25 years of Civfanatics - a retrospective

[Birdjaguar]

There was a short period of time in Off topic when Two Cow humor was all the rage. I cannot recall the year and did not record it in my saved posts. Here are two as a reminder of that time:

Celtic cows in a mystic dance
Hold Cuivienen in a trance
On ancient stones in blood she soaks
Crowned in laurel and boughs of oaks.


Betazed's cows, quark and gluon,
Provide cud for us all to chew on.

[EDIT]I found a date: December 2010!

 

[Birdjaguar]

End of Chamber and Tavern split on Off Topic.

At one point in probably 2014, OT was split into two parts: The Chamber and The Tavern as a way to separate more serious posting from less serious posting. It was an attempt to increase serous discussion and improve moderation. By June of 2015, we recognized that it was not working and recombined the parts with a few exceptions. What particular thread I was talking about is lost to me, but the I did take note of the event. IIRC A&E was created at that time.

6/28/2015

Unsticky this thread and let it sink,
Its news is old and not in sync
With the current state of OTs status,
Or the structure of its apparatus;

Gone the Chamber and the Tavern too
It's just OT to mix our roux;
Separation yields to unity
That benefits, now, the whole community;
A few outliers twist in the wind,
All their posting greatly thinned,
But now were back where we'd begun,
Not two, not three, but mostly One.

 

[danjuno]

Lol, I remember the reaction the partition of OT as well.

 

[Patine]

End of Chamber and Tavern split on Off Topic.

At one point in probably 2014, OT was split into two parts: The Chamber and The Tavern as a way to separate more serious posting from less serious posting. It was an attempt to increase serous discussion and improve moderation. By June of 2015, we recognized that it was not working and recombined the parts with a few exceptions. What particular thread I was talking about is lost to me, but the I did take note of the event. IIRC A&E was created at that time.

6/28/2015

Unsticky this thread and let it sink,
Its news is old and not in sync
With the current state of OTs status,
Or the structure of its apparatus;

Gone the Chamber and the Tavern too
It's just OT to mix our roux;
Separation yields to unity
That benefits, now, the whole community;
A few outliers twist in the wind,
All their posting greatly thinned,
But now were back where we'd begun,
Not two, not three, but mostly One.

Lol, I remember the reaction the partition of OT as well.
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I don't know. Sounds like it was a good idea, in theory. It must have been something in the application. Or maybe just mass spite. I was active on CivFanatics in 2014, but I don't remember this scheme.

 

[danjuno]

I don't know. Sounds like it was a good idea, in theory. It must have been something in the application. Or maybe just mass spite. I was active on CivFanatics in 2014, but I don't remember this scheme.

TBH, the grumbling about it is the only thing I remember.

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

test of time

ISWYDT

 

[Lord_Hill]

This is obviously way too late, but a cool example of firaxis people getting involved here that I stumbled across not so long ago. Flicster, the first program which allowed new unit graphics to be added to civ 3, was able to be written because a firaxis guy came on here and answered a bunch of questions about civ 3's custom flc file format.

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Post in thread 'Flic Images'

Nov 14, 2001

Mike Breitkreutz of Firaxis sent me this today:

The details of our FLC format are somewhat tricky and they are complicated by the fact that there are a few (non-fatal) bugs in the format which have been corrected in the code but not in all of the FLC files (so that the artists didn't have to re-build all of the FLCs). This is probably not the best implementation of a FLC format and I would have done some things differently had I created the format. For example, I would not have used the "reserved" area of the FLC header to store internal data -- especially since the FLC format supports...

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[The_J]

I didn't know about that, also a great addition to the thread .

 

[Birdjaguar]

I'm sure there are many more stories readers, players, members could tell.