CFC Is Beating Us!

Eli · July 27, 2002, 06:18

http://www.yep.com/cgi-bin/displayRa...mes/ranking/25

Chris 62 · July 27, 2002, 06:24

Didn't know you worked for Poly Eli.

The stats look fairly equal, nothing to wet your pants about.

Mr. President · July 27, 2002, 07:43

Hehe, my friend's website is hosted by Zophar's Domain.

And why should we be afraid of CFC? We have our forums and our chat and our interviews. What do we care what they do?

Eli · July 27, 2002, 07:48

Quote:

Originally posted by Mr. President
Hehe, my friend's website is hosted by Zophar's Domain.

And why should we be afraid of CFC? We have our forums and our chat and our interviews. What do we care what they do?

Well, Apolyton claims to be "the biggest site for the greatest computer game ever and it's sequels, Civilization"...

Mr. President · July 27, 2002, 07:55

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Well, Apolyton claims to be "the biggest site for the greatest computer game ever and it's sequels, Civilization"...

Hm. Time for some underhanded dealing.

We'll buy out some of the smaller fansites, add some nominal sections to this site, and assassinate CFC's character.

Apolyton'll be back on top before you can say "Enron".

Seriously though, do they have more material than Apolyton, or do they just get more visits to their ugly-colored, illiterate forums?

MarkG · July 27, 2002, 08:01

hmmm....

Code:

define("%=","mathematical sign for 'not just'");

if (($sites(biggest) %= "most visited") && ($site(most visited) %= "hitbox stats")) {

 $comments_on_claims = 0;

}

Mr. President · July 27, 2002, 08:06

That sounds about right. Whatever you said.

Seriously, the fact that it took me a couple of minutes to figure out what you meant is worrying, considering that I got 85% in Computers Engineering.

H Tower · July 27, 2002, 10:32

you're going to have to explain that to me

Rasbelin · July 27, 2002, 10:41

Eli, why to worry about CFC?

Next time when one their mods gets overt to Poly, we'll just simply

him.

Chris 62 · July 27, 2002, 10:55

Right here tough guy, fire away.

ColdWizard · July 27, 2002, 11:46

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Originally posted by H Tower
you're going to have to explain that to me

if the biggest site is not necessarily the most visited site and the definition of most visited site is not based solely on hitbox stats, then MarkG has no comment on the claims put forth

Apocalypse · July 27, 2002, 12:07

Man this is horrible. It reminds me of when SidGames had a more popular Alpha Centauri section...

Pythagoras · July 27, 2002, 14:21

Well tehy do have a more active civ3 craetion/files section Ive noticed.

Dauphin · July 27, 2002, 15:17

If Poly wanted to be the most visited site it would introduce pornography........with admin consent this time.

Martin Gühmann · July 27, 2002, 16:03

As CFC doen't cover CTP1/2, actual just a tiny forum for CTP1 and CTP2 doens't count, so for me it isn't real Civilization side. A real Civilization side covers everything around Civilization. But another interesting observation about this ranking is that you can also find some emulation sides and abandon game sides on the list, all these grey stuff.

-Martin

Apocalypse · July 27, 2002, 16:15

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Originally posted by Martin Gühmann
As CFC doen't cover CTP1/2, actual just a tiny forum for CTP1 and CTP2 doens't count, so for me it isn't real Civilization side. A real Civilization side covers everything around Civilization. But another interesting observation about this ranking is that you can also find some emulation sides and abandon game sides on the list, all these grey stuff.

What else do you need to know about CTP aside from that it is an abomination?

Rasbelin · July 27, 2002, 17:08

My five cents...

Poly still covers a much larger section of Sid's production and has a larger number of extra features (i.e. shop, radio, The Column). I refer to my very recent pro Poly post (

) on CFC: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showth...447#post395447, where I listed some of the things Poly beats CFC in. So Poly still is the site for me. As I said, more activities; and if you're settled here, then it's easier to stay here and be active here.

Sagacious,

here's some porn for you, if you can't wait for the official section:

Immortal Wombat · July 27, 2002, 18:49

CFC had more hits? I guess AH was on holiday.

GhengisFarb™ · July 27, 2002, 19:38

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Originally posted by Mr. President
Seriously though, do they have more material than Apolyton, or do they just get more visits to their ugly-colored, illiterate forums?

Here's my 2 cents.

I like the people and administrators at Apolyton they are amusing and classy (come on guys, Ming is the greatest moderator of all time! "One way tickets to Mingapulco!"

)

Unfortunately, there was a time period that everything you downloaded from Apoly was named "attachment.zip" and then you had to know to rename to its original name for it to work. I think that drove a lot of the graphic creation business towards CFC.

There's also the size limit of uploads. I can upload all of my Leader .flcs at CFC cause the 2.2 to 2.6 Mb size is under CFC's 3 Mb limit. I can't upload them here.

Heck, Thunderfall (at CFC) even offered to post some of my complete leadersets which are 20 Mb files

Although if I could figure out a way to it I probably post all my graphics exclusively here.

Alex · July 27, 2002, 20:18

Genghis: have you visited the Apolyton Directory yet? That thing promises to be huuuge...

Mr. President · July 27, 2002, 21:44

Hope no-one took offense to the "ugly-colored illiterate forums" thing. I didn't mean any harm.

Case · July 28, 2002, 03:53

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Hope no-one took offense to the "ugly-colored illiterate forums" thing. I didn't mean any harm.

How can people argue with a clear fact like that?

[for the record: I've got almost 800 posts on CFC, which I visit daily, but it sure is an ugly site and all the quality of most posts is rather poor]

notyoueither · July 28, 2002, 05:00

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Originally posted by Chris 62
Right here tough guy, fire away.

OK tough guy. You're a mod there, or you have some influence? Good.

What are yah gonna do about this?

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=57156

Please keep your rabble off these forums.

Mr. President · July 28, 2002, 05:23

I think Soviet Beast just got banned or something.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=57237

notyoueither · July 28, 2002, 05:31

I doubt we will see him again. Good riddance.

Rasbelin · July 28, 2002, 05:31

Hmmm... can't find anyone on the list ( http://www.civfanatics.com/aboutus.shtml ) who would be him...

But indeed that "moderator" input is abusive. I'll PM Ming and Markos. That's something what needs to be removed and a penalty would justified, IMHO. At least I assume none of the known mods have done that, so something wicked is going on.

notyoueither · July 28, 2002, 05:34

That never happens at Poly.

It is a sheit disturber, pure and simple.

Rasbelin · July 28, 2002, 05:36

I assume it's a DL of an Apolytoner that has gone wild.

BTW here's my response to him: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...28#post1163478

notyoueither · July 28, 2002, 05:44

He's had his last before his first.

It is possible that he was a Polyzen gone wild. Many other possibilities exist also.

Anyways, it is now ancient history buried amongst the skulls of Mingapulco. I seriously doubt that any sorcery will ever reassemble the body parts into a whole anew.

Rasbelin · July 28, 2002, 05:48

Hmmm... at least the signature suggested that he knew what's going on around here. Anyway, good to see that lurker DL(?) has been disabled.