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PolyCast Cut! Episodes 31-34: “Is This Where I Hit Mute?”-“Don’t Drink and Civ”

By | November 16, 2016
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The [i]Civilization[/i] strategy-centric podcast [url=http://thepolycast.net/polycast]PolyCast[/url] ([u]PC[/u]) is currently in its tenth season with more than two-hundred-and-sixty episodes released. During, and only during, the [url=http://thepolycast.net/classic]first season[/url] of [u]PC[/u] was its “Cut!” side series in production, serving as a compilation of cut moments from episode recordings. For the first time since being recorded and produced nine years ago, the editions… Read More »

To Stand the Test of Time – Part 1

By | November 14, 2016
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Forum user chrissifniotis has published the first article in a series entitled ‘To Stand the Test of Time‘, which will focus on the history of the Civilization series, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sid Meier’s Civilization. The first article focuses on the development of Civ I and Civ II, released in 1991 and 1996 respectively. The article can be… Read More »

Collapsible Forum Categories

By | November 13, 2016
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We have installed an addon that adds the ability to collapse/expand forum categories and widgets on forum home. This should reduce the amount of scrolling if you don’t look at some of the forum categories. 🙂

Civ Avatars Are Back!

By | November 13, 2016
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All Civ avatars are brought back and available for selection in the Avatar Gallery on the forums! In total there are 945 avatars available. Note that this feature doesn’t support categories so all the avatars are sorted by file name. Check them out!

HTTPS Enabled

By | November 12, 2016
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To make the site more secure, we have installed SSL certificates and enabled HTTPS for both the main site and forums. This ensures all communications between your browser and CivFanatics website are encrypted and cannot be intercepted. We have also implemented URL re-writes so that visitors who clicked on HTTP links will automatically get redirected to the HTTPS… Read More »

TurnCast Episode 77: “Agree to Disagree”

By | November 12, 2016
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Common ground. Regular players Daniel “DanQ” Quick, ”Makahlua” and ”UberMarklar” are accompanied by fellow co-operative Civilization Vmultiplayer players in the seventy-seventh episode of TurnCast (TC). Entitled “Agree to Disagree“, its runtime is 09m59s. Snippets include but are not limited to feel bad, crazy talk, forgot it, stopped unexpectedly and funny now. TurnCast is the third spin-off of the… Read More »

PolyCast Episode 269 Topics List

By | November 10, 2016
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This Saturday, November 12th, 2016 is to see the twenty-third recording of Civilization strategy podcast PolyCast‘s tenth season. Beginning at 12PM ET North America (timezone converter), Episode 269’s topics list is set as follows: News Civilization VI Tops “1 Million “Players” [Facebook | VG247] CivVI Released on Mac, Linux Possibility [Twitter | CivFanatics | InfoWorld] CivVI Enters eSports [Team Liquid… Read More »

One More Turn Episode 506: “Over Rated”

By | November 9, 2016
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Assertion leads to manipulation. The sixth episode of dramedy podcast [u]One More Turn[/u]’s ([u]OMT[/u]) fifth season [url=http://onemoreturn.net/episodes5.php#episode506]is now available[/url]. Entitled “Over Rated”, it has a runtime of 08m45s. A story set in the near future, [u]OMT[/u] features geeks deal with non-geeky problems. One can [url=https://twitter.com/onemoreturnshow]follow the show[/url] on Twitter and [url=http://www.youtube.com/user/onemoreturnshow]check out[/url] its YouTube channel for caption capability.… Read More »