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I think Mali is best when the second city is fully 6 tiles of desert all around. Other cities do not need desert at all. You just need that one city from which to send your 10+ gold trade routes in the Ancient Era.

Didn't they do that with BTS? Trovato was involved with Civ4 prior to the release of BTS and the AI was still bad. This is a development issue, but also a manpower issue. Blizzard devotes years, involves pro gamers, and lots of manpower to develop balanced MP content, and the AI for SC2 is STILL...

It depends on what you're after. Every Civ iteration, Civ 3 to Civ 5 for those who still have their memories here, ended with AI that were bad in the final expansion release. The Civ3 one remains terrible to this day. Once you can form an Army, the AI can't handle it and they auto-lose the...

Georgia's CIty State bonus and Golden Age bonuses are fine abilities. It's the fact that her UU and UB suck so much that drag her down. It's like she's missing two abilities, and her main ones are merely okay, not game-breakingly good. Japan has the Samurai, but that's fine because Meji...

Eh. No. Firstly, I really don't think AI is that much of a thrust for Civ since its release. Even the Civ 1 AI was dumb as bricks, and that was an extremely simple game. But the most important factor is the one already mentioned. You can't hand-craft an AI algorithm for an incomplete ruleset...

That's true, which is why I'm asking for a power that errs a bit on the side of being too powerful. A special 4-move land unit on water with Norway's Knarr ability is very strong, because it can attack city tiles up to 4 tiles away from shore by surprise. This means that once Berserkers are...

LOL. This again? Civ AI has always been bad. We have this discussion about every iteration since ever. That's why both Civ V and Civ IV have community-based AI mod enhancements. Heck, Civ4 AI was so bad on release, it wouldn't even improve its own tiles, right into the endgame. Basically, don't...

Yes, that was my main concern. Right now, Berserkers are much better at sea than on land, and they only come into their own when they're on enemy tiles, which is a significant drawback compared to Knights, which are their contemporaries. Making them 4 movement at sea means they can keep up with...

Tried the Berserkers again with new Norway. I confess to using overflow here and there, but nothing egregious - only to clear forests for mines, which I was going to do for certain areas regardless of the chop output. I was able to make use of them in a pillaging war, but the pillaging war...

Yeah. I prefer having the trees around. It's just for the looks of it, mostly. I notice that my lower pop cities just have crap production. And I do notice many players complaining about it as if it were a game bug. It's not. It's just that lower pop cities don't harvest a lot of cogs from the...

There's a lot of chopping involved in all these calculations. What if I prefer not to chop? Let's say it's a play preference. Do the tiny cities still apply?

Interesting discussion. By this valuation, a Mission (Spain's unique improvement) is a massive benefit, because you can spam it anywhere, and specifically because you can put them around Campuses for +2 Science +2 Faith, once you research Exploration - which is just about when food and...

It's likely better on King where I play. On this setting, you can sometimes still find islands where City State have suzereins but no religions. In those cases, it's often more expedient to just spend Envoys for the conversion in addition to the exploring Missionary. This is especially true if...

Civ6 in CivFanatics is skewed towards military because many players think playing Deity is some kind of an accomplishment, so they keep doing it for bragging rights. All that setting means is that you are highly incentivised to take from the AI, because then you're essentially using the AI bonus...

I think Religious Unity is okay, but Papal Primacy is better. Tamar doubles Envoys from all sources as long as the City State is your Religion, so for overseas States, it's a simple matter of sending a Proselytizer to reduce the entrenched religion and then sending Envoys. The first few won't be...

Georgia is starting to gel for me, and I agree with Trav'ling Canuck. Georgia's chief strength is her double Envoys and her double Golden Age. The Tsikhe is an incidental bonus - kind of like the Tlachtli with the Aztecs. Your gameplay won't be impacted by them much, even when you focus on...

I've been playing all the Civs to see how they fare under R&F rules and there are a bunch of interesting interactions there, especially with Faith and Monumentality. Here, we'll talk about the Aztecs, so that means Faith = Builders = Districts. I did the usual Aztec thing. Didn't spawn next to...

Just finished a China game on King and I found it... interesting. The map wasn't anything to write about. To be honest, it was a little blah. Two desert hills on bad positioning, so Petra was out. No good tiles near coast so Great Lighthouse and Colossus were out. Got the Pyramids just because...

I've played with the Khmer before and I found them... not that good. So I played them again just recently with the Rise and Fall patch and I found them surprisingly a good deal better. Now, when I play a Civ I prefer to specifically use their abilities. It's one of the reasons I stick to King...

I've settled in -20 locations before. It's doable if the Civ has Loyalty powers. Amani is arguably the best Governor for this because her +8 base can be boosted with +2 from her promotions plus more from Amenities also from her promotions. Add Monument +1 and Religion +3 and you're almost...