Millennia: Ancient Worlds DLC and update 5

By | August 13, 2024
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The Paradox community manager PDX Katten has dropped by at CivFanatics to announce the release of the new DLC for Millennia, called “Ancient Worlds“. The DLC focuses on prehistoric times, and adds quite some features in this era. You can now start with a nomadic band instead of your first city (so like in Civ), you get ancinet megafauna such as Mastodons, an ice age start, new starting goverments to fit the flavour as well as new land marks. The DLC costs 9.99 and can be bought on Steam.

At the same time as the DLC also the latest update is released. This update contains a more standard form of the settler start, experimental simultaneous multiplayer and experimental modding support (among other things like bugfixes). For more info for both the DLC and the update check our thread here.

Sullla’s AI Survivor Season Eight – Wildcard Game 1

By | August 12, 2024
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AI Survivor is an annual competition of all Civilization IV AI Leaders by long-time Civilization enthusiast and streamer Sullla.

We now enter the playoff phase of AI Survivor, starting with Wildcard Game 1. There will be two wildcard playoff games this season for the first time as enough leaders survived the early round that a second wildcard game is required. Only the winner of each wildcard game will advance to the playoff rounds. The wildcard games are particularly fun as the raging barbarian setting is turned on. The AI leaders will face an early onslaught of barbarian invasion. Will we see any AIs lose a city, or even better will we see a leader destroyed by the barbs? All entrants into the wildcard games survived their opening round match, some with only one city remaining. However, all these leaders will have a new opportunity to advance into the playoffs with the possibility of winning it all. Read more about the first wildcard game here. Be sure to make your picks in the picking context.

Sullla’s AI Survivor Season 8 continues Friday, August 16th on Sullla’s Twitch Channel at noon EST.

We welcome you to join the fun by discussing here

Civ 7 release date is in the first quarter of 2025 per quarterly report

By | August 10, 2024
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Our moderator Eagle Pursuit has extracted from the quarterly fiscal report of Take2 that Civ7 is scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2025, so January until March.

Please note that the report says Q4 2025, which refers to the fiscal year, and not to the calendar year. It does refer to the Q1 of the calendar year 2025.

For more information please check this thread.

PolyCast 436: They Say Strategy is Dying

By | August 9, 2024
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The four-hundred-and-thirty-sixth episode of PolyCast, “They Say Strategy is Dying“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:

News
– 00h01m22s | Study the Past by Firaxis: Civ 1, Civ 2, and Civ 3
– 00h03m48s | OId World: Behind the Throne DLC
– 00h09m21s | Study on Gamers on Strategic Games Suggests Less People are Interested
– 00h32m53s | June COTM: Terra Incognita

Forum Talk
– 00h45m41s | Things We Don’t Want to See In Civilization VII

NOTE: This Episode was recorded on July 08, 2024.

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.

Join us here to discuss this episode of the Polycast.

Civilization 3 Hall Of Fame – Update

By | August 9, 2024
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The Civilization III Hall of Fame has been updated. 12 games were accepted since the previous update.

Congratulations to BlackBetsy for the highest Firaxis score of the update with a Large Deity Cultural 100k game for 12696 points.

Spoonwood was the most active player during this update, submitting 9 games.

Only 1 player was brave enough to take on Sid this update. Bartleby submitted a 1735 AD Large Sid Diplomatic game for 5748 points.

A number of players gained number one positions:

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Congratulations to Rustwork for rising from 30th to 29th and to BlackBetsy for rising from 35th to 32nd in the Quartermasters competition.
Commiserations to Lord AJ for falling from 29th to 30th, to Aerinon for falling from 32nd to 33rd, to zerksees for falling from 33rd to 34th and to Dianthus for falling from 34th to 35th in the Quartermasters competition.

A number of players are working towards the Quartermaster, gaining awards as follows:
Machiavelli : BlackBetsy rose from 22nd to 17th and zerksees rose from 36th to 35th.
Pentathlon : BlackBetsy rose from 37th to 32nd.
Octathlon : Bartleby rose from 25th to 16th and BlackBetsy rose from 47th to 27th.

Come join us to discuss this update and congratulate the participants here.

Civ6 “Challenge Of The Month”: Now available for consoles

By | August 8, 2024
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Today the Firaxis community manager Sarah dropped by at CivFanatics to announce that the monthly challenges (similar to our “Game Of The Month”) are now finally available also to console players. You can already participate in the current challenge on PlayStation and XBox. Switch players will hopefully get the update tomorrow.

Come join us here to discuss this update.

Civ IV Hall of Fame Update

By | August 6, 2024
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The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 41 games were accepted since the previous update.

Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Duel, Marathon, Monarch, Space Colony game for 444,361 points. nocho also gained 9 top positions in the scoring.

Lcpl Jack Jones was the most active player during this update, submitting an astonishing 25 games, and gaining 11 top positions.

Only one player was brave enough to take on Deity this update:
Lcpl Jack Jones – 2050 AD, Huge, Normal, Deity, Time game for 10,740 points.​

Other players scoring top positions are donsig, Fractal Spiral and AlexFin. Congratulations to everyone!

Two new gauntlets are starting as well!

For the G-Minor 278 you must play Kublai Khan to reach a Domination victory on a small Pangaea map on quick speed and Monarch level. For the remaining requirements please check here.

For the G-Major 191 you must be playing the Celts to gain a Cultural victory on a large Great Plains map on Monarch level. For the remaining requirements please check here.

Join us in this thread to discuss the new gauntlets and to congratulate the winners!

Polygon: How Civilization 4’s Christopher Tin became the first game composer to win a Grammy

By | August 5, 2024
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Polygon has today posted an article about our most beloved composer, titled “How Civilization 4’s Christopher Tin became the first game composer to win a Grammy“.
In the interview, the journalist is asking Christopher Tin about how he was inspired by Civ4’s opening menu, that orchestrating music for video games was still somthing rather new back in the day, and how the technological landscape change with the Wii and iPhone has transformed gaming.
For some more interesting details check the article here, and discuss it with us here.