They exist, go to youtube.
Youtubers (and their popularity) are an interesting source. Because gives us an insight on this "atention seeking - achievement obsessed - pathological shortcut sef deception " culture of videogames, that actually exists.
man, I hate these kinds of answers. why are you dodging? I specifically asked you to name
a single YouTuber that is "elite" or, honestly, just a good player would be enough. And you tell me to go to YouTube. Mate, I have been to YouTube. I have looked for hours. I was full-on Diogenes. I did not find a single good player. If you have someone in mind, why not just say their name? Or, if you cannot pinpoint to anyone, why make the claim in the first place?
If there is a community of elitist Civ 6 players on YouTube, I want to find them! So far, I haven't found anyone who regularly wins games before T200..
I tell you that deity save scum happens, and I tell you that I have done it in Civ V. Cause if you invest 10 hours in a Deity game and you have a bad time that ruins something you have been working for, you can be sure many people will feel the actual need to go back and fix it.
I never doubted that, I simply do not see a problem with it at all. reload is in and of itself not a bad practice.
This is quite difficult to assess properly. I would say usually, around turn 250-300 I’m close to winning often. I like science and culture victories the most, but I always wipe out 2 or 3 big civs in the game. So when I don’t make a terrible mistake thinking I can conquer a civ and totally misplace the trust in my army, I’m in 1st or 2nd position in every ranking late game. Then, when I’m just 5 turns to victory, some other **** gets a religious or diplomatic victory
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So do I understand you right that you do not generally play unmodded games? In that case your numbers won't do much for me since I like to look at the unmodded game. I would be hugely interested in when the unmodded Prince AI goes to space/wins the game, and if it is around T400, like in your games (I understand you correctly, do I?)
I really don't see the point in complaining about difficulty or ai.
The series will never have a functioning ai and dificulty ever again and you are gonna have to deal with it.The new fans don't like those things and they are the majority now.
Oh and forget about mods ever fixing those things anymore.
Complaining often gets you somewhere. It is much more effective than passivity and defeatism.
You may be right, and this trend may continue on to Civ 7. In that case I likely will not be buying that game at all. I did the same for Civ 6, I tested it for a long time on a friends account until I was finally convinced it was worth its money.
Gonna disagree here, if this was true there wouldn't be a strong constant population playing Civ 5 still.
Good argument. Consider this:
Civ 6 is the newer game. They invest thousands of dollars into marketing. It has more features. Yet Civ 5 was still for the longest time the more popular game. Imagine if Civ 6 didn't have ***loads of money poured into advertising for a sec. The game would be down the drain. Civ 6 is a pretty unpopular game if you really think about it, especially compared to Civ 5 which was beloved. Without all the "help", Civ 5 would still be played more than 6, and indeed on some days it is..
Which just goes to show that a decent amount of players valued a lot of things that are now gone, and that a decent amount of new players only really comes for the "new toy syndrome".
I think my main gripe is this: if people want an AI but Firaxis doesn't want to hire people to code it, can we meet in the middle somewhere on price so I can go back to buying good iterations of Civ?
They don't even have to build a new AI or invest much into the existing system, or hire new people.
The most insulting thing is that the kinds of fixes necessary are not difficult or time intensive. All FXS has to do is adjusting the god damn AI flavor for districts and improvements and they'd already be twice as strong. It's something Civ 5 modders managed to do in a few days or weeks. This, plus them not releasing the code, just ticks me off.