PolyCast Episode 73: "More Tangenty Than Usual"

[DanQ]

Just when you thought it couldn't be any more so. The seventy-third episode of PolyCast is now netcasting. "More Tangenty Than Usual" features regular co-hosts Daniel "DanQ" Quick, Makahlua, Imran Sidiqui and Annalee "Cartimandua" Barney with returning guest co-hosts Alexander "Alexander" Strub and Solver.

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

- 02m27s | Forum Talk
The three missing leader trait combos, with last related discussion from Episode 10 in March 2007, and top not-quite-as-many-as-ten tips to getting started in Civilization IV last discussed during Episode 15 in May 2007.
- 10m23s | Vault (1 of 2)
Bragging about your most experienced CivIV unit (from Episode 49) and should resources be more valuable (from Episode 71).
- 23m41s | Research Lab
A new idea for Civ combat on a chess-like board, the use of ammunition and introducing animals.
- 33m16s | Vault (2 of 2)
A third-party list of Top 10 games that teach you something (from Pilot 01) and another's Top 100 best games to play today (from Episode 65), both of which include CivIV.
- 39m02s | Senate
The potential benefits of playing on a team with another human in multiplayer in CivIV, and what of single-player and the Artificial Intelligence.

- Intro/Outro | Miscellaneous
Why one of the guests think they can leave early, another is told to keep quiet, how much both of them regret coming back on a given scale, and how one of them reasons it is time for them to go.

[eluttre]

I just "discovered" the podcasts and I would like to say great job!!! I love it. Now I just have to listen to 72 old episodes...I suppose I'd better put on a pot of coffee.

[DanQ]

I just "discovered" the podcasts and I would like to say great job!!! I love it.

Greetings, new listener. Thank you for the kind feedback.

Now I just have to listen to 72 old episodes...I suppose I'd better put on a pot of coffee.