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I think this shows a fundamental disconnect between the devs and players.

The players don't see a need to build even the second level of walls because the first level is satisfactory for defense throughout the game. Why the hell would making the unique third level wall even more effective make a bit of difference?

 

I always build medieval walls because ancient walls look so ugly, but I agree. A city with ancient walls is rarely lost to the AI, and the medieval walls are quite expensive to make.

 

And now they have buffed Ancient Walls even more by giving it 100HP. Instead of just nerfing the Battering Ram.

 

Georgian Unique Walls should be one layer only and buildable from engineering or something - so after regular ancient walls at Masonry. It would make harder to get there, but it would be way better. Or they could make it the same as Ancient walls, a little stronger, and get more add ons after the techs which unlocks medieval and renaissance walls, like the add-ons they gave to the GDR. A Tsikhe with base 150 HP, getting +100 points from Castles tech, and +150 points from Siege Tactics tech. It would be way better that way.

 

I think it's always been like that. The bonus goes to the originating city, but it's based on pastures in the destination city (as opposed to the Inca bonus, which is for mountains in the origin city).

 

Based on the FXS streams, I think FXS’s testers or designers or whatever do play the game quite differently to players on this forum. I also think you can see that in the game’s design - it has various elements that seem built for particular strategies that, well, no one here uses.

 

I would be interested to know what the motivation was to buff ancient walls, and walls in general. If it was "players are reporting that attacking the AI is too easy", it's the wrong solution, but at least a reasonable topic for them to address. I'm not sure that is what's behind it, though. Other possible motivations might be:

• it's intended as a way to improve the survival of city states at higher difficulty levels
• it's intended to reduce AI snowballing by making other AI cities harder to take

 

Yeah... in both of my games as Georgia I only ever built one or two of them in my large empire becuase it just takes so many turns to build all 3 levels of wall. "Can built without needing Ancient or Medievil walls" would be a huge improvement.

 

Indeed, which is why I expected my trade route back to my capital (with a camp and a pasture) to produce 2 extra food. No longer.

Sorry, did I attach this screenshot correctly?

 

If battering rams & siege towers were only effective with ancient walls, but had ZERO effect if medieval walls were present, that would work. As it stands, I just have to refrain from building rams/towers and walls get built only for the esthetics (i.e. tourism later in the game).

 

I think Immortal difficulty AI is getting 2 starting settlers. Is this new? I always played Immortal because I hated the 2 settlers of Deity...

 

Not new. Immortal gets 2, Deity gets 3. Consistent since very early in Civ 6.

 

The Skyscrapers policy card now gives +15% Production toward all wonders from any era, as opposed to merely for wonders from Industrial era and beyond.

 

All wonder cards are supposed to include previous eras now.

 

Did you know that they really don't get the 3 settlers from scratch? They get one at start, and then 1 more for each new district (including city center)... which translates to --> setller 1 settles --> get Settler 2 --> setller 2 moves until it settles --> gets settler 3 --> settler 3 moves until it settles.

So, technically, not 3 settlers from turn 0, but a little delayed...

 

I did not know this, but I think it's a cool staggering

 

Yes, I did know that, I even considered explaining more fully, then went with the shorter response.

 

Yes, you did.

 

I just noticed that the game says how many turns until a culture victory now in the culture victory screen under your tourism.

 

The game seems to remember where in the list of possible builds you were so you don't have to scroll from the top every time. Is this new?