Civilization VII Update 1.3.0 - November 4, 2025

[disjointaccount]

I'm very curious so I'm going to be annoying and ask here again. When playing as Teach and/or Pirates, can your fleet commanders freely move through other territory like your military naval units?

I think so, from what I remember of my game last night. I'll double check later if no one else has by then.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I'm very curious so I'm going to be annoying and ask here again. When playing as Teach and/or Pirates, can your fleet commanders freely move through other territory like your military naval units?

As Pirates, yes. The Buccaneers specifically have that ability. Even better, the other civs don't care. Your Buccaneers can waltz in unmolested, then unload a bunch of sloops at an opportune moment.

 

[Rob Airdrie]

Thank you for your reply Lord Lakely but that's not happening in my settlement.

 

[Setis]

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Abandon all hope, ye who accidentally click this large and centrally located button!

I did exactly that (though I thought this was from a mod and not the base game). I reloaded my last auto-save rather than try and re-slot something like 30-40 resources.

 

[Setis]

were you playing continuity ? wondering if settlers built in antiquity survive to explo with pirates ? I’m convinced they do not, but wondering if I should build some just in case…

They do. I had a colonist left over starting as Carthage, and it was still there after becoming RoP.

 

[AriochIV]

That wasn't intended behavior. A few minutes after that post, the issues on Steam were resolved and you could add the DLC like any other DLC.

No, they weren't. At the time of my post, I still had to perform the specified gymnastics to make it work.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

No, they weren't. At the time of my post, I still had to perform the specified gymnastics to make it work.

Nonetheless, it wasn't how they intended for it to be unlocked and they did correct it eventually.

 

[tedhebert]

They do. I had a colonist left over starting as Carthage, and it was still there after becoming RoP.

Thx for the info ! Not sure what I'll do in the end... seems like it's something they forgot about and it goes against the intent to pre build a bunch of settlers...

 

[King Flevance]

AI

AI now fully uses all Sanctions against other players, including other AI players.

I haven't even gotten to the piracy and naval combat in my first game yet and already this small sentence is making the diplomacy much more interesting. 20 turns in, I meet Pachacuti. Turn 30 he denounces me. Turn 35, he sanctions my military production. I sanction his science. Turn 45 DoW on me. Currently on turn 80 on epic, I haven't even met another neighbor yet. The rivalry between the Han and the Mississippians is like the Hatfields and McCoys. I don't know if he has met anyone else or not. This new revamped diplomacy is very interesting though.

 

[ggalindo001]

I haven't even gotten to the piracy and naval combat in my first game yet and already this small sentence is making the diplomacy much more interesting. 20 turns in, I meet Pachacuti. Turn 30 he denounces me. Turn 35, he sanctions my military production. I sanction his science. Turn 45 DoW on me. Currently on turn 80 on epic, I haven't even met another neighbor yet. The rivalry between the Han and the Mississippians is like the Hatfields and McCoys. I don't know if he has met anyone else or not. This new revamped diplomacy is very interesting though.

I agree. I started a new game last night and was pleasantly surprised at how the sanctions are (a) making me mad and (b) turning up the heat in terms of a real reason to go to war. It is refreshing for a change.

 

[rocksinmypath]

Good people at Firaxis, for the love of god, please stop nuking my key bindings with every update.

 

[Tuvok694]

AI seems to have a tendency to spend ALL influence points on sanctions against me. It's getting annoying.

 

[uppi]

I researched communism and the game spawned 3 ships of the line in my capital. An unintended consequence of making heavy ships ranged?

 

[Leucarum]

I feel like I am the oppoaite of a bellweather. I played Civ7 to death when it was getting slammed, and have only cranked out 1 age since this well recieved patch.

Balance feels off again since this patch, and while a game as Tonga was fun, I kind of felt like I could have let a cat walk over my keyboard for an hour instead and the game would probably have gone similarly well.

 

[stealth_nsk]

I feel like I am the oppoaite of a bellweather. I played Civ7 to death when it was getting slammed, and have only cranked out 1 age since this well recieved patch.

Balance feels off again since this patch, and while a game as Tonga was fun, I kind of felt like I could have let a cat walk over my keyboard for an hour instead and the game would probably have gone similarly well.

Tonga is powerful and probably will be tones down a bit later, but it's not like they are that overpowered. Lucky start maybe?

 

[Leucarum]

Tonga is powerful and probably will be tones down a bit later, but it's not like they are that overpowered. Lucky start maybe?

Maybe... It was the most bonkers Antiquity I think I've ever had...

 

[Hellenism Salesman]

Tonga is powerful and probably will be tones down a bit later, but it's not like they are that overpowered. Lucky start maybe?

No they really are that OP.

 

[stealth_nsk]

No they really are that OP.

Yeah, after looking back at them I should say that I was wrong. Combo of additional influence, access to distant lands IPs and automatic trade routes to allied CS is very strong.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I think it might be a good idea to move the ability to cross deep ocean to deep in their civics tree

 

[stealth_nsk]

I think it might be a good idea to move the ability to cross deep ocean to deep in their civics tree

Actually UU ability could be to enter ocean tiles, but only one tile per move and take damage. And full travel unlocked with unique district.

But more than just nerfing Tonga, I think it would be great to pump up other civs to make them more fun in their niche, like Egypt now.