If any of you are podcast people, Soren Johnson (designer of Civ4, Offworld Trading Company, Old World) interviewed Jake Solomon (XCOM (2012), XCOM 2, Marvel's Midnight Suns). It's fantastic and will liven up days of commutes.

Part One and Part Two.




P.S. Johnson mentions a Civ4 camera trick that he threw into to appease his art team that he suspects no one knows about. Luckily, we know about it and use it to make our Civ4 stories pretty.

Spongebob theme. Spongebob memes. Are you ready kids?

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AGG (Amphibious and transport efficiency*)
PHI (Astro Bulb)
CHM (boat promos)

Japan, Spain, Inca (terrace irrig), Rome, America, France

Alexander of Japan is my ideal combo, but Lincoln or even Brennus of Spain might be interesting.

*promos more important this game because each extra couple units requires an extra transport too, so additional hammer savings on densifying your power.

edit: more detail as to why

I dunno, this kinda looks like a Vikings angle to me.

I asked if there would be an interest in an RotP succession game in the forum and got positive vibes from @RefSteel, @haphazard1 and @DP101 so am putting feelers out.

Now I'd say I'm not sure if I'm the right person to set it up and get it going (see my !), but if anybody would like, I could roll a map the weekend (or the weekend after, or the one after that and so on) and go from there.

I would suggest that we start on standard settings (normal difficulty, default advanced settings) with either a 50 or 70 star galaxy and either four or five opponents, not sure who to pick for our empire. I am completely open to different settings and will roll what the consensus is.

So any takers? Or even anybody wanting to roll their own game for me to be in?

Do I have a lurker? 
I am happy to play without one, but my incompetence might degrade the match quality.

Paradox releasing a civ clone:
https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games...nnia/about

Thoughts?