Why civ1 fanatics always fail

[Pikachu]

What is the matter with civ1 players? Why can’t we get anything done in this forum?

A while ago a Game Of The Month thread was started, and lots of posters seemed interested, but when the game was released only one played the game. After a later resurrection a few people did indeed play the game anyway, and everything looked good again. Then a whole sub forum was created for this competition, but what happens then? Only two people play the second GOTM, even though quite a few promised to play it.

The same happened when someone started a succession game thread. Enough players signed up, and it looked like the game would go well, but after only 3 posters had played, everybody quit.

This seems to be symptomatic of every good idea that is started in this forum. Apparently civ1 players cannot be trusted, and always fail their commitments. What does this mean? Has Civilization made us all into bunch of losers?

 

[Dack]

I would not be to harsh. One can only hope that people have real lives. I don't know what factors play into this, but I would assume the player base is just too small, the game is too old. It seems that a lot of the post to this fourm are nostalgic post anyway. Ever once and a while a good thread comes up and there is lots of action. That maybe all that can happen.

 

[Alex Johnson]

For the GOTM, I played the first GOTM (and had the biggest result except for that guy who found the population bug and broke the game). I never said I would play the second. When I found out what the scenario was it did not sound fun at all and I chose not to play that game. If there was a third or later game I would not know because they moved the conversation to another forum and I'm not going to read another forum, especially when 98% of the time there are no new posts. Breaking the very low volume Civ1 forum into subforums is a death sentence. I don't know what other readers do, but I won't dedicate more time to clicking into and out of subforums. As it is the Civ1 main forum almost never has a new post and I've considered leaving.

The SG was a big disappointment. I didn't think the idea would be so good, taking turns on a Civ game, but I told people I'd give it a chance. All those people just dropped out with no excuse or lame excuses like "I don't have time". You don't have time to play 10 turns once or twice a week? That's not even half an hour! I would keep playing, but with 3 of the players quitting already there isn't much point to trying to play with other people here. So I quit and I'll just play my own games from now on.

 

[Zwelgje]

Pikachu, I think I've already answered at least part of your first question here. This is the internet, people have other things to do and although they may like the idea of doing something like a GOTM or SG they have tons of other stuff they also would like to do. This is not something exclusive for Civ1, it happens at Civ2, Civ3 and Civ4 forums too. The point is that in Civ3 and Civ4 there are many more players to begin with and 50% of the people not playing doesn't make that much of a difference.

I'm also a bit disappointed that not more people played but I already knew that this was going to happen because of past experiences. There's a new GOTM out now so I'd say let's focus our attention on that and not on this negative discussion.

 

[Noli]

I remember and older game than civ 1 and now its a big classic I remember it from 1986 and the game is zelda. Now its called zelda classic now and its extremely great.

 

[trada]

*pops in*

Basically, yeah.. we have lives. I'm involved in this huge senior college production as one of the main roles so I don't have much time.

Also remember, there are only a few civ1ers really. If even two of us fails to show the whole thing can fail. Whereas in the civ3 forum (just say) if two don't show then *shrugs* meh.

 

[Pikachu]

Bah, real life? What a lame excuse

Lack of time may explain the GOTM scandal, but not the succession game. Everybody dropped out from that one before it even started. People aren’t so busy that they cannot find time to play 20 turns of civ1 in the very beginning of the game. After all they did find time to post on this forum.

If people only used as much time on actually playing as on discussing how good it would be to play, things would work out a lot better here.

And why does people say they definately will play if they know they don't have time for it?

 

[Zwelgje]

Various reasons probably. Why bother about stuff like that when you can use your time on playing though.