PolyCast 409: Submitted For Peer Review

By | November 13, 2022
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The four-hundred-and-ninth episode of PolyCast, “Submitted For Peer Review“ 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
00h00m50s | Sulcata Tortoises and Swedish Patch Notes

News
00h05m30s | New Civilization Franchise Merchandise
00h11m30s | 2K Games Support Hacked
00h18m12s | Managerial Skills and Civilization Player Skill, Related Research Paper

Research Lab
00h34m02s | Should Elizabeth II Lead England in Civilization VII?

Outro
00h44m25s | Day of Defeat Multiplayer

NOTE: This Episode was recorded on September 24, 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.

Old World update #100

By | November 10, 2022
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Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes a range of bug fixes, improvements to the AI, and more.

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

Humankind: Together We Rule expansion released

By | November 9, 2022
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Amplitude, the developers of Humankind, have released its first expansion: Together We Rule.

This expansion brings a wide range of new features, as e.g. stated in the announcement:

  • Embassies: Form stronger ties with other empires and access cooperative treaties, like mutual access to Emblematic Units.
  • Agents: A new class of units that can serve as diplomats or hidden agents that will perform certain actions as siphoning districts or tracking armies.
  • The Congress of Humankind: Vote on globally enacted laws and resolve conflicts through diplomatic pressure.
  • New Cultures: Sumerians, Hans, Bulgarians, Swiss, Scots and Singaporeans

The new expansion can be purchased on Steam, the Epic Store and the Microsoft store, right now with a 10% discount, $17.99 instead of $19.99.

At the same time G4F records has released a new album with the soundtrack for the expansion, which can also be listened for free on various services.

If you want to discuss with us this new expansion, then head over to the forum thread here. Thanks to our member Saxo Grammaticus for providing us with the latest Humankind news.

Civ6 Civilization Leader Pass: New DLC most likely coming!

By | November 9, 2022
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Probably due to an accident in the steam database some new information about a DLC, about which we have long speculated, has been released.

Want to discuss with us: Come here!

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #244

By | November 8, 2022
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It’s again time for our monthly challenge, and this time it’s a big one! You start as Gandhi of India on a normal size continents map on Monarch level. The challenge comes with the special GOTM adjustments: You start with one settler on each continent, with 2 archers for both, and with 100 gold. Your choice to settle both continents or only one. You need to bring this setup to world domination (or any other victory) until December 8.

For more info, please see this thread.

Early access: Civitas

By | November 7, 2022
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Another game of interest for the Civ community has become available (early access): Civitas.
This game is a real-time city builder, focused on the medieval and renaissance era. It is also a sand-box game, with procedural maps. Means you are free to build whatever you want, on randomly generated maps.
While not directly a civilization builder, it seems this game could be interesting enough to keep an eye on.

Discuss this game in our forum here.

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #146

By | November 5, 2022
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Winter time is approaching, and this month has a nordic theme. You play as Kristina of Sweden on a standard size cold and wet Highlands map on Prince level. You need to go for a culture or diplomacy victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving any other type of victory. You have until December 1 to distribute meatballs worldwide.

For all details please see this thread.

The CivGive 2022 announced!

By | November 2, 2022
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The CivGive is a charity event, organized by various Streamers around TheCivShow.
Last year the team managed to raise $42 000 for extralife, and $25 000 were matched by 2K Games.
This year the team will be aiming at $75 000 in total, to contribute to GamesOutreach.org, which helps hospitalized children through games to make ther life in the hospital a bit better.
The Civ6 multiplayer live stream for the event and surrounding activities will happen on December 11, 1 PM Eastern Time.

Right now we know that the following streamers will participate in this giant MP match:

The event is hosted by Nystagmus, Moysauce and PeppermintButler.

We hope that also CivFanatics will do their share to reach the 75 000, and we hope that this will again be an enjoyable event!

Discuss the CivGive with us here.