Recent content by Molybdeus2

For me the issue is that you can only swap civics when you have the prerequisite techs researched, or have a wonder built to enable them. That means you can't select many of them until the critical early game stage has passed. For example switching between Universal Suffrage and Fascism is...

IND/PHI is broken because of the chain reaction between the two of them. Build cheaper wonders with IND => lots of GP points => tons of great people due to PHI => more tech to research more wonders => build more wonder with IND => etc.

I am a longtime Civ4 player (my old username on this site from the Civ4-era was Molybdeus) and decided to try Civ6 this week. I mostly agree with the original poster. Civ4 is a great strategic game and a bad to mediocre game tactically. To improve the tactics of combat, Civ5 decided to create a...