PolyCast Episode 139: "Add Insult to Injury"

[img=right]http://civcomm.weplayciv.com/polycast/images/polycast_logo.jpg[/img] Stinging in more ways than one. The one-hundred-and-thirty-ninth episode of PolyCast, "Add Insult to Injury", features regular co-hosts Daniel "DanQ" Quick, "Makahlua", Philip "TheMeInTeam" Bellew and Lisa "qnl" Bang; it has a runtime of 59m59s; listeners are encouraged to rate the show on iTunes and follow on Twitter.

The summary of topics is as follows:

- 01m14s | Research Lab
On a request for unique technologies for Civilization's, well, civilizations.
- 11m37s | Forum Talk
Considering the most important attribute in CivV, and the ability to run a negative treasury.
- 31m12s | Senate
Combining late game and air unit analysis, and how to stop Giant Death Robots in Civilization V.
- 48m16s | Miscellaneous
The sizzle of comparing gaming and cooking.

- Intro/Outro | Miscellaneous
The secret to female silence, and paths preferably left untaken.

Recording live before a listening audience every other Saturday, PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production in an ongoing effort to give the Civ community an interactive voice on game strategy; sibling show RevCast focuses on Civilization: Revolution, ModCast on Civ modding and TurnCast on Civ multiplay.

For the first topic my opinion:

I don't like the IDea of each civ getting a free tech when it comes available


What I would like is that the lenght of the classical/ancient era increase.

ANd each civilization starts with a starting tech other then argiculture for example:


Japan england start with sailing
america egypt with mining
china pottery


So basicly every civ start with argiculture and one other technology
This is how they did it in a mod called civilzation night to compensate for the free technologies there where new technologie in the classical and ancient era.


A other Idea is that certain civilizations get a reduction in researching that technology
So his idea:

Egypt gets a reduction in researching masonry


as for other topics:
It isn't bad if you have negatif gold especially if you are at war because you are spending that gold on you're war wich will get you more land/ more gold

The GDR thread link was broken, so I fixed it for you.

Also, I can't find this on iTunes.

Camikaze said:

The GDR thread link was broken, so I fixed it for you.

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Ah thanks.

Also, I can't find this on iTunes.

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Odd... should be there shortly.

Just at the negative treasury comment where everyone seems to be confused as to how a state can borrow money without the cooperation of other civs (aliens/gods are proposed). Issuing bonds to the people can be an effective way to spend at a 0 treasury balance without a foreign source of capital.

zubrin said:

Just at the negative treasury comment where everyone seems to be confused as to how a state can borrow money without the cooperation of other civs (aliens/gods are proposed).

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On the proposal, all in jest.

Issuing bonds to the people can be an effective way to spend at a 0 treasury balance without a foreign source of capital.

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So, as far as gameplay would be concerned then, who or what is issuing the bonds?