PolyCast Episode 15: "All Your Interview Are Belong To Us"

[Locutus]

The official Apolyton Civilization Site (ACS) podcast is now fifteen episodes young. In addition to `News` and `Modcast` the `Workshop` and `Mailbag` are front and centre in "All Your Interview Are Belong To Us". Co-hosted by Wouter "Locutus" Snijders, Makahlua and returning guest co-host Kenneth "Impaler[WrG]" Ferland, total runtime is 60m:46s (27.8MB).

This episode was delayed for 48 hours due to a combination of scheduling issues and technical difficulties, we apologise for any inconvenience.

PolyCast is a bi-weekly, roughly one-hour production in an effort to give the Civilization community now an interactive voice. Contributing greatly to the show`s interactive capability are means to call-in via Skype, telephone and email the co-hosts your questions or comments about Civ the game, community, or the show and Apolyton itself.

ACS is the first and to date only known Civ fansite to produce its own podcast.

[Locutus]

Summary of Topics

NEWS (04m00s)
Strategy Informer published an interview with Alex Mantzaris about the upcoming Civilization IV expansion Beyond the Sword, but pulled it again after a few hours. A copy is still available on our forums. Take-Two has announced the expansion's official release date and released images of the box art.

MODCAST (26m52s)
In CivIV how to deal with war weariness, Top 10 Tips to Get Started in CivIV [CFC] and what are your Civ play-style idiosyncrasies [CFC]?

WORKSHOP (41m45s)
Examining the Civilization IV modifications "Amra's Modpack" [CFC].

MAILBAG (52m57s)
Looking back at last episode's Senate section based on kniteowl's reaction.

[Impaler[WrG]]

I miss DAN

[kniteowl]

LOL ... worship you??? in your dreams man :P...

On State Property I was a little confused about the whipping, but then you meant about using a particular city throughout the entire game, when what I was talking about, just focusing in the modern age or late game when State Property is available, I'd build a flat land production city and aim for the stars (Space race).

I haven't made any comparisons between hill and flat land production cities but I believe the flat land production city (under State Property of course) is generally stronger because of all the extra food left over after working all 20 tiles you can assign engineer Specialist for even more production and if you're lucky you can get a late game Great Engineer and rush the Space Elevator for a quick Space race, while the hill production city requires you to feed the workers on the hills with the excess food from farms/resources.

Personally I'd like to show you an example of a State property Flat land Production city, but I haven't made any in a while been winning my domination games early, maybe another time.

Another Thing about Pillaging, I generally pillage nearby tiles of razed cities, because since I can't keep the location and I know the AI is gonna pop another settler there. I might as well pillage the nearby improvements too. To Stagnate the growth of the new AI city.

About the Merchant Economy, It's more a Warmonger Style Strategy, you basically mass produce Great Merchants for a HUGE treasury and go warring FOREVER, without worrying about your economy slowing down. The only thing stopping you is do you have enough units left to continue the next war with the nearby Civilization and running research at 100% for long periods of time is also very nice.

Here an ALC game (All Leaders Challenge) by Sisiutil from CFC (I know you guys don't like the place much lol) that shows you an example of how effective a Merchant economy can be.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=5187457

He won Domination by 1628 AD on Monarch, not the world record but VERY effective strategy.

Edit: LMAO... Oops I think I sent you the wrong ALC game, I changed the link it's ALC 14 (The Mongol/Kublai game) that I was meant to link.

Cheers

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by kniteowl
LOL ... worship you??? in your dreams man :P...

On State Property I was a little confused about the whipping, but then you meant about using a particular city throughout the entire game, when what I was talking about, just focusing in the modern age or late game when State Property is available, I'd build a flat land production city and aim for the stars (Space race).

I haven't made any comparisons between hill and flat land production cities but I believe the flat land production city (under State Property of course) is generally stronger because of all the extra food left over after working all 20 tiles you can assign engineer Specialist for even more production and if you're lucky you can get a late game Great Engineer and rush the Space Elevator for a quick Space race, while the hill production city requires you to feed the workers on the hills with the excess food from farms/resources.

Personally I'd like to show you an example of a State property Flat land Production city, but I haven't made any in a while been winning my domination games early, maybe another time.

Another Thing about Pillaging, I generally pillage nearby tiles of razed cities, because since I can't keep the location and I know the AI is gonna pop another settler there. I might as well pillage the nearby improvements too. To Stagnate the growth of the new AI city.

About the Merchant Economy, It's more a Warmonger Style Strategy, you basically mass produce Great Merchants for a HUGE treasury and go warring FOREVER, without worrying about your economy slowing down. The only thing stopping you is do you have enough units left to continue the next war with the nearby Civilization and running research at 100% for long periods of time is also very nice.

Here an ALC game (All Leaders Challenge) by Sisiutil from CFC (I know you guys don't like the place much lol) that shows you an example of how effective a Merchant economy can be.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=220690

He won Domination by 1628 AD on Monarch, not the world record but VERY effective strategy.

Cheers

Wrong thread kniteowl

Which thread are you discussing a game in?

Thanks for stopping by though

Grandpa Troll

[DanQ]

Right thread, kniteowl. Thanks for your feedback.

As for CFC, we like it just fine but it's no Poly.

[DanQ]

Originally posted by Impaler[WrG]
I miss DAN

I missed being there too, but I'll be back.

[_BuRjaCi_]

Oh, a new episode, how did I miss that?

[DanQ]

Originally posted by _BuRjaCi_
Oh, a new episode, how did I miss that?

No worries -- it was posted a couple of days late.

[Nugog]

Good episode.

However the sound quality is not the best at times.......

BTW - which Mod were you discussing? I did not catch the name of it. And where do I find it.......

[DanQ]

Originally posted by Nugog
Good episode.

Though I wasn't involved in this episode at all , thanks!

However the sound quality is not the best at times.......

Sound quality varies from episode-to-episode as it varies from person-to-person. We're always working to improve it, however -- was this the first episode you listened to? We'd be interested to hear how you would compare the sound quality here to, say, Episode 16 for instance.

BTW - which Mod were you discussing? I did not catch the name of it. And where do I find it.......

Called "Amra's Modpack", it's linked to in Wouter's post summarizing the topics (http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...85#post4922585) , but here it is again:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=184242

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by DanQ

Though I wasn't involved in this episode at all , thanks!

Maybe the two are linked.

[Nugog]

Originally posted by DanQ
was this the first episode you listened to? We'd be interested to hear how you would compare the sound quality here to, say, Episode 16 for instance.

I have listened the majority of them - and the sound quality has been variable in all of them.

I have not listened to episode 16 yet - will do soon and will let you know.

Called "Amra's Modpack",

Thanks.

[DanQ]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Maybe the two are linked.

You didn't want to be a guest co-host some day, did you?

[DanQ]

Originally posted by Nugog
I have listened the majority of them

Hope you've enjoyed them all (or at least most of them ), and that you feel we're improving with time ( or at least not getting worse ).

and the sound quality has been variable in all of them.

Indeed. Our guest co-host rotational is also a factor in this consideration.

I have not listened to episode 16 yet - will do soon and will let you know.

'k -- please post any such notes in its thread.

Thanks.

Welcome.