[Civilization VI] Guide to Beat Your First Deity Game. 

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Ye, but because there are a lot of good pantheons, I usually would prefer getting urban planning, as I will get an okay pantheon at some point anyway. Unless i get 20 faith from tribal village and can contest religious settlements, or in situations where I want a specific pantheon (like goddess of the sea for coastal civilizations, or I have a lot of camps, and maybe would even consider temple of Artemis, goddess of the Hunt would get me insane value) You're right that if You have more choices for a pantheon, You can choose one that is better to Your empire. But will it make Your empire better than urban planning would? That's a cost of opportunity. Usually I have average land (in terms of resources) like in this playthrough. Where I have like what, few plantations, few pastures and few strategic resources and no camps. If I get pantheon fast, I would still need to make a builder and improve those resources to gain any benefits at all. In case of plantations, I would have to go out of my way to research irrigation as well. Meanwhile, I could just plug in urban planning and make settlers/districts which have better return on investment than any pantheon ever will (except religious settlements, that one is busted, but usually equally unattainable :D). All in all, if I'd have exceptional land for specific pantheon, I'd go for it, but generally, i'd much rather have new cities up and running faster.

@@HaakonYT yeah urban planning is pretty good too but personally I jusg prefer pantheon choice over one extra production

Fair enough :)

​@@excancerpoik basically assess your land and if your return on pantheon investment is very low, choose urban planning. He had only hills and not much else so it was a no brainer. All he misses is the inspiration for mysticism.

That's fair enough, I usually settle a lot, so cramping up cities. If I would be playing with smaller empire, or If I had population to work most of the city's tiles, I'd do the same. But pushing city further at the start of the game, just delays settling by an extra turn and it is not a given that my cities will grow big enough to work all those tiles anyway :D Also, if I would want to connect my cities by districts, to increase their adjacency, buying tiles further away would vaporize my gold income :D I guess it is a tradeoff between early game tempo and late game scaling, cause big cities require more builder improvements and stuff to come alive, but once it's done, they become insane powerhouses!

@@HaakonYT Yeah. To be fair, I do play on a lower difficulty (king or so), as I do like getting the occasional early wonder too XD

All that matters is that You are having fun! :D

If you think about it you only really need 3 districts to get a trade route, your victory yield like science and an optional district like industrial zone/entertainment complex/encampment. 3 districts is only 7 pop or 4 as Germany so you only need 7 or 4 tiles for your entire population to be working. You also don't need to work tiles to gain and sustain pop because of various food sources, mainly trade/religion/food buildings/civ abilities. Also, the lower your population the less you have demand for amenities and of course if you can have +10/20% yields from +3/5 amenities that can mean higher output than pushing your population to max.

When it comes to Culture Victories supported by faith, Russia is probably the best. Dance of the Aurora Pantheon + work ethic and Feed the world, to increase food and production in the cities go hard, especially when You buy 5-7 settlers in monumentality golden ages purely out of faith to provide you with massive tempo, it can be fun and very unfair even to Deity AI. :D Khmer is also a very well rounded civ that leans towards similar playstyle, can be more focused on growth and can play with a lot of cities, or a small empire making it very versatile. Theodora (Byzantium), especially with work ethic ( giving production in holy sites equal to faith adjacency) even in the early game You can have +3 faith +3 production +3 culture holy sites (going to +6 with scripture policy card) can be really fun to play. Honorable mentions to try would be Kongo (Nzinga), Canada and Brazil, which have their own unique twists and might be fun to explore. :)

@@HaakonYT Thanks! Im gonna try it

Hi, I just checked, but unfortunately - not anymore, sorry. :(