

i like these polls

howwever, i doubt the babylonians are gona be in, what there UU! I still did vote hamumnerabi (i KNOW that is wrong

) thell keep with tradition

Alexander I · August 7, 2001, 13:37

Sabre2th, I'm confused!

If people dislike the polls and are thereby unconcerned about the outcome thereof, why would they vote for any choice except the "stupid poll" option?

shade · August 7, 2001, 13:54

1) boredom
2)they don't choose the'..stupid poll "thingy because they can give a better answer?
who knows?

Shade

SerapisIV · August 7, 2001, 15:13

I don't see how these polls are spam. True, none of these polls will influence the leaders in Civ3, but they do give ideas for expansion pack leaders. I like the polls and would like similar polls for unique units, though I wish UU didn't exist all together, but sometimes you got to go with the flow.

I like Hammurabi. Civ3 needs at least a few passive leaders, there are too-many warmonger leaders already and as SMAC is showing Firaxian AIs seem to do better when passive.

Chronus · August 7, 2001, 19:58

Quote:

I don't see how these polls are spam.

Not only that, I don't see why people are upset over this. If you don't like a poll or a particular thread then just ignore it or scroll past it. Is it really that hard to do?

Sabre2th · August 8, 2001, 11:51

Quote:

Originally posted by Alexander01
If people dislike the polls and are thereby unconcerned about the outcome thereof, why would they vote for any choice except the "stupid poll" option?

Quote:

1) boredom
2)they don't choose the'..stupid poll "thingy because they can give a better answer?

Either way, a very significant number of people have voted for the "stupid poll" option.

Finally, I didn't say you couldn't post polls, but you should tone it down. A new poll every day about a civ that's (probably) not in the game gets old.

Alexander I · August 8, 2001, 14:53

You're exagerrating again, Sabre2th. First of all, I wouldn't call nine people a "significant number" on a forum of thousands.

And I've done 4 leader polls, Germany, Russia, Persia, and Babylon. You're right, of course! Germany and Russia won't be in the game!

As for Persia and Babylon, I think it likely that one or the other or both will be in. We'll have to see. And it's true, the Babylon poll came out shortly after the Persia poll, but if that's enough to cause nine people to have conniptions, well, that's just sad.

SerapisIV · August 8, 2001, 17:02

Ignore the heathens Alex01, keep going on the polls.

Oh yeah, quick question, I'm no longer getting the 403 error on civ3.com, instead I get DNS error, is it opening soon?

Alexander I · August 8, 2001, 19:47

We can only hope...

Sabre2th · August 8, 2001, 19:52

9 is significant, considering the number of people that actually voted. The point is that it has bothered some people. Don't twist my words.

Sabre2th · August 8, 2001, 19:53

About the site: I'm not getting the 403 error anymore either.

Alexander I · August 8, 2001, 21:50

For those of you who like the leader polls-
I'm not even sure which other civs I could do. The options (at least from my perspective) are any potential civs (that means any real evidence backing them at all) that we haven't already seen the leader of. Germany, Russia, Persia and Babylon have already been done. That leaves the Aztecs, Spanish, Romans, Zulus, and for the die-hards, the Mongols??? available.

The Aztecs are very limited, since we don't have that much of their history (I think Montezuma is a shoe-in anyway).

The Spanish have plenty of leaders to chose from, but most of them weren't significant enough to be considered. I would suggest Philip II, Ferdinand & Isabella, Rodrigo "El Cid" Diaz de Bivar (King of Valencia), Charles I (V of the Holy Roman Empire), or of course, Dictator Franco.

The Romans have so many Caesars available for choice it's almost limitless. However, I feel the most likely ones are Julius and Augustus, though any of the Pax Romana Caesars are options, and let's not forget Marcus Aurelius.

The Zulus have had lots of chiefs, but I think the options are limited to Shaka Zulu, Shakala (CivII's invented female, at least I haven't seen here in any history I've read), and Cetewayo, the chief during the Zulu Wars with Great Britain.

As for the Mongols, the prime options would be Genghis Khan, Ogedei Khan, Kublai Khan, and Batu Khan. Who's Empress Bortei, anyway? Is she real?

What are your thoughts on this?

Kassiopeia · August 9, 2001, 09:29

Quote:

Originally posted by splangy
howwever, i doubt the babylonians are gona be in, what there UU! I still did vote hamumnerabi (i KNOW that is wrong

) thell keep with tradition

Jeff Morris has confirmed PERSIANS and BABYLONIANS.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=23720

LaRusso · August 9, 2001, 10:39

i protest. my spammy poll about spammy polls was closed by mark.

alexander, you and alex 14 are the kings of spam... you either work in some polling agency or you have a strange way of killing time.....

Provost Harrison · August 9, 2001, 10:47

Woohoo, I liked the Babylonians

And I remember seeing a Persian city before, albeit conquered one. And a Spanish one.