PolyCast 436: They Say Strategy is Dying

By | August 9, 2024
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The four-hundred-and-thirty-sixth episode ofPolyCast,“They Say Strategy is Dying“is now available for streaming on thePolyCast YouTube Channel.This episode features regular co-hostsCanusAlbinus,Stephanie “Makahlua”,andJason “MegaBearsFan”.Topics for this episode include:

News
–00h01m22s|Study the Pastby Firaxis:Civ 1,Civ 2,andCiv 3
–00h03m48s|OId World: Behind the Throne DLC
–00h09m21s|Study on Gamers on Strategic Games Suggests Less People are Interested
–00h32m53s|June COTM: Terra Incognita

Forum Talk
– 00h45m41s |Things We Don’t Want to See In Civilization VII

NOTE: This Episode was recorded on July 08, 2024.

PolyCastis a bi-weekly audio production recordinglive every other Saturdayat 12 Noon US Eastern Time throughout the year, in an ongoing effort to give the Civilization community an interactive voice.

Join us here to discussthis episode of the Polycast.

Civilization 3 Hall Of Fame – Update

By | August 9, 2024
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The Civilization III Hall of Fame has been updated. 12 games were accepted since the previous update.

Congratulations toBlackBetsyfor the highest Firaxis score of the update with a Large Deity Cultural 100k game for 12696 points.

Spoonwoodwas the most active player during this update, submitting 9 games.

Only 1 player was brave enough to take on Sid this update.Bartlebysubmitted a 1735 AD Large Sid Diplomatic game for 5748 points.

A number of players gained number one positions:

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Congratulations toRustworkfor rising from 30th to 29th and toBlackBetsyfor rising from 35th to 32nd in the Quartermasters competition.
Commiserations toLord AJfor falling from 29th to 30th, toAerinonfor falling from 32nd to 33rd, tozerkseesfor falling from 33rd to 34th and toDianthusfor falling from 34th to 35th in the Quartermasters competition.

A number of players are working towards the Quartermaster, gaining awards as follows:
Machiavelli:BlackBetsyrose from 22nd to 17th andzerkseesrose from 36th to 35th.
Pentathlon:BlackBetsyrose from 37th to 32nd.
Octathlon:Bartlebyrose from 25th to 16th andBlackBetsyrose from 47th to 27th.

Come join us todiscuss this update and congratulate the participants here.

Civ6 “Challenge Of The Month”: Now available for consoles

By | August 8, 2024
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Today the Firaxis community manager Sarah dropped by at CivFanatics to announce that the monthly challenges (similar to our “Game Of The Month” ) are now finally available also to console players. You can already participate in the current challenge on PlayStation and XBox. Switch players will hopefully get the update tomorrow.

Come join us here todiscuss this update.

Civ IV Hall of Fame Update

By | August 6, 2024
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The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 41 games were accepted since the previous update.

Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Duel, Marathon, Monarch, Space Colony game for 444,361 points. nocho also gained 9 top positions in the scoring.

Lcpl Jack Jones was the most active player during this update, submitting an astonishing 25 games, and gaining 11 top positions.

Only one player was brave enough to take on Deity this update:
Lcpl Jack Jones – 2050 AD, Huge, Normal, Deity, Time game for 10,740 points.​

Other players scoring top positions are donsig, Fractal Spiral and AlexFin. Congratulations to everyone!

Two new gauntlets are starting as well!

For the G-Minor 278 you must play Kublai Khan to reach a Domination victory on a small Pangaea map on quick speed and Monarch level.For the remaining requirements please check here.

For the G-Major 191 you must be playing the Celts to gain a Cultural victory on a large Great Plains map on Monarch level.For the remaining requirements please check here.

Join us in this threadto discuss the new gauntlets and to congratulate the winners!

Polygon: How Civilization 4’s Christopher Tin became the first game composer to win a Grammy

By | August 5, 2024
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Polygonhas today posted an article about our most beloved composer, titled “How Civilization 4’s Christopher Tin became the first game composer to win a Grammy“.
In the interview, the journalist is asking Christopher Tin about how he was inspired by Civ4’s opening menu, that orchestrating music for video games was still somthing rather new back in the day, and how the technological landscape change with the Wii and iPhone has transformed gaming.
For some more interesting details checkthe article here,anddiscuss it with us here.

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #277

By | August 5, 2024
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For the Civ4 summer GOTM you get an epic, although very standard, challenge: You play as Gilgamesh of Sumeria (that is the “epic” part) on a standard size Global Highlands map on Noble level. You get until August 31 to dominate the mountains. For more informationplease check this thread.

The EU petition for Stop Killing Games is now open!

By | August 4, 2024
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The recent trend of live-service games and MMOs has lead to a worrying trend: Games get shut down, and nobody can play them anymore. With the Civ series, this has not been an issue, as all games are stand-alone, and you don’t need a server from Firaxis. But many other games have recently been shut down, and now a petition has been started to stop this, by giving gamers the options to run their own games. This might be relevant for Civ in the future, so supporthttps:// stopkillinggames /.If you want to discuss this,then join us here.

Play the new Civ5 “Hall Of Fame” gauntlets!

By | August 4, 2024
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The Civilization 5 “Hall Of Fame” is an ongoing competition, to gain the highest rank among all civ-fanatics for the various difficulty levels, map settings, etc. While you are always free to submit your latest wins, we also sometimes give you new challenges, the gauntlets. It is again the time for them, so we get 2 new challenges for you:

For the G-Major CXLVI we are challenging you to win a science victory with Pocatello of the Shoshone on a tiny Great Plains map on Emperor level. You get until August 31 to tackle this gauntlet. For more information pleasecheck this thread.

For the G-Minor CCXIX we are challenging you to win a diplomancy as Pedro II of Brazil on a small Pangaea map on Prince difficulty. You also here get until August 31 to tackle this gauntlet. For more information pleasecheck this thread.