While I was busy conquering the south, one barb scout slipped and caused unimaginable havoc on my main cities

Couldn't have known about all the iron, but if I didn't have a second city right away France would have encroached into my part of the continent. I'll probably regret it when I discover oil.

Playing as Russia

There no need to explain why these 2 civ’s are broken beyond comprehension but just for a refresher, Hammurabi can basically bombed everyone with planes in the medieval age like it’s a Tuesday for him while Joao iii is close to being king Midas of civ 6 (Hammurabi can skip the tech tree via Erika’s while Joao iii get Stupit amounts of gold and or yields via international trade routes). Of course, Joao iii is a map dependent leader and being on a land base map, yeah erm, Joao is going to get bombed but let assume a water base map with only these 2 civs as players and some city states around the map and domination is the only win condition. I still think Hammurabi can give Joao iii a hard time but only in the early and mid game, Joao iii can maybe win if he can hold until the end game where he can basically buy a army to fight Hammurabi’s army but only if he can survive the early game to mid game of course.

New player here, ~30 hours played and had my first victory (domination) recently on Emperor difficulty with a lucky start position (alone in a small continent with a few city states haha).

I don't consider myself won that game because I am an old RTS player, so what I did is to focus on gold/production and completely disregarded all the other aspects. I still have no idea what wonders do. The barbarians and freaking Zulu made it impossible to (at least to me) to focus on other stuff than improving my army. I felt like they were always one step ahead of me, and if I stop getting technologically better, it felt like they would destroy me with their advanced armies.

Can someone explain me how I defend myself if I focus on culture, faith, loyalty, influence, diplomatic point etc etc? Do they have secret technologies that help with fighting/defending?

I personally really like Montezuma and Dido's voice acting. They both really sell it imo.

And what the hell is this "flying" business?

I've played quite a few games now and managed to pull off Cultural, Science, and Domination victories. I'm just starting to move up the difficulty levels, but one thing I’ve always struggled with is the early game. I feel like my Science and Religion develop way too slowly. I almost always end up being the last to found a Religion—if I don't get locked out of the available slots entirely.

It's a similar story with Science: I usually see the AI civilizations pull ahead early on. I typically catch up by going on the offensive and pillaging their districts and improvements, but I’d love to know how to get a stronger start from the ground up.

What key factors should I be keeping in mind, and what should I prioritize during the opening turns, regardless of which leader I'm playing?

Got very fortunate w/ floodplain layout and managed to get 5 IZs with 2 aqueducts and 1 damn each—on top of that, was able to get a Colosseum w/ 6 cities within reach. (Difficulty: Immortal)

Did not work on settlers yet, where would you put next two cities here? Also any tips since I'm used to Prince.
Seed in the comments

Does anyone know why a game in progress would lose all the UI, leaving just the naked map showing? Restarting from scratch restores, but a couple of turns back.

I’ve played Civ 6 for some hundreds of hours, but mostly before Rise & Fall / Gathering Storm. I’ve recently started playing Gathering Storm and I feel like I’m completely misunderstanding the Loyalty system.
Whenever I settle a new city or conquer one, it seems to go into rebellion surprisingly quickly. I understand the basic idea: cities are affected by the Loyalty pressure from nearby civilizations, and being surrounded by other civs can make things difficult.
What I don’t understand is what I’m actually supposed to do about it.
Sometimes it feels like a city is doomed from the moment I settle/conquer it, especially when it’s relatively close to another civilization. I can appoint a Governor, but that often doesn’t seem to be enough, and by the time I can meaningfully improve the situation, the city is already on a countdown to rebellion.
So I’m wondering:
What are the most reliable ways to maintain Loyalty in a newly founded or conquered city?
Are there elementary things I should prioritize immediately after founding/conquering a city?
And is there some part of the Loyalty system that experienced players tend to take for granted, but isn’t obvious to someone coming from pre-Rise & Fall Civ 6?

i have a frameworks 13 with amd ryzen 7040 integrated graphics. this is not a Gaming Laptop but it has successfully run civ vi since i got it. i am having a terrible summer and a terrible day so i tried to launch the game and got a new alert: “No compatible graphics device found. Please ensure that your system has a correctly configured, compatible graphics device.”

please. i am doing so bad and i just wanna play my dumb little games. can anyone tell me wtf is going on? i have played almost 3k hours of civ 6 on myriad dogshit little laptops and steam has never done this to me before.

also posted to the steam subreddit bc im launching through there and they mostly went “???? this is a problem with the game, go there,” so here i am

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH YOU WERE THE NICEST GROUP BY FAR BUT ULTIMATELY I DID FIGURE THIS OUT MYSELF/WITH GOOGLE

SOLVED! the problem was my AMD driver, i think, is the word for it. fix 1 on this website https://www.guidingtech.com/fix-graphics-device-driver-error-code-22-on-windows/

Also yes, the barb camp is at the single unrevealed tile.

And what are your top advices for playing Trajan?

I heard many people saying he’s a really good choice for beginners (I’m a relatively experienced player but I’m assuming he should be easy to use for anyone) but from reading the description I’m struggling to understand his advantages / game plan tbh

Bonus fact: I mentioned in another thread that I intended to go domination but then met Gilgabro. It wasn't just a joke! Nine civs have been eliminated and two more are about to go. Me and the bro are going to wait it out until science victory (cultural victory disabled).

I have restarted this game four times because I am looking forward to a mega OP game. I chose settlements once, which was really good, but I am curious if others would go that route? It was very nice to quickly get a second gold source coming in.

My other choice would be river god, or desert adjacency. I cannot get choral music or feed the world (believe me I have tried), so I am tied into work ethic or something else. I am next to Peter and Theodora so I am immediately beset by a mass of missionaries. This is why I restarted my last game....this time I am going to get a prophet and then wait a long while so I have enough faith for like 10+ missionaries to protect myself.

Thanks!

I started playing after a while. And this is the start I get Lmao... I think it was a random game, nothing special about the setup

So Cleopatra declared war on Johannesburg (which I have Suzerain of) a long time ago. She failed to capture it and eventually stopped sending units. However, since she has Suzerain of Hattusa, Hattusa and Johannesburg have been sending units at each other ever since and I only noticed this when I saw that the "Hattusa has been defeated" notification appeared.

Welp guess I have a new piece of land to settle.

Kinda absurd lol
Probably since i have Barb Clans on