All Quiet on the Civ Front

[Noble Zarkon]

there was a preponderance (50% + 1 or more) of people thought there would be post-RF DLC

My feeling was it was more 2:1 no post R&F DLC given the Civ V model!!

 

[Xur]

You could also go about it in another way; civ5 needed two expansions to be good. I think civ6 needs at least 3 “expansions” to be average/good. There’s some fundamental design flaws that I doubt expansion packs will solve though.

 

[Noble Zarkon]

You could also go about it in another way; civ5 needed two expansions to be good. I think civ6 needs at least 3 “expansions” to be average/good. There’s some fundamental design flaws that I doubt expansion packs will solve though.

That's very much a matter of personal perspective though - in my estimation Civ 6 is already much better than Civ 5 as my Steam hours attest (699 for Civ 6, 33 for Civ 5!!)

 

[RohirrimElf]

That's very much a matter of personal perspective though - in my estimation Civ 6 is already much better than Civ 5 as my Steam hours attest (699 for Civ 6, 33 for Civ 5!!)

Not for me. I find civ 6 to be no challenge on highest difficulty so i rather play civ 4 or 5 with the right mods.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

You could also go about it in another way; civ5 needed two expansions to be good. I think civ6 needs at least 3 “expansions” to be average/good. There’s some fundamental design flaws that I doubt expansion packs will solve though.

I think Civ 6 is good already although I'm in the we need 3 "expansion" ship too for other reasons a.k.a that's the one way we're probably going to get the returning Civs along with new ones as well.

 

[Noble Zarkon]

Not for me. I find civ 6 to be no challenge on highest difficulty so i rather play civ 4 or 5 with the right mods.

Modded Civ 4 is still the best of course!

 

[Disgustipated]

I love Civ4, but it's hard to go back to the generic civilizations. Problem is financial is so powerful, it's difficult not to take it. I felt like these traits had poor balance. I mean, does anyone even care for protective? If Civ 4 had Civ 6 style civ uniqueness, then I'd be all in that game again. Any mods that do this?

 

[Trav'ling Canuck]

Put me down for:

Civ 4 was no fun (your mileage may vary)
Civ 6 is no challenge (your mileage may vary)
Civ 5 was both fun and a challenge (your mileage may vary)

And no, I haven't played any of them with mods, so I'm sure that changes things, too. Civ 4 lost my interest too quickly to try out mods. Civ 5 I enjoy too much as is to bother with mods. Civ 6 may end up being the one I finally try mods on, as I think some game systems have potential.

Of course, maybe Civ 6 ends up being the one they don't release the DLL for and there won't be substantial mods …

We need a Firaxis announcement on Civ 6. We've ended up back on re-hashing this topic again.

Who wants to discuss which of Civ 1, Civ 2, and Civ 3 was their favourite? (For me, it was Civ 2, but I can still enjoy Civ 1, too.)

 

[Leathaface]

And no, I haven't played any of them with mods, so I'm sure that changes things, too. Civ 4 lost my interest too quickly to try out mods. Civ 5 I enjoy too much as is to bother with mods. Civ 6 may end up being the one I finally try mods on, as I think some game systems have potential.

Of course, maybe Civ 6 ends up being the one they don't release the DLL for and there won't be substantial mods …

We need a Firaxis announcement on Civ 6. We've ended up back on re-hashing this topic again.

Who wants to discuss which of Civ 1, Civ 2, and Civ 3 was their favourite? (For me, it was Civ 2, but I can still enjoy Civ 1, too.)

Don't say that!

 

[Leyrann]

Civ 4 was no fun (your mileage may vary)
Civ 6 is no challenge (your mileage may vary)
Civ 5 was neither fun nor a challenge (your mileage may vary)

FTFY

 

[Leathaface]

I'm playing a peaceful game on Immortal in Civ VI and it can be a challenge holding your cities against an aggressive Civ. If that Civ sends 7 Knights your way turn 90-105 you'd have a hard time stopping them.

 

[Haig]

Damn it when there are new posts on this thread I click it thinking that there's been a leak or announcement or something!

 

[jddods]

Start of the day, check in to Civ Fanatics to see if there is any news. Bored during the work day, check in to Civ Fanatics to see if there is any news (several times).

 

[PhilBowles]

Not for me. I find civ 6 to be no challenge on highest difficulty so i rather play civ 4 or 5 with the right mods.

I agree once you're past the early game, but something between patches seems to have made the Deity AI much more aggressive. I seem to continually get starts where I get declared on by two civs by turn 30 or so, and while I can beat one I can't beat both. They've even fixed the behaviour earlier in the game's lifecycle where the AI would apparently be unable to take cities.

I still wouldn't call that Civ VI being difficult in the sense that other Civ games are - it's a cheat, essentially, given the AI's extra early units, and there's nothing remotely strategic about it in the sense that it's not something that results from poor planning or tech choices, just from poor start positions (defined in this context as anywhere with no choke points and at least two nearby civs). While you'd usually lose in Civ IV or V to aggression or not at all, that was something that happened later in the game as a result of having neglected military, and required the AI itself to actually build up over time. Civ VI is akin to a Starcraft Zerg rush in which the Zerg player gets 30 free Zerglings at the start.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Put me down for:

Civ 4 was no fun (your mileage may vary)
Civ 6 is no challenge (your mileage may vary)
Civ 5 was both fun and a challenge (your mileage may vary)

And no, I haven't played any of them with mods, so I'm sure that changes things, too. Civ 4 lost my interest too quickly to try out mods. Civ 5 I enjoy too much as is to bother with mods. Civ 6 may end up being the one I finally try mods on, as I think some game systems have potential.

Of course, maybe Civ 6 ends up being the one they don't release the DLL for and there won't be substantial mods …

We need a Firaxis announcement on Civ 6. We've ended up back on re-hashing this topic again.

Who wants to discuss which of Civ 1, Civ 2, and Civ 3 was their favourite? (For me, it was Civ 2, but I can still enjoy Civ 1, too.)

Civ I was great because I'd never played anything like it before
Civ II was simple to mod which I liked. Massive improvement over I. I saw no reason to play I after II came out
Civ III was my least favourite of the series although I can't remember why now. Ridiculous corruption, too much of a wargame I think
Civ IV was great. Still the best IMO
Civ V was ok but it didn't feel like an improvement on IV. I hated 1 upt at 1st.
Civ VI improved some things from V and added some great new features but still has some big flaws. The potential is there, hopefully it'll get there

 

[AvianBritish]

I'm playing on Immortal in Civ VI and it can be a challenge holding your cities against an aggressive Civ. If that Civ sends 7 Knights your way turn 90-105 you'd have a hard time stopping them.

I play on King and started to play on Emperor; one game was fine until Germany got it's Hansas and started spamming cities around me and units. The other 12 times (I kid you not, I counted every one) I get eliminated within 20 turns swamped by my nearest AI's warriors and slingers (or Eagle Warriors and War-Carts; I've been so fortunate to start near Aztecs and Sumeria 7 times between them) always leaving me gawping and speechless but to only ask "How?! How do people play on any difficulty higher then this?! You can't even start a game on Emperor!"

Although I completely understand why the AI gets bonuses rather then more cleaver, but I really do hate all of the free stuff at the start. Why can't they just get bonus units or settlers as the game goes on rather an army from the start? (like a the start of each era; or other conditional stuff like the free builder from the first district they build on King?)

 

[bite]

Damn it when there are new posts on this thread I click it thinking that there's been a leak or announcement or something!

If there was a major leak/announcement it would likely get its own thread

 

[Leathaface]

I play on King and started to play on Emperor; one game was fine until Germany got it's Hansas and started spamming cities around me and units. The other 12 times (I kid you not, I counted every one) I get eliminated within 20 turns swamped by my nearest AI's warriors and slingers (or Eagle Warriors and War-Carts; I've been so fortunate to start near Aztecs and Sumeria 7 times between them) always leaving me gawping and speechless but to only ask "How?! How do people play on any difficulty higher then this?! You can't even start a game on Emperor!"

If you ask Gilgamesh to be your friend on the exact same turn you meet him, he will always accept friendship.

@AmazonQueen I agree that Civ IV is still the best. I hope Civ VI complete will be able to top it.

 

[DWilson]

It's weird for me that with every main game I stop being able to go back to the previous. After playing V, I could never get into a game of III or IV. Now, having played VI, I can't get into a game of V.

BERT is an exception, being a game in a different setting that mechanically often feels like a systemic pre-cursor to VI, rather than a game in the main series.

 

[AvianBritish]

If you ask Gilgamesh to be your friend on the exact same turn you meet him, he will always accept friendship.

@AmazonQueen I agree that Civ IV is still the best. I hope Civ VI complete will be able to top it.

I have always given him the positive greeting then tried to be friends turn one but always rejects, for him to denounce me as the turn rolls over because he "Plain dose not like you."