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.

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #240

By | August 8, 2022
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And we continue to give you entertainment which doesn’t require you to go into the heat! In this “Game Of The Month” you play as King Arthur (with the traits of Julius Cesar) of England on a standard size map of Great Britain on Noble level. You have until September 6 to create Great Britain.

For all details, please see here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/news-botm-240-king-arthur-noble-starts-august-1-2022.678123/

PolyCast 398: Scouts Don’t Count as Military

By | August 8, 2022
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The three hundred-and-ninety-eighth episode of PolyCast, “Scouts Don’t Count as Military“ 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
00h02m11s | The 2K Launcher Updates Again and Disappoints Everyone
00h09m41s | Civilization VI Works on Steam Deck?
00h16m26s | 6 “New” Ways to Play Civilization VI

Forum Talk
00h31m59s | A Video of Civilization V Reminds Us of Everything We Hate About Multiplayer
00h37m07s | MegaBearsFan’s Top 10 Bad Ideas in Civilization VI; Associated Blog Post

NOTE: This Episode was recorded on March 12, 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.

Vote for Sid Meier’s Civilization I and II to be added to GoG

By | August 6, 2022
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As a civ-fanatic you might, like us, live a bit in constant pain, because you simply cannot buy Civ1 and Civ2 anymore :(. The reasons are probably complicated, and related to a not-so-easy licensing situation after Microprose was bought. But as you know, you can buy Colonization on GOG, so it must be possible. If just Firaxis and 2K knew that we really wanted these two games, then they could probably do it.

One of our moderators, blake, has therefore organized a vote two get both games onto GOG. Show us, Firaxis, 2K and GOG that these games are still worth playing, and vote that they should be added. With some luck, in the future we might be able to play again those two games.

Discuss with us this effort here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/vote-for-sid-meiers-civilization-i-and-ii-mge-test-of-time-to-be-added-to-gog.675300/

PolyCast 397: We Had to Walk Uphill Both Ways

By | August 5, 2022
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The three hundred-and-ninety-seventh episode of PolyCast, “We Had to Walk Uphill Both Ways“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:

News
00h02m11s | Cities: Skylines Modder Banned for Illicit Activities on Steam Workshop.

Forum Talk
00h07m47s | Several Civilization Developers Discuss Their Games
00h27m06s | MegaBearsFan’s Top 10 Good Ideas in Civilization VI; Associated Blog Post

Miscellaneous
00h56m45s | Feedback and Questions on Small Island Starts from a Viewer

NOTE: This Episode was recorded on February 26, 2022.
Discussion Thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/polycast-397-we-had-to-walk-uphill-both-ways.678312/

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.

Old World update #95

By | August 3, 2022
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Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes various balancing changes, e.g. the Hold Court mission now has a 20% chance to find a new Courtier, stability patches to the late game multiplayer, improved modding for map scripts, UI improvements for the steam deck, and more. For all the changes please visit our thread here.

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

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #140

By | August 3, 2022
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Our game makers have been sweating to present you a new GOTM this month!

This time you play as Kublai Khan of China on a standard size Inland Sea map on King level. With Barbarian Clans and a disaster intensity of 2 this will not be an easy game. You must achieve a culture victory, while preventing all other civs from reaching another victory. And you must do it as fast as possible!

Rush your wonders until September 1!

You can find all details in this thread here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/6otm-140-announcement.678210/

PolyCast 396: Objective Performance Metrics for Civilization at School

By | August 1, 2022
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The three hundred-and-ninety-sixth episode of PolyCast, “Objective Performance Metrics for CIvlization at School“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:

News
00h02m18s | Anton Strenger Leaves Firaxis

Forum Talk
00h13m28s | Lingering Questions About Civilization VI
00h26m47s | Civilization and Humankind in the Classroom

Senate
00h36m25s | The “Daftest Messages” from Agendas
00h43m24s | A Powered Buildings Tier List for Civilization VI

NOTE: This Episode was recorded on January 15, 2022.
You may also discuss the episode in the forum thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/polycast-396-objective-performance-metrics-for-civilization-at-school.678228/

In addition, I would like to apologize for the long delay time with the episodes for this year. Hopefully, being able to listen to the archived streams was enough to hold you over. It has been a long year of complex health and technical issues, but hopefully those are at least manageable now.

Our intention is to release this year’s back episodes on Monday and Friday until all recorded episodes are released, at which point regular scheduling will continue.

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.