News: 6otM21 Announcement

[leif erikson]

Civilization VI - Game of the Month 21​

Welcome to the 21st game in the 6OTM Series! These games will allow new and old GOTM fans to try out the new features in Civ6 in a friendly environment. Participants are encouraged to post questions, stories, advice, tricks and failures in the dedicated game threads (described below). Each game will specify the Civ you will play and the Victory Condition to strive for. We will be working to refine the 6otM concept as we move ahead with the series.

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Civ VI - 6otM 21 Details:

Player (You): - Saladin - Arabia
Victory Condition: Religious but all other VCs are enabled.
Difficulty: Deity
Civs/City-States (including player): 8/12
Map Type/Size: Continents/Standard Size
Game pace: Standard

Game options:
Start - Ancient Era
Enabled - Goody Huts, Barbarians
Game Version: This game was created in Civ6 vanilla version 1.0.0.167.
Game Requirements: vanilla version of Civilization VI.

Here is where you will start:

Arabia's Unique Attributes:

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Saladin's Special Ability: Righteousness of the Faith - The worship building for their religion can be purchased by any player for just one-tenth of the usual faith cost. This worship building is enhanced to add 10% to the science, faith and culture output of Arabian cities.

Unique Ability: The Last Prophet: Automatically receive the final Great Prophet when the next-to-last one is claimed (if you have not earned a Great Prophet already). +1 Science for each foreign city following Arabia's religion.

Unique Unit: Mamluk: Arabian unique unit that replaces the Knight. Heals at the end of every turn, even after moving or attacking. Requires the technology of Stirrups to build them.

Unique Infrastructure: Madrassa: Arabian unique building that replaces the University and provides a bonus to Faith equal to the adjacency bonus of the campus district. Requires the knowledge of Theology, a Campus District and a Library.

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This game runs for a month and ends September 15th, 2017.

The save is attached below .

 

[leif erikson]

The recent patch seems to have created an exploit concerning Diplomacy, Joint Wars and Trading Great Works.

AI diplomacy seems to be completely broken in the summer patch (1.0.0.167) where in several cases you can offer absurd deals:
- Joint Wars: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/1-0-0-167-ai-overvalues-joint-wars-to-an-extreme.620697/
- Great Works: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/1-0-0-167-ai-places-no-value-on-great-works.620546/

These should probably be considered exploits.

Please do not make Joint War pacts nor Trade Great Works during this game.
Thanks.

edit - in addition, City Giving is banned as an exploit for this game.

 

[Zeppa]

Thanks for the GOTM Leif. Religion vc with Saladin might be doable.

 

[Lily_Lancer]

Is city giving banned or not...

 

[Falabello]

You can trade 1 gold to AI for all their great works... they are happy to accept.

Ok! This is very insane !

But I guess this not apply with Peace Deals. In this case I suppose it's not exploitive!???

About the game, Settle 1 tile SW, without doubt...

 

[leif erikson]

Is city giving banned or not...

In what circumstance?

 

[Lily_Lancer]

In what circumstance?

You have to define. I'll simply follow that definition to make the best possible way.
For example, if you say "you cannot convert an AI directly by city giving, I may give cities before I convert the last required city, then convert 1 city by missionary. That AI is treated as "converted by missionary" instead of "converted by city giving"

 

[leif erikson]

See no reason not to allow city giving, unless it is used to trade for, say, all of the target civ's relics and/or gold. That would be exploitive imnsho.

 

[Lily_Lancer]

See no reason not to allow city giving, unless it is used to trade for, say, all of the target civ's relics and/or gold. That would be exploitive imnsho.

So is it allowed in all circumstances?(Except for Trading for Joint Wars or Great Works(Including Relics) since they disobey other rules?)

 

[leif erikson]

This is the problem with bugs and exploits. I cannot define it down as closely as you want because I do not understand all the issues. The guidance I will give you is that if you are offered a deal from the AI that is significantly better than it was pre-patch, it is probably an exploit. The only other option I have is to forbid diplomacy, that's ridiculous.

 

[Lily_Lancer]

This is the problem with bugs and exploits. I cannot define it down as closely as you want because I do not understand all the issues. The guidance I will give you is that if you are offered a deal from the AI that is significantly better than it was pre-patch, it is probably an exploit. The only other option I have is to forbid diplomacy, that's ridiculous.

You shall define it before anyone plays, cause this may influence players' strategy.
My question is, is giving cities allowed in all circumstances (except for great work or joint war trading) ?

 

[leif erikson]

This just came up last night, how am I supposed to define what I have yet to understand fully?

 

[antimony]

In the last religious GOTM (14 i think?) city giving was banned. Did something change since then to make it less of an exploit?

 

[leif erikson]

Okay, City Giving is banned as an exploit for this game.

 

[Minou]

This will probably be my first Civ 6 GOTM (just switched from Civ 4). I'm having fun just learning the game. Beginner question, is it important to try and rush an early religion via Stonehenge or Holy Site, or is it considered smarter to just sit back and wait for the "free" prophet that Saladin gets?

 

[Lily_Lancer]

Okay, City Giving is banned as an exploit for this game.

Can I give out or receive cities in a peace deal?

 

[leif erikson]

No!

 

[Lily_Lancer]

No!

So what do you mean? Do you mean it is forced to return all cities when making peace? It seems ridiculous.

 

[leif erikson]

You may receive a city but may not give one.

 

[antimony]

This will probably be my first Civ 6 GOTM (just switched from Civ 4). I'm having fun just learning the game. Beginner question, is it important to try and rush an early religion via Stonehenge or Holy Site, or is it considered smarter to just sit back and wait for the "free" prophet that Saladin gets?

I would say that the chance of getting one of the first prophets on Deity is so low that it doesn't justify a massive investment in religion for the crucial early turns.

GOTM 14 was on a lower difficulty level and with a non religious leader, but it still provides a good idea of how people approach RV, and it ends up being a mix of conquest and pacific spread, with typically more of the former.