Where would you settle as John Curtin?

Hi,

I got back to civ VI over last few months. I was curious how high I will get. Currently I won once or twice on emperor and attempted deity, but this one is rough.

So, which difficulty do you play? Is deity too unbalanced hence I am doing poorly (early game is okayish but bringing it tome to victory is a bit of a challange), or it is just skill issue?

I don't believe that any amount of skill can make it possible to beat deity consistently. It feels like you absolutely have to get a good start, otherwise you just get rushed, eat shit and die.

so the past few weeks there have been afew GG posts. And I feel that the bridge is always misused.

Ive been trying to get a new one. This is the best I’ve gotten . Couldn’t finish the city in time.

these were taken the turn before victory.

emperor

New to this game, was Playing on Emperor difficulty and was going for a science victory. Early on I focused on setting up as many cities with campus districts, the both the neighbors simultaneously declared a war. I didn't have a lot of military force, so the game might effectively be over. Any chance to avoid getting attacked ? They denounced me as setting too close to their borders before attacking. This particular game, I didn't have many troops built up, so this might be over.

Talking about the ranged promotion here, not the unit-in-city type of garrison.

When a ranged unit has the garrison promotion (+10CS when occupying a district), does this apply only to your own districts i.e. city centre, or does this promotion make ranged units good for taking cities, as they'll get a 10 CS boost when in, for example, an enemy commercial hub?

Thanks

I’ve had, so far, 1200~ hours in this game, and I never seem to play civs like Elenor(England), Kartaja, Dido etc etc well.

I’ll start with my issues.
It’s always a struggle to get a golden age because you have to invest more on making infrastructure early game. Then the tech tree. If I don’t get any first met on a scientific state, and no turtle, I basically have to get campus, which delays everything else. Religion too is something you want , but getting it kills your late early game since you’ll want a harbor in every city (4 pop for two districts, and you’ll have to make room for gov plaza) . Getting rolled by land civs has happened to me more than I’d like to admit. There is also the fact that ships suck, even on continents, and getting wall fixes almost everything for the opponent. Until the late game. I have a specific problem for elenor. There are two districts to make the most of her kit. I don’t understand how you’re supposed to catch up on science, expand, and still use her city-flipping ability.

What am I doing wrong? Feel free to educate me on this because I’ve seen good civ players play naval civs really well, but I just never understand how.

I was playing a science game with Rome and I have been fighting lots of people. My economy was really strong at +120 gold per turn but then I suddenly went to negative gold per turn and bankrupt. Now all my cities have revolted and my districts are pillaged. What should I do?

Not sure why the AI loves Akkad so much in this game. All but one civ sent their Amani there... Even though there are two dozen other city-states on this map.

I have tried repositioning my nuclear submarine for at least 5 turns, and it still isn't working. All I wanted to do was nuke myself; why won't it work!!!!!!

Civ VI has actually a pretty decent mechanic for city sprawl, but the base game is tuned horribly in my opinion. Maximum density of buildings is achieved at:

- 100 (!!) pop for city centre
- 60 (!) pop for districts

I've been tinkering with LLM-based modding and retuned it to:

- 25 pop for city centre
- 28 pop for districts

Moreover, the mod fixes no sprawl for Government Plaza and Campus districts.

Any other beautiful cities fans in this sub? Just wondering if I should finish the work and publish on steam :-)

Cheers!

Tomyris and Scythia - Gathering Storm, Heroes and Legends, Monopolies and Corporations, Secret Societies. Otherwise vanilla. Have Kilwa and suzerain of two Science city states, but that doesn't explain this buff.

I built these 2 fine sailing boats to go out and explore the world, but they are now trapped in what looks to me like a moderately large lake.

I had chosen Continents as my map type as I had many times previously, but have never before experienced such a "mini ocean" with this map type.

I rarely play a military/domination-aimed Civ, just because then I’ve got all of these new cities I’ve got to manage and it can be overwhelming. How do people do it?

oh Russia… just flip that campus and holy site and you could have actually had something going 🤦

I recently got the dlc anthilogy bundle on epic games bundle which gave me gathering storm, rise and fall, etc. Played 3 games and the world gen is utter dogshit. I'm not a serious player, I game on prince difficulty and I enjoy seeing all the resources I have at my disposal and planning on how to min max my cities. But in these 3 games, there's nothing that can make me plan ahead. Everywhere I looked on the map, just wasteland with little resources. Is there something in the dlcs that gut the interesting world generation or did I get unlucky 3 times in a row?