PolyCast Episode 47: "Stranger Than Others" with 'Solver' and 'Dauphin'

The title is hardly exclusive to this episode. The forty-seventh edition of PolyCast, entitled "Stranger Than Others", features the return of guest co-hosts Solver and Anthony "Dauphin" Christmas. Regular co-hosts present are Daniel "DanQ" Quick and Makahlua and Imran Siddiqui. Total runtime is 44m59s.

The summary of topics is as follows:

- 04m06s | News
The long awaited and anticipated Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword 3.17 patch has arrived and a Colonization sequel set in the Civ IV universe is announced.
- 18m39s | Senate
How to use the National Park National Wonder in Civ IV: BtS and when founding a religion, adopt immediately or wait.
- 24m23s | Forum Talk
What to have less of in future Civs, the BtS-introduced religious victory deemed too easy, the Khmer Ballista Elephant being the "crappiest" Unique Unit, an alternate effect for the Commando promotion and bringing back multi-level/layer maps to the series.
- 37m12s | Research Lab
The presence of thieves, bandits and other like units to increase pillaging's profitability.

- Intro/Outro | Miscellaneous
What is the Alpha Centauri system has no planets, favourite Civ IV era music and music in PC games overall, and a playing live event proposal for Civ IV.

Comments welcome, discussion encouraged.

Oh , AP discussion ... and the AC planets discussion ( Probably half of the posts in that thread are mine ).. Will definitely listen to this one

Good to hear (no pun intended ).

I have an Idea for your next Research Lab, What If Civ Was Played on a Hex grid instead of it's current Square Grid?

kniteowl said:

I have an Idea for your next Research Lab, What If Civ Was Played on a Hex grid instead of it's current Square Grid?

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That is certainly something we haven't discussed on the show before. I've added it to our 'to-do' list.

Oh , the Hex grid stuff... can worm alert

I like my numpad gaming, though

here are a few old Threads on the Hex Grid that I found... I wish there was a Mod where Civ4 could be played on a hex grid, just out of interest.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=213905&highlight=hexagon+grid

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=231731&highlight=hexagon+grid

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=127975&highlight=hexagon+grid

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=261302&highlight=hexagon

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=262146&highlight=hexagon

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=155476

Thanks for the references, kniteowl.

Enjoy this episode?

DanQ said:

Enjoy this episode?

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Of course I did, nothing stood out in particular that made it better or worse of course.

Btw stop complaining about the fact there's no pre-settler level because it's been in Civ 4 since Civ 4 Vanilla, it's called "WORLD BUILDER" lol

kniteowl said:

Of course I did, nothing stood out in particular that made it better or worse of course.

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We'll try to do something worse to make it stand out next time then...

Btw stop complaining about the fact there's no pre-settler level because it's been in Civ 4 since Civ 4 Vanilla, it's called "WORLD BUILDER" lol

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I acknowledged World Builder as the "easiest" means to victory in this episode alone so .

Good show as usual

Heh, "Boston horse party"...

Lars_Domus said:

Good show as usual

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Heh, "Boston horse party"...

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I was nice to have thought of it, but let someone else say it...