Civ3's Golden Age has begun

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I looked at the latest ratings coming from the two C+C forums tonight and was amazed to see Civ3 had a higher vierwship over the latest sequel, and this coming off the heels of Civ4's Warlords release?

It seems Civ3 has established itself as the standard of Civ Gaming. Im begining to doubt if CIv4 has what it takes to take over the forums like Civ3 did eventually to Civ2 Call to Power
 
I still don't have Civ IV. Still playing Civ3 when I have time, though that's very little.
 
T. A Jones said:
I looked at the latest ratings coming from the two C+C forums tonight and was amazed to see Civ3 had a higher vierwship over the latest sequel, and this coming off the heels of Civ4's Warlords release?
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And are there more views than normal for Civ3, or less views for Civ4?
 
Mirc said:
And are there more views than normal for Civ3, or less views for Civ4?
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Ya to Tell ya the truth they usuallly hover around the same levels for both with Civ4 ususlly having at least a 20p lead at most times but on this occassion Civ3 had the edge. I know its happened a few times. I even posted it when I caught the phenomonon in April.
Sorry if its no big deal , but to me it seems crazy thats all
 
Ya thats another example. more of the best mods are being made as we speak. that garantees Civ3 will be around even longer as we wait for more improved mods with great looking Terrain , unit animation, and just graphics in general, they all have been improved, making for some sort of new level of civving. and to think some said CIv3 will follow the pattern of demise of Civ2 againt the release of Civ4 :shake:
Its been how long now and What?... Nothing, comon' now, gimme a break. CIV dosn't have what it takes, when will they realize that?
 
i think its because, civ 3 is much easier to customize, civ 4 requires xml and a lot of work which people dont have much of anymore. Also, civ 3 isnt such a mem hog as civ 4 is, thats what kept me here. Civ4 just will not run properly, even though i meet all the specs, on my comp while civ 3 runs very smoothly.
 
##NEWSFLASH##
It happened again. at 8.50 CivFan time, Civ 3's C+C was leadin the CIV's C+C forum by three people. This is unbelievable!! two nights in a row.
 
It might be worth pointing out, also, that the new File Database (set up just a couple of days ago) currently features far more Civ III files than Civ IV ones.

I do think that, although modding Civ III is hardly user-friendly, it's certainly a lot easier than modding Civ IV seems to be. That's true for both graphics and full-blown mods or scenarios. It doesn't mean Civ III is a better game than Civ IV overall (I've heard very good things about Civ IV and I wish my computer could run it), but anyone who wants to mod a game is much better off going for Civ III, at least at the moment. Apart from anything else, Civ III just has a vast quantity of files, graphics, utilities, and all the rest that the Civ IV modders haven't had time to replicate yet. I'm sure they will eventually, though - there seem to be some extremely talented artists and modders on the Civ IV pages.
 
Plotinus said:
although modding Civ III is hardly user-friendly, it's certainly a lot easier than modding Civ IV seems to be. That's true for both graphics and full-blown mods or scenarios.
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These are my words too !! And as I said in an other thread: There is still a lot of potential, that isn´t used in C3C. :D
 
Ya I know Civ4 has lots going for it, but my facination lies in the fact that Civ3 is still around and actually gaining steam, this is unprecidented no?. No one could predict it would be gaining momentuem this late into CIv4's Run.

Im betting it stays in the picture all the way till Civ5 comes out, With some of the MOds expeced to arrive I think Its a no brainer
 
^ Yes, I agree with you, but I observed a strange attitude from the posters from the Civ4 forum: I was really very surprised to find out that A LOT of them hated Civ3, and think Civ4 is much better, and that a lot of them treat Civ3 veterans like primitives. I received some insults while posting in the Civ44 forum just because I mentioned that I use to post more in the Civ3 forums...

If future Civ4 veterans (now they are all noobs! :joke:) will get to rule the civ comunity, not here, because I am sure we won't allow them, but on other forums/websites/real life, Civ3 might dissapear faster than it deserves to.
 
Yes, but then look at the vitriol heaped upon Civ IV in the Civ III fora too. Neither game deserves the lambasting it gets from proponents of the other, but that's the Internet for you. Especially when you're talking about game geeks...
 
Mirc said:
I received some insults while posting in the Civ4 forum just because I mentioned that I use to post more in the Civ3 forums... If future Civ4 veterans (now they are all noobs! :joke:) will get to rule the civ comunity, not here, because I am sure we won't allow them, but on other forums/websites/real life, Civ3 might dissapear faster than it deserves to.
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Hi Mirc, the only time in this forum someone was somewhat rude to me, this was a "Veteran-Civ 3-poster", who was at that day (in my eyes) very agressive to another "Veteran-Civ 3-poster" in a Civ 3-forum. As at that day -long ago - this "Veteran-Civ 3-poster" gave strange statements about the condition of his brain :mischief: I thought he only had a bad day and it is the best to ignore his posting. Mirc, I think, it´s not our task to educate the world :). And if it is really necessairy, I think the moderators do a good job.
And please don´t forget, according to your definition all Civ 4-forum posters are noobs (joke), so we are noobs too, when we post in a Civ 4-forum :lol: .

What we can do in the civ-forums is to improve both -Civ 3 and Civ 4- and if Civ 4 can be played in a way I like I will play Civ 4 ;) . But at time, this point is far, far away and so I do all I can for the "Golden Age of C3C".
 
If you total all posts over all forums, CIV has 585779 posts, while Civ3 comes in at 1555174 posts.

Civ3 was released 10/2001, CIV 10/2005. So they are 57 and 9 months old.

Civ3 averages 27283 posts/month, while CIV clocks in at 65086 posts/month.

Statistics are fun. ;)
 
I don't think it's a matter of superiority or golden age. The point is that civ3 has been established for very long and we had the time to make numerous exceptional mods/scenarios. Let's say that the civ3 community has matured. Now it has the requirements and the experience to come out with its best work ever. Thus I'm sure it will remain flourishing for a long time.

Eventually civ4 will reach this point as well, and when it does it may be better than civ3. Remember, modding for civ4 is much more complicated, but also much more versatile (just check the Fall from Heaven mod). And let me argue that it already has more to show than what civ3 had 9 months after its release. But it will probably take a few years until civ4 modding reaches the perfection that civ3 has achieved.
 
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