PolyCast Episode 72: "The Other End of the Stick"

[DanQ]

What's with it anyway? The seventy-second episode of PolyCast is now netcasting. "The Other End of the Stick" features regular co-hosts Daniel "DanQ" Quick, Makahlua, Imran Sidiqui and Annalee "Cartimandua" Barney with returning guest co-hosts Gloria "condor223" Carson and Chris "Pinchak".

PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production in an ongoing effort to give the Civ community an interactive voice on game strategy. A nominee in the "Best Produced" and "Gaming" categories of the 2008 Podcast Awards, sibling show ModCast focuses on Civ modding and RevCast focuses on Civilization: Revolution.

[DanQ]

Summary of Topics

- 01m55s | Forum Talk
Do you roleplay in your Civilization IV games, thoughts on the Janissary Unique Unit, what of Quechuas, and is there a way to exclude particular Civ leaders.
- 17m26s | Senate
Having too much money in the bank, surviving a jungle start, all about the "We Fear You Are Becoming Too Advanced" limit, and on the Pyramids: the great debate of cost versus production.
- 32m20s | Vault
Most vassals on a single turn and the Top 100 Game Creators including Bruce Shelley, Brian Reynolds and Sid Meier.
- 39m25s | Theatre
A recent CivIV: BtS gameplay experience where the Religious Diplomatic Victory was just out of reach again and again.

- Intro/Outro | Miscellaneous
Who has been able to stay away from whom, and why this is a good thing.