Number of Civs vs City-States balance

sourdiesel · Jul 28, 2013

On my 4th BNW game now and I'm experimenting with have an equal number of Civs and CS. I play on small maps so instead of 6/12 I'm going to try 8/8 and see how that works out. Maybe it's because I am still used to Civ4 but I found the number of CS to be overwhelming in the first few CiV games I've played. Just wondering if anyone else tweaks the balance or leaves it on default?

joncnunn · Jul 28, 2013

I'm finding (just like Vanilla and G&K) that the default ratio of 2:1 is rather high. (I wanted to re-test this in BNW) In my next game, I'll knock it back to 1:1 like normal.

Byzantine Bomb · Jul 28, 2013

1:1 works well for me, gives civs room to expand as opposed to having to conquer city states frequently.

Yzman · Jul 28, 2013

The default seems fine to me, it never seems like anyone is too crunched for space with the default settings.

livsbrand · Jul 28, 2013

I play 3:2 CS to civs and I like it just fine.

Gucumatz · Jul 28, 2013

I feel I need to add actually a few civs (and take a few city states off the map) as AI play better tall, having more tall civs leads to a more competitive game

Tibbz · Jul 28, 2013

I usually do standard but 8 civs with 10 city states. I also found that the default 16 is pretty overwhelming.

Number of Civs vs City-States balance

sourdiesel

Warlord

joncnunn

Senior Java Wizard

Byzantine Bomb

Warlord

Yzman

Deity

livsbrand

Warlord

Gucumatz

JS, secretly Rod Serling

Tibbz

Chieftain

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