PolyCast 414: Nerve Staplers are NOT Still In Vogue

By | May 18, 2023
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The four-hundred-and-fourteenth episode of PolyCast, “Nerve Staplers are NOT Still in Vogue“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus. Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and  Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:

Intro
– 00h01m47s | What Tech or Wonder Quotes Would You Like to See?

News
– 00h04m45s |  Leader Pack 3: Rulers of China Announced for Jan 19.
– 00h10m45s |  Turn-Based Lovers Posts A New Review for Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.
– 00h26m44s |  FreeCol Reaches Version 1.0.0.

Forum Talk
– 00h29m32s |  whiteandnerdytv’s Great Commanders Reaction and Analysis video is Discussed.
– 00h33m19s |  Opinions on the Scory Victory.

Research Lab
– 00h39m34s |  Ideas for New Victory Conditions, Forum Thread
– 00h49m04s |  Ideas for Negative Civilization Traits

NOTE: This Episode was recorded on January 14, 2023.

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.

FCiv.net – now with ChatGPT!

By | May 16, 2023
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AI, in the form of image generators and large language models, are currently the hype. And ChatGPT has now also finally arrived for Civ fans! FCiv.net (an offshot of FreeCiv) has announced today that they have incorporated ChatGPT into their diplomacy engine.

Will we now see leaders realistically talking too each other? Or an AI, which will end a trade agreement in the next turn? It will be interesting to see how the current AI developments can improve Civilization!

Discuss this current development with us here!

Tacticon: All videos available on Youtube!

By | May 16, 2023
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The Tacticon is over, and besides many sales, there were also many interesting talks! They are now also available on youtube, the playlist is here. Talks include, among others, “The Art of War: Applying philosophical principles to modern strategy games” (panel includes Soren Johnson) and “Heroes at war: the role of key characters in strategy games” (panel here includes also Leyla Johnson).

If you want to discuss Tacticon with us, then click here.

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #221

By | May 15, 2023
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And we got again a new “Game Of The Month” for you! In this Civ5 GOTM you play as Wu Zetian on standard size oval map on Prince level. You have to go for a science victory, and must at the same time prevent all other civs from achieving another victory. You have until June 15 to lead China into the space age! For more information please click here.

The raffle for PocketCiv is over: Congratulations to the winners!

By | May 12, 2023
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We just had a raffle for PocketCiv, which is a nice small civ-style game. We asked our users what they would like to have less in Civilization games, and then rolled the dice to determine the winner.

Our user Kyriakos won one copy, requesting less internal stability in Civ nations.

Our user chefofrats would like to see less of the fantasy related content like bermuda triangle and vampires.

And Twitter user Guardian Angels simply wants less barbarians.

Thanks to BMCGames for providing the keys! If you are now interested in this game, then join our discussion here.

Tacticon schedule available (May 11-15)

By | May 11, 2023
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Tacticon starts tomorrow, and we have an interesting schedule. Besides the sales, the talks about the random number generator in strategy games, as well as the music, are of special interest for the civ community.

Sales (starting probably tomorrow) can be found here https://store.steampowered.com/sale/TactiCon , as well as the streams.
All streams will be later available on youtube, and a game overview can be seen on the Tacticon homepage. You can discuss the Tacticon with us here.

Old World update #108

By | May 10, 2023
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Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes, among other things like bugfixes, a new desert map scripts, as well as AI and memory improvements. Discuss this update with us here.

Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.

FreeCol v1.1.0 released!

By | May 8, 2023
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A new version of FreeCol, the free and open source interpretation of Colonization, has been released! This new version includes new music tracks, new hill and mountain graphics, reduced computation time for the AI, and many more things!

Download the new version here, and discuss it with us here!