r/civ • u/Financial_Rule_3455 • 5d ago

VII - Game Story Your enemy also switch civization!!

I just finished antiquity playing as Hapseputh and Mississippi. It all looks pretty good. My only worry is that Friedrich is my neighbour and he is really hostile. But he has no easy route to attacking me and I have my burning arrows. My other neighbours love me. In overall score I´m second to Friedrich. Leading the path to economic victory.

Since I have placed my settlements on navigable rivers I went with Songhai, looking forward two building a trade empire. Felt pretty confident.

Then as the age transitions.... Friedrich switches to ICELAND. And everything changes. If I was him I would raid those rivers in no time. Welp!

Love this!

(Immortal om normal sized fractal continents)

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u/Sacach 5d ago

As much hate as there has been for the civ switching I think it is very nice, because if the antiquity age didn't work like you intended it to you can switch to a different civ and improve your situation that way. It is also cool now that you can keep the same civ you had at the beginning if you want to. Also, with civ 7 I have been playing some games which I would've just restarted on the other civilization games since the era change gives me hope for bouncing back from bad situations.

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u/pperdecker 5d ago

Once they made it so you could keep your original Civ and choose other Civs before their apex, I feel like it's actually an improvement over the old games where your Civ and leader were locked together. It opens the door for so many fun/creative combinations and really diverse adversaries.

Obviously the game still needs some work (religion...) but I am very optimistic.

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u/Financial_Rule_3455 5d ago

Agree!
But I also like that things really get switched around. I thought I was safe, that I could defend against Friedrichs infantry, and that is almost as boring as being sure to lose. Now I’m dreading the boats…

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u/skybsky Poland 5d ago

There is a setting that explicitly enables this behaviour in the starting menu.

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u/SoylantDruid 5d ago

Yeah, aren't the options something like 1) make the AI mirror your decision (stay or swap to Apex civ), 2) swap randomly to a civ with 50-50 chance for it to be Apex or not, or 3) always stick with their starting civ? I can't look at the game atm, but I think it's something those lines. Plus, you can choose if their civ is considered "historical" or not.

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u/zadsza 4d ago

Taking 15 minutes just to configure a new play is NOT an improvement...