CIV 6 DESERT ONLY CANADA DOMINATION CHALLENGE

Never ask me to do a challenge again

[@joshbrown5842]

We need a Canada revenge tour, joke game where you do the inverse and just destroy desert civs in an arctic environment.

[@oppaxox4962]

Yesssss

[@RugnirSvenstarr]

Yesss, with another restriction to make it interesting, maybe one city challenge

[@marijntenvelde8106]

Amen

[@xxUrek]

Or go with a desert civ and kill many civs with no bonuses in the desert

[@JasperVH]

I Really want this, just like a 10 minute video of just pure destruction with a superbuffed map for a certain civ

[@carlosmiguelteixeiraott3643]

Potato: "Who would be devilish and devious enough to set a challenge this sick..." *In the distance a figure, wearing a Monocle and Top Hat, draped in shadows laughs as he sips 'the best beverage in the world, Yorkshire Tea GOLD', and pets a corgi sitting in his lap "Why I wonder who it could be, Ladies and Gentlemen".

[@lmcg9904]

Ahhh yes, quite the spiffing fellow if I do say so myself.

[@unseenmal]

He's a cheeky little sausage

[@decca1810]

I’ve once drank like an entire box of Yorkshire tea gold in 4 days

[@sculkwizard]

Let's scarr him away ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️

[@thomashughes7336]

@@decca1810 I usually run out of tea whenever I decide to watch Spiffs stuff again

[@KeithA45]

40:55 - "I need make sure I never get a friendship with [Mali] again" 41:30 - Mali asks Potato for a friendship which is accepted lol that lasted long

[@greywoolf-user]

think he wanted to say alliance there

[@MH-hu5pi]

I saw that. Buffling stuff

[@diegovasquezcaballero]

Exactly. You cannot send spies to Allies but you can to friends.

[@PiotrDzialak]

alliance not friendship

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@ness6099]

"I went for the colosseum pretty quick" Potato, Turn 154

[@Voltar_99]

Quick as he could.

[@yuwish6320]

You realize that you will now have to play Mali in the tundra, right?

[@aaronsirkman8375]

No joke, I played a Mali game where I started out...in a small strip of desert, right below a bunch of jungle. Not tundra. But! I expanded north, through a lovely sugar filled river, to the coast, and south, where there was a bunch of hills, salt and silver, and...tundra. Tundra as far as the eye could see. I was on a relatively small peninsula, at most an 1/8 of the continent I was on, where almost the entire rest of it was tundra, except for almost another 1/8 in the southeast, which was snow surrounded by mountains. But, that had Eyjafjallajokul at the bottom, and there was a river running through the southern tundra, with some forests and salt around it, so I damn well conquered the rest of the continent from the barbs, and I DID settle profusely in the tundra. Tundra Mali won, eventually; thank god for their mine bonus, and for volcano yields; despite being litereally in snow at the bottom of the map, my Eyjafjallajokul city was easily my most populous.

[@atocanboi409]

Mali still has bonuses there, like their unique building and unit, and tundra actually has 1 food on it and wood for chops, it needs to be on snow

[@aaronsirkman8375]

@@atocanboi409 And don't forget the extra gold from mines! That saved my ass in my game.

[@davidjohnson-rj7op]

I know its terrible but I love the episodes where potato goes a bit insane and goes off on one. I hope he got in some RnR after this one to recover.

[@mikehawk8526]

I couldn't stop laughing towards the end. honestly one the funniest episodes I've seen. Anyone who's played a domination without razing cities knows the grind, except this was that but on steroids. The number of times he repeated "never ask me to do anything like that ever again" had me wheezing.

[@alextopfer1068]

"Conquered the desert on a moose with no name It felt good to have some faith in the game In the desert you can't remember the save and Canada will give you great pain"

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@alexstewart9592]

I love the "your nuke attack succeeded" message right next to "you failed to stop a nuke attack by your plane" message the game gave you there. Really driving the point home that you nuked your own units.

[@gumbycat5226]

If you look at that Ivory, it appears as if a strategic resource. That's why it accumulated so much. It's probably a problem with the map generation.

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@glenm99]

28:45 "We've got something going on here in Winnipeg." It's funny how every once in a while someone manages to string a set of words together in a combination that has never been heard before.

[@rrobucksthehuman9186]

Ah, the ever eventful prairies

[@PrismariLaura]

I don't know what caused the bug specifically, but somewhere between turns 282 and 286, when you conquered 4 babylonian cities including Karkar, your amenities jumped to 65k+ I would have guessed it had something to do with the whole "removing unique improvements from civs when the city is conquered" thing, but babylonian unique bonuses do not interact with amenities at all. So it's just weird. If you can recover turn 282 by any chance, it's worth investigating a bit more into it.

[@vazacaks7597]

It happens again around 1:28:41 on turn 319 after the trade deal with Mansa Musa, he goes from 558 up to 65565. In that trade deal he's getting a peace offer with amenities in the offer and in the cut between turns 282 and 286 he gets peace with India. So it might be somehow related to peace deals with amenities being traded?

[@PrismariLaura]

@@vazacaks7597 I don't think that's related to the trade deal itself, as when the screen opens, before the deal is finished, he already has the full 65538 amenities available. I think it's just the trade deal he made earlier expiring at that point. Edit: just double-checked, he traded 65000 of his amenities with Gilgamesh, then entered a war against him on turn 319 by declaring one against Egypt. I think that was just an UI bug, where the amenities didn't actually update until Potato entered a trade screen.

[@vazacaks7597]

@@PrismariLaura Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining that! I'm quite curious about what's going on here lol

[@PrismariLaura]

@@vazacaks7597 so am I! I'd love to get my hands on that save in the right turns lol

[@rico8736]

I’ve had this bug few days ago. When I built a camp on furs luxury on my turn 15-20 as Genghis Khan and it was the exact same amount as the ivory on this video. I’ve thought that this bug was caused by a mod which allows to harvest strategic and luxury reasources (Because it’s stupid and annoying that you cannot build a district on that tile), but now it seems that this is a civ 6 bug itself, which came along with some of the patches. And in my case this happend very early in the game, so it might be some world generation bug, which for some reason places this insane amount of the resource within one tile.

[@Ashtari]

Spiff is just a source of pain for our poor Potato at this point. That being said, I can not WAIT for the next insane challenge. What'll it be, Spiff? Waterworld with the most anti-naval civ in the game? Tundra world as Arabia?

[@wvman2374]

Same desert world, but this time with Vietnam

[@bigfudge2031]

Arabia still has the ability to generate tons of faith and science and they have a good unique unit, it would be much easier. I don't think there are many challenges harder than this

[@Ashtari]

@@bigfudge2031 If there is, I'm sure Spiff will find it.

[@ow3nmahp935]

@@wvman2374 oh god... but then again i don't think it's any doable cuz Vietnam legit can't build any district a lvl4 disaster waterworld with Vietnam, on the other hand...

[@brian8770]

Spiff is going to disappear for a few weeks to figure out that resource overflow bug Potato found.

[@k_nape]

I just want to imagine the canadian just founding a galaxy worth of ivory in a random babylonian city ( You got the 65000 ivory between turn 282 and 286 btw)

[@CoolpilotProductions]

Just to add on to this, Mashkan-shapir, specifically, is the city that appears to have the Ivory in it, and presumably responsible for the bug. Some busy elephants up there in the north...

[@marshallbradshaw3817]

Fascist Canada realized ivory can be made from people too. +65,000 copies overnight.

[@kierkegaardrulez]

65536 is exactly 8 Kibibytes.

[@JacksonOwex]

I also want to say that I, personally, like the longer format of these last two videos! Maybe not ALL the time but for something like this it's nice!

[@chrizzie1]

I loved the random MS Paint time with Potato (50:17). I'd like to see more of that.

[@davidmoorcroft7117]

He does that a lot on his live streams. I'm jealous of his paint skills.

[@AdsRW]

Yeah definitely watch live streams - you can’t stop him bringing out Paint even if you wanted to. :)

[@chillingwithyou8756]

When potato starts a sentence with "Ok, listen, sometimes ..." you know some major bs is about to come up 😂

[@althermella8633]

I quite enjoyed the slow decent into madness as the game slowly progressed. Each turn turning Potato into a boiled, mashed, barely conscious mass of the remnants of the alcoholic beverage he once was. Too bad it didn't come with chives.

[@matthewklestinski7030]

"Let sentient meat work together.." Timeless classic.

[@littlebear274]

The last half hour of this was just a sublime descent into madness, topped off with the nuclear missile. Love it.

[@TribonRA]

Looking at the barbarians with units an era ahead of you, an apostle with the Heathen Conversion promotion would have been really strong

[@Siege181]

Potato: Why am I doing this challenge?!?! Answer: Because you were manipulated by an Englishman. Like many a proud Irishman before you! (Meant in a cousinly-we-love-you type of way!)

[@kylenetherwood8734]

Cousin love means something different in Ireland

[@bigfudge2031]

I would love to see a mod where you can use any leader you want with any civ, it would add so much more replayability and potential memes into the game.

[@Shadraen1]

Potato, there is a MOD for Unique tile improvements where if you conquer a city you keep them. Not sure about the Unique districts

[@EbonieWilliams]

I love this playthrough. It's always exciting to watch pro players think of a different strategy to win a challenge. : ) And I got to tell you, these long videos are inspired. They are my life.

[@kyuubitao]

Spiff doesn't just break games. He breaks content creators as well.

[@alantremonti1381]

Perfectly balanced... On the precipice of madness.

[@joshsimpson1283]

Just a reminder! It's been a year! Hard version?

[@flukislucas]

Im glad to see the editor is (Scottish). I like to think you download your video on a thumb drive, throw on a large wool sweater, hop on a Schwinn from the 60s, and ride through a misty village to (a local ferry, which you take to Scotland) to deliver it personally

[@aaronsirkman8375]

Are there local ferries from Ireland to Scotland? I'd think the distance is a bit too long for that simple of a jaunt.

[@spudsdavenport]

@@aaronsirkman8375 Isle of Bute isn't that far across the way; Glasgow, not much further.

[@ichifish]

Turn 182: "We're starting to get in the ballpark of... [being tied for last place in science and 1/2 of the top two civs]!

[@fitzwits]

Hey man, I really appreciate and respect the content. Been watching on and off for a year or two. I have a favor to ask, can you let the developers know the Xbox version of the game has been completely unplayable for little over two or three months now?

[@hurtchain5844]

I think audience chamber would be better than ancestral hall for this build. Tile improvements are nice but not necessary since your yields are already so low. Besides you can just work an oasis for easy early food. Getting those extra amenities from the audience chamber stacked up with the yield boost from autocracy would allow the capital to make more every Era. I just feel that suffering from low amenities really hurt this play through for a long time.

[@incontinentgaming7352]

Best. Video. Ever. I’ve never actually watched a person go insane before. My son and I loved it.

[@slwrabbits]

Now I'm scared to finish watching this ...

[@bargiona]

Potato @26:10 : "I literally survived on 1 health" . I hope Spiff releases a video exploiting the hell out of some weird mechanic and winning this game in half an hour.

[@3dbee47]

It’s budget Dune spice wars

[@DrownedInExile]

Damn. Even the Deserts of Kharak weren't this inhospitable! Hope you'll survive long enough to build a Mothership to send your people to their Homeworld.

[@JacksonOwex]

Potato was challenge to become a Dominatrix! That doesn't sound right, hmm?!

[@talialevi2723]

That's a nice empire you've built, but imagine how much nicer an empire built by Gandhi will look when you nuke all cities on the map then win. That'll be a pretty sight

[@JacksonOwex]

OOH! I like GREEN!!!

[@fuzrot8022]

What I expected in this vidoe: Desert Canada challenge. What I got: A potato losing his sanity... and Desert Canada challenge. Came for gold, found more riches I guess 😂.

[@myfirstseven8316]

I’m just impressed with Potato’s depth of Canadian knowledge. He instinctively knew that Winnipeg is our centre of culture and science, and he honoured that. Bless your heart PMW.

[@DanoFSmith-yc9tg]

This is actually quite similar to how I normally play, long, slow, build up a crazy army, and dominate, or play world police, and try and resurrect fallen nations and city states, and just completely mold each map to my liking with canals for my navy, and air bases for my air force. Basically play real life USA in CIV. I have a sumarian game that's Dom win only, unlimited length game that is well over 2500 turns, it's on a real earth true start map, I have all the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Suez, and Middle East, for my navy to go everywhere, built canals connecting the great lakes in North America, and the 2 seas in west Asia. Plus the lakes in Africa, my navy can get to every body of water.

[@justanotherhobbit7215]

@1:14:31 theres a mod for that ( well a pair of mods) "Captured cities keep unique districts" and "captured cities keep unique improvements"

[@Henry-uv9xu]

I can imagine that it must be pretty difficult to make content like this day in and day out, mostly in the same game nonetheless, so THANK YOU for making such great videos for us!

[@FroggyBunwich]

I love civ and I struggle to even finish a game. I'll never understand how he has the drive to play so much.

[@haid8144]

you know that potato lost his mind when he doesnt say "churn" a single time in this insanity

[@michaelbaker9347]

at approximately 50:00 Potato starts losing his mind haha. love the content brother!

[@JacksonOwex]

Damn, Nubia really blends into the desert! 1:04:45 Uh oh! The Cutie is also on his way to a science victory!!! 1:09:30 Is that THREE geothermal fissures in Sydney?! DAMN that's a LOT of science! I guess thanks to his pantheon Faith as well! 1:11:41 Isn't La Venta a City-State?! Damn Curtin, thought you wanted allies AGAINST the hawks of war not wanted to BE one!

[@robjohnson3095]

This sentient meat pushed the likes up to a mighty 62, won't be long now till we hit 1 million!

[@ichifish]

Stan Rogers, rest in peace, did a stunning version of Barrett's Privateers. My paw took me to see them at The Folkway in Peterborough, NH when I was wee boy. All these years later I can still pretty much sing it from memory. Bring's tears to my eyes just thinking about it.

[@temmy9]

He wrote the song

[@Ty_-ht1mp]

*Potato singing a song of pain and death* Me just bopping along

[@snuffman4life]

Oh my, I genuinely felt your joy of capturing that last city! 10 players dom maps can be sooo tiring

[@jefferybrown6473]

Remember boys always research how to flank in a domination game.

[@nic9260]

The paint drawing lmao

[@carlkligerman1981]

Has anybody recommended this to the KZbin overlords to be featured? This is an absolutely EPIC game! The spud man is a GOD: “I am sentient meat self-harming for the entertainment of other sentient meat’ is the whole internet described in a sentence. I mean tell me an AI would EVER, EVER come close to such comic and descriptive genius! GOATED

[@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen]

Builder, Settler, Trader, Spy - a new hit thriller by one P. McWhiskey!

[@snefansson]

I know this is probably torture for poor Potato but honestly, this is so much fun! Seeing such a skilled player just grasping for straws and tricks to pull this of is amazing

[@haydenzhong4341]

Gives "Canada Dry" a new meaning

[@fish.jockey516]

Spudley McPoggers you absolute legend, been watching since you had sanity. Loving the stream of ideas to improve civ into its next iteration, thought I’d comment on some long term trends you’ve mentioned over time, namely city specialization: •more than civ 5 with specialist slots, we could have “the hill/river/ocean city of an empire specializing in unique aspects” •like in civ5, use of great people for tile improvements/“era score”/some use beyond just e.g. 2 tourism great works •conquering unique districts/tile improvements should remain for conquering civ All of these allow for cities to be truly unique, with the potential of becoming dominant in empire-wide priorities, and could instil a new dimension in governance not yet seen in civ. Suggestion: combine these ideas and have overarching government types interact with them differently. I.e. democracy enhances city differences at the expense of core “values” of the capital, and conversely totalitarianism decreases city specialization at the expense of amenities and increases, say, war production or dissent suppression. New balances must be struck beyond what your aims are towards other civs, your governance is ultimately tied to the domestic requirements of governance, like, you know, how governments work/emerged. What’s the fun in picking (F) for +5 combat strength just because you can? The contraints of your empire should reflect the requirements and abilities of governing. Ultimately; enhance Sim City capabilities, keep war a real part of the game but enhance interaction with governance, never ever get a political science degree, and be happy. Mad love from Toronto, you’re a beast. Go raibh maith agat

[@nikitashaitan9984]

1:14:40 is a great idea of replacing/choosing abilities But should work only if you completely conquered a civ

[@bonsaiskywalker681]

We're watching a mad man becoming insane. Take it what ever way you like. I personally think of the lego joker.

[@zackpayne42]

I REALLY appreciated the delve into madness that lead to the Bo Burnham singing.

[@sticksteve13]

Absolutely love the Stan Rogers "Barrett’s Privateers" reference. Thank you for showing how cultured you are. Amazing how you handled this nearly impossible scenario.

[@joshuahitchins1897]

Ngazargamu, I have come to bargain.

[@thewonderdoc2999]

Shouldve just settled Winnipeg 1 tile north and you wouldve gotten the +3 era score from settling near Païtiti

[@igr2113]

Damn what a cool churn! Great job Potato! Makes me appreciate Ursa Ryan who goes through horrific challenges on extra large maps daily lol

[@nickjeffery536]

Potato - "Living in a desert world is a horrifying experience..." Just you wait until the sand-worms attack!

[@Ellerard]

So here I lay in my 23rd year How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now It's been 6 years since we sailed away And I just made Halifax yesterday God damn them all! I was told We'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns, shed no tears But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers ~~Barrett's Privateers, Stan Rogers

[@zodayn4767]

What you said about unique improvements dissapearing. I was playing on the real starting locations Europe map. And the Dutch had turned all the land around Denmark into a Massive Polder with 15 population. Which all died when I took the city and turned it back to sea in one turn. Guess the Georgians aren't as good at water management as the Dutch.

[@sarcasmic77]

The laugh after “maybe I’ll do it” is energy I feel on spiritual level.

[@fadel3d]

1:13:50 I think it would be really cool. I remember playing command and conquer generals before, where I can play China, build a black lotus, and steal U.S.A command center, then I can build U.S.A infrastructures, and eventually their superweapon. It's really fun to have something that you have conquered before, instead of everything automatically changed to the civ we are playing. Civ VII maybe can have that.

[@ObligatoryReference]

Watching Potato slowly go insane was more fun than watching the actual gameplay

[@mariogarcia1048]

The game blessed you after the garlic hills bit, that was classic 😂😂😂

[@RyanTravis23]

The Sanity rant at 1 hr 11 min is amazing. Love you, Potato!

[@Daniel-Star]

It was really interesting watching Potato descend into madness.

[@christopherbricker3805]

an absolute perfect documentation of a gradual loss of sanity. Just lovely

[@headecas]

Unique improvements and buildings should remainwhen u capture a city but have negative loyalty pressure

[@freejones9129]

Winning a science game without building a spaceport sounds really easy tbh, that was never the bottleneck. You can conquer one far before youve even gone into the future era.

[@garrettgallant715]

Incredible. I really liked these last two videos, maybe I should try to catch more streams

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

The more i watch your Civ 6 content the more i want to play Civ 3 or SMAC.

[@abcdefghijlkmn1794]

It sounds like you need one of those 0 gravity chairs and an upgrade to your screen mount, preferably a wallmount which would allow you to tilt your screen so you can play properly from the chair

[@davidmcconnell-booher2443]

I was listening to the audio and not able to watch the video, but immediately knew that Spiff floated this challenge.

[@Antikas1989]

"Maybe I'll do the harder version in one year". It has been one year, this is your reminder.

[@amouramarie]

"It's not ALL sunshine and roses in fascist Canada, however...." -sentient meat

[@HectorTriumphant]

Barrett's Privateers mentions Sherbrooke constantly, but it's primarily sung (at least known for being sung) in Halifax. If you ever visit, you'll hear it :)

[@kojoarmah3915]

Thanks for the video sir! I think your idea of creating a Frankenstein's monster like civ via domination is a really cool idea. However, I think this would be well and truly broken with Germany, Rome and Russia's abilities. If I was the opponent in such a game, I'd just capitulate then and there lol

[@samhayes7396]

This was of the best videos to ever grace YT. 10/10 sacrifice and content. From other 'Sentient meat' ;)

[@p1nk5l1p9]

The delirium towards the end... That's what did it for me.

[@gorilla9616]

Says : "Never get a friendship again with Mali" two seconds later accepts friendship with Mali xD Loved the video keep it up ;) (Thanks and sorry for the self harm, sending sentient meat love xD)

[@verdiss7487]

This was the most entertaining churn you've ever posted

[@clockworkangel6780]

Potato: We cannot be friends with Mali again Potato five minutes later: *accepts friendship while distracted*

[@zev_0624]

Now I want to see a reverse of this this challenge. Either play as Canada again, but on an all Tundra map or play the all desert map again, but with a civ focused on desert like Mali.

[@KoolKendall23]

That’s way too many cities to take care of,should add mod which separates cities from 3 minimum spaces to at least 4 or 5.

[@demana99]

My vote will always be for challenges you find fun/creative vs. just insane difficulty that becomes tedious.

[@Hirakashii]

Seeing you slowly fall into insanity was incredible.

[@Taencred]

Probably the best Civ video ever made.

[@dapuddingcooper7899]

That was amazing Potato. Good job hanging in there, it was so fun to watch you losing your mind.

[@yaziyo]

Amazing video. I've always thought that unique tile improvements, buildings and districts should stay when you take a city, but I wonder if it would be too OP with certain combinations (probably totally broken in multiplayer too - have a few players pass a city around to get a lavra, sugaba, navigation school etc all in the one city). Maybe a balancer could be something like they stay, but have a permanent negative modifer against them (-20% against their yields or something), since your Civ's leadership doesn't understand how to properly use the technology.

[@jdavis.fw303]

This may be the most entertaining episode yet.

[@benjaminvereb-zakar6437]

65536 ivory is 2^16. Maybe it’s related to the game calculating in binary.

[@bobsmith7066]

If I remember correctly, in Civ 5 when you conquered another civ their unique tile improvements would stay around. I wonder why they changed that?

[@ruslanrin4416]

huge respect for a win with all desert civs included

[@Hippie_King15]

This sentient meat is happy. I hope you feel happier by the time you posted this video.

[@joeflo641]

“We need to keep on clapping those technological cheeks” is now officially my new favorite Potato quote. Well done and bravo good sir.

[@blabot]

Stan Rogers - Barrett’s Privateers is a banger! And he was Canadian too.