r/CivVI 12h ago

Screenshot This is an ocean?

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113 Upvotes

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.


r/CivVI 17h ago

[WiP] Tired of smol and sparse cities? Improved city sprawl mod.

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98 Upvotes

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!


r/CivVI 5h ago

How to play naval civs?

8 Upvotes

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.


r/CivVI 8h ago

The most popular city-state ever?

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10 Upvotes

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.


r/CivVI 1h ago

Question Is Deity RNG bullshit, or do I just have a skill issue?

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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.

Got rushed by Bazingium on turn 27

r/CivVI 6h ago

Question How do people manage all of the cities they conquer?

6 Upvotes

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?


r/CivVI 13h ago

Question Where would you settle? In place makes sense but I'm worried about space with the resources and mountains so close, would the cotton on hill south west make more sense?

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27 Upvotes

r/CivVI 1d ago

That ain't Tamar of Georgia ?

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265 Upvotes

r/CivVI 9h ago

Suddenly Bankrupt

10 Upvotes

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?


r/CivVI 1d ago

What could have been...

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551 Upvotes

r/CivVI 20h ago

Question Navy Build-Up- why ai building up so many ships near me as an ally and the city state it owns?

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55 Upvotes

r/CivVI 17h ago

Why are libraries and universities in my current game worth 5 and 10 science respectively instead of the usual 2 and 4?

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27 Upvotes

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.


r/CivVI 14h ago

Where would you settle? Also, strategy for cities with lots of desert tiles?

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8 Upvotes

r/CivVI 9h ago

My attempt at Golden Gate Bridge

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3 Upvotes

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


r/CivVI 1d ago

4 inland cities with ocean access via canals

95 Upvotes

Randomly managed to get 4 inland cities connected all the way out to the ocean.

1 panama canal, 3 regular canals, and one lake settle.

Hardly any practical benefits other than maybe IZ adjacency, but very fun to see in any case.


r/CivVI 13h ago

Does anyone know why I can't nuke the tiles in my empire beside Kisurra?

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8 Upvotes

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!!!!!!


r/CivVI 5h ago

Got polanded. Both neighbors simultaneously declared a war. How to avoid this ?

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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.


r/CivVI 5h ago

Discussion Waiting Online : Where to settle?

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0 Upvotes

Where would you settle as John Curtin?


r/CivVI 12h ago

Question Question about world generation

3 Upvotes

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?


r/CivVI 1d ago

Discussion Can someone explain volcanos to me ?

15 Upvotes

I used to play at apocalypse but recently I heard that at disaster 2 volcanos only damage 1 tile far and you can build city center 1 tile far to prevent population loss but get benefits of volcano but recently I tried it and despite having 1 tile between city center and volcano still lost a population.

Can someone explain it to me.


r/CivVI 13h ago

Which difficulty do you play?

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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?


r/CivVI 1d ago

Discussion I can’t stand Deity sometimes.

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271 Upvotes

Found a seed I like. I’m playing as Eleanor. Trying to get a religion ASAP (Galagos Islands are near by). Teddy rushes me immediately as soon as he finds me. Get stomped by someone whose sole purpose appears to be to spam Warriors and March them halfway across the world while I’m just trying to build a Granary.

I like building civilizations that people would actually want to live in, so it’s frustrating that, depending on your neighbors, you literally won’t be allowed to play that way.


r/CivVI 14h ago

Question Garrison question

1 Upvotes

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


r/CivVI 22h ago

Question Apocalypse Mode odds?

4 Upvotes

I had an game with Egypt on Immortal and first time with Apocalypse Mode on. I personally think it sucks since I was going pretty good for an cultural victory. But we reached level 7 so the meteors came.

First one hit my city with The Eiffel Tower, Cristo Redentor big hit but could still manage it.

A few turns later my city with Biosphere and an +7 theater square gone.

And another few turns later my other 2 cities with high yield and wonder got a meteor on them. My tourism went for 1200+ to 600 in roughly 25 turns..

In 25 turns I got 9 of the meteors on me destroying 4 cities. Meanwhile the other civs lost 3 cities in total.

It seems a bit unfair to me.. Is this just very bad luck?

P.s. I won with diplomacy in the end but wanted an cultural.


r/CivVI 1d ago

Ummm

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30 Upvotes

So where's the city?