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    Sid Speaks -- PolyCast Episode 50: "That's What The Tank Said to the Spearman"

    The Wonder, the Grandeur, the One. Firaxis Games Director of Creative Development Sid Meier joins Daniel "DanQ" Quick, Makahlua and Imran Siddiqui with Annalee "Cartimandua" Barney for the landmark fiftieth episode of PolyCast, an official podcast of Apolyton Civilization Site (ACS). Entitled "That's What The Tank Said to the Spearman", it runs for 44m59s. Meier is interviewed about the Civilization series, his games in general, the strategy gaming genre and finally a selection of miscellaneous questions. Firaxis' Online Marketing Manager Dennis Shirk assisted in recording Meier's audio.

    PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production of ACS is an ongoing effort to give the Civ community an interactive voice on game strategy; its sibling show ModCast focuses on Civ modding. To date, ACS is the only known community on the Web to produce its own Civ podcasts.
    Last edited by DanQ; August 23, 2008, 23:41.
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    Summary of Topics

    - 03m06s | Civilization Series (Part 1)
    Public reception to Civilization: Revolution to date as well as its very successful North American release and accolades for its game controls and interface. Future modding prospects in the series a la Civilization IV and playing on square vs. hex grids.
    - 11m03s | Civilization Series (Part 2)
    Possibilities of Civ having a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) incarnation, Civ reflecting society, conducting historical research and Sid's Civ playstyle: warmonger, builder or in combination.
    - 19m21s | Sid's Games
    Pursuing original and revisiting existing Intellectual Property (IP), new IP hints, goals in designing Alpha Centauri and how hard it can be for game developers to sell their ideas to publishers.
    - 26m00s | Strategy Gaming
    Having Artificial Intelligence (AI) mimick human-like analysis 'in the moment', returning strategy to less complex and more streamlined gameplay.
    - 31m24s | Miscellaneous
    On controversy over violence in videogames, reactions of close family and friends to entering the gaming industry, feedback provided by Sid's wife and son into his games, three favourite PC games not from his company and if only able to take one by himself to an exotic island, and the question he always wanted to be asked but hadn't and its answer.
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    • #3
      I think Civ is massively multiplayer, its just not online. The real civ of this earth that is.

      Hexes!

      Thanks Sid for doing this show, and all the rest of you folks too.
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Lancer
        I think Civ is massively multiplayer, its just not online. The real civ of this earth that is.

        Hexes!

        Thanks Sid for doing this show, and all the rest of you folks too.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Lancer
          I think Civ is massively multiplayer, its just not online. The real civ of this earth that is.


          Thanks Sid for doing this show, and all the rest of you folks too.
           
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          • #6
            I enjoyed Sid's comment that in SidRev they made the leaders annoying so that you want to kill them, or something like that. I suppose the state of being annoyed takes the place of a dictator's meglamania to the average Joe...

            So Dan, how many times does this make that you have you chatted with the guy whose fault all this is?
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            • #7
              So I'm listening to the podcast right now. I plan on listening to the whole thing, but that's in spite of what I've heard so far after a little less than three minutes of listening. So far, everybody has joked and laughed and chatted, all at the same time. It's hard to follow it. Nothing has really happened and I must admit that I'm growing a bit tired of listening. And can someone tell me how it was a great idea to fart really loudly in the single most important polycast to date? Is that how you plan to get Sid to come back?
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              • #8
                It will get better in a couple of minutes. Yeah, the intro basically consists of the hosts joking and fooling around, but it will assume the form of an actual interview after that. Intros are usually heavy on banter, though this one is more so than usual.
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                • #9
                  I guess they didn't have enough good material to fill a full 45 minutes. Sid was only available for an hour I think I read.
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                  • #10
                    Well, it's got much better now. But someone should have tried to make some of the first questions shorter than half a page with one long sentence, if written.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Solver
                      It will get better in a couple of minutes. Yeah, the intro basically consists of the hosts joking and fooling around, but it will assume the form of an actual interview after that. Intros are usually heavy on banter, though this one is more so than usual.
                      Makes me feel better, cant blame dissaray on old Gramps


                      It is very fun doing one though, putting interaction with names from a forum
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Lancer
                        I enjoyed Sid's comment that in SidRev...
                        SidRev?

                        So Dan, how many times does this make that you have you chatted with the guy whose fault all this is?


                        Three, though the first time was only for a few moments (during the Firaxis office tour Markos and I took in '06).

                        Originally posted by Nikolai
                        And can someone tell me how it was a great idea to fart really loudly in the single most important polycast to date? Is that how you plan to get Sid to come back?


                        Nobody farted loudly (and, as far as I am aware, not at all) during the recording of this. At what minute:second mark does this sound begin that you believe is flatulence?

                        Originally posted by Solver
                        Yeah, the intro basically consists of the hosts joking and fooling around, but it will assume the form of an actual interview after that. Intros are usually heavy on banter, though this one is more so than usual.
                        Yes, PolyCast intro and outros are typically more banter-concentrated than the rest of the show (and the same goes for ModCast).

                        Originally posted by Maniac
                        I guess they didn't have enough good material to fill a full 45 minutes. Sid was only available for an hour I think I read.
                        That's correct, Sid's availability was an hour. That said, with some of the technical difficulties we had that were beyond our control (my dropping from the conference due to a power failure as documented in the extended 'blooper reel' for instance), he in fact recorded with us for closer to 70 minutes.

                        Originally posted by Nikolai
                        But someone should have tried to make some of the first questions shorter than half a page with one long sentence, if written.
                        Most of the questions themselves aren't long, but the preface to them can be -- our aim was to (better) set context for them. Could some have been shorter in places? Certainly. One in particular comes to mind where Annalee makes a comment to that effect right after no less, but that's because two questions were ultimately combined for their similarity.

                        We were just trying to ensure we were being clear with what we were asking. Looking back, we could have had some of the prefaces shortened somewhat. On the whole I prefer the questions as is.
                        Last edited by DanQ; August 9, 2008, 20:49.
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                        • #13
                          Anyway, great PolyCast of course!
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Maniac
                            Anyway, great PolyCast of course!
                            Thank you kindly. I'm certain my fellow co-hosts will not mind my speaking on behalf of them as well when I say that it was a most enjoyable one to record.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by DanQ

                              Thank you kindly. I'm certain my fellow co-hosts will not mind my speaking on behalf of them as well when I say that it was a most enjoyable one to record.
                              As allways, a class act team
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