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since Civ 4 the games have gone from macro strategy to more and more micromanagement. Civ 5 they went to one unit per tile, which was in many ways a nice change, even though the AI was less adept at it than at the simpler doomstack combat Civ 6 they went further and made city management / tile...

Check the steamcharts: still hitting 37k peak players, which is as strong as it's ever been outside of new content drops. Yes, the forums are less busy. There is not much to say about the game that has not been said at some point in the past five years. But I still come back to it two or three...

My guess is that for launch Civ 7, they trim back some systems, including some of: stability, golden/dark ages, weather phenomena, Civ 6's (imo not very good) diplomacy systems, etc. I also think the separate science/culture trees feels like a one-off kinda deal, though I think it's more likely...

The mid-level zoom thing is the single most baffling design choice in Humankind. How could anyone think the current version is good?

Rhye's and Fall is not about arbitrarily changing cultures, it's about different empires having their time in the sun until breakaway nations rise up and overtake them. If anything, Humankind would be much stronger if it incorporated more of RFC's ideas. Keeping the same culture in HK is almost...

So early game 'resources' (GPS or whatever) – this seems like the approx importance in the neolithic & ancient levels (and to some extent, Classical, though that's where these priorities start to shift): Top: food, influence, stability Next: production, money, science After: everything else...

I kinda regret taking Nubians on my current playthrough (difficulty 6, after two easy runs on tutorial difficulty & then difficulty 4). Food and stability seem like concerns #1 and #2 early on, so a unique district that A.) doesn't help with either, and B.) requires multiple districts to...

I don't think it makes any dang sense though, as an incentive not to declare friendship. The US becoming friends with England doesn't mean we would just look the other way if they invaded Puerto Rico. Doing so would be a very serious provocation, as both sides would obviously understand.

Let me walk you through a scenario. I, Phoenicia, am allied to Suzerain of Auckland. I am a declared friend of England. England invades Auckland; because we are declared friends, I am helpless to support my city state until 20 turns have passed, at which point I will no longer have any...

archer > warrior > slinger at least when it comes to defense slingers are a great build because they turn into archers. i usually get one slinger early to try to get eureka, and then build several more right before i research archery

warrior first you dinks

What's up with non-upgrade path UUs? Really messes with what would be otherwise great units.

might post a thread on it later, but i'm finding GS to be really tedious. adds a lot of clutter to the game without adding much to speak of in terms of strategic decision-making, and extends the late game (for science especially) with a lot of boring box-checking. the new civs are pretty cool...

I'm a 5/10 so far. The big new systems feel pretty underwhelming, and the newly extended science game tends to drag. Hopefully they tweak science to run faster rather than culture to run longer.

A science base on Mars =/= settling Alpha Centauri or another star system