Is this game worth playing again yet?

[Leyrann]

I would love to see a stickied post with everyone's favorite mods and combination of mods, maybe even with some details as to why they feel it improves the game. I've played around some with mods but have yet to find a combo that improves the flaws of the base game without going a bit too far. I really feel like there is a great game hiding somewhere underneath, just haven't figured out how to bring it out just yet.

You can make a thread in the Creation and Customization forum and ask over there, but in general it seems that the most popular AI mod is AI+, the most popular gameplay mods (off the top of my head) are TCS' Omnibus Mod and Strategic Industry, and the most popular map mods YnAMP and (at a safe second place but my favorite) Larger Worlds and Detailed Worlds. EDIT: And I'd almost forget the MOAR units mods.

(also, I'm gonna look up that AI Siege Help mod... They sure need it)

 

[Cyberpunk]

Hey!

I've stop playing this game until A.I gets fixed. I feel that a.i wasnt that good at all. They never took any of my city, not even close to take one. On deity games feels more like grinding than hard and i dont like that.

I wasnt paying attentions to updates and patches, so can you guys tell me if game is better now?

 

[liv]

There is "like" the exact same topic already going on - maybe check it

Moderator Action: Threads merged -- Browd

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

If the AI is your benchmark, the game isn't worth playing yet.

 

[Jaybe]

AI Siege Help

I haven't been able to find this: link requested.

 

[DeutschDachs]

The problem I have with the game right now is that every game feels the same. You'd think that with as many unique things per Civ there'd be a lot of variety, but it pretty much boils down to building slingers/archers for barbs, build your cities, get declared war on, conquer that Civ, spam commercial/industrial districts and their buildings, wait for endgame. And even without a victory condition in Civ V I still felt more interested in getting and maintaining a religion than in VI where it just feels like a chore

 

[Dearmad]

Monthly checking result: move on.

 

[Leyrann]

I haven't been able to find this: link requested.

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/ai-siege-help.606973/

What it basically does it just remove the requirement that siege units can't walk and attack on the same turn, as the AI can't handle that (which imo is really really really really really really really bad game design. Like, how hard can that be to explain an AI?).

 

[RohirrimElf]

OP:

Depends on your playing strenght. If you are not a civ veteran the game could be totally worth playing for you. Which is fine for 80% of the gamers i guess.

 

[Yps]

Yes it's worth playing. I enjoy it most on Immortal and Deity levels with the following mods:

• AI+V9
• Smoother Difficulty
• 8 Ages of Pace
• AI Siege Help
• Better Trade Screen
• Milder Agendas and Relations
• More Lenses
• RED modpack
• Research reminder
• Unit Report Screen

I wouldn't play vanilla Civ 6. However, I don't play many games vanilla now-a-days; most are modded to death.

Very helpful indeed. Just downloaded them and try if they can bring back the Civ-Mojo

 

[ThunderLizard2]

I just finished a domination victory on Civ IV BTS Monarch level. The game was fun and challenging from the get go. The AI played well up until the end both managing cities and attacking/counter-attacking.

Now 12 years later Firaxis cannot seem to recreate the fun and interest of Civ IV. Civ VI is boring, unplayable and frustrating. Nothing fun about it.

How many more years until we get another fun Civ title?

Moderator Action: Merged as it is essentially the same topic. Please use existing threads where possible. leif

 

[Siptah]

I just finished a domination victory on Civ IV BTS Monarch level. The game was fun and challenging from the get go. The AI played well up until the end both managing cities and attacking/counter-attacking.

Now 12 years later Firaxis cannot seem to recreate the fun and interest of Civ IV. Civ VI is boring, unplayable and frustrating. Nothing fun about it.

How many more years until we get another fun Civ title?

Moderator Action: Merged as it is essentially the same topic. Please use existing threads where possible. leif

*sigh*
That's a very constructive and new critique.
I can do that, too: civ VI is great, I enjoy it very much. I can't go back to civ IV, it gives me the creeps to play without hexes. And those governments, and how religion is implemented... (I won't go into the stacks topic) It feels so inferior in almost every way and thus I think its unplayable for me. I can't get any fun out of civ IV anymore since I've played civ V. Which by the way has a decent AI if you use mods (it's of course not entirely Firaxis work in that case) - and the AI seems to be the only definite complaint I can read in your post.

So to answer your question how many years until another fun Civ title: why do you want another fun civ title right now after the release of the last one? Civ VI is not too old, it's still to soon for Civ VII. I would prefer it, if Firaxis would continue working on Civ VI, DLCs, and expansions until they start on Civ VII. But I guess opinions on that differ.

 

[UWHabs]

The problem I have with the game right now is that every game feels the same. You'd think that with as many unique things per Civ there'd be a lot of variety, but it pretty much boils down to building slingers/archers for barbs, build your cities, get declared war on, conquer that Civ, spam commercial/industrial districts and their buildings, wait for endgame. And even without a victory condition in Civ V I still felt more interested in getting and maintaining a religion than in VI where it just feels like a chore

I've worked my way through playing each civ, and I do like overall how they do give some uniqueness. So yeah, while the basic game is a little redundant and the AI is still limited, I do get a different feel to it.

For example, I'm playing as India now, and gotta say, stepwells are pretty damn awesome. I just hit sanitation, and my capital currently has 24 housing capacity, and I haven't built a sewer or neighbourhood. I'm getting about 20 faith per turn from the civ ability, so I'm swimming in faith (I accumulated enough to basically buy the last great prophet using faith, although having Kongo and a France that I wiped out early certainly helps that race). And because I allied Kumasi early, I'm kind of enjoying having pretty much all external trade routes, getting +6 or +8 per route. I can barely keep up with building districts - even though my cap is at size 19 or so right now, it still only has 3 districts in it, and I probably didn't build my first district until almost turn 100.

So yeah, the AI is kind of useless, but it's kind of cool that I do actually alter my play style based on the terrain, or my civ's abilities, or the city states available. For all the arguments that you do the same thing every time in civ 6, civ 4 wasn't much different - set your citites up to be specialist farms, or your bureaucracy/town capital, and play the diplomacy game to make sure your neighbours stay happy enough with you that they can't attack you. Yeah, you had to worry about them more (the number of times in civ 6 where I've had an AI give me a surprise DoW and I had enough time to move all my troops from my other border back in time to defend, including having enough time to upgrade them on the way, while even being able to switch to the 50% upgrade discount without even paying for a policy switch), but to me, my challenge is more "building my empire to be the best that it can be", which is still fun in its own right.

 

[Fierro]

Someday it will be worth enough to play, even maybe without significant mods. As for me personally, this game is unplayable due to long turns. I can finish standard game in Civ 5 just in like 2 days if i want. With Civ 6 i have one game going for more than week.

So, if your computer is good enough then probably you should check back later

 

[Kev1916]

I just finished a domination victory on Civ IV BTS Monarch level. The game was fun and challenging from the get go. The AI played well up until the end both managing cities and attacking/counter-attacking.

Now 12 years later Firaxis cannot seem to recreate the fun and interest of Civ IV. Civ VI is boring, unplayable and frustrating. Nothing fun about it.

How many more years until we get another fun Civ title?

Moderator Action: Merged as it is essentially the same topic. Please use existing threads where possible. leif

well said Civ 4 was the pinnacle of the civ series

 

[wiggawuu]

sigh. I'm seriously thinking about installing Civ 4. I really miss the feeling I used to get when playing this game. I used to have so many fun epic games. Kind of miss doing an all day marathon session I really haven't found a video game since to satisfy myself. I enjoyed Civ 5 for a bit though, but not to the level of previous civ games.

 

[gettingfat]

Right now, the main threat is not from the AI leaders, but the barb camps that each ridiculously spams three horsed units before you can even build two warriors. Once you can survive the barbs in ancient era the other leaders are just pushovers. I easily got domination victories before the 11th century playing immortal after like playing a dozen of games, that would never happen to me even playing monarch level in civ4. That tells how dysfunctional the AI is right now.

 

[Victoria]

For anyone that wants a decent fight, 6 is a complete joke

If you are a builder or explorer then I think the game is just fine.

 

[Karlus]

I just finished a domination victory on Civ IV BTS Monarch level. The game was fun and challenging from the get go. The AI played well up until the end both managing cities and attacking/counter-attacking.

Now 12 years later Firaxis cannot seem to recreate the fun and interest of Civ IV. Civ VI is boring, unplayable and frustrating. Nothing fun about it.

How many more years until we get another fun Civ title?

Moderator Action: Merged as it is essentially the same topic. Please use existing threads where possible. leif

Exactly. I love the ideas behind civ6, but it's unplayable for me. I just managed to finish a game once, its soooo booooring. Im Not playing it for months.

Meanwhile I've bought the civ4+expansions steam edition I'm having lots of fun (I already had the cd edition). It's Very challenging. Haven't played for years, I'm playing on Monarch now and I finish every game (when the AI isn't kicking my head) with any kind of victory (depend of the situation) because every game is different.

It's not about military "tactics" against a dump AI. It's about everything. The feeling when you hear the drums of war in civ4 in amazing. My heart beats fast every time because I know that a Sod is coming. And The feeling when you destroy the other SoD that have being threatening you for centuries it's very good. In civ5 and 6 it's..." yeah why did u declare war In first place? U gonna loose anyway AI."

Civ6 it's not worth playing for me, and i shouldn't have bought it because I knew that it would come with same problems as civ5 vanilla. This is the way they are making and selling games nowadays.

It's not normal guys it's NOT normal. When you guys buy your clothes, cars, books, houses, etc... it come complete, not perfect but complete.

 

[darko82]

I was waiting 5 years to play Civ V. Actually, it's the best time to play it now.

And I will probably have to wait another 5 years to play Civ VI until the game gets fixed.