Civilization VII Attributes Overview

[Eagle Pursuit]

Each leader and civilization in Civ VII is designated with two of six attributes. These attributes are: Cultural, Scientific, Diplomatic, Economic, Militaristic, and Expansionistic. Each attribute is associated with a tree of bonuses that are unlocked one at a time with attribute points. You earn these attribute points through narrative events, as well as buying them with legacy points and building some wonders. The attributes associated with your leader and civilization are the ones you will primarily receive from your leader and civ's special narrative event chain. Other narrative events will occur through emergent gameplay.

Leader Attributes (updated Dec 5, 2024)

*Sources conflict about whether Ibn Battuta has the Expansionist Attribute

Civ Attributes (Nov 27, 2024)

As you can see, you can mix and match leader and civs to create combinations of the narrative event attributes. Amina leading Greece would give you Economic, Militarisitic, Diplomatic, and Cultural attribute points from the primary narrative events. Amina leading Persia would only give Economic and Militaristic points, but presumably give you double in those two attribute trees.

We have only seen four attribute trees, so far, of the six.

Cultural Attribute Bonuses:

Expansionist Attribute Bonuses:

Militaristic Attribute Bonuses:

Scientific Attribute Bonuses (incomplete):

Diplomatic Attribute Bonuses (Incomplete):

Economic Attribute Bonuses (Incomplete):

I will endeavor to update this post as information becomes available. Discuss!

 

[Evolena]

Just another view, looking at each attributes couples:

[Edit] 2024-11-21 (Majapahit, Charlemagne)
2024-11-27 (Hawai'i)

 

[moysturfurmer]

It’s nice to have all this in one place, but personally I've always been a fan of using matrices for this kind of thing. Shame the forum's table function is so limited

	Cultural	Scientific	Militaristic	Diplomatic	Expansionist	Economic
Cultural	XXX		Napoleon (Revolutionary)		Augustus	Hatshepsut, Xerxes (Achaemenid)
Scientific	XXX	XXX	Trung Trac		Confucius
Militaristic	XXX	XXX	XXX	Ashoka (Conqueror), Tecumseh	Ashoka (Renouncer)	Amina, Napoleon (Emperor), Xerxes (KoK)
Diplomatic	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX		Machiavelli
Expansionist	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	Isabella, Pachacuti
Economic	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX

nvm, swooped by Evolena

 

[Mr Jon of Cheam]

Very interesting system. Kind of reminds me of the Civ V social policy trees but with an element of RNG from being tied to narrative events. I don't really have any feel for how frequently we will get these points?

 

[Evolena]

I may add that for now, the only Attribute with options in each age and a leader for other Attributes is the Economic one (with either Expansionist or Militaristic).

[Edit 2024-11-21] There is a new full Attribute pair (Leader + Antiquity + Exploration): Economic + Cultural

You can find all of these Attributes breakdown on my Civs and Leaders site (https://civ7-civilizations-and-leaders.tiddlyhost.com/#Attributes)

 

[Fummy]

Ahh, so thats what the attributes do, they give you a heads up about what rewards you get for narrative events. If it just told you about the civ/leader abilities it would be redundant but they obviously cant list every narrative event on the civ selection screen.

 

[SirViss]

Some weirdness about Tecumseh: Is he Militaristic or Economic?

On his page at Civ 7 it says Diplomatic/Economic, and if you watch the YouTube video it starts with Diplomatic/Economic. flickers to Diplomatic/Militaristic and then goes back to Diplomatic/Economic.

 

[chaosprophet]

I wonder if the existence of Diplomatic and Expansionist here, means a future expansion in a couple of years may change the legacies to add those two and make it 6 legacies/victory conditions. Currently militaristic legacy is a mix of military and expansionist, which no legacy being very diplomatic (i guess maybe a bit of the culture one, possibly more in modern).

 

[Evolena]

Some weirdness about Tecumseh: Is he Militaristic or Economic?

On his page at Civ 7 it says Diplomatic/Economic, and if you watch the YouTube video it starts with Diplomatic/Economic. flickers to Diplomatic/Militaristic and then goes back to Diplomatic/Economic.

Introducing Tecumseh!

Attributes:
Diplomatic
Militaristic

Game Guide here: https://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/game-guide/leaders/tecumseh/

You're right, something is wrong... The game guide says Diplo Economic, but @FXS_Sar introduction post said Diplo Militaristic.

I think it has been corrected afterwards, but as there is no update date on the game guide, it's difficult to know.

 

[PauI]

Each leader and civilization in Civ VII is designated with two of six attributes. These attributes are: Cultural, Scientific, Diplomatic, Economic, Militaristic, and Expansionistic. Each attribute is associated with a tree of bonuses that are unlocked one at a time with attribute points. You earn these attribute points through narrative events. The attributes associated with your leader and civilization are the ones you will primarily receive from your leader and civ's special narrative event chain. Other narrative events occur through emergent gameplay, which give you access to the other attributes' bonuses.

Leader Attributes (updated Nov 18, 2024)
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Civ Attributes (Nov 18, 2024)
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As you can see, you can mix and match leader and civs to create combinations of attributes. Amina leading Greece would give you Economic, Militarisitic, Diplomatic, and Cultural attribute points from the primary narrative events. Amina leading Persia would only give Economic and Militaristic points, but presumably give you double in those two attribute trees.

We have only seen three attribute trees, so far, of the six.

Cultural Attribute Bonuses:
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Expansionist Attribute Bonuses:
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Militaristic Attribute Bonuses:
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I will endeavor to update this post as information becomes available. Discuss!

* you can also earn points via legacy paths, so narrative events are not the only way I suppose

 

[Trav'ling Canuck]

We haven't seen Benjamin Franklin's yet, I guess, but historical Franklin would be as clear a Scientific + Diplomatic figure as one could imagine.

 

[B0RDERL1NE]

We have only seen three attribute trees, so far, of the six.

I believe we also showed Militaristic and Scientific during the Exploration Age stream, or at least part of them.

you can also earn points via legacy paths, so narrative events are not the only way I suppose

There are several ways of earning points, yes. Even some Wonders grant them. The listed Attributes for each civ and leader don't impact the potential for those other sources.

 

[Verified_Confection_Being]

This could be an interesting mechanic as long as the points required are rare enough that you can't unlock everything and you have to make a choice.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I believe we also showed Militaristic and Scientific during the Exploration Age stream, or at least part of them.


There are several ways of earning points, yes. Even some Wonders grant them. The listed Attributes for each civ and leader don't impact the potential for those other sources.

I will have to go back through the video to find it, thanks!

 

[Evolena]

I will have to go back through the video to find it, thanks!

I remember seing the Scientific one.
It was just after entering into the Exploration age.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

I believe we also showed Militaristic and Scientific during the Exploration Age stream, or at least part of them.


There are several ways of earning points, yes. Even some Wonders grant them. The listed Attributes for each civ and leader don't impact the potential for those other sources.

I presume that the attributes are local to the game session right? They don't carry over to the next game (except the bonuses unlocked by Legends?)

 

[B0RDERL1NE]

I presume that the attributes are local to the game session right? They don't carry over to the next game (except the bonuses unlocked by Legends?)

Unlocked Attributes carry across Age Transition, but a new game will reset them.

 

[gdr_willter]

I remember seing the Scientific one.
It was just after entering into the Exploration age.

Here it is. Basically the same structure with the Cultural Attribute tree.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

updated the OP

 

[gdr_willter]

updated the OP

It would be better to mention it the Scientific Attribute is not completely shown in the screenshot. Considering the similarity between Cultural and Scientific trees, there will be 4 more items for it.