PolyCast Episode 76: "Just Had to Get Mentioned"

[DanQ]

There was no getting around it. The seventy-sixth episode of PolyCast is now netcasting. "Just Had to Get Mentioned" features regular co-hosts Daniel "DanQ" Quick, Makahlua and Philip "TheMeInTeam" Bellew with returning guest co-host Tim "ruff_hi" Pratt and first-time guest co-host Troy Goodfellow, gaming industry journalist and blogger.

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

- 02m02s | Forum Talk
A new, and even more staggering, infinite technology tree bug through the Oracle Wonder and Liberalism first discovery in Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword v3.19; is the Civ series "violent" (07m53s);
Providing support for a Bomber fleet in CivIV (13m26s), is Rome's Praetorian Unique Unit overpowered (21m02s) and should a CivV return to the attack and defense ratios pre-CivIV (32m22s).

- Intro/Outro | Miscellaneous
Saying hello to the new fourth regular co-host, and what another panelist asks to be repeated.

[DanQ]

Checking in, apologies for the delay in the release of Episode 77 still as of this writing -- an unexpected and unprecedented delay, in fact, for any episode as regularly scheduled. I expect to have it available at last tomorrow.

[DanQ]

... the delay in the release of Episode 77...

... is over. Thanks to the listenership for their patience!