PCGamer: Revisiting Colonization, Sid Meier’s overlooked resource juggler

By | August 22, 2022
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PCGamer has published an article about another game which is dear to us: The original Colonization. In this article the author writes about it was in the shadow of civ, about the struggles of resouce management, dealing with the natives, the lackluster combat and obviously the one-more-turn feeling.

An excerpt:
“For an indecisive player like me, it’s torture. I can’t possibly do everything at once but I’ll sure as bloody hell try. Shall I sell this baccy in London or potter around trying to find a native capital with which to trade? Do I buy tools or manufacture them myself? Shall I throw my cargo of rum into the harbour and tell the king to bugger off or accept the latest rise in tax? Do I waste time annoying the French for the sake of it or not?“

You can read the whole article here: https://www.pcgamer.com/sid-meiers-…com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow and discuss it in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/pcgamer-revisiting-colonization-sid-meiers-overlooked-resource-juggler.678607/

PolyCast 401: No Independent Texas, Please

By | August 19, 2022
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The four-hundred-and-first episode of PolyCast, “No Independent Texas, Please“ 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:


News
00h01m08s | The Strong Museum of Play Adds Civilization to Its Hall of Fame

Forum Talk
00h16m01s | Six Great Scientists At Once?
00h18m33s | Over Randomization in Civilization VI
00h28m33s | Do We Really Want an AI That Makes Reasoned Choices?

Research Lab
00h42m24s | What Unlikely Civ Would You Like to See in Civilization?

NOTE: This Episode was recorded on May 7, 2022.

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.

Win a copy of ZOR: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs

By | August 19, 2022
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Win a copy of ZOR: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs
There are a lot of Civ fans, as you know. As it turns out, some of these fans are also game developers, and long time lurkers at CFC!
One of them is @Righteous Hammer Games , who will release his game ZOR: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs on August 30 on Steam. He’s excited about the release, and also wants to share his game with us – so much so he has offered us 3 keys to his game, to give away to you Civ-fanatics!

What is this game?
Zor: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs is a turn-based tactics game. You command 2 little monsters called Slorfs through various battles, build up a card deck, and improve your base, while following their journey on how to survive on this strange planet. So it’s not exactly a civ-game, but we are all very familiar with turn based combat, and hopefully this means you, the community, will like it.

How do you win?
In the thread you see a selection of the slorfs (the orange and pink in the center) and all their enemies. As you know, we have also some weird big monsters in Civ (e.g. the Giant Death Robot). Tell us which of these monsters you’d rather have than the GDR, and for what reason. The 3 best entries (as judged by the moderators) will win one of the keys.

You have until August 26th to participate, and we will announce the winners on August 29th, so that you have your keys when the game is released.

To post your entries, go to this thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/win-a-copy-of-zor-pilgrimage-of-the-slorfs.678542/

PolyCast 400: All’s Fair In Love and Civilization

By | August 15, 2022
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The four-hundredth episode of PolyCast, “All’s Fair In Love and Civilization“ is now available for streaming on https://thepolycast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:

Community

00h01m55s | PolyCast’s 400th Show Retrospective

News

00h29m01s | Soren Johnson Talks About Diplomacy in Civilization III 

Forum Talk

00h41m03s | Is Civilization VI Worth Playing in 2022?
00h46m40s | Is Civilization V Worth Playing in 2022?
01h00m48s | Is Civilization: Beyond Earth Worth Playing in 2022?

NOTE: This Episode was recorded on April 23, 2022.

Discussion Thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/polycast-400-alls-fair-in-love-and-civilization.678471/

Thank you for coming along with us for these 16 years and 400 episodes!

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.

Podcast on Meena Shamaly singing for Old World

By | August 13, 2022
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The singer Meena Shamaly sang for some of Christopher Tin’s songs in Old World (e.g. the one linked above).
He got interviewed by the podcast Level With Emily Resse, and talked about his singing and work as consultant for Arabic music in Old World.

For the podcast please click here.
You can also find Meena Shamaly on Twitter here.

PolyCast 399: We Play Other Games, Too

By | August 12, 2022
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The three hundred-and-ninety-ninth episode of PolyCast, “We Play Other Games, Too“ 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:

News
00h02m11s | Always Online Vulnerability: The Dark Souls Remote Execution Exploit and Civilization
00h08m38s | Civilization IV Listed in The Games That Made Us Column.
00h22m26s | Civilization V Listed as One of the Best Strategy Games On PC.

Forum Talk
00h43m24s | Strategic Resources: Analysis for Civ 6 and Future for Civ 7

Discussion Thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/polycast-399-we-play-other-games-too.678427/


NOTE: This Episode was recorded on April 9, 2022.

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.

Play Unciv: A free Civ5 implementation for your phone (also desktop)

By | August 10, 2022
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I know, we have Civ6 available on various consoles, and with FreeCiv and FreeCol there are also the old Civ games for you to play for free.

But what about if you want to have a chilled game of Civ5 somewhere?

If you didn’t know, you can also do that with UnCiv!

UnCiv is a free and open source implementation of Civ5. UnCiv incorporates all the basic Civ5 mechanisms, including from the first addon. Because this game is also aimed at mobile devices, it doesn’t have any of the 3D graphics, but only 2D. But that is something we Civ fans can live with, as long as we can get our fix everywhere ;). UnCiv does also run on the desktop though (even on Linux), and works overall pretty fine there too. The AI is competent enough to steamroll you, if you don’t pay attention to your empire.

You think this sounds good? Give it a try!

Discuss UnCiv in our forum here.