PolyCast 387: If We Haven’t Said So Already, A.I. Is Hard

By | August 9, 2021
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The three hundred-and-eighty-seventh episode of PolyCast, “Machine Learning“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus,
Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:

Forum Talk
– 00h03m29s | Feedback from episode 386 on CivFanatics and YouTube, and why we aren’t available on Apple Podcasts (or other podcast services).
– 00h25m22s | Remaining issues with Civ VI.
– 00h54m00s | Why are my founding cities always so lousy? (compared to PotatoMcWhiskey).
– 01h03m00s | Speedrun record for fastest defeat?


PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production recording live every other Saturday at 12 Noon US Eastern Time throughout the year, in an ongoing effort to give the Civilization community an interactive voice; sibling show ModCast focuses on Civ modding.  

Note: This is actually the second most recent episode, which I failed to post here because I was away from home and without Internet access. Episode 388 will be posted soon.

Humankind feature video from SEGA via IGN

By | August 9, 2021
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IGN has today posted a video (sponsored by SEGA itself, the distributors of Humankind), highlighting the most interesting features of the game.

See the Tweet with the video below (click on the pic.twitter.com link for the video).

Discuss this video in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/new-sega-sponsored-video-via-ign-about-humankinds-special-features.672247/ .

Mashable: 8 great songs from video games that aren’t instrumentals

By | August 8, 2021
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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra notifed Christoper Tin about this article on Mashable, about the best songs from video games, which aren’t instrumentals. Obviously our beloved Civ4 song “Baba Yetu” made it in the list. While we are not surprised, since it won as the first song from a computer game a Grammy, we are still happy that this song gets all the love it deserves.

Check out also the other songs in the article, and vote in our forum which song is best after “Baba Yetu”.

Follow this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rpoonline/status/1424324512691142656

Old mods still going strong!

By | August 8, 2021
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The users of CFC are our best asset. Not only do we get great strategy guides, mods and overall discussions, but sometimes we also get some rare art pieces. A new user, AppTitan, has recently joined, and brought this picture (and some sketches) with him, for the Fall from Heaven II modmod of MagisterCultuum.

Check the mod out here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/magistermodmod.455111/

This nice picture was originally posted on page 175, https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/magistermodmod.455111/page-175#post-16135828

Recent announcement of new UNESCO world heritage sites – Which is civ-worthy?

By | August 7, 2021
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The UNESCO recently announced the new world heritage sites, see this news item:
https://en.unesco.org/news/danube-limes-added-unescos-world-heritage-list-closing-years-inscriptions
On the UNESCO list are many famous cultural and natural sites https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/ , like the Great Wall of China or the Taj Mahal, which we all also know as being wonders in various Civ parts.

This year a combined list of 2020 and 2021 has been published. Which site do you think is Civ-worthy?

Poll it out in our forum https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/new-unesco-world-heritage-sites-which-have-civ-wonder-potential.672204/ or follow this discussion on Twitter https://twitter.com/civfanatics/status/1424031114914631686

Watch strategy legend Sulla beat the Civ4 AI… again!

By | August 6, 2021
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Sulla, our renowned Civ4 master strategist, is currently fighting the finale of the 6th season of his AI survivor series. If you want to see how he’s doing right now, join him on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/lcsullla . For more information about his AI survivor series, check out his home page https://sullla.com/civ4survivorindex.html

Join this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/civfanatics/status/1423721423403724805

Play the current Civ4 and Civ6 “Game Of the Month!”

By | August 6, 2021
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The “Game Of The Month” is a traditional effort of the Civ community, to provide a new challenge each month. Our GOTM teams create each time a save game, for which you have the goal to outcompete everyone else at CFC in winning. Can you show us that you’re true civ-fanatic, and beat everyone else?

Check out the ongoing GOTMs:

Join this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/civfanatics/status/1423613924486832129

Check out Venus!

By | August 5, 2021
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The European Space Agency had 2 missions arrive in the recent days at Venus, Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo, together with a Japanese JAXA mission, Akatsuki, see ESA information here https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/ESA_gets_ready_for_double_Venus_flyby .

But Civ-fans can already be far ahead, and explore Venus themself! We have maps for Civ3 and Civ4 of Venus, based on previous scans of the Venus surface. Check them out!

There are also more maps of foreign planets in our downloads section (e.g. Mars), have a look at them too :).

Join this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/civfanatics/status/1423220694989615109