It is addictive as hell. I decided to play my first Emperor game and I started rerolling, first reroll: "Looks interesting but I don't like that desert down there", second reroll: "Hmm it's not it but I'll look around for 5 turns", third reroll: "Fck it let's try again", 50th reroll: "It's been 2 hours and I honestly am having more fun just looking at different starts" xD
I've fallen brothers.. like the necrotic hands of death it will not let me go, my struggle is futile, is what it says and now... I can't let myself think otherwise, I don't think I'll make it, tell my mother... I'm sorry..
I often find myself restarting games to get my ideal perfect start (I want something very specific). It sometimes takes up to two hours. By the time I get it I don't even feel like playing anymore :]
I think one important skill to learn as you play at the highest difficulties is how to adapt your plan, based on new information. I recently played a game as the Netherlands, planning on a culture focused game, but spawned next to two geothermal fissures and some mountain, allowing me to placing down 4 cities with +5 or greater campuses in the area, so I change my plan to a science game. Another example, my last game was with Rome, planning on a game where i expand a lot and focus on culture and trade, but spawning next to mount everest. I place down a campus to get faith that i can use to purchase settlers via the monumentalit golden age, but when i get the golden age, i've also become suzerain of Fez, giving me 20 science per citizen every time a convert a city. This is classical era and no other civ has gotten a religion yet, so i go for exodus of the evangelist to get an early religion and spam out missionaries to secure a huge science boost instead, and eventually win a religious victory.
I really appreciate channels that share not only the points they wish to make, but also openly discuss other channels. Thank you for your openess, it allows people to believe in you.
Thanks man! Not only are there so many amazing content creators out there in the CIV community but all of them have a different approach, way of teaching, style of videos etc... I know I’m not going to be the right channel for everybody and there is so much other good stuff out it’d be crazy not to shout it out and encourage people to give it a shot 🎉
This is a great video... But I would offer the following Tip for moving up the difficulties in Civ 6. On the game set up screen, or the advanced game set up... There's an option to turn the difficulty up to Deity or whatever level you want. You're welcome.. That was my tip.
This might be the best get-better-at-a-game video ever. Not just a collection of tips, it's more of "here's the mindset you need to become better". Thanks!
I won my first diety game the other day as America (Bull Moose). I think my start was really lucky tho. Lots of breathtaking forests on hills next to mountains and a city state separating me from the closest civ on a continent map. I ending up conquering the continent with dark age and the relevant religion bonus to boost combat before switching to a tourism game. It was a small map, but the other 4 nations were on a separate continent and never knew of the civilization I was neighbors with before I wiped them out by the time we met so no grievances. After that it was just building all the relevant culture stuff. Thanks to bull moose and preserves, I didn't build a single campus. Took me 200 turns to win.... but at least I won.
I know you're right because I've tried your tips and I am winning more. But you forget that not every player have all the dlc. The game has changed a lot. And becomes easier in my opinion with governors and so on. More possibilities but more forgiving.
my first game i played immortal won the game. My next game was deity won that 2. the biggest thing is to stick with it and realize that the ai having twice or even thrice your science and culture early is going to happen every game.
Playing from behind--took me a long time to get over that, CIV VI is actually the first of the series where I've done Deity games to finish without getting disheartened by being so far behind. (I still generally prefer Emperor level but it's nice to be over my phobia).
I'm still working on King level since I am not good at this "have a plan" bit. On Prince level, I could start off thinking I was going for one type of victory then accidentally win a different way. It still happens sometimes on King level, but not as easily. And it's too easy to get sidetracked if someone declares war on me.
I don't think that's true. You can try to focus on one condition but then things happen to interrupt your plans. Had a recent game I wanted to play peacefully but then the AI settled too close so I forward settled them more for defence. Needless to say I had a thousand year long war with India then. After I won the war, Spain nearly won a religious victory after sending a million missionaries so then I had to destroy them in a war and purge the heretics from cities. I eventually sent my rocket but my peaceful optimisation went out the window when the wars started and I had to build walls, encampments, holy sites before my campuses and libraries
Work in cycles with you bonus cards. When you unlock medieval or Renaissance walls, upgrade them in as many cities as possible while using your 100% defensive building bonus, build all of your walls for half price at the same time
I have played 2 games on Deity so far and won both. Both times playing as babylon and rushing plains. Babylon is Op. I suspect beating Deity as other civs might be alot harder. I'm playing on vanilla btw.
My first playthrough on prince's difficulty. I picked the marathon speed with a huge map and maxed the number of both AI players and City-States. The result is, by the second age all the AI players bankrupted themselves and they weren't able to build any units. Some of their cities rebelled and became city-states It was fairly easy for me to destroy each faction one by one since they hardly put up any resistance. In fact, city-states and barbarian camps were more of a challenge.
Tip 4-- take your time-- is exactly how I play the game. I cannot play multi player, my opponents would hunt me down (IRL) and have me drawn and quartered. Yes, I'm that slow.
Depending on the game we make some adjustments. Typical games are Pangea, Small Map. Or a regular size map with 2 civs removed if we need a little space. Sometimes we mess with picking some city states and other such things but things are pretty standard for the most part
I reroll my game starts quite a bit too, it's almost a must on higher difficulties. Great channel, dude. Now quit your current game and get some sleep, lmao
Nice video although I was already aware of those strategies and tips. I play Civ6 since the day the vanilla game was released and I spend a lot of time with it. Nevertheless I could never win on deity, not even close. I can win about half of my games on emperor but that's it. Here is an example why it is so diffcult: I play as Shaka on a pangea map and my plan is a domination victory. There are two or three other civs (worst case: Korea) who are constantly between 10 and 20 techs ahead of me. I can never beat them militarily because their units are always one or two generations ahead of mine. And by the time when there are no more new units they already have their spaceship on the way.
Try to take advantage of secrete societies and heros, as the AI doesn't do this so well. Example, Anansi removes bonus resoures for a large science and culture boosts, can help in regards to keeping up tech wise.
Would you consider doing a Dramatic Ages game with the Mapuche? You rarely see games with him, but his abilities might work really well with that game mode in particular.
For the life of me I can't get decent in emperor difficulty... I've been playing King for so long it feels way too easy now and the jump to emperor is tough. I don't understand and feel overwhelmed... build a military, an economy, expand, start working on culture and science... bro like I can't do everything at once bitch ! If I focus on one of those things I get DoW or really behind in other categories, and if I try to do a little of everything I'm mediocre at everything. But I want to get good at emperor. I'll never move to Deity (I have no idea how people enjoy deity honestly) but I want emperor to be my groove. Looks like it's easy enough to have fun and hard enough to be challenging. For me at least.
About Falling behind. At which point you are supposed to catch up with other Civs and how much difference? I have an unfinished Canada game on Immortal difficulty, and there I'm fallen behind not only of AIs, but also of the general world era. It's Industrial Era around, but my techs are early Renaissance era at most and I'm doing 60 Science/turn. Is it normal, or did I mess everything up and it's better to start again?
I started in a tundra on emperor with huns and didnt understand how to do early war, so I quickly got behind and stopped the game lol I rerolled the civ and map, and got herald on continents, and quickly won but partially because I learned war
I always come in with a plan to win a certain victory and end up conquering everyone except for a few capitals and essentially cripple the AI to win what I want lol
Hello, i just started playing, so can you tell me how to get that resource board under the AI icon? and i heard about mod about drop pin and see the resource you get from it, where can i get that as well? thank you so much. Love the content and your tutorial explanation
Don’t worry I’m the same. It’s a complicated game and it takes a while to get used to it. I’ve started a game on normal difficulty and I’m just playing it at a very slow pace so each of my moves is well thought out. Good luck!
Just a start of the vid, wonder what tips he has for going from immortal to deity When I play diety I can never kill somebody early or get ahead in science or clutch a domination victory 2 rounds before Rome goes into space Also I feel like my mid game is weak as I have no plan
You're really good, but could you please speak a little softer? Your mic is really high on treble and my head hurts like hell if I listen on normal volume
I play with the Persistent Difficulty mod. I sort of enjoy it more than the normal game, but I also think it might be a better way to learn. Basically, what it does is that on every difficulty, nobody gets extra units, but the AI gets +25% to certain yields (food, production and gold I believe) per difficulty above Prince (you could argue +100% isn't enough to emulate Deity without extra settlers etc. for the AI, but hopefully they might allow us to customize the bonuses more in the future). Now, this might also be a better way to learn, because without this mod your biggest challenges by far on higher difficulties are in the very beginning, which doesn't lend itself to learning very well.
My tip is WHY ARE YOU SO COMPETITIVE ITS A 1P GAME! OK maybe you're punting on ever being great at competitive multiplayer if you never play over prince but... if it's about having fun do what you find most fun TO YOU. Basically my tip is don't get so hung up on upping the difficulty passed what you can handle. It's nice to say you play on Diety but... losing is not fun. My real tip is actually start in a later era like industrial+, it basically eliminates the AI's advantage lol I mean you start with your atonement thing (sorry brain fart) so if you settle turn one you WILL get the one you want! post industrial age there really is no religion available so... you may not want to waste time on Holy Sites though.
I just love the challenge. Actually instaled the one era behind mod (AI starts one era ahead of you) just for an extra challenge, and why not trowh in a 1 city challenge? This is just fun
Possibly, best game ever? I've learned som much about history, military tactics, world leaders and natural + man made wonders (I've actually been to the Hagia sophia, Coliseum, Temple of Zues). If I get rich off cryptos I am going on a world wonder tour, lol.
Sub VB, he has great tips. I started on settler. Seriously. I dominate on King and sometimes Emperor. And everyone is helpful and we have a fun just hanging out.
Love your videos dude. However, I disagree with your first point. The ability to be flexible and adapt your victory path to the cards which you are dealt (location, resources, which AI are in the game, etc) is, in my opinion, fundamental to being able to consistently win against deity AI. As soon as i stopped deciding which victory I was going for before even starting the game I instantly became a better player and won games more consistently.
you're practically shouting through the whole intro. Enthusiasm is good but it's hard to listen to your voice when you talk that way. Good luck in your efforts! I'll try and give this a watch, but the voice is rough for me.
Remember heroes can teleport from city to city so is Sinbad devoted to by a city on a very large lake? :( (believe me been there) well if you settle the actual ocean you can teleport him there... or another very large lake :D exploration is exploration lol. In the same way if you explored all of one continent with Sun or w/e tp him to another continent no need to disembark/ re-embark or anything. One of my last games was Phoenicia with Vampires. Never do this. Whenever you change caps (because of vamp castles sending res to your cap) it INSTANTLY makes your old cap a disastrous ghost town and your new cap a BOOMING village lol. It's pretty crazy.
@@alex2005z It was an acheivement. But the idea is so you can use the cards that says "... if city is not on your capital home continent". Also the ability that makes capital continent coastal cities 100% loyal can be very useful esp in an upcoming dark age xD
Hi, i couldn't watch this vid. Totally erratic narration, awful voice. Try no face cam and another person narrating, simple clear points. Sorry but hope it helps
Hey man, all good. Not all videos are for everybody 👌 I will say though that making "clear and concise" point in Civilization tutorials isn't always very helpful, even though it seems like it would make sense. For videos like the "Let's Talk National Parks" it's really easy to just be clear and simple because there isn't a lot of ambiguity. For general tips however, Civilization is a VERY complicated game and each point needs to be fleshed out as you make it. For instance, if I wanted to give somebody the advice to "build more cities" that's great advice, and it's very simple and easy to understand, but it just leads to a million more questions. Where should I build those cities? How many cities should I build? Okay, I'll build more cities, but what to you want me to do with those cities? If I want to give the advice to "make a plan" which I would because it's a very good idea. If I just leave it there I've done nothing to actually help anybody because the next thing is...okay well what type of plan? When I make a plan when should I adjust it? At what points in the game should I be planning what things? So I'm sure that this video (I haven't watched it back in a hot minute so I can't exactly remember) rambles on and isn't very concise, and it's something we'll always look to get better at 🎉 However, I'd rather be a little disjointed and at least try to dive deeper into what I'm saying than leave things to simple and not have actually said anything 👌 Again, we're always looking to improve! Thanks for the feedback 😊
I'm subscribed to multiple channels about Civ6. They all focus on the game and non of the authors show themselves. I didn't watch this video fully. There's just this dude screaming. Even when he finally does show the game, he keeps on screaming. I didn't learn a thing, and got slightly annoyed. I'm not going to subscribe to this channel.
