PolyCast 2012 Christmas Special: "Girls Playing Civ Too"

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In 2007, the first PolyCast Christmas Special featured show regular co-host "Makahlua" leading three other women to discuss all things Civilization. Five years later, she's headlining the sequel "Girls Playing Civ Too". The 2012 PolyCast Christmas Special, she leads past regular and recurring guest co-hosts Annalee "Cartimandua" Barney and Lisa "qnl" Bang on topics ranging from numerous Civilization IV and Civilization V comparisons to the state of female gamers in the online community.

The summary of topics is as follows:

- 01m01s | Difficulty Level
Preferred difficulty level of play in Civilization IV and Civilization V.
- 03m08s | Girl Gamers
Perception, experience and analysis of the presence of women in gaming.
- 09m49s | Favourite Civilization
The panelists' favourite CivIV and CivV civilization to play.
- 14m06s | Female Leaders
Comparing the choice and selection of female leaders in the Civ series to date.
- 17m52s | Empire Size
A leaning towards either a tall or wide empire in CivIV and CivV.
- 19m44s | Victory Preference
Nostalgia runs deep when choosing a preferred victory condition to strive for in Civ.
- 21m59s | Victory Theatre
A focus on a Deity-level Cultural Victory account within the CivV expansion Gods & Kings.
- 24m55s | Religion Mechanics
Comparing and contrasting the religion mechanics in CivIV and as introduced to CivV in its G&K expansion.
- 28m00s | Espionage Mechanics
Similarly, comparing and contrasting the espionage mechanics in CivIV and CivV expansions Beyond the Sword and G&K respectively.
- 31m58s | Unit Dislikes
Units to dislike, discard and disrespect.
- 36m37s | Strategic Resources
Reflecting upon strategic resources as implemented in CivV.
- 38m32s | Favourite Map
Favourite map type, and size, in both CivIV and CivV, including a comparison of two types for the latter.
- 42m20s | Favourite Speed
Similarly, favourite game speed in both most recent Civ iterations.
- 47m17s | Title Preference
Forcing a choice to play either Civilization IV or Civilization V today.
- 50m47s | Community Status
The state of the online Civilization community according to the panelists.
- 57m22s | Game Tweaks
Tweaking requests for CivV post-G&K and its subsequent patches.
- 61m10s | Artificial Intelligence
The good, the bad and the ugly of CivIV and CivV's Artificial Intelligence past and present.
- 64m07s | Flashback Topics
Recorded for the first such special, four conversations not previously released: trying advanced starts (64m47s), executing capital moves (66m27s), substituting game music (67m26s), and playing random civilizations (68m54s).

- Intro/Outro | Miscellaneous
Attractive box cover art, multitasking headaches, casual greetings and specials of Christmas past, present and future.

PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production in an ongoing effort to give the Civ community an interactive voice on game strategy; its final episode of this, its sixth season, is number 163 set to be released in one week's time. Sibling show RevCast focuses on Civilization: Revolution, ModCast on Civ modding, SCivCast on Civ social gaming and TurnCast on Civ multiplay.
 
Hey guys, been a while since I've listened to the podcast, but tried to download this episode. Unfortunately, the website isn't loading (tried numerous browsers and computers) and the podcast isn't showing up in iTunes (the Australian store, anyway). Is there any other way for me to download it?
 
You're welcome, swiharta, and hi to you as well sadsquid... glad to have you back as a listener!

Unfortunately, the server that hosts the PolyCast website has been offline going on 3 days now. :( (See related tweet.) In the interim of that service being restored, you can access this and other productions from 2012 on its official YouTube channel @ http://www.youtube.com/user/thepolycast.
 
Unfortunately, the server that hosts the PolyCast website has been offline going on 3 days now. :( (See related tweet.)

It is still down so that is going on four days now. You guys need to dump your host. That is lame as hell. (Not you guys, your hosting company...)
 
It's on their youtube channel. Thanks for this. Interesting discussion if only that I don't hear ANY discussion about Civ other than on these forums.
 
Cool, thanks Dan. Will listen to it shortly!
Welcome. :)

It is still down so that is going on four days now. You guys need to dump your host. That is lame as hell. (Not you guys, your hosting company...)
I agree that the downtime period has become excessive. An interim saving grace in terms of content access is the official PolyCast YouTube channel, but certainly that's no substitute for any notable period of time.

Thanks for this. Interesting discussion if only that I don't hear ANY discussion about Civ other than on these forums.
You are welcome too. Are you a new listener then out of curiosity?

For your and others' further enjoyment, all PolyCast productions throughout 2012 are also available along with most of its sibling Civ podcasts.
 
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