Let's compare empires!

[Nikolai II]

Let's compare games! How is your first game(s) going? Post images and game info and look at the beautiful graphics!

Here's my current game as Conficius, starting as Han and then going into Mongolia. I had a core of 5 settlements in ancient era as Han, which is now these, sans Korinthos:

I then went to war with all my neighbors, and got to (currently) 16/12 settlements:

My yields are pretty good, I might have to up the difficulty.

Game settings are Sovereign, standard speed and (IIRC) map size. All other settings standard.

How are your Empires going?

 

[local_hero]

I had time to play 40 something turns this morning before going to work and now I'm just counting down the minutes until I can go home lol. My civilization didn't really have time to become an empire, 3 settlements (Ibn-Battuta with Aksum).

 

[Aquila SPQR]

Oh God, those cities merging into an ancient megalopolis look as awful as I imagined.

Also - where are the farms that have always been a major and dominant feature of the landscape in human history?

 

[queenpea]

I’m doing a Hatshepsut/Egypt game and my cities are more spread out than the examples above. Not sure if that’s a great strategy or not, but I’ve been building almost exclusively on navigable rivers which are not so common.

Anyway, my “strategy” at least prevents early urban sprawl.

Ashoka of Maurya and Himiko of Mississippians (lol) went to war with me simultaneously but were both very easily subdued by my very small army of Medjay with help from two friendly cultural city states.

 

[Nikolai II]

Last turn in the exploration age, I barely did not take the capital of Hapsheptut, as the age suddenly advanced, so I am now on bad terms with more civs, even some friendly, due to alliances and me being unattentive.

Age rankings and legacies:

And finally, yields in the modern age after setting up the civ.

 

[CivKirk64]

Let's compare games! How is your first game(s) going? Post images and game info and look at the beautiful graphics!

Here's my current game as Conficius, starting as Han and then going into Mongolia. I had a core of 5 settlements in ancient era as Han, which is now these, sans Korinthos:

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I then went to war with all my neighbors, and got to (currently) 16/12 settlements:

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My yields are pretty good, I might have to up the difficulty.

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Game settings are Sovereign, standard speed and (IIRC) map size. All other settings standard.

How are your Empires going?

I'm physically sick looking at how close your settlements are to one another, you will run out of room to put things! Too much overlap. I always count out 3 and than 3-4 away to make sure every city has room to do what it wants.

 

[queenpea]

I'm physically sick looking at how close your settlements are to one another, you will run out of room to put things! Too much overlap. I always count out 3 and than 3-4 away to make sure every city has room to do what it wants.

Looking at their score, they seem to be doing pretty well considering how ill you might be feeling!

 

[Nikolai II]

I'm physically sick looking at how close your settlements are to one another, you will run out of room to put things! Too much overlap. I always count out 3 and than 3-4 away to make sure every city has room to do what it wants.

I have yet to get those migrants, as I have plenty of space. You don't need more space than this.

 

[CivKirk64]

Looking at their score, they seem to be doing pretty well considering how ill you might be feeling!

I saw that as well, I just don't get how it is possible, half of a city doesn't have its own tiles to work or build on.

 

[Nikolai II]

I saw that as well, I just don't get how it is possible, half of a city doesn't have its own tiles to work or build on.

Skill? I'd like Korinthos to be further away tbh, but the AI settled it and it was productive plus I didn't want the war support penalty.

 

[CivKirk64]

Skill? I'd like Korinthos to be further away tbh, but the AI settled it and it was productive plus I didn't want the war support penalty.

I'm vastly impressed, Sometimes I want to learn this skill, but I'm too set in my ways; a tile or 2 of overlap is fine if the new spot is perfect. The people demand their space, build all the farms, place all the buildings!

Edit to not post twice: I had my buddy Charles settle in between my capital and another town on the in an awful spot that i was reserving for another city/town a few tiles to the north east, I'll grab a photo tonight if I can... but there are massive swaths of untouched land still.... I hope this thing flips somehow without me going to war with him, so I can turn it into a fort or something. don't care if it is population 2.

 

[Nikolai II]

Thanks. Guess I've had some practice with Civ. But I'll probably never get comfortable with Deity.

 

[theadder]

I'm physically sick looking at how close your settlements are to one another, you will run out of room to put things! Too much overlap. I always count out 3 and than 3-4 away to make sure every city has room to do what it wants.

Physically sick!

 

[Nikolai II]

Physically sick!

You too?

 

[CivKirk64]

Physically sick!

Glad I'm not the only one.
I have to say it looks cool, though. If i posted any of my screens , I'd be asked to take them down as it looks 20 years old on low settings.

 

[Nikolai II]

Glad I'm not the only one.
I have to say it looks cool, though. If i posted any of my screens , I'd be asked to take them down as it looks 20 years old on low settings.

please post them, though! And your progress in yields and such and difficulty level. It's interesting to know.

 

[Gorbles]

Oh God, those cities merging into an ancient megalopolis look as awful as I imagined.

Really will be interesting to see how opinions settle - I love it personally. But there's a lot of (valid!) divergence over these things.

I’m doing a Hatshepsut/Egypt game and my cities are more spread out than the examples above. Not sure if that’s a great strategy or not, but I’ve been building almost exclusively on navigable rivers which are not so common.

As a fellow Hatpshepsut / Egypt chooser, my experience is very much the same!

 

[kaspergm]

I'm physically sick looking at how close your settlements are to one another...

Talking about settling distance, how does AI handle this compared to Civ6, will it still mindlessly settle all cities with minimum distance?

 

[Nikolai II]

Really will be interesting to see how opinions settle - I love it personally. But there's a lot of (valid!) divergence over these things.

I must say I like it as well.

 

[Nikolai II]

Talking about settling distance, how does AI handle this compared to Civ6, will it still mindlessly settle all cities with minimum distance?

Sometimes, indeed they will. Like Korinthos there in my map. Settled close to me, Machiavelli was half a continent away as for the rest of his settlements.