6otM 15 Announcement

[leif erikson]

Civilization VI - Game of the Month 15​

Welcome to the 15th game in the 6OTM Series! These games will allow new and old GOTM fans to try out the new features in Civ6 in a friendly environment. Participants are encouraged to post questions, stories, advice, tricks and failures in the dedicated game threads (described below). Each game will specify the Civ you will play and the Victory Condition to strive for. We will be working to refine the 6otM concept as we move ahead with the series.

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We would like to ask you to abide by our most sacred rule: Don’t replay any turns! If you make a mistake, accept it and try to recover. To ensure fair play and prevent results exclusions, please set your Autosaves to 1 turn. In the event of a computer crash while playing, just reload to the previous save and play it as closely to how you played it the first time. Please let Leif know (via Conversation (Private Message)) if you experienced a crash and how many turns you replayed.

Civ VI - 6otM 15 Details:

Player (You): - Gandhi - India
Victory Condition: Domination but all other VCs are enabled.
Difficulty: Immortal
Civs/City-States (including player): 8/12
Map Type/Size: Continents/Standard Size
Game pace: Standard

Game options:
Start - Ancient Era
Enabled - Goody Huts, Barbarians
Game Version: This game was created in Civ6 vanilla version 1.0.0.129.
Game Requirements: vanilla version of Civilization VI.

Here is where you will start:

India Unique Attributes:

Spoiler :

Gandhi's Special Ability: Satyagraha - +5 Faith for each civilization (including India) they have met that has founded a religion and is not currently at war. Opposing civilizations receive double the war weariness for fighting against Gandhi.

Unique Ability: Dharma: Receives Follower Belief bonuses in a city from each Religion that has at least 1 follower.

Unique Unit: Varu: Indian unique Classical era unit that replaces the Horseman. Adjacent enemy units receive -5 Combat Strength.

Unique Infrastructure: Stepwell: Researching Irrigation unlocks the Builder ability to construct a Stepwell. +1 Food, +1 Housing and, if adjacent to a Holy Site district, +1 Faith. +1 Food if adjacent to a Farm. Cannot be built on Hills or adjacent to another Stepwell.

Information about threads associated with each individual 6otM -- Must Read if you are new to our Game of the Month!

Spoiler :

Please note: If you wish to make a video of your game, please do not post any links to it until after the game submission date has passed. This is because of the potential spoilers that are created by posting before the end date. Thank you for your cooperation.

Announcement thread (this one): This thread is used to announce the game and clarify the settings and rules (don’t be afraid to ask questions). It’s also used to discuss the game before you start, and post problems with opening the save. Once you have opened the save, DO NOT POST in the Announcement thread, even non game-related information. Instead use the next thread.

Opening Actions thread: This thread is used to discuss the game's opening decisions and strategies through the first 100 or so turns. Here you can post questions related to the game and share your achievements/anger/frustration/victories while you play. We encourage players to use the spoiler tags for screenshot. During the time the game is active, please do not post any information concerning the game outside of the spoiler threads including screen shots, videos, or recorded/live-cast Let's Plays on other websites.

After Actions thread: In this thread you can post the results of your game. Please state your victory/loss date and final score (preferably in the post title) and describe your path to glory in this post! Players are encouraged to provide feedback on the game. Some players like to replay the game, and although we will not record the results from a replay, you can still post your new experiences. The game will not be closed as such, but after one month, the results will be compiled, and will not necessarily be updated with reports coming in after the finish date.

Results and Congratulations thread: We will create a separate thread with the results at the end of the one month submission period (sorted by date and score). We will issue medals to the top 3 winners (based on earliest date finished). There are no long-term records kept for these results, they are just given out to top finishers to reward their efforts.

File Upload System
In development.

This game runs for a month and ends June 15th, 2017.

The save is attached below .

 

[Forster]

Are you talking mods when you say vanilla? Do DLCs count as vanilla?

 

[leif erikson]

We currently use no mods in developing Civ6 GotM's. There are no dlc's used either, except Montezuma as he is now free with the game.

By vanilla I mean just that, the base game and that's all.

 

[Forster]

Ok, I guess my having the DlCs won't matter since they would not be include in the save file you create.

 

[leif erikson]

No, the save should load fine.

 

[Lily_Lancer]

One game may last too long, e.g. 24 hrs so that cannot be completed. Is there something that can split that time into pieces, as well as ensuring players won't replay again and again, like the buffy mod in Civ4? Thanks.

 

[leif erikson]

You are allowed to create game saves, sleep and load the save and continue the game later. You are not required to play the game in one session.

The structure of the game program does not allow us to create a BUFFY type mod for Civ5 or Civ6.

 

[Arnold_T]

Hi,
I haven't played much civ6 yet (haven't even finished one game!), but I'm giving this GOTM a try. Just a couple of questions (that I haven't been able to find answers with the search function):
- for Domination win, do you need to capture ALL of the other civ original capitals even if somebody already captured them?
- I've seen strange messages early in the game that say something like "another civilization has been defeated". I've seen it three times before turn 50. Is this another one of the eight main civs being eliminated? or just losing a city? or is it a city state being eliminated? it's not very clear.
- I see activities for a city state Hong Kong that don't think I've met yet, since it looks to be on the other continent, and I can't see it on the map, but it appears in my city state list. how did that happen? have I actually met it somehow? but how come it doesn't show on the map? weird.