PolyCast #125: The Ripple Effect

In 'Forum Talk' (01m50s), responding to a statement made by the President of 2K Studios in an interview that strategy games are 'not contemporary'; preferring a number of aspects of Civilization IV or V; rolling back to an earlier version of CivV following a patch release, and research efforts teach a computer to play FreeCiv yields considerably encouraging results. Next in 'Research Lab' (40m04s), fleshing out a concept to have technologies spread gradually throughout a civilization once discovered. Then under 'Miscellaneous' (53m36s), whether playing a civilization with a 'butt ugly' colour is bothersome or not.