Hi there - If there is anyone playing Civ6 on deity and also playing VP?
What do you think the mileage of Civ6 deity AI is for challenge compared to VP and what equivalent VP difficulty level would that be in your opinion?
I'm having slight thoughts to buy Civ6 and try it, but it is very expensive and if it has insufficient AI challenge I know I'm going to be disappointed (I remember what happened with me on Civ5 before BNW).
Cheers thanks in advance
It is clear civ 6 is made for looks, other platforms than just PC and a less hardcore crowd, a wider crowd which is a good choice from an economical perspective.
More fun or not? well it's up to you to decide.
I've only watched youtubers, filthyrobot is good, he is very harsh on civ 6.
I've watched some others who were decent in civ 5 but it feels like they don't want a stiff challenge and I also like if they explained mechanics and their choice of actions more.
Have played civ 4, civ5bnw and vp (only watched civ6, I wont pay for that stuff) I would say King is a good start (in vp), just go up if it's too easy.
Difficulty scale in Civ6 (or lack of) seems to have a low roof only boosted by rebates, as others mentioned, a lot of youtubers went straight into diety basically from day one and it is considered a lot easier than civ 5.
If civ 5 was insufficient challenge (and therefor not fun) then I wouldn't touch civ6 with a 10 foot pole.
But it also depends on your playstyle, for comparison I watched Marbozirs turtle playstyle of diety civ 5 and thought that is the way to play it, and then Chris (absolute zero, a very good civ4 player) showed how to play very agressive in a civ 5 diety game.
Getting stuck thinking "this is how civ should be played, why is not my playstyle working, this is stupid" is an easy trap moving from civ4->civ5>vp and prob civ6 as well that really can hinder you.
(Some of the crazy stuff I've seen pulled off in civ4 on the forums was mindblowing for me.)
VP is the first civ game where I feel that I really need to prepare vs my neighbours (apart from montezuma as neighbour in civ 4).
Instead of the random worker steal and a congaline suicide you'll see decent attacks with atleast 4-6 units on your borders.
I just kicked shaka in my game (king) where he had a scary force on my border, I had planned a long time for it and had mountains, rivers extra internal roads and even great wall to my favour.
Even after killing off his first wave and taking two cities from him there were another three or four reasonably coordinated waves of assault that easily would have recaptured stuff if I havent played strategic enough.
If you have civ5, VP is a free mod, no question that you should try it.
If you consider buying civ 5 instead of civ6, then yes (you can probably get a decent rebate), both civ 4 or civ 5 were pretty bad until the second expansion had been released, I fear however that civ 6 have worse issues than previous versions and VP is a really interesting mod that brings civ 5 to a new level.
Hope you don't mind the post got a bit long.
