Sid Meier's Civilization Series (Main Titles)

Was an explanation given? It seems like an odd choice, especially since the upgrade policy (100% adjacency to Industrial and Campus zones) is economic (unless they changed that too).

Patch notes.

• Ethiopia and Gran Colombia got a slight buff in that their unique units no longer require resources.
• Earth Goddess got cut in half to 1 Faith.
• Arenas and Ferris Wheels got their Amenities doubled to 2.
• Water Parks have been added to Toronto and Mexico City's regional effects range extension Suzerain bonus.
• The Craftsman Policy Card change wasn't mentioned. EDIT: Nevermind, just saw it's change in Potato Mc Whiskey's stream.

Edited by tclittle on Feb 25th 2021 at 12:42:41 PM

So I'm playing with the new update. It's interesting. I'm going to need to look up the updated trait for Gilgamesh's Epic Quests to make sure my mod uses it properly.

Anyway, I'm finding that it's good to let tribes that are hanging out in inhospitable areas like ice and desert islands form city-states, since they're kind of useless to me as future city sites. I wasn't quite clear what these city-states would be like but they pick from the global pool, so if Yerevan wasn't in the game originally it could pop up later. It does create some interesting gameplay as far as acquiring their bonuses.

By far the most powerful thing, however, is purchasing units from tribes. That is honestly kind of broken. They're cheaper by about half than purchasing the same unit with gold in one of your own cities. It continues to irritate me that Barbarian Horsemen and Barbarian Horse Archers don't upgrade, though. Past the Ancient Era they're mainly good for sacrificing to the volcano gods.

Having Craftsmen move to a Military policy slot is... irritating. It crowds out some of the really good ones like Professional Army, Logistics, and the early game bonuses for scouts and fighting barbarians. The early game Economic policies are fairly weak and this makes them even weaker.

I think the game's a bit confused if you try making a map with City States already in while using the mode, I got normal barbarians my first try. Also some camps can suddenly get stuck at zero civ progress, though that might be due to reaching the city state cap too.

Edited by alekos23 on Feb 27th 2021 at 6:15:57 PM

The Preserve makes it real easy to get Appeal early on unless you are surrounded by rainforest and the Grove building already gives you +1 Faith for Charming and +2 Faith for Breathtaking tiles. With the previous Earth Goddess added on, that's +3 and +4 respectively. Now it's +2 and +3.

Edited by tclittle on Feb 27th 2021 at 12:10:39 PM

Here's something I've noticed. In Barbarian Clans mode, no new barbarians spawn after the beginning of the game. This is irritating since I like to maintain a number of Recon units who run around clearing camps.

Do they not? I’m watching a You Tube let’s play with the mode and a camp has spawned as normal

I imagine there's a limited number that depends on how many city states you have allowed currently.

Steam achievements leak final NFP civ plus give us hints into final mode.

Imgur link to leak.

It's Portugal lead by Joao III plus something to do with zombies.

Edited by tclittle on Mar 9th 2021 at 3:17:23 AM

Not my first choice, I would have preferred the Iroquois or another Native American civ, but it's going to make a lot of people happy so I'm okay with it. Not that I even have a horse in this race, since I only have 3.4 hours in Civ VI and last played six months ago.

But in my heart of hearts, what I really want to see from Civ is a "How Many Countries Can We Get to Ban Us?" civ pack. The Kingdom of Israel, Tibet, Armenia... maybe civs for the Kurds and Basques? But you get the idea, civs that would earn official denunciations from at least one contemporary government as an attack on them.

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Damn, I only just realized that Portugal are only just now becoming a thing in this game. It feels weird, seeing as they're a series mainstay. Albeit often in DLC.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 9th 2021 at 8:24:43 AM

Next developer update on Monday.

• Portugal
  • "Encourages maritime exploration and trade."
• World Wonders
  • Torre de Belém
    • International Trade Routes receive +2 Gold for every Luxury resource at the destination. When Torre de Belém is constructed, cities not on your home continent receive the lowest Production cost building they can currently construct.
    • +5 Gold, +1 Great Admiral Point per turn
    • Must be built adjacent to an Harbor on a Coast tile.
  • Etemenanki
    • +2 Science and +1 Production to all Marsh tiles in your empire. +1 Science and +1 Production to all Floodplains in this city.
    • +2 Science
    • Must be built on Floodplains or Marsh.
• New map script: the Wetlands
  • Dominated by Marshes.
• New game mode: Zombie Defense
  • In this new game mode, the dead rise to wreak havoc on the living! Use new defensive structures to protect your territory, and manipulate zombies to slow your opponents.
  • Every unit slain in combat has a chance to rise as a Zombie.
  • Zombies chase the nearest non-Zombie unit and any unit they kill becomes a Zombie themselves.
  • New mode specific trap and barrier improvements to deal damage to hostile units.
  • New city project: Turn Undead.
    • Upon completion, gain control of the zombies currently within this city's territory. Control lasts 15 turns.
  • New spy mission: Zombie Outbreak
    • Upon completion, has a chance to spawn a Zombie for every tile worked in this city.
• March 25th

Edited by tclittle on Mar 15th 2021 at 10:23:34 AM

That sounds like a really fun game mode.

I kinda wish we could build traps in the main game too, even if the AI cheated around them.

One thing that I saw pointed out while perusing other civ fansites is that the Portugal UU seems to be a Caravel replacement with the same combat strength but greater movement and, uniquely, 2 build charges.

Also, the new map type and new wonder have given an indirect buff to the Lady of the Reeds and Marshes Pantheon.

Edited by tclittle on Mar 15th 2021 at 12:17:36 PM

Do floodplains stop being floodplains if a dam is built?

If you mean Civ 6, then no, they stay as flood plains. I think the reasoning is that the floods are replaced with controlled irrigation. Notably, the flood disaster will still give the surrounding tiles the normal benefit, without the drawbacks of destroying improvements.

Weird, what was that upgrade that made a note about floodplains? Was it Great Bath?

I think it is mentioned in the text for the dam as well.

Ahh wait, it was about not having floods but at the same time losing the benefits of it.

Okay, from what I read here, the dam halves the benefit from flood disasters. They may hae changed it for balance at some point.

That was the original function of the Dam improvement. It eliminates unit and tile damage from floodplains along the river but halves tile fertility gains.

Oh, I misremembered then.