Civilization VI Tips: Harbor District

[@V0r4xiz]

Great video but in context of harbor districts it's mandatory to mention the golden triangle with commercial hub and city center. Mentioning that the harbor provides +2 gold to adjacent commercial hubs is something you cannot ignore. If said hub is then also located on a river, that's even more of a snowball money scam :D Would also be cool to actually have a savegame open in which you have all these things, such as buildings to put citizens in while explaining, or an actual harbor and actual sea (luxury) resources. Usually a big fan of the saxy daddy teachings but this one was a bit lackluster. Still a thumbs up, tho :)

[@vicratlhead2228]

Then you drop Reyna in there with her bonus to harbors and commercial districts and rake in the gold!

[@jaydenliberty9536]

I feel like it’s good to have maybe 2 cities dedicated to gold production by the time the World congress comes around, specifically ones on the coast that can take advantage of the coastal gold. You would have to center trade routes as starting in those cities though, in order to make up for the other yields. It’s probably untenable to have a majority of your cities operating on the Golden Triangle, especially the ones on the border to other Civs, getting war declared and the gold cities pillaged would seriously handicap your ability to fight back

[@pepijnwarmerdam8784]

When placing harbours next to resources for the adjecency bonus keep in mind if you want to build the Collossus or Great Lighthouse wonders, they need to be placed in the water next to the harbour. And more or less the same goes for The Mausoleum at Hallicarnassus wonder, it needs to be placed on a landtile next to a harbour, a very good wonder to build in a city with a lot of coastal tiles. There's also a thing to be said for using harbours as a basis for your economy, unlike commercial hubs harbours can't be targeted by a spy making your economy safer from theft.

[@dyrcosis]

For a variety of reasons, I just couldn't get in to Civ6 when I first bought it at the end of 2016. I put less than 20 hours in to it. However, since I found your channel a week or so ago, I've watched all of your "Civilization VI Tips" videos and it's made me want to give Civ6 another chance. Also, Gathering Storm looks to bring some interesting new game play (and the return of pollution and climate change). However, it'll have to wait until I get bored of Stellaris again which may be a few months! Thanks for all the time you put in to your videos.

[@ladyandreadoria]

Good luck getting bored with Stellaris. I just pre-ordered the new MegaCorp expansion, looks like I'll be in space for the rest of the year, and well into 2019 as well.

[@SanguinaryBlade]

I have trouble getting into civ6 too, as much as I keep trying. It's still the graphical style that just throws me. civ5 everything looked denser, more mysterious and wonderous... In civ6 everything's just too cartoonish. Just never clicks. :( Also maybe the over reliance on more modern leaders. It always feels icky when you're building an ancient civilization, haven't even discovered writing yet, and the first person you encounter is that american dude all "Oh you killed barbarians, bully for you!" But that's always been a bit of an problem, just seems more common in this one.

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

@@SanguinaryBlade to be fair the american civilisation will always have that problem of being to modern since they became there nation in the 1770s. gathering storm is bringing back the world congress as well for this game. i love the world congress and renaming it in civ 5. plus the mods which give it more options.

[@hobonickel]

I use most of my Great Admirals as scouts to explore coastlines, seek out islands, etc. If they run into barbarian ships they simply get sent back to the closest harbor unscathed. I also park some Great Admirals near straits or other locations so I can spot enemy or barbarian movement.

[@sethewing2576]

0:55 can also be placed on lake

[@snobgoblinDK]

Would be nice if you also added information about which wonders it unlocks, and what victories they work towards :)

[@ryanduffy6089]

I believe the only wonders that must be adjacent to a harbor are the Sydney Opera house, the Great Lighthouse, Colossus, the Statue of Liberty, and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. The Sydney Opera House gives extra great works of music slots, culture, and great musician points and is ideal for culture victory. The Great Lighthouse gives naval units extra movement, gold, and great admiral points and is ideal for naval domination games. Colossus gives an extra trade route and trader, gold, and great admiral points and isn't geared for any particular victory. The Statue of Liberty gives diplomatic victory points, as well as full loyalty to nearby cities. The Mausoleum gives science, faith and culture to all coast tiles for the city it's built in and gives great engineers 1 extra charge, and is not geared for any particular victory.

[@danverryn6740]

In addition to the policy card, if you get Reyna (governor) with the Harbormaster promotion the adjacency bonus is doubled yet again, making shipyards incredibly broken. It's possible to get 20+ production in a city from the shipyard.

[@dirkmagilicuddy5136]

Yes. That was a major miss in the video, which was still good.

[@512TheWolf512]

shipyards are a MIRACLE for production i cities, especially when you have the right cards for them

[@hernandayolearyallda]

how?

[@512TheWolf512]

@@hernandayolearyallda harbor

[@hernandayolearyallda]

@@512TheWolf512 More details?

[@loopingpong1412]

@@hernandayolearyallda shipyards bring as much production as its adjacency bonuses. So when you get +100% card it goes insane

[@michaelmilam4472]

You forgot to mention that the bonuses of the tiles from lighthouses and seaports also go towards lake tiles, making dutch polders even more crazy good

[@miketurner6350]

Add the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, and you essentially get double great admirals as you can use their ability right away and still keep them for combat bonuses. Do double adjacency policy, with Reyna, and shoot for the Golden age bonus that adds science to harbors, you can make a killing.

[@ChessJew]

Mausoleum is also the best science victory wonder - getting more charges on Engineers makes launching the spaceship trivial.

[@ethanbratton8593]

This series was very helpful! I am not new to civ 6 I've been playing for about 2 years, but I took a short break and needed more information about the game. This series was so helpful I got a sheet of paper and a pencil and took notes. One recommendation that I have is to make a video about wonders, that would be helpful. Keep making the great videos, And I am definitely subscribing

[@TheSaxyGamer]

Thanks! Also, check the channel, I'm currently working my way through a series in which I'm covering every wonder in-depth!

[@ethanbratton8593]

@@TheSaxyGamer Thanks, I will make sure to watch those videos

[@seanaguinaga]

This is some great content!

[@piotrjedrzejczak7782]

You should have mentioned my favourite late game combo - reyna with the double adjacency promotion and double adjacency card with shipyard. You can get at least 12 production from obe building, and tbis is a minimum. It can get above 20, and without any civ abilities - just a triangle with a commercial hub and one or twi sea resources.

[@devin119]

It's kind of strange to me that the descriptions list, say example with the shipyard, +1 gold yield but -2 gold maintenance. Why didn't they just write -1 gold for maintenance? Or and I missing something?

[@GrownUpFitness]

Maybe because there are adjacency bonuses and other buildings that can stack on that +1?

[@TheFenderBass1]

That plus one will get stacking and percentage bonuses

[@Yxaiskallen]

The harbour can be adjacent to more then one city centre if you settle on an Island two tiles away.

[@alexstewart9592]

Cities cannot be settled within 3 tiles of a city centre. Putting this here for posterity.

[@arja2317]

I agree most great admirals aren't worth going after but if you can get the great admiral with the create ironclad with 1 promotion retirement option you can dominate for a while right when the industrial age starts even if you didn't build up a navy before hand. I like to ignore religion and save my faith points the whole game then buy that general with them as soon as possible then make everyone that ever denounced me sorry.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

I usually put harbors adjacent to commercial districts. I think there's a bonus in gold for the commercial district for being adjacent to a harbor.

[@christinemichaelspatcher5798]

Maui Is prob the most situational hero, One one of the situations where he can be very strong is laying down resources around where you would want to put a harbor, getting a shipyard and raking in crazy gold/production bonuses Still behind Hercules and Sinbad, but in if I have a future coastal city I’m definitely glad to get him

[@ladyandreadoria]

Great video, but it would have been great if you included the English Unique Royal Navy Dockyard, and the bonuses it has compared to the base Harbor. I also assumed that since you were playing the Netherlands, you would highlight its special ability of culture-bombing tiles when you build a harbor.

[@Madmuli]

Well, he already highlighted these special abilities in his 'leader spotlights'; so these tips are merely basics for the other civs who can just build the regular version

[@ladyandreadoria]

@@Madmuli, why not include it though? I'm fairly new to this channel, and how was I supposed to know he did leader spotlights? Wouldn't it be better if it had everything harbor related in a single video?

[@Cornjoelio5]

You can also stack Reyna with the Harbour master promotion. I once had a +18 production harbour. It doesnt stack, its more like 6+6+6=18.

[@Madmuli]

Correct... and that may be a good decision; It'd be borderline OP if Reyna's ability was multiplicative with the policy cards

[@preposterown]

Thank you for explaining the mystery of this game.

[@christopheryoung935]

Should of also mentioned how the Commercial Hub gets a +2 Gold adjacency with the Harbor

[@0xc0ffee_]

Just a suggestion for future videos you can use the cheat map editor to edit what you need to demonstrate things you're talking about! Great info! Subbed!

[@williambreeze2659]

Thank for this!

[@dozzy9984]

I really like to befriend Auckland if I have promising coastal citiy with many water tiles (it helps that AI usually ignores it), then have promoted Liang and fill all coastal tiles that doesn't have resource on it with fisheries (which at this point those tiles becomes as good as farms (or better if feudalism didn't got researched yet), assuming Lighthouse has been built), I don't remember if there is a boost to coast yields through technology (if not, maybe it will be in Gathering Storm), but it would've helped. Anyway, city like that is great for building wonders like Sydney Opera House, Statue of Liberty, Venetian Arsenal and maybe Colossus, if AI didn't rushed him. Btw. I wonder if are you planning to do video like that about alliances? Are they worth it, especially on harder difficulties, when AI is probably getting way more from those than you? Or maybe a video about diplomacy with AI, like f.e. if it's better to promise AI about not spying, moving troops or not settling nearby (or if there is a reason to request that from them, except that one casus belli)?

[@aturninthegameof...4584]

Kamil Kuliga I do the same with my coastal cities. You forgot to mention the seaport, which adds extra gold to coastal tiles, making them much more valuable.

[@SusaVile]

I am enjoying your content a lot, but I wouod like to give you some feedback: many times I am watching your videos on my phone, and it is quite difficult to see the ultra small letters on the game pop-ups. Of course you do read them most of the time, but could you use a lower or zoomed in resolution for it just for these tutorial videos? Thanks a bunch and keep up the good work

[@dioaloke]

Hey Saxy Gamer, your videos really helped me play better, thanks! Any chance you might update some of them to cover the changes with Gathering Storm? The need to power buildings and generate power (and CO2) really changes the strategy for districts, so I'd very much like your view on that.

[@renatoapcs2]

Can you build Fleets units from the seaport, without having nationalism?

[@neon4897]

Is there a reason why they'd give a gold output to a building that has a matching maintenance cost? Is it because one of the two can be altered by policies or other effects?

[@Mustafa-to9si]

*Royal Navy Dockyard intensifies*

[@viktordickinson7844]

I have all of the prereqs but cant build a harbor anywhere

[@ryanduffy6089]

you can actually have the harbor adjacent to 2 city centers; For whatever reason, the rule about cities not being allowed to settle within 3 tiles of another city center is ignored if there are cliffs between the two tiles where city centers would be. Therefore if there was a tile with cliffs where one city is settled, one coast tile, then another land tile directly across, a city center could be placed on either end of the single coast tile where a harbor could be placed

[@pdraggy]

99% of the time (the other 1% being when I feel I need a industrial boost- plus you basically need one city with industrial - harbor for the venetian... and I LOVE my two forr 1 battleships!) I start with a harbor/ commercial district and I try to settle on a river for the commercial adjacency. This is with basically all civs- no civ does NOT need gold xD.... oh other than the first settle, my first settle can be inland (depending where I spawn) and typically (99.99%) starts with a quick holy site. I never NOT want a religion, religion and gold game just goes SO well in every civ game I'd played so far lol. I might settle inland for a wonder... but I mostly let other civs/ city states have em. I'll conquer them anyway.

[@rayizard5687]

Left out the Wonders that can only be built adjacent to Harbors

[@trfff0]

Are you sure it's 25% combat experience for naval-unuts trained in that city?

[@qazior]

0:36 Main point of this video: +7 campus :)

[@sm1522]

Qazior what ?

[@FreeTibetFTW]

@@sm1522 At 0:36 If you take a look at the bottom left corner you'll see he has a campus surrounded by 5 mountain tiles which means +5 science per turn bonus for that district and since he is playing netherlands he gets +7 'cause the adjacent river and he can improve it to +8 if he builds another two districts (i'd build a commecial hub and an industrial zone) and that's without buildings!! what an insane location :D for a campus.

[@chad8789]

FUCK YES. the best district

[@satevo462]

So I'm confused, can I build a ship or do I need the harbor district?

[@TheSaxyGamer]

If your city is on the coast, you can build ships without a Harbor. If the city isn't directly on the coast, you need to build a harbor to build ships

[@sm1522]

I wish civ had a playable online feature

[@danbstep]

I generally like your videos about civ but this one was lasy at best. You should at least have a save with coastal cities and good harbors with diferent adjency bonuses to show, Venetian Arsenal, Great Lighthouse, Mausoleum at Helicarnassus, Colossus.. I mean, the Harbor is one of the best districts for wonders, there are at least 5 civs with great bonuses for it, etc

[@VRGIG]

ya this is the best 1 u just spam this to win no ai or player has ben good at sea fighting iv played 1300 h