How did you end up in CFC OT?

[aimeeandbeatles]

How far back to the forums go?

 

[Birdjaguar]

How far back to the forums go?

I think the first memberships go back to 2000, but the forums didn't really get going until 2001.

Thunderfall "joined" in Oct 2000 and has the #1 member ID. Curt Sibling joined in Aug 2001 and has #2035; I joined in late Dec 2001 and membership was up to 8368.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I wonder if anyone with an ID of before #1000 is still active.

EDIT: Look at this!

 

[CurtSibling]

I wonder if anyone with an ID of before #1000 is still active.

EDIT: Look at this!

I'm weeping witth nostalgia for a lost era.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

You know, I don't even remember how I ended up on CFC in the first place.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I wonder if anyone with an ID of before #1000 is still active.

EDIT: Look at this!

If you go to that link, you can click through to an Off Topic thread list from April 2001. Thanks Aimee.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You know, I don't even remember how I ended up on CFC in the first place.

I was looking for strategy guides for Civ...three? How I ended up in OT is a mystery though.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Maybe you were blindfolded and tied up and brought in.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Maybe you were blindfolded and tied up and brought in.

I would think that I'd remember that. Perhaps fondly.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Fondly?

 

[Arakhor]

I know how I turned up here, after spending my early months confined to the Civ IV forum - I got bored and started looking for something to read, so I strayed into the OT forum and found a particularly spicy hot take that I couldn't let go unanswered...

 

[MaryKB]

In spring of 2018, I was finally starting to come out of my shell I'd been in for about five months following my breakup with my abusive boyfriend of nine years. Part of his scheme was to isolate me, which he was very successful at doing, and I didn't know where to find people to talk to. I thought of a few interests of mine, one is Civilization ... I used to play a lot of multiplayer Civilization with my father, but he became way too busy for his daughter, so I thought I could meet people and maybe make new friends. I was only posting in the Civilization 6 forums.

I became friends with @Valka D'Ur elsewhere, and she suggested I come here to Off Topic. At first I felt like I really didn't fit in, and I kind of came and went for a while, but over time I made some friends and found people I care deeply about here, so I view myself as a regular part of the community now.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I know how I turned up here, after spending my early months confined to the Civ IV forum - I got bored and started looking for something to read, so I strayed into the OT forum and found a particularly spicy hot take that I couldn't let go unanswered...

I did get in a fight on the Civ IV forum and it is distinctly possible that a moderator suggested I head off to explore the OT wilderness.

 

[CurtSibling]

Back in the early 2000s, I was a regular on Apolyton, the other famed CIV site.
I found CFC due to it's war academy pages and excellent resources of CIV2 modding.

Stumbling upon the OT board, and the heroic posters of those times, a legend of pure
spam was created, which lives on in the wastelands of the wayback machine...

 

[Truthy]

I first started visiting CFC for Civ IV mods and I made an account after Civ V came out. I spent a few months in the Civ V forums, mostly complaining about Civ V, trolling, and racking up infractions. At some point I noticed the OT and thought it looked interesting. So I migrated here and was astounded by everyone's uber-high postcounts and amazed by everyone's insightful analysis of politics and history (I was 15 ). I posted here on and off for 8 years or so, often going stretches of months or years without posting, but always checking in to see what was up at least every few weeks. I started posting a lot more frequently the last year or two for whatever reason.

 

[Lexicus]

I've been on Civ Fanatics for a long time for Civ 3 and 4 stuff (lurked w.o an account for a while before joining), but I came to OT when the little discussion forum I had been on since like 2012 finally died in, I think it was 2016.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I came to CFC for the Civ 3 stuff. I played in lots of GOTM lead by Cracker and downloaded lots of alt graphics options. I began to migrate to OT in 2003 or 2004. I also spent 4 or 5 years in the NESing forum. I really loved it there. Great people and great games. I began my moderating in NESing and migrated over to OT.

 

[Gori the Grey]

My experience is like Arakhor's. I'd picked up Civ III in a bargain bin at Big Lots (best $5 I've ever spent). I came to the overall site for discussion. There wasn't terribly much discussion of Civ III anymore at that point, so one night when I was bored, I glanced at the other offerings on the site: "Other Games," "Humor and Jokes." OT, of course, is one of those. I saw basically how it worked: discussions about all sorts of topics. Unlike Arakhor, I went a long time before posting, despite how many threads needed my authoritative input, because the main thing that impressed me was the already-established, jocular esprit de corps of the community. I felt distinctly outside the references to what Dommy had once said about X, etc. But I lurked long enough to get a feel for some of that history and then finally felt comfortable contributing. Now I'm part of the corps.

 

[sophie]

I was gifted a copy of vanilla cIV back in 2006 and went looking online for strategy guides for what, to me at the time, was a deeply inscrutable game. I was a lurker for a long time on the Civ4 strategy and stories boards. I was a big fan particularly of Sisiutil's work - both his fictional Princes of the Universe series and his helpful and informative ALC series, as well as other prominent contributors like TMIT. After a couple years of lurking, I took the plunge and made an account. I posted a bit, but not much. I discovered OT over the summer of 2009, just before I went to college. I remember voraciously checking the forum every chance I got while on vacation in the UK that summer. By that point I wasn't playing much cIV anymore, but I liked the community and stuck around. Ten years and nearly 16,000 posts later here I am.

It's incredible to think about how much my life has changed in the ten years since I started posting here - going to college, getting a serious girlfriend I thought I'd spend the rest of my life with, studying (and starving) in London, graduating college, getting dumped by that serious girlfriend, working pleasant, but unfulfilling jobs in Parks, spending a debauched and frivolous year learning Latin in Berkeley, applying to PhD programs, getting rejected from PhD programs, moving to Chicago, getting another serious girlfriend, getting my Master's, getting a job. And despite all that, OT has been here, a perennial mainstay. It's one of the very few things that connects the me of then to the me of now.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Although I've been playing Civ since Civ I I only found CivFanatics when I was playing Civ IV. Didn't venture here until some time last year, probably because Civ VI hasn't held my attention as much as previous Civ games particularly Civ IV.