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Hey all!!! I've been wanting to make a series about this, and this is the first one! These are some basic tips that don't necessarily get talked about a lot but help out quite immensely.
Here are the timestamps for all of the tips!
Start - 00:00
1.) Scouting With Lenses - 01:12
2.) Map Pinning - 06:40
3.) Districting - 10:54
4.) Managing Citizens - 21:20
5.) Utilizing Governors - 27:08
6.) Policy Cards - 32:10
7.) Win Conditions - 41:29
Summary - 51:56
If I misspoke, or there's something you don't understand - feel free to comment below! As always, you can find me at the above links and livestreaming on / boesthius Wed-Sat 12pm-4pm PST!
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[@boesthius]

***NOTE - The two mods in use in this game are Extended Policy Cards and Detailed Map Tacks - they don't change anything about the game, they are just UI improvements.*** There are obviously a lot of things that you can add to this - and I could have expanded upon what I mentioned in here even more so and could do whole videos on each segment (the districting one is just like...that could literally be multiple hours worth of content) - so I hope you enjoyed what I put out here! If you have any feedback or any questions about things, feel free to ask and I'll try to answer as best as possible -also 1 hour long LMAO jesus boes Here are the time stamps!! Start - 00:00 1.) Scouting With Lenses - 01:12 2.) Map Pinning - 06:40 3.) Districting - 10:54 4.) Managing Citizens - 21:20 5.) Utilizing Governors - 27:08 6.) Policy Cards - 32:10 7.) Win Conditions - 41:29 Summary - 51:56

[@froggygaymer]

Hours of content you say? Sounds good, see you then

[@ignasicortes8481]

Surprised that getting Himiko and nuking a lake are not tips 🥸

[@boesthius]

@@ignasicortes8481

[@tourbackster2168]

Thanks for Detailed Map Tacks! Good mod

[@blehblehson1194]

Do these mods stop you from getting steam achievements? I know they are dumb but I like to slowly plink away at them.

[@joaogomes9405]

Important stuff I wish someone had told me when I started playing: -Each specialty district requires 3 population to build. A city with 1 pop will only be able to build 1 district, a city with 4 can build 2, 7 pop can build 3, etc. Prioritize the districts that will be more valuable to your city as it grows, not the ones you happen to unlock first. And keep in mind that the pop is only required to unlock the district slot, not to build it or maintain it, meaning if you lock in a district at 4 pop and then build a settler that drops your city back to 3 pop, you can resume building your district even with 3 pop. -When barbarian scouts see your city, they'll get a red exclamation mark and start booking it to their camp. Do your utmost to keep those bastards from reaching the camp alive, because if they do the barbarian camp will start producing a massive amount of units that will beeline to your city. Inversely, if the scout dies before reporting back the outpost will not spawn any new units at all, even when attacked. If you ever wonder why the barb camp that only had 1 spearman in it suddenly sent a wave of 3 warriors and a slinger towards your city, it's because you let a scout reach it. -Somewhat related, barbarian scouts are the biggest cowards while scouting. They generally avoid combat and try to find your cities or run back to their camp. This means that if you have a barbarian scout and you don't know where his camp is, the best tool to keep him at bay and keep him from reporting your position is to use two scouts of your own and corral him around until you can use real units to kill him or the camp. If he decides to get aggressive and attack your scout, use both of your scouts and get a free kill. -Barbarian units can only heal if they plunder your territory. However, low hp barbarians will almost always run away and towards their camp, avoiding your units and cities. This means that if you have unit that has lost most of its hp against a barbarian unit, it's better to leave the bastard alone and let him frolic in the woods with a sliver of hp left, and hunt him down later once your unit has healed. -Bafflingly enough, despite being a bunch of dirty squatters in mud huts the barbs scale in technology with the players, and always match the tech of the most advanced civ in the game. This means barbs can attack you with better troops than you haven't even unlocked, because someone in the game did. This makes it so Babylon and Gaul ruin the game for everyone with their unique abilities to unlock mid and late game units in the first two ages of the game. They also don't require any strategics to build said units. -City-States also work like barb camps in terms of tech and unit recruitment, meaning they can get swordsmen and knights without iron, musketmen and bombards without niter, horsemen without horses, etc, potentially before you do. If you're planning on conquering them, it's best to do it early when you have even footing. -Barb camps near the coast are either incredibly dangerous or incredibly worthless depending on if you're playing a very naval centric civ like Portugal, Phoenicia or Indonesia, and extra particularly if you play as the maori or they're in the game, or if you're not and the maori aren't in the game. Once quadriremes are unlocked (and since the maori start with them unlocked, that will be turn 1), barb coastal camps will start spawning waves and waves of them and they will be hell to deal with, since you won't be able to beat their production in the early game, archers and slingers deal tickle damage to ships and you also run the risk of getting your units bombarded from the sea while attacking the barb camp. Their "scouts" are also much more dangerous since they're galleys, meaning you can't kill their scouts fast before they report back with your galleys unless you outnumber the barb galleys. If you find a coastal barb camp as a naval nation, prioritize it above all other camps and get that dealt with before you have a fleet of quadriremes making sailing, trade and exploration impossible. -Each citizen requires 2 food to work a tile. You might get excited at first when hearing about managing citizens and microing them into the best tiles, but do keep in mind that if you ignore food tiles you will lead your city to starvation. -In the ages where melee units are relevant they are better used defensively, while ranged units are better used offensively. Get used to using three rank deep formations where you keep your melee units tight together and in guard formation on the front, with ranged units dealing the damage to units safely behind them and siege units on the back to crack walls. That is of course accounting for unique units and civ abilities. The byzantines don't give a shit about siege units and use their tagmas as battering rams, while the Khmer and vietnamese have mobile siege units/ranged units that can also serve as frontline troops with high melee damage in the form of domreys and voy chiens, respectively.

[@wombat4191]

Regarding barbarian tech, it at least is supposed to be that they only get techs that 50% of civs have, according to the game's code. I'm not sure if that's true because it often feels like they get the stuff that the most advanced civ has, but it could also just feel like that because early on everyone quickly gets leagues ahead of you on Deity, and I think AI tends to prioritize techs that give new units. If barbs actually get any tech that anyone has researched, then it is a bug. I'm pretty sure it at least works as intended on the civic side, because you totally can have flank and support bonuses before barbs do, as they only get those when 50% of civs have Military Tradition. As for Shipbuilding and Maori, them being in the game actually changes nothing. Barbs can always build Quadriremes from the get go, regardless of whether Maori exists in the game or not, because Shipbuilding is one of the three free techs barbs have right from the start, other two being Sailing and Bronze Working so that barbs can have Galleys and Spearmen. This is also clearly stated in the game's code, so there is no doubt about it, and the Maori thing is just myth caused by confirmation bias. Often when you see a barb Quadrireme very early, you think that Maori must be in the game, but have you actually ever proceeded to see if that was true later when you have met all the civs? Also, barbs had early Quadriremes even before GS, but nobody remembers that kind of ancient history. BTW, an amusing fact I found while looking through the files: Barb camps also technically have a city name, even though they don't have anything that would show it, and it's just a placeholder because every city must have a name (yes, a camp, or a tribe as they are called in the code, is technically a type of city). Every single one of them is called Grokville.

[@RobertR19]

I really do like how the Civ community is not only expanding but the interaction with other KZbinrs and/or their content.

[@boesthius]

yeah i wholeheartedly agree! there are a lot of creators out there and it's rad that everyone is lifting each other up

[@TheGamingDeity]

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[@TheGamingDeity]

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[@chrisobrien3671]

One thing that should be mentioned when managing citizens, is that it costs each citizen 2 food to work a tile. So working a 2-2 gets you 2 production, working a 3-2 gets you one food and 2 production, etc..

[@boesthius]

Yeah this is very true - I could've gone more into depth in that aspect ~

[@gratefulkm]

They should add an Owsley bomb, To bring enlightenment and a "we" mind bonus to that area of the map :)

[@TomBruhh]

Which also means that a 2-2 tile is twice as good as a 2-1 tile.

[@monsternside1509]

I knew it Boes is a computer, he constantly calls them "other" AI....

[@boesthius]

monkaS

[@anthonymaisak]

and after a phrase "I'm a human player" I suspect the opposite :)

[@mattdeluccia153]

That tip about locking in production cost early on districts is huge, I had no idea that you could exploit the scaling that way

[@boesthius]

Yeah its super important, gotta save every extra little bit you can

[@yunusokmen]

@@boesthius is it a feature or a bug?

[@boesthius]

@@yunusokmen a feature afaik

[@brianmark2530]

It must have taken a long time for you to edit this whole thing. Thank you for making a comprehensive video for us! :)

[@boesthius]

It did! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

[@An_Economist_Plays]

2 tips in and my mind was blown. Thanks for helping me to see this game on a whole new level. I've been playing it like a souped-up game of Risk when it's actually a fun and complicated mathematical optimization puzzle game.

[@boesthius]

awesome!!! there are a lot of little things like this in the game that aren't really mentioned or they are mentioned, but talked over because of how situational they are haha

[@An_Economist_Plays]

@@boesthius tacks, cards, and getting a focus are my biggest takeaways. It's so tempting to build a wonder because you can, and we really need to be picking and choosing which ones we go for. Gotta break that "catch them all" mentality that goes with Chieftain mode.

[@zacharyenglish2904]

@@An_Economist_Plays no. Boo. Wrong. You can pry my wonders from my cold dead hands. (Jokes- play how you want obviously)

[@dmitritelvanni4068]

I feel this. I still play it like it's risk a little bit. But i always play tsl so it actually kinda works in my favor.

[@VykingVale]

Your sound volume is really well optimized, thank you!

[@VilodWacholderbeerenmet]

The more CIV content the better id say

[@boesthius]

always true, haha

[@alek317]

I appreciate the the tips and tricks. I used to play a ton of Civ1-3 as a kid and just now have comeback to the series. There were so many differences (or maybe I was a kid and didn't understand what was going on to begin with) I got overwhelmed but really wanted to push through. Your explanations really helped me figure out where to start focusing my efforts as I reacquaint myself with the Civ world.

[@benjaamericano2441]

I thought the "map tacks op" was entirely a joke, but seeing that it gives you all the adjacency/effect info for districts/improvements will actually change my gameplay a lot.

[@boesthius]

that is mostly why I included it - it seems like a kind of "obvious" thing but it really does change how you play the game

[@saigesmart4167]

Using pins to plan out districts is probably the most important thing to elevate your game. Before I knew about pins I kinda just threw down districts with whatever was best at the time and thought the main bonuses were from buildings, but you miss out on a lot of yields this way. Now when I play like Germany I'll have three cities next to each other with +10 industrial zones each because I preplanned a megacolassal string of aqueducts, dams, and commercial hubs, its insane

[@boesthius]

Yeah it's kind of insane - and while broken wasn't necessarily the right word it feels like you're almost cheating haha.

[@ness6099]

I will say that a high adjacency quality district can more than make up for quantity of districts. Sure, late game you want as many of x district to let you win with gpp generation, but those exist mainly for great people points and buildings. High base yields are much better because of lack of commitment, late game multipliers, and simply being able to get yields from your districts that you know your opponents aren’t getting over you. Policy cards you have to learn. Obviously not all cards and where they are. I don’t think any player in Deity knows where every card is and what they do without looking them up and I’m sure there are cards I’ve never plugged in at this point. Learn the cards you’ll need and when in the game you get them. Feudalism is arguably just as if not more important than early empire and political philosophy simply for the serfdom card, giving all builders made while the card is plugged in +2 charges, essentially making your builders 66% more effective, and stacking that with Liang or the pyramids makes your builders 100% more effective. The last thing I want to note is mechanics that make cards and other choices stronger. It’s important to get those extra build charges from serfdom because not only do you get more from each of your builders, but because each time you make a builder the next one costs more by getting the same results with half the builders will make all future builders much more relatively cheap than they could be otherwise. Learn about how each mechanic in the game can help you, like district discount, maximizing envoys through focusing on city states you want the suzerainty bonus from as well as getting a spread of envoys in others for the passive empire wide effects, stacking cards/effects with similar bonuses (wistlebanken + Democracy, craftsmen + coal power plant, etc.) All these little things really add up and even on Deity make you a force to be reckoned with... my next comment will tell you how to not spawn next to Saladin or Cyrus

[@jakepaul588]

late as hell comment, but i think it's also worth mentioning some other upsides/downsides about locking in districts, like stopping them from getting blocked by strategics, preventing you from working the tile you place them on, and counting towards the district pop limit. great video!

[@StopFear]

By the way, for those who do not yet use the keyboard when playing, or are only using it for basic things, you can use keyboard buttons which are already mapped by the game to switch between different lens. That and many more commands are incredibly useful if you want to save few seconds per turn instead of doing everything with the mouse. It really adds up and makes things go faster.

[@joriantembuyser3927]

Damn bro, big respect! I never have watched any of these type of vids, ur the first. And instantly ur recommending a bunch of other youtubers. Respct I'm sure I will enjiy the vid!

[@CQchaos7474]

Been playing for years and just learned about map tacks showing all the info when you hover over them

[@doomedmagikarp4285]

this helped me actually a lot as a new player, so thank you for the content:)

[@boesthius]

Awesome!!!thats my goal

[@Shinyshoesz]

Thank you much!! I'm playing with friends and feel like even applying 1/2 of the knowledge here is gonna catch me up. I've been playing competitive TFT and it's a much different (though has overlapping logic in certain instances) sort of pace of game.

[@nicholasabel6640]

Was having a really hard time on diety, then i looked this up and i realized when the expansions offer. Playing on diety on the original Civ VI seemed impossible, AI's had a huge advantage. Excited to try the expansions out.

[@xXDarkxIdealsXx]

Wow...just noticed you only have 18k subs. I expected you to be on the same "level" as the other youtubers you mentioned in the beginning, due to the high production value and content of your videos. So good on you for having high quality content even when it isn't making you any money! Consider me subscriber #18,001

[@boesthius]

thank you!! honestly i started taking youtube seriously this year so i've hopefully i grow soon~

[@BDuckie100]

I think you improved my idea of districting a lot. It always seemed so overwhelming to do ;-; but starting off with a core district that you need for your wincon is actually a lot less headache. not me trying desperately to make every district as efficient as possible

[@boesthius]

Districting is the goat, probably most top 5 important things in Civ 6

[@EugeneEff]

Something I don't think Boes mentions about lenses. You can use 1-0 to select lenses on PC. 4 is settler and definitely my most used. Helps determine how much loyalty a spot has for another civ, etc.

[@boesthius]

That's true! I mentioned it briefly but it was probably skimmed over because of how quuick I mentioned it. Thank you!!!

[@Rikolus8383]

EXCELLENT! Well presented, clear, concise, and appreciate the detailed aspects of each tip you presented. Thanks much.

[@Zeffary20]

Great video Boes! Keep up the good work!

[@ryanbailey5709]

It has always been a dream of mine to travel to Poop Twice on the Floor. It is a quaint and charming town.

[@deriknewtonrayofember5488]

I appreciate this series!

[@boesthius]

Thank you! I'm glad haha

[@true_xander]

In GtS you'll also see the loyalty pressure around the blocked tiles on the map if there is AI/human player, and no loyalty pressure if its just a city-state.

[@sportzak5886]

Great video! Appreciate the edit from "broken" to "useful" for districting lol. The one thing I struggle with when it comes to Governors is when to swap them between cities (for non-loyalty reasons). The five-turns without them often feel prohibitive, but that's probably not the case. So for example with Magnus, is it worth moving him for five turns to get better chops on a wonder you want, or to start the chops immediately? (Obviously the maximum strategy is moving him before you unlock the wonder haha.) Oh and one specific question about chopping: Do you know what the formula/increase is for the yields? I know it scales by era and I believe how many techs you've researched?

[@annasophiaofstead7191]

This is useful I normally just panic and try to build Stonehenge for no reason

[@boesthius]

glad i could help! panic building stonehenge seems stressful haha

[@ruminating_broccoli4447]

Great video. Found 3 and 6 most helpful. Can you do a video about picking which tech and civs in the early game to maximise advantage? And what should be factored in when deciding which to go for given the current game state?

[@ZenotoXOfficial]

Thanks for this video. I spent 40 minutes planning some amazing districts for my first city playing Portugal, and 2 turns later found Montezuma. Thanks to this formative experience, my next game will hopefully not have that happen, and I can use these tips on a second city.

[@emekos_]

Map tacks and the mod make the game so much less stressful especially planning your empire early. Best advice right there

[@joeyjohnson9586]

Awesome. I wish they would allow you to make a custom ruler. Then the special units you could pick for one era. An one plus like science or culture. Nothing over powered. But i would enjoy it.

[@raves8451]

Definitely didn't know about locking in the district tiles and I'll be sure to try and give that a go. Already knew that I needed to be better at picking out my districts but it's kind of hard to manipulate for me sometimes based on starting location and potential settling options. The being more focused on my win condition was definitely one that I struggle with as I'm still learning to learn those and I seem to always win with a Science victory around turn 350 on Prince/Emperor. Seems like those are pretty easy to just win with at those levels. It wasn't until I tried playing other victories or on Deity that it felt like the AI really tried to put a stop to my plans.

[@zonefreakman]

This is all good stuff. In general what I take away is to not become bloated in your cities and to hyper focus on specific goals with your victory condition. Understanding the policy cards and district placement better for me I think will improve my game a lot.

[@beachbum5468]

Excellent video Boes, tyvm.

[@H3O-]

Ignore this if you want, is my personal opinion in governors Magnus not only helps with chop, but helps with setters, and i usually use the capital or a high food city only to make them. Is the first one i always pick Pingala is great, but only if you have great bonus in you districts. Usually i dont have good initial bonus in the capital tho Victor is just for war purposes, makes conquering city easier to control and not make them fall in rebelion Amani is just for the best free city you find, or for other problems that need a governor. Liang is really useful with constructors, but can help with production and even food with her abilities. usually my second pick Moksha is the one i use the least. Only if im playing for a religious victory and i have a really high faith bonus in my district. But it helps a lot when doin it I use Reyna for countries outside my continent or that i have near other big cities, is too useful for money.

[@LOVERGEIST777]

Nice thanks! Playing this game today

[@Sinnix.]

Awesome video, i did want to point out some other benefit of using the lenses, inparticular the settlers lense, if you are scouting very early on and you want to maximize your movement, seeing a tile that is light green will indicate that its a coastal tile which could determine where you want to move your scouting unit. Also you can see loyalty pressure through another lense that sort of acts the same way as seeing the tile be red because its within 3 tiles of another city, but it works at a better distance and can tell you which direction another civ is located. Theres a million small things in this game but every tip helps which is why i always watch these videos. :p

[@boesthius]

Yesh exactly!!! I use the loyalty lense a lot and religion lens, but I felt the fresh water one was super easy to understand and didn't want to get super indepth in it. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@MihaiLanga]

Very useful video. Thank you, man!

[@MatAndHisHat]

Thanks for the tips. I still keep forgetting about lens scouting 😅

[@NightriseXIII]

Looking forward to that one city challenge!

[@boesthius]

thanks!! it'll be up soonTM

[@matthewhoag9892]

You could've used that appeal lens to not run your warrior into a mountain surrounded dead-end. ;) Nice video!

[@boesthius]

LMAO exactly - gg me

[@cameroncrawford1740]

good tips - so useful for me, trying to get past immortal level

[@JustSome462]

I feel the "You have to focus on a win condition" in my soul ngl, every single time i lose it's because i want to do everything

[@broken_tim]

start position and early game domination is everything in this game :)

[@trappedsol]

Holy shit im still tryin to figure out where to place farms & what not 🤣🤣

[@peepeepooopooo7889]

Woah, I did not expect u to say Khmer correctly !! Tysm < 3

[@boesthius]

I try to make a point of learning how to pronounce things correctly - it's super important !

[@peepeepooopooo7889]

@@boesthius I appreciate it < 3

[@vincentpagaoa3644]

Tested that diplo point selling trick in part 2 (saw that one before this one). It's amazing how quickly you can bankrupt AI.

[@boesthius]

Right? Even when they sell at 4 gold per diplo, you can bankrupt them so easily

[@vincentpagaoa3644]

Yeah these little tricks you share are amazing. Maybe I can even try deity soon (currently practicing on immortal).

[@JakobChristensenAnimation]

They should fix the scouting with lenses exploit. Thanks for the great tips!!

[@wminster]

It was hard to pay attention to the win conditions section due to it centering around the city of Poop Twice on the Floor

[@boesthius]

going through comments and i just saw this one again LOL

[@katkong281]

Maximizing production in every possible way is the best way. I only build farms for feudalism boost other than that its lumber mills and mines

[@shinseitaizen]

I was hoping you would do this!

[@boesthius]

yeah it just took me a while, haha. sometimes i just have to kick my own ass and get on top of making videos~

[@inv1ctus39]

Nice video, very helpfull!

[@boesthius]

Glad to hear it!

[@jamesbowman3300]

i got 3.3k gold per turn and i don't know what happened or why.

[@cncredalert3replays424]

with mansa moussa i can get all victory type on deity and i can at least choose between religious or any other victory type but usually, i get an early culture victory almost middle of the game ...

[@iAm50Cal_]

Played this game once last year and just played again today. 😭 i can’t get off my pc

[@michaelloveless8788]

Thank you for the information was very well received peace

[@markimhof3520]

Boes!!!! I've won the top 3 in alphabetical order on King, and now moving up to the higher level. I'm getting better.

[@boesthius]

nice!!! congratulations~

[@Willydjable]

Thanks, things learned.

[@caymangeorge1851]

I play on console and its so much harder to understand let alone find the yields. The UI is definitely much better on PC

[@ianhamilton9600]

Yea me too I wish there was a way to see the actual terrain type when I put the cursor on the terrain, but console isn’t awful either

[@OneCreator87]

5:55 Just settle the second city in the middle and steal the diamonds. Sell them to her and buy an extra warrior to protect your land across the river. You can protect that position with 2 warriors and 1-2 archers easily as they are hills across a river and can switch easily between the city for healing.

[@alexaguirre9018]

Yo when are you gonna stream again my man? Just found the channel and im really liking the content

[@boesthius]

I stream every wednesday - saturday at 12pm PST~! so i stream today haha

[@grubbinvgm]

It's mf boesday!!!! (3pm EST, 12pm PST)

[@alexaguirre9018]

@@boesthius Yo I will be there! Super excited to watch a civ stream. Look for me, my name is willow

[@chumimintv9052]

@@boesthius BOESDAY

[@oscarburrows5390]

Placing districts to lock in their production is a game changer. Do you place/lock-in all districts as soon as possible in all cities? Example, when Industrial Zones are unlocked, do you lock them in in all your cities to keep production cost low?

[@NovaStalker]

how often is it correct to build districts or wonders over resources that exist on the map?

[@Thatfishingguy87]

What is your first 5 moves after settling your first city

[@imnotcj]

happy boes day

[@joshjones5100]

Love the ff9 music.

[@Adi_the_gamer]

The thumbnail caught me

[@Soothsayer_98]

Even when I'm not even trying or I pick a specific leader and I am trying to go for a specific victory, I keep constantly accidentally winning Diplomatic or Culture victories.

[@Loudmovth]

Thanks for the video! How do you see the tile yields from the map tacks? Is it a mod?

[@boesthius]

That is correct! It's called Detailed Map Tacks~

[@gutsu8059]

scrolling look for this comment thanks for asking the question, and thank you to the creator of this video providing the answer!!!

[@lachon91]

I’m playing cleopatra Egypt and I’m struggling to get better defense. I’m in 1834 AD and I still don’t have a Knight. What do I need to do?

[@Loki19810310]

Great video. Very helpful to me that knows how to play civ 6 but still have alot to master. Whats your goto game settings for a normal game. Speed, size, civs, CSs, maptype etc. Thank you

[@boesthius]

Generaly it's standard size map, standard speed, abundant resources and legendary start positions!! And i'll rotate between pangaea, 7 seas for map types

[@peterjfp]

How do you show the exact bonus while pinning and selecting policy cards?

[@stevenp6328]

hello, how can I see the district bonuses with the map pins? I can place the pins but it wont show the number adjacency, is that a feature I must enable?

[@KillianConanMiller]

I have a question. Do the numbers in % add up or Is it multiplication? When I have two +15% Production toward Ancient and Classical wonders, how much production power will a city with 100 production power have? If I own the pantheon "Monument to the Gods" and the policy card "Corvée" at the same time, is the calculation 100x(1.15+1.15) for 130 or 100x1.15x1.15 for 132.25?

[@boesthius]

For the same class modifiers they are additive, but after that they're multiplicative afaik. I could be wrong, so please correct me on that!!

[@xXDarkxIdealsXx]

Damn...what map are you playing on? (As cree at beginning) I see a +3 harbor and +4 commercial hub at starting city as well as a +4 campus. Down south those BE-UT-I-FUL mountains give you a +5 and +3 campus/holy site. Lovely yields in starting city, plenty of 2/2 tiles, plenty of upgradeable stone, sheep, a luxury etc.. River, coast and 3 fishing boats. Not bad start at all.

[@wulphstein]

Fantastic!

[@harryrimington9698]

I have a question with scout promotion, should you get the one which ignores hills or the one that ignores woods, is one objectively better or should you go by situation

[@boesthius]

it's a situation thing, but i generally grab the Alpine (the hills one) as i find it more useful more often than the other one~

[@harryrimington9698]

@@boesthius thank you, I thought that it might be that one because of wooded hills tiles

[@cjd2889]

Re: policy slots. For a long time I didn't even know you could use any policy in the wildcard slot. I thought you HAD to use purple policies only.

[@mahaphoublue7644]

Hello boes May I ask, because most I have seen many people always start with the scout but for me I always start with the builder, and expand the city not with two border close but three border away, is it a good thing?

[@boesthius]

Scouting is super important because finding tribal villages, ai and city states are more important than yields in your city. You shouldn't go builder first generally ever, scouting is way way more important~

[@pyrokingali3363]

one question how can you unlock pilicy card places is it from city to city different ?

[@fraserbookatz1122]

hey boes i have a vid idea. try winning any game with any civ on any difficulty but never switching out of chiefdom.

[@EveryoneFearest]

hey man, new player here (like started playing a week ago). I wanted to ask about districting, how did you enable the numbers that show how much more science/culture you'll gain from placing said district in that tile? 12:10

[@boesthius]

it's from a mod called Detailed Map Tacks!

[@EveryoneFearest]

@@boesthius oh sweet thanks man, this game seems really fun and since I'm into strategy games. I kinda wanna learn how to get better so this really helps.

[@tehjoch]

wow I didn't know production costs for districts go up over time!

[@boesthius]

yeah!! that's why the locking districts mechanic is super important haha

[@harryrimington9698]

Another question, can you boost a plus 3 campus to plus 6 with the 100% adjacency then take advantage of the rationalism bonus, ive always wondered

[@nicholasneyhart396]

I believe so. Don't quote me on that though.

[@boesthius]

Sorry I didn't catch this - I believe that it doesn't because it's counting the adjacency based off of the district and not the modifier off the card. I'd have to test but from what I recall it doesn't

[@boesthius]

@@harryrimington6110 it does in that instance but i believe that trigger for rationalism(or simultaneum, etc) is from the adjacency itself and not the modifier. i'll test it out!

[@harryrimington9698]

@@boesthius okay thank you, I think it does work then that would be insanely powerful because it is quite easy to get a +2 so then using the card to double it meaning rationalism

[@boesthius]

@@harryrimington9698 so i just tested it with a campus that had +3 adj, put in natural philo and then put in rationalism and it doesn't effect that district at all. so rationalism relies on the adj from the district, not from the effects of a card adding it

[@WetWetShmuel]

i have a question: how does settling on bonus, strategic, and luxury tiles work? does it just destroy the features AND the bonus or just the feature? do u get the accumulation of strategic resources like horses and iron? what about amenity from luxury resources?

[@boesthius]

so you're on the right track! the only thing that gets "destroyed" is the feature itself - settling on top of bonus resources the resources is still "there" underneath your city, same with luxury resources. so if we settled on top of Deer, for example, the resource would be "there" still and you could even build Temple of Artemis next to your city because of it. the same with luxury resources - you get that resource itself as well as the amenity~ a lot of the times i dont settle bonus resources because they usually spawn on features that give extra yields - for example settling on top of a 2/3 deer tile would just turn it into a 2/2 tile with deer on it because the Woods feature was giving it extra production. it's the same thing for Strategic resources, you accumulate them as if you improved em

[@WetWetShmuel]

@@boesthius what a goat for replying to a comment on a year old video. fav civ content creator

[@teteeheeted]

You can’t even pull these numbers with pantheon exploits, *and it’s perfectly legit tips from this video* I commend you boesthius

[@turbo2tone]

Great vid

[@boesthius]

Thank you!!!

[@nathanjanus4579]

How did you get the yields from policy cards to display on the bottom? Same with the districting. Can districts display the adjacency bonus like that without mods? I'm on EpicGames not steam 😔

[@boesthius]

That's a mod called Extended Policy Cards - I'm not sure if it would work on Epic :(

[@ori1393]

boesthius is using extended policy cards and detailed map tacks. if you want to use mods, then go to the steam workshop page for a mod (ending in id=number) and copy and paste that into steamworkshop.download , click download, then unzip the folder (which will be a bunch of numbers), then check the folder hasnt got a folder of the same name inside it (in which case use that instead) and then drag that folder into your civ 6 DLC folder, which will be located in discname/program files/epic games/sidmierscivilizationVI/DLC

[@ahmadja3far397]

It does work, but you need to convert the file using a website called steam workshop, then put the mod directly into the mods file in the epic games folder If your unsure theres a 2min video on KZbin

[@nathanjanus4579]

@@ahmadja3far397 Sir you're a live-saver. I just installed both mods now!

[@ahmadja3far397]

@@nathanjanus4579 I'm glad it worked out.

[@Marshaljt187A]

You should do a How to Download Mods video and include some useful/fun mods that you know and trust. I’ve played since civ3 but never used mods. I’ve looked into downloading them but the articles I’ve found never show where you get them. They only talk about how to install them. I feel like I am missing out a little by not using any mods. Also how do you know what mods to trust?

[@ByOdenSent]

look up workshops in steam

[@Greensky212]

If you dont already know the map tack adjacency info is a mod for pc so if your a console player get ready to learn adjacency bonuses from heart

[@YouThiagoTube1986]

locking districts. damn thank u so much. stomping my friends now muahahaha

[@Norwayfoeshoe]

26:00 why did the Marsh tiles get +2 prod from religion, I thought the pantheon was plus 1 only?

[@boesthius]

it was buffed to be +2 production instead of 1 with the latest patch in Gathering Storm

[@jakehackney1718]

I have been playing civ for a long time, it does not look like an easy game to master, the highest difficulty I can remember winning on was King. I never really planned a city using the pins before, I'm going to try this it will probably help me.

[@boesthius]

The city planning is super useful!! It helps even if you just want to visualize what you want to plan out~

[@jakehackney1718]

@@boesthius Still have not won on lv.6 difficulty, but I am getting close! I was doing okay as Germany and I got close to a diplomacy victory as Brazil. I think I'll get the DLC they have been releasing over the past year once I manage to win one.

[@boesthius]

@@jakehackney1718 i believe! you'll get there soon enough

[@jakehackney1718]

@@boesthius It was super close but I thank God I was able to finally get the win, I was playing as Perciclies and got the diplomatic victory

[@carsonclashed8860]

I love the hat bo

[@boesthius]

liquid life

[@danielmikhalchuk3490]

Really well made tip video! Only one question. Can I have the Egypt seed you had for the ‘Citizen Management’ section plox?

[@boesthius]

Haha yeah I'll have to dig it up, but I'll get back to you

[@boesthius]

I found the save - if you want I can upload the save file + the configuration on my discord if you'd like it there~

[@danielmikhalchuk3490]

@@boesthius The terms and conditions things is broken, I can’t join it :(

[@boesthius]

@@danielmikhalchuk3490 oh weird! I think you have to wait 10 minutes to join my discord after you create an account. If it's still messed up let me know~

[@danielmikhalchuk3490]

@@boesthius It’s not that, my account is years old. In order to talk in the server, you have to complete the steps of being verified by email (done) and clicking agree on your terms, but when I hit confirm, I get an error saying “The server’s requirements have changed. Please close this and try again.” No matter how many times I follow that advice.

[@5ive10en3]

i like this guy