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Anonymous11/08/25, 17:29No.2218452Civilization thread
I know I'm late, but I finally tried Civ VI with all its DLCs, holy moly the downgrade.
Civ V(anilla) still invictus.
Not only it's more tedious, but the DLCs don't add anything fun, immersive (they just unnecessarily overcomplicate things for the sake of it, to make you waste more time while trying to trick into thinking the game is more deep when it's not) and the artstyle is kinda shit.
At some moment it becomes good, fun or I need overhaul mods?
Is Civ VII worth it?
PD: when the gameplay (specially the combat) is going to be like in the cinematic trailers (massive cities, massive armies, massive world to 4X'd)?
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Anon11/08/25, 17:43No.2218485
>Not only it's more tedious, but the DLCs don't add anything fun, immersive (they just unnecessarily overcomplicate things
Electricity, Climate & Ages are fun and immersive.Governors suck as a mechanic though.
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Anon11/08/25, 17:46No.2218494
>Is Civ VII worth it?
No it's way worse than 6.
The new mechanics are all terrible, the 'balancing' basically makes every single game the exact same.
The city sprawl problem from 6 is massively exacerbated with there not even being workers/builders.
The Aztecs aren't playable yet.I really didn't like 6 just from the artstyle and the changes to movement.
I also don't care for that game's district system and the cultural policy cards. Too much micro.I say you need to buy the DLCs for 5, vanilla is such a bad way to experience that game.
Maybe consider trying 4?
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Anon11/08/25, 18:27No.2218609
Luv me BNW.
Luv me Ottos.
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Anon11/08/25, 18:29No.2218620
>Civ thread
>Only discuss zoomer editions
Take a coin and make a coin toss between Civ2UIA and Civ 3
>when the gameplay (specially the combat) is going to be like in the cinematic trailers (massive cities, massive armies, massive world to 4X'd)?
Hopefully never
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Anon11/08/25, 20:18No.2219113
>the DLCs don't add anything fun, immersive (they just unnecessarily overcomplicate things for the sake of it, to make you waste more time while trying to trick into thinking the game is more deep when it's not)
but midwits love that stuff, it's why civ 6 sold so well.
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Anon11/08/25, 21:47No.2219425
Is Civ III worth playing in the year of our lord 2025? My entry to the series was Civ IV for context and I've spent a good amount of time in both IV and V
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Anon11/09/25, 00:58No.2219914
if you are not an history flavor maniac, you should try Endless Legend far better implementation of most civ 5 and 6 mechanics.plus you gets doomstacks for movement and 1upt for combat
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Anon11/10/25, 01:29No.2223466
I’ve tried so hard to like civ6 over the years. Somehow I have vastly more hours in it than civ5, despite enjoying civ5 way more. That’s how much I’ve tried. Everytime I think I’m getting into it my brain and eyes just get exhausted with the stupid art style. I’ll play as Canada and get to the late game and realize how immersion breaking it is to have hockey rinks on every other tile. Then I remember how civ3, my all time favorite did things.Yeah. I can respect civ6 for trying to innovate certain mechanics, but over all it’s a way gayer experience than civ5. My only complaints about civ5 were tall vs wide balance (it was cool to see them make tiny civs viable, but obviously it swung too far in that direction) and city combat/occupation mechanics. Puppet cities would have been cool in a game like civ3 but in 5 they just suck. The other major issue is the scaling, and how there is usually still unclaimed land well into the late game. Very immersion breaking. But civ6 didn’t really address any of these issues and just made things gayer.>inb4 it’s a board game nowYeah, it didn’t used to be and it’s fucking gay they turned it into one.
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Anon11/10/25, 02:02No.2223528
Just make civ 5-II
Making videogames is not hard. Just stop fucking up and don't listen to women.
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Anon11/10/25, 04:13No.2223852
Any good modpacks or modlists for Civ V?
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Anon11/10/25, 06:10No.2224080
Put this shit on PC Firaxis. It's better than VII
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Anon11/10/25, 12:23No.2224691
>Honestly, Civ could be so create if it was an actual autistic simulator in terms of diplomacy, cultural / tech development, economics, warfare
EU5. Go play that. Civ is a multiplayer game, not a sim.
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Anon11/10/25, 13:23No.2224954
I wouldn't call it good but it was a competent consolization of the civ formula. It was simple but fun.
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Anon11/11/25, 11:57No.2228299
Civ 2 Gold is still the best edition
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Anon11/19/25, 22:12No.2249900
Did the games before Civ IV lack a tutorial? Pirated most of them and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do until I got to Civ IV.
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Anon11/20/25, 18:19No.2251173
go back to Civ IV and play all the mods.
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Anon11/22/25, 03:16No.2254051
is Civ 3 worth my time? only ever played IV and V
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Anon11/22/25, 18:42No.2255093
Is way better than V lmfaoIn V you literally settle 4 cities and do nothing, in VI you can and need to have a shitload of cities to win
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Anon11/22/25, 19:22No.2255178
Picked up VII for the first time since launch. Noticed some welcome UI changes but the map variety and generation still leave so much to be desired. Continents are still the same rectangular blocks. I found myself just auto-piloting through my turns without much thought or consideration over my decisions. I felt overwhelmed by the amount of choices in buildings and research, yet it all feels like it doesn't really matter either. Planning out a city also still doesn't feel as intuitive or rewarding as it did in VI.
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Anon11/25/25, 01:43No.2260325
Is there a mod that removes the civ7 ad from the civ6 menu?
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Anon11/25/25, 04:42No.2260557
What are the Revolution games about
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Anon11/25/25, 05:06No.2260590
nah VI > V
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Anon11/25/25, 18:59No.2261724
Civ 6 is a great game you just need to treat it like a city sim and pretend the religion and domination victories don't exist. Sim citying giga yield maps with 20 pop cities is extremely satisfying
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Anon11/25/25, 22:29No.2262110
Anyone recognize what type of modded map script this might be?I can't seem to recreate it with the Got Lakes mod, so might not be from that mod.
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Anon11/26/25, 03:36No.2262654
how is Civ IV Colonization?
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Anon11/26/25, 03:46No.2262679
Well I'm down to trying out the original Colonization, Civ IV Colonization, Imperialism I, or Imperialism II
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Anon11/29/25, 18:11No.2269566
The world conference, artstyle, pacing of the ages and governor mechanic from civ 6 are all shit.
But everything else is a straight upgrade from 5.
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Anon11/30/25, 20:39No.2271810
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Anon12/04/25, 20:09No.2279627
Wat do u think ur ruler does when you're just completely assraping in a game?
Like whenever I'm owning in a game as Isabella I like to imagine if I were her I'd be getting dicked every other night to take the load off of running the world's greatest empire.
Like I'm not gay or anything but if I were a ruler that's what I'd do
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Anon12/05/25, 15:36No.2281221
>conquer english city as phoenicia
>we both have unique harbor districts
>harbor disappears when the city gets conquered
Is this just because we both have unique versions of the district?
Googling suggest that it should convert to your type of harbor.
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Anon12/06/25, 11:24No.2282918
How many games did Sid Meier actually worked on? I heard he quit in one of the earlier games
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Anon12/11/25, 15:30No.2292118
Sid Meier appeared in Civ IV's tutorial, not sure if it's his actual voice
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Anon12/11/25, 17:57No.2292300
You can go wide on deity in 5, but it's only really viable (in terms of consistency, efficiency and replicability) with Ethiopia, and you want to keep your empire tight, not spread out. Large land mass isn't the point, the number of cities is.Anyway, there are two optimal strategies for deity in 5. Turtling or killing. For turtling, you can do the meta 4 city tradition science victory, but you can also do stuff like 3 city piety diplomatic victory (with civs that have a faith bonus or building). Both are reliable. When it comes to killing, liberty and honor are objectively superior. Liberty has double healing with pyramids, which shits all over tradition for war all day, every day. Liberty is not "just" a wide policy tree. It's way better for war and maintaining new land that you conquer. So what about honor (because it has no double healing like liberty). Honor is viably only meant for like 4-5 civs; civs that don't need double healing... so, the Huns, Mongolia, China. Add the Zulus because the total XP bonus is insane and you'll have so many ranged-logistics units. It's OK that honor is only designed for very few civs in mind; not every policy tree has to be be 100% compatible with everything.
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Anon12/13/25, 22:10No.2295920
Lol at OP pic. I had spent some time looking around and in logs when I noticed my worker is not there, like, what happened, there are no barbs around, the money are positive, where the fuck did he go.
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Anon12/14/25, 06:51No.2296346
>Civ V(anilla) still invictus
This but with the DLC. 5 is the best Civ game, simple as.
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Anon12/14/25, 17:14No.2296714
Is Civ V and VI what most people play these days? Civ IV seems to be the "gold standard" but I never saw it that high on the steam charts.
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Anon12/15/25, 04:55No.2297267
>download mod
>try to reverse engineer it
>delete a part I don't like
>works
>realize a prior issue in the original mod
>don't understand it
>delete half of the mod to test what happens
>nothing happens
>delete other half
>somehow still works with an empty sql and lua file
civ6 and the 3 different locations it uses for storing mods makes it tedious to edit and test stuff
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Anon12/15/25, 16:10No.2297661
fuck it. I've been chasing that other Great Amazing 4X game to play and I just cannot find it. Civ IV is the answer.
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Anon12/15/25, 21:04No.2298116
Anyone else prefer vanilla Civ4 to BTS?>homogenous art style
>no espionage (tedious and I never bother with it in BTS)
>no corporations (tedious and I never bother with it in BTS)
>no vassalage (way too overpowered and makes conquest too easy)
>minimal ooga booga civilizations
>no useless protective trait
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Anon12/15/25, 21:29No.2298150
I just want to use WASD to move the camera around in Civ IV - is this possible?
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Anon12/15/25, 22:41No.2298239
civ4's lead designer was Soren Johnson, while BTS was headed by Jon Shafer, who also fucked up civ5, and by extension laid the groundwork for the failures of 6 and 7
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Anon12/16/25, 03:36No.2298464
Should I read Brave New World (novel) before playing BNW
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Anon12/16/25, 18:55No.2299193
christ I don't know if I should reinstall Civ IV or Civ V at this point - thoughts?
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Anon12/16/25, 19:27No.2299223
Is there a history of them stealing features from mods? Like age switching from humankind and districts from endless legend
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Anon12/17/25, 03:39No.2299639
for Civ V should I start with Vanilla or jump straight into the Complete version
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Anon12/17/25, 05:21No.2299674
Civ 3 is the best civ, and how a game release DOES matter.
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Anon12/25/25, 19:00No.2307894
The Civ 5 Scramble for Africa scenario is fun as hell. I'm playing it as Belgium in the Congo and it's pure kino.
What are your favorite scenarios bros?
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Anon12/26/25, 01:48No.2308208
The +15% growth from completing Tradition isn't that great. It's not added to total food. The free instant aqueducts are what's so good.
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Anon12/26/25, 05:16No.2308277
Which civ's game music did you prefer? civ v and vi both used folk music but the latter is more authentic and the former is heavily edited if you compared it to the original.
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Anon12/28/25, 16:19No.2310173
the answer truly is Civ V with all DLCs and Vox Pop. this is The 4x Game
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Anon12/29/25, 01:09No.2310661
4 city Tradition is the easiest and safest way to play Deity. But if you're good at war, you can get a way faster victory with Liberty or Honor.
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Anon12/30/25, 14:06No.2311603
What is the best civ game if you hate fighting and just want to develop your civ and go for other victories?
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Anon12/30/25, 14:13No.2311606
Is anything besides Vox Populi worth playing? Once you've faced semi-competent AI you can't really go back.
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Anon12/30/25, 17:35No.2311778
4 is the only good civ game t bh5 blows
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Anon01/01/26, 10:19No.2313113
They should have released a leader pass for Civ V like VI. People still played it while Civ VII have dropped to third place.
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Anon01/02/26, 16:40No.2314017
spending my friday off work trying out Civ V, it has been probably 8 years since I played it. any overall tips? Playing as Washington.
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Anon01/03/26, 04:58No.2314403
>Randomly decided to try Civ 4 Beyond the Sword after finishing a Civ 5 VP playthrough
What the fuck, there's barely any info on the UI, it's so fucking sparse
I zoom in on Frankfurt and I see fart gas and flies, I assume it has some sort of plague but I can't mouse over the icons and I can't find shit going into the city screen
The military advisor page is nearly useless to see if you have any idle units
Any mods to fix this barely usable UI?
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Anon01/03/26, 06:19No.2314418
Who are your favorite Civ 5 civs, bros?
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Anon01/03/26, 08:53No.2314465
Me when my neighbor has oil I need.
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Anon01/03/26, 09:26No.2314478
What is the best modmod of FFH2 in Civ IV?
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Anon01/03/26, 16:08No.2314640
Gandhi as a modern leader fits more with the likes of Mao and Stalin in Civ IV. He should been removed since Civ V if they trying to avoid more recent leaders.
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Anon01/04/26, 03:39No.2314995
desert island 4x: is it gonna be Civ IV BTS or Civ V Vox Pop or Old World?
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Anon01/04/26, 16:44No.2315220
onto trying out Civ IV now. now granted I'm sure this is because I played on a lower difficulty, but Civ V felt too static and not lively with respect to the Diplomacy. I never felt like I was interacting with the Civ V civs. I want to play a game where I'm buying off Gandhi to take down Henry VIII, only for Gandhi to eventually try to take me down. maybe this is possible in Civ IV. (oh and I wish in-game music would start immediately! I have to wait to discover the Music tech?)
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Anon01/07/26, 16:20No.2317220
I'm playing Ottomans right now and I'm digging them. I'm on a small continents map because I like navies, and prize ships on every melee ship is a lot of fun. Not to mention the janissary that keeps its promotions. Sipahi is okay I guess, doesn't do it for me like the other shit.
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Anon01/07/26, 21:07No.2317390
just what DOES Vox Populi change with Civ V? should I just install it and dive right in?
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Anon01/09/26, 08:07No.2318311
What difficulty do you guys play on? I've raped my last few games on king and think maybe it's time to bump it up again.
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Anon01/09/26, 23:18No.2318720
Civ 5's default map size is small, not standard. Small has a normal technology cost modifier (1.0). Standard doesn't (1.1). If you're having trouble with Deity, try setting the map size to small. It's a good mid point between Immortal and Deity in difficulty. Tradition 3/4 city turtling is still the easiest victory, but you can viably do many other strats that would be harder on a larger map. Small is the most balanced map size and most likely what the developers balanced the game around.
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Anon01/10/26, 21:21No.2319297
Time to recreate the roman empire boarders as Caesar once again. Wish me luck lads.
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Anon01/11/26, 01:59No.2319462
>Loads up Beyond Earth and hopes nobody notices.
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Anon01/15/26, 15:03No.2322052
Anybody else ever played America and founded Judaism?
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Anon01/16/26, 00:44No.2322373
I can't believe they only added religious victory in Civ VI. I wished they were in IV or V.
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Anon01/16/26, 20:22No.2322734
this has to be some of the most dogshit land I've seen in a while
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Anon01/16/26, 20:48No.2322748
>Civ 4
If you like strategy.>Civ 5
If you like tactics.>Civ 6
If you like SimCity.
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Anon01/16/26, 20:56No.2322755
>Civ 2
If you like strategy
>Civ 3
If you like strategy with immersion
>Civ 4
If you like the aesthetics of strategy, but not the application of it
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Anon01/16/26, 22:59No.2322837
nippon is prospering.... where should i put my colony?
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Anon01/17/26, 04:10No.2322937
civ6 ost still mogs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZA7ARptg0M
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Anon01/17/26, 04:24No.2322940
I fucking hate how Civ 6 empires end up looking. All this disgusting urban sprawl everywhere from districts and wonders.
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Anon01/17/26, 09:21No.2323006
Ingerland has been deathwarring Assyria all game so I'm going to try to pick them off, they've been denounced by everyone so hopefully this won't kill my diplo.
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Anon01/17/26, 09:36No.2323009
Lost a bunch of units but it was worth it
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Anon01/17/26, 10:10No.2323027
Didn't road have a maintenance cost and no tile bonus in V? I only played it once, and nearly got broke because I was building everywhere like in the older ones.
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Anon01/17/26, 10:34No.2323049
big brain time, i was going to settle anothe city for the spices/truffles but instead once I get my settler back im going to settle a canal west of the horses, opening up access to assyria's capital
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Anon01/17/26, 10:54No.2323056
consumable workers was some of the dumbest shit they had in 6
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Anon01/17/26, 12:08No.2323073
the special military operation is complete
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Anon01/18/26, 00:05No.2323378
Favorite Civ 3 civs?Favorite Civ 4 civs?Favorite Civ 5 civs?Favorite Civ 6 civs?
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Anon01/18/26, 09:39No.2323562
Kinda insane that Napoleon isn't in Civ 6.
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Anon01/18/26, 17:42No.2323783
>VP Latest Beta Version: 5.1.1 (January 13, 2026)so whats in it?
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Anon01/20/26, 17:07No.2325145
Man, I wish I could play civ 3 on Linux without the sound being completely busted.
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Anon01/22/26, 02:40No.2325998
Remember that one time Genghis's name appeared in a unique unit even though he's already playable?
https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_historical_figures_in_Civ5#Khans
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Anon01/22/26, 10:14No.2326088
What causes this behavior?
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Anon01/22/26, 11:42No.2326111
Is this the best way to play semi vanilla civ5 with improved AI without installing bloated perma development overhaul VP mod?
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/ackens-minimalistic-balance-for-singleplayer-and-ai-improvements.550671/
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Anon01/22/26, 20:18No.2326335
going back to civ4 after a long time and i still dont like slavery, and i like it even less nowits just way way too powerful and im not really sure what the devs had intended. it makes any high level play feel so gamey in a negative way, youre really just managing food and efficient whip queues first and everything else (save for chopping) a far distant second.5 6 and 7 get a lot of flack for giving an illusion of meaningful choices but im not sure that 4 was immune either.
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Anon01/23/26, 14:28No.2326717
Wiki is wrong and the tooltip in game is a bit misleading.
Contratacion works on other continents than your capitol, while the tooltips specify "original capitol", which implies it wouldn't work with the phoenician ability to move your capitol, but it does work.
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Anon01/23/26, 23:28No.2327073
Is there a way to look at the current state of VP without downloading the entire mod? Is there a wiki that's being maintained?
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Anon01/24/26, 14:11No.2327450
I have tried to get into Civ V.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong every time I fall behind very quickly.
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Anon01/25/26, 06:00No.2327913
>Civ V removed stuff about communism yet Civ VI brings it back anyway
What's even the point
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Anon01/25/26, 06:18No.2327915
Order is literally Communism.
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Anon01/25/26, 08:59No.2327943
So mines are OP in Civ 6 and I should build a lot of mines? So production is king in 6 (like food is king in 4 and 5)?
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Anon01/25/26, 11:02No.2327976
>tfw your favorite historical nation is dogshit in Civ or has playstyle completely different from what you prefer
For me it's Civ3's Portugal, how about you?
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Anon01/25/26, 18:17No.2328129
Firelord Ozai if he was a Civ 6 leader:>Phoenix King (leader ability)
Raiding a district provides great person points in addition to double the normal yields. Razing a city grants a free settler and +5 combat strength for all military units for 10 turns.>Element of Ambition (Civ Ability)
Unlocking a new building or military unit provides +50% production towards it for 10 turns.>Tundra Tank
Replaces the Knight. +1 mobility and +5 combat strength.>Foundry
Replaces the Workshop. Citizens working this Industrial Zone provide an additional 2 production. Volcanoes in this city provide +2 food and + 1 culture to adjacent tiles.
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Anon01/25/26, 19:13No.2328160
Dark Age policy cards are much more fun than regular policy cards
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Anon01/26/26, 00:24No.2328289
What are the ottomans like in the current VP? Could I get a list of their uniques?
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Anon01/26/26, 02:14No.2328322
>>he
Called it. Too much of a bitch to play a landmap. lmao.
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Anon01/26/26, 02:35No.2328330
Attention starved much? So you're shit, big deal. Work on your game a bit and stop being so pathetic.
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Anon01/26/26, 02:46No.2328335
I don't reply to samefagging shitters, I just laugh at them. Cope and seethe.
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Anon01/26/26, 12:00No.2328507
civ3-6 + other firaxis games for 15$ in humble bundle now
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/best-of-humble-bundle-sid-meier-collection?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_threes_tile_index_2_c_bestofhumble_thesidmeiercollection
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Anon01/27/26, 21:04No.2329255
farms
coop game
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Anon01/27/26, 22:49No.2329318
Feels kinda bad that you don't get an upgrade to the holy district adjacency late in the game.
Makes sense I guess that religion becomes less relevant.
Industrial+Campus gets bundled into one, Harbor+Commercial as well.
Theatre card gets an entertainment complex boon.If you could make cards mutually exclusive or at least part of their abilities, it might've been nice to have a holy site/industrial zone card, and a holy site/campus card. Mutually exclusive, because otherwise people would just treat them as another way to get +100% adjacency to industrial.Or bundle it with Simultaneum, which boosts holy site buildings.
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Anon01/28/26, 19:08No.2329870
Is there a dominant meta in Civ 6? I heard that rush markets and send internal trade routes to the Magnus capital is really fucking good.