The Civ IV S&T Story Database

[mrrandomplayer]

Here is my new Tamil narrative (should have posted this a while ago.)

Name:
Author: mrrandomplayer
Mod: RFC Dawn of Civilization
Style: Narrative
Status: Active

 

[CFCoasters]

Here is my new story:

Name: Interesting Times - The AI side of RFC
Author: CFCoasters
Mod: Rhye's and Fall of Civilization (Original)
Style: Comedy (Sort of, hard to place exactly)
Status: Active

 

[Moai_Spammer]

here is mah story:

Name:Siddhartha of India: The Civ 4 Buddhist challenge
Author: Moai_Spammer
Mod: None (vanilla bts)
Style:beats me
status:active

 

[Manco Capac]

Oh that's where people get information of new stories. No surprises mine weren't popular.

 

[mrrandomplayer]

Mine isn't popular either...

 

[Moai_Spammer]

mine started today

 

[Manco Capac]

Which one? The OCC Tamil got a nice bunch of views. Even my PAE India never reached past your first story popularity. Perhaps now, but it tooks lots of sweat for it and ranting too...lol.

Also, I don't expect much of S&Tales. I have come to the conclusion that the subforum is simply dead. DEAD!

And previous lookers are stuck with older stories that take like years to finish and don't give a chance to new ones.

Don't give up. Your second has a neat quality. Personally, even better quality than that METY story. Even I may attract the thunders of angered fanboys, his story is totally random. It looks like a drunkard starting to ramble that Sisiutil is talking to some president and Jesus resurrected for whatever reason.

Yours makes sense as a whole and we sense efforts out of it. I respect creations that took efforts. Not the contrary. And that is why I respect very lowly my Semi OCC Babylon. I was intended to be cheap, but it seems even that doesn't please people.

Again, in entertainment, what strikes people is the "funny". If it is an attempt to be serious with a strong basis, it may be hurt by criticisms hard because people minds are clear. When the humor component is added, even the $hittiest creation can become awesome to people. It's two levels of difficulties when creating entertainment creations.

If one takes the serious path, many obstacles are ready to thwart you compared to the one who too the funny path.

My not so small feeling of this.

 

[trexeric]

-Please note that my story "The Great Seljuk Empire" is most certainly NOT dead, just merely on hiatus-

 

[Moai_Spammer]

okey doki , glad to hear its just on hiatus

 

[mrrandomplayer]

Which one? The OCC Tamil got a nice bunch of views. Even my PAE India never reached past your first story popularity. Perhaps now, but it tooks lots of sweat for it and ranting too...lol.

Also, I don't expect much of S&Tales. I have come to the conclusion that the subforum is simply dead. DEAD!

And previous lookers are stuck with older stories that take like years to finish and don't give a chance to new ones.

Don't give up. Your second has a neat quality. Personally, even better quality than that METY story. Even I may attract the thunders of angered fanboys, his story is totally random. It looks like a drunkard starting to ramble that Sisiutil is talking to some president and Jesus resurrected for whatever reason.

Yours makes sense as a whole and we sense efforts out of it. I respect creations that took efforts. Not the contrary. And that is why I respect very lowly my Semi OCC Babylon. I was intended to be cheap, but it seems even that doesn't please people.

Again, in entertainment, what strikes people is the "funny". If it is an attempt to be serious with a strong basis, it may be hurt by criticisms hard because people minds are clear. When the humor component is added, even the $hittiest creation can become awesome to people. It's two levels of difficulties when creating entertainment creations.

If one takes the serious path, many obstacles are ready to thwart you compared to the one who too the funny path.

My not so small feeling of this.

The Narrative. And thank you very much for that. I like your Babylon Semi-OCC.

 

[trexeric]

okey doki , glad to hear its just on hiatus

You've read it?

 

[Moai_Spammer]

yup, it was pretty good

 

[Tomorrow's Dawn]

Which one? The OCC Tamil got a nice bunch of views. Even my PAE India never reached past your first story popularity. Perhaps now, but it tooks lots of sweat for it and ranting too...lol.

Also, I don't expect much of S&Tales. I have come to the conclusion that the subforum is simply dead. DEAD!

And previous lookers are stuck with older stories that take like years to finish and don't give a chance to new ones.

Don't give up. Your second has a neat quality. Personally, even better quality than that METY story. Even I may attract the thunders of angered fanboys, his story is totally random. It looks like a drunkard starting to ramble that Sisiutil is talking to some president and Jesus resurrected for whatever reason.

Yours makes sense as a whole and we sense efforts out of it. I respect creations that took efforts. Not the contrary. And that is why I respect very lowly my Semi OCC Babylon. I was intended to be cheap, but it seems even that doesn't please people.

Again, in entertainment, what strikes people is the "funny". If it is an attempt to be serious with a strong basis, it may be hurt by criticisms hard because people minds are clear. When the humor component is added, even the $hittiest creation can become awesome to people. It's two levels of difficulties when creating entertainment creations.

If one takes the serious path, many obstacles are ready to thwart you compared to the one who too the funny path.

My not so small feeling of this.

Actually, when this subforum was still active in early 2012,
a couple of us were attempting to construct a comprehensive archive for this subforum.
The project was long since abandoned, but I'm willing to share some of my insights from that period (I won't share anyone else's as I don't have their permission and some of those users are unreachable now):

Part 1:

Well, I used to lurk this forum A LONG time ago before I joined (2009)
and a lot of the early stories were, well, like you said, sort of proto-story.
In the modern incarnation of the subforum, it oddly seems
much healthier and active than it was, say when Civ4 was out in full swing.
In my opinion, I think it's because of an adopted consciousness among visitors
to the subforum; what I mean specifically is that if we compare posters now
and posters then, storytellers today have acquired a much higher retention rate
for their stories than storytellers back then.

If you notice too, a lot of promising stories sort of just died right in the middle,
right in the subforum's formative stages. Likely from lack of attention, because
the proper audience had not formed yet.

People don't really post one-shot "hey! check this out! this spearman killed my tank!"
sort of stories anymore. People nowadays are more interested in keeping to their
stories longer (generally). And people keep coming back to check out the stories
because of it. Problematically though, it's harder to DRAW new users into the subforum
compared to the mainstays like the modding forums, Strategy & Discussion &
General Discussion. Most people only come to S&T through stumbling upon it really.

And that was really how S&T must've started out.
People talking about random stuff (hey! i just lost to this, lol!)
at the watering hole that was S&T.

Part 2:

One thing that I would like to add as well is the emphasis on the community-like aspect of the subforum now. Looking at lot of the older stories, so many updates get posted with not a single commentator in between. That partially affects early/mid story death when the writer feels that no one is paying any attention to their story. It was still at least true to some extent when I started out too, with several updates being posted without an interjection in between. I almost considered abandoning the story at least one point. It was also true for a few other stories posted around the same time or shortly before. Around some time in 2011 though, that really changed. Nowadays, when someone first posts a story, they literally become assaulted (usually by METY or Tambien) with a welcome and the S&Ters dote on the newborn story. In order words, you could sort of say that this community "looks out for its own".

In Civ-terms, we've graduated from hunter-gatherer to city state.

I'd also like to say that I don't think much of it would be possible if some of the S&Ters didn't get together and make a group consigned to S&T regulars.
It created the concept of shared characteristics, that is, a group of people with the common interest of Civ4 stories. That kind of cohesion paved the
way for a kind of collective consciousness.

In turn, this group* was really only born for the primary purpose of expressing spam.
So you could say that all of these little intricacies and events were born from the primordial spam.

*Civ4S&T Social Group; largest Social Group on CFC and was very active at its height.

This subforum is kind of dead but it doesn't have to be.
If it's colonized by maybe a new generation of people interested in writing stories, then it could still go on for an unforseeable amount of time.
Civ4 still has a healthy modding community and there's still people who like discussing strategy in the two main Civ4 forums (General Discussion & Strategy & Tips).
But you can't just have numbers. You have to actively interact with each other.

 

[Moai_Spammer]

that...was...the greatest speech i've ever heard in my entire life!

i completely agree, we need to let this sub-forum, in simple terms, reincarnate itself, it's world also help if we all got a bit cheerier about it current state (here's and example from a comment on my story, which was made just 2 days ago

You hit the worst period of Stories&Tales. And probably the last era, that is the death era.

i won't say who wrote typed that but...I think this should be a phoenix era!)

who's with me!

now... a quote which i think we all need to hear from time to time

Come on everypony smile smile smile!-Pinkie Pie

ima go back to spamming moai and being random now

sincerely
Moai_Spammer

 

[Tomorrow's Dawn]

It would probably help more if there were more people playing Civ4.

This game is quite old, and barring the occasional Steam sale to bring exposure,
the game has hit a population ceiling so to speak.

 

[Moai_Spammer]

the game has hit a population ceiling so to speak.

I think you mean its time to hit avoid growth to avoid unhappiness and more maintenance

 

[mrrandomplayer]

This subforum is kind of dead but it doesn't have to be.
If it's colonized by maybe a new generation of people interested in writing stories, then it could still go on for an unforseeable amount of time.
Civ4 still has a healthy modding community and there's still people who like discussing strategy in the two main Civ4 forums (General Discussion & Strategy & Tips).
But you can't just have numbers. You have to actively interact with each other.

Well said. I would be interested in resurrecting the S & T Times. Shouldn't be TOO hard, and I edited my school's student-run school newspaper for a while.

That being said, it seems like everyone has dissapeared except for Moai Spammer (who is new), Tachywaxon, and you (to a certain extent). There were a lot of people here in June, when I started, then I was gone without Internet for 3 weeks, then everyone was gone. GreekAnalyzer seems to have gone (for mostly RL issues, he might be back soon, I hope), Trexeric seems mostly gone, Constantinople is gone for RL reasons, even METY is gone, Gruekiller seems to have dissapeared as well as Tambien seems to be gone. It's almost like a ghost forum here.

I feel like the only thing we can do right now is to just try to keep the flame of S & T alive until more people eventually start returning.

 

[Moai_Spammer]

hmm, you sir have rekindled my hope even more, its time for a Civ IV S&T Renaissance

*Civ IV S&T has entered the Renaissance Era *

 

[mrrandomplayer]

hmm, you sir have rekindled my hope even more, its time for a Civ IV S&T Renaissance

*Civ IV S&T has entered the Renaissance Era *

 

[Moai_Spammer]

Darn text limit...