Sid Meier's Civilization - Civ 6 release in October 2016

Early gameplay reviews seem pretty overwhelmingly positive....kept what was awesome in Civ V, changed some things to make the progression better. Apparently they worked hard to eliminate "beelining" to certain key wonders or paths to victory, which is music to my freaking ears man. Really excited to see how the unstacked cities look and play.

When does this bad boy come out on Mac?

 

I'm very excited about cities having districts and spanning more than one tile.

 

I think that's a good thing.

 

Dammit Ned, pay attention.

 

What is EU4, if I may ask?

 

Oh. I seem to remember the graphics being too rudimentary for me to get past. Still the case? Or do you care?

 

They do to a multimedia designer like myself. ;)

 

Yayyyyyy it's here for Mac

 

Silly Civilization VI Map Recreates Earth, Melts Graphics Cards


The game’s only been out for a few days, and there’s no Steam Workshop support yet, but already the race to see who can make the best “real” map in Civilization VI is on. And the early frontrunner is...taxing.


Gedemon over on Civ Fanatics has released an alpha version of an Earth map that blows right past the game’s largest baked-in size, and places an inordinate strain on your PC in doing so.

“The giant map is already way above the size of the huge map”, Gedemon says, “it may or may not load on your PC (and will take some time to do so), the Ludicrous map is the max map size before the game refuse to load, and will take more than 4-5 minutes to load (or crash). I’d suggest to lower the textures size in the video option, the game use almost all the 6GB of VRAM of my GPU.”


*whistling noise*

The map has been tested over 500 turns with 32 Civs playing. All that content comes at a price, though: load times between turns are around two minutes early in the game, and four minutes later on.

The specs for the PC used for the testing were:

CPU : i7 4770K, RAM: 16GB, GPU : GTX 980 ti

 

Mix, have you been playing much? How is it holding up?

 

I can't believe how terrible the AI is at attacking cities in this one. They get close and then just mill around while I pick them off.

 

This thread has been dead for four years but I just downloaded for iPad if anyone still wants to talk Civ

 

Epic offered it for free awhile back and I enjoyed it a lot. There was a weird multiplayer desync bug that ruined playing with your friends, so I quit.

Apparently that bug was fixed, so I bought it on Steam during the sale a few weeks ago and I've been playing a lot. I figured it's better to just main one civ to learn and I've been using Germany because of the insane multi-city commercial hub/hansa complex they can build. I've only finished a handful of games because I have a tendency to stall out midgame and just start over.

This guy in the Steam comments has guides for like two dozen civs. Scroll down to just above the comment section to see the links https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=957065182

More experienced people could tell you if what he's saying is good or bad, but just a basic picture like this really helped me with the Germany industrial complex thing

 

Also I'm about 80 hours in to the full version, minus the season pass

Unless I'm stupid, I don't think you can look at the map when you're in the World Congress thing, which sucks.

The governor thing is ok but specific in a way I don't really know how to use other than vague stuff like the one who helps you keep cities, the one who rips with city-states, and the one that makes a given city a monster trading hub

 

they have to convert 50+% of the cities in the game to win on that front

unless they're also invading everyone, i don't really care about it. but again, i've only finished a handful of games

 

This is my first Civ game in a long time and it’s taking a while for me to get up to speed. Feels like I always spread myself too thin and don’t have a good idea of where synergies exist

 

I fucking love civ and have a long ass history with it. well, civ 3 long, so could but longer but that's still a lot. i never thought i'd enjoy a civ more than 3, especially after they seemed to "simplify" everything. but civ 6 is now my favorite. its not shallow like civ 5 was, just very streamlined. the dlcs make fantastic additions and the new frontier pass has been one of the best season passes on any game i've played. it didn't really add too many civs (not that i'd ever stop playing kupe) but it added A LOT of really cool gameplay shit.

gonna start a new save today. i always played on easier difficulties due to always getting fucking wrecked early game because i don't like building a huge military but they seem to have changed the early game ai to not irrationally attack everyone constantly.

 

I won a scientific victory over the weekend in an 8 player game, and won a religious victory mostly out of sheer luck (had a tile near my starting settlement with a +8 holy site and of the 3 other players, the two closest to me ignored religion entirely). Both on Prince difficulty as I learn the game, though I am heavily consulting google/reddit as I go along as well, which is probably worth handicapping additionally.

Winning a domination victory seems so overwhelming logistically. Do you just spam production and gold? I don't even know where to start. In my campaigns so far I'm always trying to be everyone's best friend.

 

Kill your neighbors as early as possible. If you can bag at least one in the ancient era it's a nice start because there are no warmongering penalties

 

I swear they set up Cleopatra as a comedy character when she is controlled by the AI. She just talks shit and demands gold constantly

 

I have been going continents lately but am getting sick of it. The transition between fully exploring your continent and getting a foothold in another continent is tiresome.

 

continents, large map, online speed, 12-14 city-states, custom turns to 500 (lol, i rarely get to 150 before starting over)

i'm below average at best, but i play solo or co-op only. co-op civ is great with a decent teammate or two. there was some desync bug that made co-op a chore to play but that seems to have been fixed

 

still being bad. still playing with germany

 

possibly the best quality of life change in the history of games

 

had the best spawn ever for germany earlier. like 4 rivers meeting for maximum commercial hub/hansa abuse. chocolate hills natural wonder in a great spot for my 2nd city. two religious city-states as close neighbors for easy expansion (germany has a crazy attack bonus vs city-states and idgaf about religion in this game). lame science city-state (mitla) for another close neighbor, but worth trading with. mitla also sits in a very important strategic spot

so of course my two closest neighbor civs attack mitla relentlessly from turn 20 onward. i've replayed this shit 5 times and i dont think there is a way save mitla unless i take it myself