The industrial era was in 328 CE right? - Humankind Overexplained Tutorial Let's Play ep.7

[@DavidSmith-mt7tb]

This game has a special unit in like every era that is an elephant and a war playthrough picking all the elephants would be hilarious.

[@dustinwarner7761]

Literally how I played my last game, but I missed the Mughals.

[@pedroferreira7214]

And ironically almost all civs with elephants are broken btw, and his production would skyrocket into fucking mars at that point even without focusing on it ; }

[@DavidSmith-mt7tb]

@@pedroferreira7214 so I noticed. My big regret was basically being done with warfare by the time I got any of the elephant units tho.

[@marinary1326]

@@pedroferreira7214 Ironically? No, it is *because* of the elephants that these civs are broken, the elephants drive the machinery of civilization and carry it on their backs! All hail the mighty elephants!

[@sebastianmartinez2022]

I did this at first by accident but then by design by the time I got to mughals. Went harappans-Mauryans-Khmer-Mughals-Siam (think I finished on Turks which kinda ruined the south/SE Asia vive but once you hit Turks you’ve already won)

[@matthewklestinski7030]

Watching your empire become so incredibly stable was a glorious moment. It was like you took all your history professors and teachers, brought them into one gala event banquet, and unveiled "Stability!" and they all gave the double-take and said, "We can have what now?"

[@ysch1191]

Kinda funny how the Austro-Hungarians specialty is stability, considering IRL their lack there of caused a world war.

[@blockchiken]

they didn't build their specialty district irl

[@MineRoyale.]

Well, I mean, they were pretty stable given how cross-ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and geographic their empire was.

[@blockchiken]

@@MineRoyale. Nah the truth is that they never had good adjacency on districts

[@jasondaveries9716]

i was thinking that too haha

[@Grivehn]

Just what I sought to comment lol.

[@alaskaski]

I'd love to see a game where you keep the first civ the whole game (elevate it every age), and see how that works.

[@ClockworkOuroborous]

I've been thinking about that with the Olmecs.

[@CornBredCrusader]

Being able to found cities late into the game and they start with pops, infrastructure and enough production to actually create things is great. A big falling point in civilization is that cities that arent built even by the mid point of the game can never compete with those founded within the first 50 turns

[@ClockworkOuroborous]

Honestly, I'm thinking about having a 4 city civ with high city cap then late game popping fully grown cities near the end.

[@LainLain7]

Hope Potato keeps playing more Humankind after the sponsored series is over.

[@loren1350]

Haven't you been paying attention? It was over five episodes ago.

[@jaydenliberty9536]

To be less rude than the previous comment: Humankind sponsored an *episode* Everything past episode 1 has been Potato enjoying the game. We’ll be seeing more Humankind in the future

[@andyabdullah3324]

Hey Kawah Ijen is a natural wonders from Indonesia, my country. Greeting from Indonesia. Love the vids as always.

[@preatorantrax]

Thanks for that factoid. I was wondering where Kawah Ijen was. I hadn't heard of it before.

[@nintendosimmer6822]

Ah yes, my favorite. The austrian - hungarians existing in 328 Ce and having a industrial revolution. Perfectly balanced as all things should be. PotatoMcWhiskey - 99 bce

[@DisturbedOne776]

Just found in the difficulty selection you can alter the win conditions. You can make it only Space Race, Domination, or Turn Limit. Thought that was pretty cool.

[@iptf]

Those are end-conditions, no? Completely separate from the one win condition (most fame).

[@mikolaj2698]

That aren't win condition. Fame is win condition. It's the game ending achievment after that game checks fame stats.

[@empi2597]

@@mikolaj2698 the quickest way to win is just be ahead in the contemporary era then pick australia and pollute the hell out of the planet, when i did it it took about 12-15 turns to kill the planet.

[@maggggers5108]

@@empi2597 "the quickest way to win is just be ahead" thanks

[@DisturbedOne776]

Thank you guys for checking my mistakes. I did mean "end" condition over "win". I do know that fame is the ultimate goal. I just like the idea that you can force it down to one or two conditions instead of leaving it open to all of them.

[@markeyestone9980]

You went from 1234 influence per turn to 1564 just from changing to the Austro-Hungarians, that was an insanely good choice

[@Dutch_is_a_Weird_Language]

11:34 hold the frick up... GATLING ELEPHANTS?! That does not sound fair at all!

[@Kelliyi]

i dont know if u highlighted this, but its something i really love, is that u can make multiple things in one turn if ur production is high enough, which i find really cool

[@Alpha4Sierra]

For a river map, the first religious tenet that gives +2 Stability for worked river tiles is absolutely crazy. I was rocking full stability for the entirety of my game because of that tenet and the abundance of rivers in my map.

[@daftajax8830]

Potato: "I don't really care about emblematic units at this point of the game..." also Potato: "I'm gonna choose the Austro-Hungarian because they have the *Evidenzbureau Agents* which ignores....." 😏

[@t_xxic8814]

20:45 we love you too, Mr Potato, we love you too :D *honestly, I am the least patriotic person you can think of, but it somehow made me proud anyway that you chose Austro-Hungary* edit: timestamp

[@ElminsterPTC]

That civic choice with the two pictures as the reward did give you access to a building that you have to build to get the stability bonuses from.

[@HEKL_PNW]

Big Potato: "heeeeeEEEEYYYY SPUDDIES" My brain: *serotonin boost activated!*

[@Azzaciel]

I mean, With all the unique quarters that scale with number of pop/territory/quarters, dividing up your cities seems like a bad idea. For example, the Opernhaus. It scales by giving you 1 Stability for every quarter you own. Now, having two of them gives you +2 Stability for every quarter. So if you concentrate your empire to 2-3 Cities with 10 territories each, you'll hit 0 stab cost per quarter. Because quarters cost 10 stab, but 10 Opernhouses in a city give you +10stab/quarter to entirely counteract this. Now you only need something to counteract the stab cost of attaching the entire world to your capital, which you can do easy by just having a few more Opernhouses, which you would get into your cap by absorbing your other cities. It's a self-solving problem. You also don't need to set aside more turns building infrastructure in(example) 5 cities with 500 production, but instead you build them instantly with your single 2.5k production city. The only downsides to going 1 city empire seem to be scaling quarter production cost and pop growth, everything else scales better the less cities you have. I suppose another downside would be halted production when any quarter of your city is involved with a battle. And possibly the scaling food costs for your ever increasing population. You really can tell that this game still has some rough edges when it comes to the scaling and balancing.

[@DTKtuga]

If you press shift while placing districts you can build multiple copies.

[@rickscandon]

I need to remember this for my next game.

[@joshbrown5842]

21:30 wait you can destroy a hamlet and it lets you keep the districts you placed after it? So now you could place a hamlet on that other small island in this city right?

[@PixelMiner42]

That works, however it seems like once you destroy or override the Hamlet, you cannot attach new districts to the districts that were attached to the Hamlet. In the case of those small islands that doesn't matter of course, but keep it in mind for normal city planning

[@familyf.c.j1582]

@@PixelMiner42 your profile picture is amazing

[@mitochondria6247]

@@familyf.c.j1582 he does have a rather dapper pfp, doesn't he?

[@joshbrown5842]

Is there a downside to combing every territory into a single mega city? I know it would be hella expensive influence wise but is there a reason not to do it if you can?

[@cooldownboi3890]

Corusant moment

[@thomasreed2427]

Stability. It would mean you have to build like 5 stability districts for every productive district.

[@katygeertmaes-csepreghy1041]

That would be a cool challenge to do in the future

[@Clapsk]

Wouldn't that mean you'd be super vulnerable to attack? Like if they take your one city you've lost everything no?

[@nathanharvey8570]

@@Clapsk Potentially, but if you pepper your lands with garrisons it becomes very difficult to even be able to approach a megacity. Not impossible, mind you, and it is very vulnerable if they get through your defenses, but it is a much tougher nut to crack than a standard city.

[@luispacheco1552]

Pollution mechanic in this game is intresting. You can literary choke your citizens to death and the whole world with it. I had like 20 makers quarters plus Japanese robot factory in a city and built the manufacturer building, it gives +1 pollution on makers so I when from 0 to like 30 in one turn. Stability went from 100 to 0 ....

[@jasondaveries9716]

Lmao sounds like they need to work on that

[@artur1319]

I gotta save up to buy this game, but for now I'm happy to join you, Potato!

[@dantebrosia]

You can get it on XBOX Gamepass

[@lukeb1663]

Can we talk about how Germany is a better naval civ than England? I know Austria Hungary being a stability civ is odd but that little fact there is the most bizarre thing I have ever seen.

[@tubefrede]

Just hover your mouse over the luxury resource to see it’s basic and manufactory effect. I also believe that one of the ancient era wonders acts as a manufactory, allowing you to access the ‘special effect’ way earlier.

[@marinary1326]

I'm pretty certain this series was pre-recorded, as during the livestreams he seems to know this, and in fact built and sang the praises of the Hanging Gardens (said ancient era wonder) But for those who don't watch those streams, it is good to have it explained

[@tubefrede]

@@marinary1326 oh yeah you’re right, he even said it was recorded before the day 1 patch. Gonna watch the live-streams then.

[@attonthejedi]

Yay funny Irishman plays 4x game proficiently!

[@thomasreed2427]

Changing cultures each era is what really sells the game for me. I got bored of Civ 6 quite fast, because on first turn one already basically knew what the plan is based on the civ. And if you get a bad map, bad RNG or whatever, it makes the whole playthrough painful - you can still win, but it will not be fun, you wont get to play into the civ strengths etc. In humankind, no matter the map, RNG or whatever you can always make it into a fun playthrough. It is really fun to just put as many settings on random and discover the map, discover the enemy cultures and just see where the game goes.

[@codypturner]

I think that the year progression rate is just really messed up, the holocene calendar setting even more with me reaching space at the equivalent of 7000 BC

[@bacchus8081]

Is it just me or does Humankind lack replayability? I've done a science victory and a domination victory and now I kinda feel like any game I'll play will be almost a copy of one of those two :S

[@vaille6133]

Hi, just want to thank you for the effort you are putting in those kind of videos. Humankind is a bit overwhelming at first

[@cuff02]

Something seems a little off on these industrial era civs.. I mean, the British as their unique unit get Napoleonic-era Redcoats, and the Germans get U-boats!

[@digitaljungle7154]

Of course, the Austro-Hungarians. Known for their stability, yes. Love this crazy empire/civilization you built Potato, keep it up!

[@eaglegosuperskarmor]

I love how the Siamese have *Gatling elephants*

[@DavidSmith-mt7tb]

I didn't have stability issues so I went Siamese and they are pretty crazy, especially with high pop cities. You want a decent bit of coastline to build a lot of them though. Plus you get gatling elephants. Lol.

[@tjhc2397]

I feel like building a lot of makers quarters so late in the game in cities this big is not great: the gain in production is linear whereas the cost of new districts in the city grows exponentially, so at some stage districts become expensive faster than the gain in production.

[@clmb43strm43]

i really want to see him go sweden on the next era. they are absolutely busted for science

[@manicpixiedckgirl]

potato realising he's created a monster 15:40

[@igr2113]

Imo calls for Turkey in the last era to get that food science combo

[@LainLain7]

I’m having so much fun with this game. Yeah, it has its issues, but there’s the foundation for something truly special with DLCs/Patches

[@saberpendragon271]

Yeah, that 328 CE guess is about right

[@clash4cityrocker]

Are territories outposts?

[@Stone19298]

The only sad part about Humankind is that the late game tanks my computer and I have a 1050 with an Intel i7 Core. Haven't been able to finish a game because it starts running so slow by the Contemporary Era, and I am running on the Fastest game quality settings.

[@raphaelcorletta6809]

What speed are you on? For some reason my game keeps ending in the industrial era.

[@evanragland4930]

Anybody having major crashing issues? I was 185 turns into a game when it froze and crashed. Now I can’t even play one turn without it crashing. I’ve tried all of the recommended fixes on the Steam discussion board, but no luck. The game was running fine and now it’s not. Very disappointing. Hope whatever this gets patched soon.

[@Jimblefy]

Excellent video again. Thanks :) I dont know what this emoji is.

[@vincentsolus9227]

1 GIGAcity is the move, you have a lot of districts that scale with the more districts/population count, so is times you have that distict in the city X times of whatever it scale in the city an example as the khmer district: if you have 2 cities with 2 Khmer emeblmatic district each, and 10 population each, you get 2x10=20 production on each, that totals to 40 something both cities. but if where to merge both cities you'd have 4 emblematic, and 20 pop, that would give you 4x20, that would give a total of 80 production notice the big difference with such small numbers, you have much more than 2 emblamtic districts on your current cities, and more than 10 pop haha another play is to have very small cities around, since you have machupitchu, so your gigacity would share 50% of it total food, that should be a lot, forcing the small cities to generate an insane population that you can migrate, making troops and disbading, to you gigacity and make it even stronger

[@deathrabbit8710]

AquaBUSSY.

[@BrainNibbler]

You can see the year??

[@jasondaveries9716]

What difficulty is this on 😅

[@battlebornape]

can we remove districts to reduce pollution?

[@LINKedup101]

Nah, pollution is super busted at the moment

[@battlebornape]

@@LINKedup101 yeah planting tree was not really worth it for me

[@sirlamort7373]

u can do over population and it don't seem to have negative effect which is sad

[@sirlamort7373]

And the luxury factory are the most op build u can ever work on

[@sirlamort7373]

they buff ur bonus from luxury (exemple +15% industry on cities and outpost with the hardened wood )

[@SFCgunny]

Question: Could @PotatoMcWhiskey produce a video if he couldn't use the word "powerful"....inquiring minds want to know :)

[@ansonoconnor2035]

The problem now is that you've already won

[@emylily8266]

i see youve found the absurdly fun austria-hungarians, anytime i pick them i try to make a megacity with at least 10~ territories, that way every new district is pretty much free xD edit: its not even that good tbh, just hilarious.

[@lolwhatidk]

please show a late game war!

[@MaxCheng95]

The whole year count just doesn’t make sense at all. I was playing an endless game and found myself in a world with 3 contemporary civs of 10 in… 6200BCE. At turn 550

[@vovasyhin7219]

Imagine what you can do if you learn every Civ and every stat bonus they give. You can optimize your build and every choice down to a tea/coffee/whisky?! You can literally min/max your late game CIv so hard that the computer will ether crash or AI will simply stop trying altogether! LMAO PS: The builds are stupendously broken and need to be adjusted in the following patches! Cant wait for more DLC Content but not before they fix the base game.

[@crisalexcris15]

The only think that stops me from conquering the world is that is annoying

[@jimbob8840]

Mexicans should really be replaced with the Argentines, for early modern. Mexico was going through yet another civil war, while Argentina was a breadbasket and one of the richest countries in the world at this time

[@jaydenliberty9536]

I can’t tell if Potato knows this, but Upgraded Luxuries (I think Artisan Quarter?) grant adjacency to Markets, which yeah duh, but STRATEGICS, when upgraded to be used, give adjacency to Research Quarters

[@Anathadeer]

Hi

[@meedunx396]

bгuh

[@JimmySquiky]

It could have been if religion weren't a thing.

[@vanhovemare]

Big problem of this game that it is done in half.

[@pahco87]

The pollution mechanics seem too game breaking. Maybe because of video edits but it looked like you ruined your empire extremely quickly.