Recent content by Carto

- How many cities did you settle or capture? Settled 6, captured another 10 or 12. - What did you prioritize for research and policies? For research, I prioritized Engineering, Scientific Theory, and Synthetic Materials, before switching to space race techs. This was my first game trying out...

I hear you on playing builder games. I tend to alternate between slower builder games and the occasional fast game, usually the game of the month. For my builder games, I tend to pack a normal size map with low sea levels, and set the pace to epic. I get to place two or three good cities, then I...

I think playing on a larger than normal map is throwing the apostle cost out of balance. As you noted, a larger map means more cities to convert. As you also noted, the crowded map made it difficult to place enough holy sites to get the faith generation you need to push beyond 30-40 apostles...

These might be unpopular opinions: (1) I think it's time for harvesting features to go. It's powerful enough that harvesting strategies can completely bypass other game systems. Worse, the AI isn't aware of these strategies. While the production boost is thematic, clearing space for districts...

- Where did you settle your cities? Opted to place the 1st city on the cows next to the settler. I figured I wouldn't miss them with all the potential terrace farms, and that spot allowed me to place an aqueduct on the marsh that'd support 3 terrace farms. I was also gambling for a good campus...

I like playing score victories with poor starting locations as a way to lengthen the initial catch-up period with the AI. I don't really like spamming settlers in the early game, so I max out civs and city states so there's only enough room for 2 or 3 cities before the wars start. Sometimes...

I usually play tall games on King through Immortal difficulties. I plan for 4 cities in the early / mid game, and usually add another 2-4 small-pop cities as I adapt to the late game map. It's not that playing tall isn't viable, it's that there are very few disincentives to playing wide. For...

Sure, sort of like how the recent TW games cap the number of active armies in play? I like the idea. After playing GS a bit, I've wondered if multiple bonus resources could feed into a single "food" strategic that maintains all basic units, or if units could cost a pop point like the...

I don't want to go back to stacks, but I've been thinking about ways to adjust 1APT that might not break the game. I like the current mechanism of joining units, because there's only ever one health bar per tile. What I'm wondering about is joining two different unit types as a shortcut to...

I enjoy Civ6's religion mechanic but will admit it doesn't always live up to my expectations. The existing structure has potential, but trying to balance four beliefs never feels as effective as rushing a specific belief. Building on what people have suggested, here's how I'd tweak the existing...

I can't speak to how Maori play if you try to maximize your victory, but their design lends itself to minimalist game play. I won a slow CV at t275 in the recent GOTM, but I did it without using aqueducts, half the districts, or any improvement more advanced than an iron mine or national park...

Summary - The Great Ukelele Wave (Turn 275 CV) After finding the island with Piopiotahi and 3 city states, I decided to forego defense in favor of pushing exploration, religion, and settlement. I settled between the city states on the ring of islands around the central ocean. Other than...

Hello, this is my first 6otM and my first post here on CivFanatics since IV, probably. It's been a lot of fun so far. - How long did you search for a site for your first city? How did you decide which way to go? On the first turn I move the settler and warrior a two hexes in opposite directions...