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By Thunderfall at 2009-11-16 23:13
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 The BUG team has been hard at work recently and yesterday made a simultaneous release of BUG 4.2, BAT 2.1, and also the FIRST official release of BULL (The BUG DLL)!
Below are some of the changes/features:
Changes in BUG 4.2
- Mac fixes
- SevoPedia Technology page shows each civilization that starts with the tech
- Hover text for Great Person bar on main interface
- Lots of other fixes for Civ4lerts, AutoSave, Autolog, and more
- Complete changelog
Changes in BAT 2.1
Features in BULL 1.0
- Almost every detail from the City Screen appears on the City Bar hover: health, happiness, whip/draft anger, hurry cost/overflow, trade routes, building icons, specialists and settled great people, and more!
- Building and Specialist hovers show the actual effects they will provide for the current city.
- Pre-chop forests: Workers automatically stop chopping 1 turn from completion.
- Advanced Combat Odds 2.0.1
- Complete changelog
Thanks to the BUG team for their hard work! 
>> Civ4 - BTS Unaltered Gameplay Forum
>> Beyond the Sword Unaltered Gameplay Project
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By Tone at 2009-11-16 05:47
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 The Civilization III Hall of Fame has been updated. 24 games were accepted since the previous update.
Congratulations to Calis for the highest Firaxis score of the update with a Small Deity Domination game for 17039 points.
Congratulations also go to Calis for his victory in the October/November Gauntlet. Details of the current competition can be found here.
Spoonwood was the most active player during this update, submitting 5 games.
Only 2 players were brave enough to take on Sid this update. Rustwork submitted a 1475 AD Tiny Sid Domination game for 7056 points. TxCraig submitted a 1924 AD Large Sid Cultural 20k game for 4752 points.
Two submissions gained number one positions on harder difficulty levels:
Calis with a 230 BC Small Deity Domination game for 17039 points.
Calis with a 540 AD Tiny Emperor Diplomatic game for 8888 points.
>> Civ III HOF
>> Full Update Details
>> Discussion Thread
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By Ginger_Ale at 2009-11-14 08:47
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 At a recent International Game Developers Association Leadership conference, Firaxis executive producer Barry Caudill delivered a speech on the defining characteristics and underlying philosophy of Firaxis' projects, including Sid Meier's role in guiding the design. Gamasutra has written an article explaining "Firaxis' Way," "Sid's Way," and what it's been like working under legend Sid Meier:
Sid's Way, the personal design ethic of Meier as an individual, is even more single-minded -- both literally and figuratively.
"There is absolutely no design document whatsoever" when it comes to Meier's work, Caudill said. "The game design document lives in Sid's brain. The publisher would say, 'Can we have the document?' and I'd say, 'Well, I'd have to chop Sid's head off.'"
As a result, Firaxis goes to great lengths to ensure the in-progress prototype is never broken, because when it is, it slows down Meier's ongoing design process, which proceeds at an uncommonly rapid pace.
"Sid absolutely works faster than anyone I've ever seen, anywhere," Caudill said. >> Read the full article
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By Thunderfall at 2009-11-13 21:05
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Last month, the call went out to nominate PolyCast for the 2009 Podcast Awards in both the "Best Produced" and "Gaming" categories. A few days ago, the Top 10 nominees in these and all 22 categories were announced. Thanks to the efforts of those who submitted nominations for PolyCast, the show has been successfully nominated in the "Gaming" category. 
On behalf of the PolyCast team, thank you for this. Now we need your help to vote for the show... and to vote every day!
Between November 13th-30th (6PM EST), please vote for PolyCast in the "Gaming" category daily; for complete details, see the rules. Be certain to include your name and a valid email address to ensure the verification and in turn validity of your vote.
Thanks to DanQ for the news tip.
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By Denniz at 2009-11-10 18:51
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 The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated. 159 games were accepted since the previous update.
Congratulations to The-Hawk for the highest score of the update with a Huge Emperor Conquest game for 1,871,812 points.
shulec was the most active player during this update, submitting 20 games.
Only 4 players were brave enough to take on Deity this updateMisotu submitted a 1335 AD Large Deity Diplomatic game for 45059 points and a 1375 AD Huge Deity Diplomatic game for 46109 points and a 1325 AD Huge Deity Diplomatic game for 51473 points
Shakes submitted a 1830 AD Tiny Deity Space Race game for 22796 points
and a 1835 AD Tiny Deity Cultural game for 20827 points
Sun Tzu Wu submitted a 320 AD Huge Deity Religious game for 32662 points
WastinTime submitted a 1752 AD Huge Deity Domination game for 64217 points Gauntlet Info:
G-Major 61 - Domination, Monarch, Large, Normal on Hemispheres with Holy Roman Empire
1st Salomo 1505 AD
2nd phanc 1760 AD
3rd Fluroscent 1808 AD
G-Minor 83 - Religious, Noble, Large, Normal on Ice Age
1st shulec 375 AD
2nd Shakes 520 AD
3rd DJMGator13 580 AD
** New Gauntlets Starting **
G-Minor 84 - Space Colony, Prince, Small, Quick on Fractal with Saladin
G-Major 63 - Cultural, Immortal, Standard, Epic on Archipelago
>> Civ IV HOF
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>> Discussion Thread
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By Ginger_Ale at 2009-11-09 19:29
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 Yes, it's been a while, but we're back with a new screenshot of the month day. Thanks to krieger546 for this image:
"Played Rhye's and Fall of Civilization with Greece when my vassal Ethiopia decided it was time to declare war on Rome. Yay!? I had only a few troops home when Roman legions started arriving. But their whole army was beaten up by barbs!"
If barbarians ever served a purpose, I guess this is it. Of course, once the Romans were defeated, krieger546 still would have some things to deal with...some of those stacks like they could handle three defenders!
>> View the Screenshot of the Day gallery and submit your own image!
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By Magic_gorter at 2009-11-01 09:41
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A new month. So it's time to start a new game of the month for civ2.
This month a special one. We go back in history. Way back to one of the ice ages. Land is bad and hard to work on. Can you survive and build a great empire. Good luck.
To download the game, visit this page.
And of course, a screenshot of the starting location:
Have fun playing.
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By Ginger_Ale at 2009-10-28 20:09
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According to recent Gamespot and BigDownload articles, Firaxis may be designing a new version of the X-Com game series. The X-Com series was created by MicroProse, and Take-Two, upon purchasing Firaxis in 2005, gained the rights to the X-Com intellectual property.
From Gamespot:
Quote:
The tweets read: "Apparently, there's a rumor that X-Com is being developed by Firaxis, which I wouldn't find hard to believe. I swear that I read they're working on a sci-fi game somewhere...The rumor is that there's two X-Com games--[an] FPS from Irrational and [a] turn-based one from Firaxis."
2K Boston is working on a new X-Com game of some sort, with a shooter spin-off being a strong possibility. As far as a second turn-based X-Com game from Firaxis is concerned, it would be the stuff of old-school gamers' dreams. And, as Fallout 3's massive sales proved, a critically acclaimed reboot of a classic franchise can reap massive rewards.
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Keep in mind that while the creation of a new X-Com game is presumed underway, potential involvement by Firaxis is not.
Thanks to raymundo and Modeltrainman for the news tip.
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By Denniz at 2009-10-25 17:25
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The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated. 111 games were accepted since the previous update.
Congratulations to veryhard for the highest score of the update with a Duel Immortal Domination game for 240,075 points.
shulec was the most active player during this update, submitting 23 games.
Only 3 players were brave enough to take on Deity this updateChrisFromLux submitted a 2825 BC Duel Deity Conquest game for 26579 points
Misotu submitted a 1020 AD Small Deity Diplomatic game for 57858 points
WastinTime submitted a 2030 AD Huge Deity Conquest game for 11598 points and a Jan 2030 AD Huge Deity Space Colony game for 4562 points Gauntlet Info:
G-Major 60 - Conquest, Emperor, Standard, Epic with (OCC, Raging Barbs, Always War)
1st manic 1320 AD
2nd karmina 1400 AD
3rd FiveAces 1495 AD
G-Minor 82 - Conquest, Prince, Standard, Normal on Medium and Small with Portugal (Joao)
1st Fluroscent 1240 AD
2nd DJMGator13 1360 AD
3rd shulec 1480 AD
** New Gauntlets Starting **
G-Minor 83 - Religious, Noble, Large, Normal on Ice Age
G-Major 62 - Space Colony, Monarch, Standard, Epic on Ice Age with Khmer and selected opponents (Raging Barbs, Aggressive AI)
>> Civ IV HOF
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>> Discussion Thread
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By Thunderfall at 2009-10-21 11:24
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Great news! Sid Meier, creator of Civilization and Director of Creative Development at Firaxis, has just joined the forum to announce the Civilization Network project for Facebook:
Hello Civ Fans!
 I wanted to let you know we'll soon be looking for beta testers to help us develop a unique new way to play Civilization. Ever since we finished Civilization® Revolution™ last year, I've been looking at ways of expanding the Civ gameplay experience to include solo, competitive and cooperative play to take advantage of the uniqueness of social networks. We're calling this project Civilization® Network™ and the full game will be available next year on Facebook. Civilization Network will allow you to join together with your friends to create the world's most powerful, richest, smartest, or just plain coolest civilization. You can coordinate your strategy to win great battles, share your technology to jump ahead of your rivals, lobby your family and friends to form your own government and win vital elections, manage and grow your cities to maximize production and happiness, spy on your enemies, and work with your friends to create the great Wonders of the World. The game will offer everything you enjoy in Civ in a fully persistent environment - you can play as much as you like, whenever you like, and it'll be free to play.
We'll offer a closed beta of the game soon, so stay tuned for details on how you can sign-up to participate. The full game will launch in 2010. For more information about Civilization Network, including development updates and behind-the-scenes posts from me and the Firaxis team, join our Facebook fanpage here: www.facebook.com/civnetwork.
Thanks and Stay Civilized!
Sid Meier
Director of Creative Development
Firaxis Games
Welcome to CivFanatics forum, Sid! 
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By Tone at 2009-10-17 05:50
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The Civilization III Hall of Fame has been updated. 10 games were accepted since the previous update.
Congratulations to Calis for the highest Firaxis score of the update with a Huge Demigod Domination game for 14019 points.
Calis was the most active player during this update, submitting 3 games.
No players were brave enough to take on Sid this update.
Congratulations go to Kuningas for winning the last gauntlet. The gauntlet has been laid down for the coming month by Calis. Details can be found here.
One player has gained several number one positions on harder difficulty levels:
Calis submitted a 230 AD Large Demigod Domination game for 13490 points, a 270 AD Huge Demigod Domination game for 14019 points and a 900 AD Tiny Emperor Spaceship game for 8390 points.
>> Civ III HOF
>> Full Update Details
>> Discussion Thread
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By Denniz at 2009-10-10 19:40
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The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated. 131 games were accepted since the previous update.
Congratulations to ryzax for the highest score of the update with a Huge Immortal Cultural game for 418,840 points.
babaBrian was the most active player during this update, submitting 15 games.
Only 1 player was brave enough to take on Deity this update kovacsflo submitted a 1943 AD Huge Deity Domination game for 32240 points and a 1932 AD Huge Deity Conquest game for 25575 points Gauntlet Info:
G-Major 59 - Diplomatic, Emperor, Standard, Normal on Continents (Barbs ON)
1st ProRock 1320 AD
2nd Misotu 1380 AD
3rd ianw1610 1615 AD
G-Minor 81 - Domination, Warlord, Small, Quick on Terra with Peter
1st DJMGator13 620 AD
2nd ryzax 1160 AD
3rd shulec 1240 AD
** New Gauntlets Starting **
G-Minor 82 - Conquest, Prince, Standard, Normal on Medium and Small with Portugal (Joao)
G-Major 61 - Domination, Monarch, Large, Normal on Hemispheres with Holy Roman Empire
>> Civ IV HOF
>> Full Update Details
>> Discussion Thread
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By Blue Monkey at 2009-10-08 16:00
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 Treats from those whoÂ've got the tricks - and plenty of them. Including a new category specifically for Civilopedia entries (both text & graphics).
UNITS
TERRAIN & RESOURCE GRAPHICS
CITY GRAPHICS
WONDERS & IMPROVEMENTS
TECH ICONS
CIVILOPEDIA
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By Thunderfall at 2009-10-07 21:25
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 Firaxis has posted another article in the gaming career series.
In this newest article, executive producer Barry Caudill talks about the responsibilities for the position and the skillset necessary to become a successful game producer. You also hear from two of Firaxis's newest producers Michelle Menard and David McDonough on how their education helped get them a job in production.
PS: For the Calling All Spies contest, if you haven't broken the code yet, the clock is ticking. You’ve got until 11:59pm Eastern Time, on Sunday, October 11th, 2009 to submit your entry.
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By Thunderfall at 2009-10-05 22:27
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 In December of this year PolyCast, a podcast entertaining and information Civilization strategy, will complete its third season. Before then, it is hoped that it would have at least been one of the Top 10 nominees again in both the "Best Produced" and "Gaming" categories for the 2009 Podcast Awards which is now accepting nominations until 23:59PM Hawaiian Standard Time on October 19th.
As noted in the rules of the awards process, 40% of each nominated podcast`s review grade comes from the number of nominations received during the 15-day nomination period. Therefore, to ensure PolyCast has the best opportunity to be one of the Top 10 nominees to then be voted upon during a 15-day period afterwords itself, as many legitimate nominations need to be submitted for the show now. When nominating, please follow the data below for both the "Best Produced" and "Gaming" categories:
Podcast Name: PolyCast
Podcast URL: http://thepolycast.net/polycast
Please don't nominate the show for anymore than the "Best Produced" and "Gaming" categories: the aim is to focus nominations in those two categories. Don't submit PolyCast for more than these two categories as that would invalidate your nomination. Further, please use the "Comments" field to help the reviewing team understand why you feel PolyCast is deserving of being nominated in both the "Best Produced" and "Gaming" categories. Be sure to include your name and a valid email address to ensure the verification of your vote.
Thanks in advance to all of those who decide to vote for PolyCast in the "Best Produced" and "Gaming" categories for the 2009 Podcast Awards. The nomination effort was successful last year, so here's to repeating that performance to set the stage for the next round!
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By Magic_gorter at 2009-10-05 02:32
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It's october already so it's time to start a new game of the month for civ2.
This month it's just a normal game.
To download the game, visit this page.
And of course, a screenshot of the starting location:
Have fun playing.
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