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Populous community news: February 2015

sten — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:36:28 +0000

The player papersound reaches 1500 played games in less than one year. Papersound is an older player who started playing again in April 2014. He has now become one of the top active players.
Tom (Asgard Worlds) has experienced a surge in popularity and is now one of the most played maps. It was made by Fury and Hundredth.
Top player Nici has been away for the month, only logging in a few times and saying nothing.
Rapid increase in the rate of new active players.
Tarigon and ManL1 come back.

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Matt (ttamylno) reaches 8000 points

sten — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 01:47:23 +0000

Matt (ttamylno), a well-known Populous player, has reached 8000 points in the Populous: Reincarnated Traditional League Table. Here at PopTB.com, we would like to congratulate Matt for this record-setting achievement.

One of the most known players in the game, ttamylno is known for being of inconsistent skill and rude, but also for having defeated top players several times. He is one of the most active and consistently active players, having played every single month since monthly points started being recorded in September 2006.

We hope that you enjoy this video of ttamylno (Red) in action vs. Electric AKA Alex (blue):

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Populous history pages added!

sten — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:36:35 +0000

We’ve added a page on Populous history. It’s just a rough draft yet. We’ve also added pages on the EA Populous leagues (captured at five points in time) and Xatos.

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Multiplayer save games implemented

sten — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 03:18:53 +0000

The new Matchmaker (2.0.3.0) has an interesting feature: all games are now saved. So, if any player crashes, or lags out, the game can be started again, as if nothing had gone wrong. Additionally, there is now a recovery system which should prevent games from going out of sync. Even though the original game had such a system, sometimes it caused a resync loop, until the game gave up trying and went out of sync. This should now be fixed.

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Populous Tutorials

Unknown — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 19:06:41 +0000

Populous 3 Tutorials has been releasing, for more than a month now, several videos of single player levels on YouTube.

This idea came from Divinity, who is sharing with everyone, the game and all different kinds of single-player levels that are out there. If you happen to have a hard time in some level, Populous 3 Tutorials is the place for you. There you will find simple and effective ways of suppressing your difficulties in any level, so that you don’t get tied in a world, because you just don’t know an effective way to win the game. If you happen to look for a campaign that isn’t there yet, don’t stress out, you can always ask when it will be available, or recomend it.

At the current time these are the ones available:
Populous: The Beginning (official) — STATUS: COMPLETE (25/25) plus tutorial
Populous: The Beginning Katara’s Voyage — STATUS: COMPLETE (10/10)
Populous: The Beginning Tikal’s Journey — STATUS: COMPLETE (25/25)
Populous: The Beginning Anniversary — STATUS: ON GOING (6/25)

Many more campaigns will be available in a near future, so expect a lot of work for you to keep up.
See the Populous 3 Tutorials YouTube channel. If you would like to download any of this campaigns and many others click here

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Populous TV is now working again!

sten — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 07:40:25 +0000

Populous TV, a Web site which allows users to watch live Populous: The Beginning games, is now working again and has received some updates. There are several Populous players which broadcast their matches live, which provides for more enjoyment, more competition, and will surely make Populous more known, in the efforts to re-build the community.

Streaming allows for new possibilities, such as watching a one versus one game from the perspective of both players at once, and even a 2v2 from the perspective of all players at once. As streaming has become more proliferated, it is now common in the Populous community.

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Happy new year 2015 for Populous: The Beginning!

sten — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 02:33:42 +0000

Goodbye 2014, welcome 2015! 2014 has been a good year for Populous: The Beginning, which saw its 16^th birthday. Hundreds of new players have joined, some players came back, and activity overall has grown. Even though Populous is an old video game, several new players are joining every day. This is due to Populous innovating a new game style, which has so far never been correctly imitated. Populous has essential qualities which are inexistant in any other strategy game. Additionally, Populous is one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time and played a key role in the history of the real-time strategy genre.

Populous, in 2014, had several updates and improvements. For instance, version 2.0 of the Populous online lobby was released, with a completely new interface and several improvements. It was finally done so that nearly everyone could host multiplayer games with no setup required at all.

From here at PopTB.com, we call on all old players to come back, and all new players to play, for the first time, this masterpiece of video gaming. Note that Populous can now be automatically installed and set up for online play with a click. With the Populous installer, you go from nothing to playing the game on-line within two minutes.

Without further ado:

Happy new year!

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Matchmaker Mobile App released

Nici — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 22:53:33 +0000

Populous Matchmaker has been released for mobile phones. The application was programmed by Omkar and supports chatting and PM. Options include timestamps and disabling private messages. It is available on the Google Play Store: Populous Matchmaker mobile app.

For now it’s available only on Android, but iOS support is coming.

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Live Populous lobby implemented!

sten — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:14:28 +0000

The homepage has been updated! Among other things, you can now see the Populous lobby live from the website, being able to see the games being hosted and the chat. Stay tuned for more changes!

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Singleplayer videos & Sessrumnir Palace training video

sten — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 05:48:46 +0000

Divinity has been making a video series about Populous single-player levels from both the original campaign and fan-made mappacks. In merely two weeks, he has uploaded full playthroughs of the original campaign and Katara’s Voyage, and is currently playing Tikal’s Journey!

Check out this video made by Marcus, Josh and Herobrine about how to play Sessrumnir Palace:

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