Kibbles n Shits posted:

Fortunately in Civ 6 your battleships will never have to face anything but spearmen! Revenge is sweet.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

So do you really have to use a build charge just to remove a pillaged improvement and then have to use another build charge to put it back up

comatose posted:

Another trip report from a game I started yesterday:
Very early game I meet America as the first and only civ.
Teddy declares war on me about 5 turns later.
After a whole bunch of running around I mop up his little army.
He requests peace saying he was just testing me and I accept because I have no idea where any of his cities are and I would like to actually build some poo poo other than military units this game. Plus I get some gold/luxury resources out of it.
Couple of turns later he wants to be friends. Sure Teddy, no probs.
Shortly after he declares war on me again with a much bigger army this time.
Exit to windows.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

So do you really have to use a build charge just to remove a pillaged improvement and then have to use another build charge to put it back up

Speedball posted:

Hahahaha. The Brows Held High guy did an amazing "What is Civilization" video that was really really well-made, but even included a few moments of humor, like showing off a battle in Civ IV where a spearman takes down a tank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIEKI-MWQ94

The Shortest Path posted:

That video did a great job of showcasing how horribly whitewashed Civ's take on history is.

The Shortest Path posted:

That video did a great job of showcasing how horribly whitewashed Civ's take on history is.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

So do you really have to use a build charge just to remove a pillaged improvement and then have to use another build charge to put it back up

Khagan posted:

Any tips on how you get the 5 eureka and/or inspirations boosts in a turn cheevo?

The Human Crouton posted:

I think that every person who ever lived should be their own civilization. That is the only fair way to do it.

Hammerstein posted:

Only noticed this now....



Seriously....?

Hammerstein posted:

Only noticed this now....



Seriously....?

Away all Goats posted:

A true American patriot.

The Shortest Path posted:

Which kind of great person is he? I assume scientist.

And I mean, regardless of his former political affiliation he was a great scientist.

The Shortest Path posted:

Which kind of great person is he? I assume scientist.

And I mean, regardless of his former political affiliation he was a great scientist.

Hammerstein posted:

Now let's add Goebbels as a Great Writer, Mengele as Great Scientist and Sepp Dietrich as Great General please.....

Hammerstein posted:

Great Engineer...

Krazyface posted:

Not to whitewash von Braun here, but the previous game had Genghis Khan as the glorious leader of a noble people.

Olive Branch posted:

The UI REALLY doesn't like you in this game. Check for the little wrench icon on top of the lower right window, near the move to, sleep, etc. actions when you send a worker into a pillaged area.

Lurdiak posted:

So is the game any good?

Clarste posted:

There's a "repair" button that doesn't use up a charge.

greazeball posted:

I have a new favourite UI glitch that I found last night: if you hide the science and policy displays in the world tracker at the top left of your screen, it shows a window telling you that it's not displaying any information in this space so it doesn't actually free up any screen real estate

Comstar posted:

jBrereton posted:

It is not, no.

Here are many reasons for why it is not good:

- The faction balance is terrible.

- The AI is unforgivably bad at literally all of the mechanics. Even giving it extra settlers and units to start with does not help.

- The AI is also incredibly pushy, but given that it is so inept at warfare on every difficulty, this is just annoying.

- Related to the above, too much diplomacy involves time-wasting animations

- There is no 'confirm' button on going to war with someone by accidentally clicking the Declare War button versus Whatever button in response to their dumbass complaint about troops near their territory, with a slightly laggy interface.

- Too many units are gated behind strategic resources. City states often cannot upgrade their literal bowmen and spears for the whole game because they don't have iron or niter. Your battleships cannot run on oil or coal, just coal, which is on a completely different tech path.

- Since City States are usually a pisstake to destroy because their units are bad and their city strength is not high, the Suzerain system only works for city states you actually want, that lie very securely inside your borders, and that you can keep control of easily with envoys. Otherwise anyone can just take them over by force with a couple of units.

- On the subject of units, if you like to click fast, you will hate the automatic (and laggy) unit cycling you can't turn off that will end in dragging move orders halfway over the map at least once per game.

- If you like to click slowly, you will lose every multiplayer game with simultaneous turns.

- There's no Sentry command, despite barbarians being more impactful and units being broadly faster, so you really have to go around every single city just checking there's nobody about kill your workers/improvements.

- Making your cities shoot things is actually quite awkward and needs a just-right level of zoom. It also sometimes doesn't happen because their code, like Jeb!, is a mess.

- There's stupid notifications about things you often can't do anything about (or that it is only very inefficient to do anything about) that appear nearly constantly and clart up your sidebar.

- There are no build queues in a game where ICS is by a long way the most optimal strategy. This is apparently to make turns resolve faster. Having to go around my entire empire every couple of turns does not feel fast.

- You can't even infinitely build research/culture/gold anymore, and the game doesn't tell you how much doing the barracks type Make Gold + GPP For Some Turns command makes versus the bank type Make Gold + GPP for Some Turns command.

- The game also doesn't tell you that disbanding units in your territory a) makes money, which it does, and consequently b) how much money it makes, which can be a lot.

- 2 of the victory conditions are hot garbage mechanically:

- For the Tourist victory, nowhere in the Civilopedia or in the Victory part of the interface are you told what a Tourist even is, what specifically attracts them away from home, if domestic tourists who go abroad can ever be lured back, how many turns it will take to win a tourist victory with your current output, or if you even can win a tourist victory with your current cultural output.

- Religious victories can only ever be won by slightly more than 50% of players, and the much touted Religious Combat is just regular combat but with less tactics. Mash units into each other forever for sick prizes, PS picker of the best religious combat trait wins. If you don't have 2 foreign religions in your land, you cannot expel religions from your own cities if you did not found one.

Lurdiak posted:

So is the game any good?

lalaland posted:

I already uninstalled this game, which in its current state is poo poo. Buy it in a few months on a sale if you must have it.

Asproigerosis posted:

All paradox needs to do to fix this game is bring back slaves and whipping.

Asproigerosis posted:

All paradox needs to do to fix this game is bring back slaves and whipping.

Asproigerosis posted:

All paradox needs to do to fix this game is bring back slaves and whipping.

Chalks posted:

Out of interest, how many hours did you play it for vs how many hours of civ 5 before uninstalling? IMO 6 is in a better state than 5 despite every single issue on that guy's list being entirely true.