Is there anyone from Firaxis on this forum? I have an issue with phantom MP play-by-cloud games still being registered on their servers that’s preventing me from hosting new MP PBC games. I haven’t found a way to contact Firaxis to help resolve this issue. I figured the games would eventually time out, but they haven’t.
I made 2K aware of the bug that’s causing these phantom games and they said they forwarded the bug to the dev team (but it still exists). I’m more than happy to work 1-on-1 with a Firaxis employee to resolve this.
Finally picked this up during a sale (minus the last DLC, which didn’t seem to be rated too well anyway), and I’m curious about city spacing and districts - should I be prioritizing standard tile upgrades like mines, farms, etc, or go for districts asap, and second, since you can now buy tiles, how far apart roughly should my cities be?
I find city spacing to be very situational. Sometimes I look and see plenty of tiles for distric finets and resource gathering, so placing a city the minimum 4 tiles away is. Other times, one or both cities will be squished for food gathering, etc. unless I place them 6-6 tiles apart. And then there are those times I choose the location largely based on blocking competitors from an area of the map.
btw, the ability to buy tiles is of limited value. Great if you see a great tile that will really help the city, but you’re going to blow through your gold really fast if do this indiscriminately. Cost scales up with time.
Seems funny to me to be starting this game all these years later. It’s my favorite game and like a blanket from my childhood at this point. Lucky for me a mod I installed stopped Steam from counting hours of game time.
On that note, do subscribe to the “Civ 5 environment skin” as it gives the game a more mature look with better landscapes.
The basic advice above is good. To me the main point is try not to fall into the min/maxing perfect play trap, where you restart 67 times because you don’t like the starting location, rip your hair out thinking of future district adjacency etc. It’s not worth it, the game’s not hard in general, and ‘perfect play’ along with ‘tactics use tactics!!’ will lead to frustrations.
Focus on food to get your cities above 3-4 population, then focus more on production and whatever seems appropriate (harbour, university, etc). Spacing wouldn’t worry about. Plains hills make good City spots.
Thanks for the heads-up about the Environment Skin: Sid Meier’s Civilization V. I did not know it existed and I believe it will improve my Civ6 gaming experience.
After more than a year hiatus, the Civ Youtube channel has been posting small videos again over the last couple of weeks. Makes me awfully suspicious that they’ll be announcing something soon.
Is a ‘Leaders Pass’ really going to amount to much of a draw to bring anyone back or is this more for the fans who’ve stuck with it? I still have Civ VI installed, and probably will always have a Civ game close by, but I’ve not played in a while.
Just a quick look at the steam stats currently and there’s nearly 31,000 current players with a peak of 65,000 players. So I think there’s a bit of a market there, though players might be wary given the mixed views of the Frontier Pass.
According to my own library, the last time I played Civ VI was in October 2020. That was when the Sects were released (Vampires and the Ley Lines etc), but I never tried the heroes part of the game or zombies which started to cross a bit of a line for me. I’m amazed at how long ago that was now, and a little saddened that time has flown by.
I’ll admit, this new DLC might bring me in for a bit given I’ll have a bit of time to play games soon. Depending on pricing though. Like I think new Pokemon game release this week might be what I’d rather buy.
Also, it looks like the last big update was in April 2021, and the changes there look good with a few nice balancing changes and filling some gaps in the tech tree (ie: trebuchets and linemen gunpowder units).
I bought the Frontier Pass. It was okay and I enjoyed. As somebody from the Great White North, it was fun to play as Canada, even if the bonuses and uniques sucked. But unlike the demands in that trailer, I don’t really need more DLC, more leaders, etc. Of the game modes they introduced, the only two that I really played with any regularity was the secret societies, and the heroes. The other game modes just weren’t fun for me. I haven’t fired up Civ VI in ages, and I don’t expect this new announcement to change things.
Other than the game constantly crashing on some of my systems, the thing that keeps me from playing this is the damn missionary spam. I loathe that the map gets cluttered up with endless swarms of missionaries roaming about like an army of demented door to door proselytizers. Just kills the vibe.
Is that still a thing? My expectations for Firaxis are pretty low these days but I would have thought they would have addressed that. It was awful when I played.
