Preserve Only Challenge

[@eyespliced]

Gameplay begins at 18:13

[@youtubeaccount7052]

Thanks!

[@somedude2048]

Cheers

[@bernardo-x5n]

And capital settled at 24:11

[@I-ONLY-BUILD-MECHS-AND-DUSTERS]

Now if only we could skip all the chat distractions and other bullshit somehow. But yeah this is unwatchable, like most big streams. Little insightful commentary or knowledge, lots of interruptions.

[@JacksonOwex]

@@I-ONLY-BUILD-MECHS-AND-DUSTERS Yeah, like you said, it's a stream!

[@AliRadicali]

Rome: Hates small empires. Also Rome: Razes Potato's city in an unprovoked war.

[@AliRadicali]

But in seriousness I think trading the citrus for gold instead of giving it as a gift MAAAY have prevented the war b/c one of Trajan's grievances was America's lack of income.

[@josephd6115]

Potato is like an angry substitute teacher when they get tricked by the kids

[@ValStinks]

complete with a shockingly real and helpful discussion on mental health off the cuff

[@rickstraw588]

I like me a Spicy Potato

[@Sketchcase]

I wish national parks could include lake tiles

[@jrhannahwcu]

Please this is a great idea!

[@MrAndrewaziz]

How would it interact with tile appeal tho? What is the default appeal of a lake tile, zero? If so than parks become way more common and it's just more power creep. I enjoy planning parks

[@MeidoInHebun]

@@MrAndrewaziz Power creep on National Parks is like the least unbalancing thing this game would have.

[@ATinyWaffle]

I just wish you could place them horizontally...

[@robertbowers2499]

Marine preserves around reefs would be neat too if they could figure out a way for that to work

[@JarenWelen]

Trajan razed Lavaduct because he didn't think he could aquaduct to a volcano.

[@WoahCabbages]

Trajan was wrong ban him

[@TillerTwo]

When he was talking about the feeling shit, that really felt like he cares a lot about his viewers and how they feel. I liked that a lot.

[@connorlapresi4810]

I’ve been watching a lot of Potato trying to learn the game. Played with my brother and midway through a game he asked why I was saying things like “Archers” with an accent... whoops😅

[@rawcopper604]

@@connorlapresi4810 are you British?

[@yuwish6320]

This is what I hate about civ 6 AI. It only gets so many early advantages because it's so bad. That Petra is a perfect example. I've seen the AI build wonders they can't use at insane speed in cities with literally zero production improvements.

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

The problem with AI is it doesn't have the ability to PLAN It acts, It reacts, it has templates. It doesn't shuffle or plan ahead or anticipate anything. Because AI has no internal memory or expectations. It's a limiting feature. Now I wish we could do better: But then the moment we improved AI to plan ahead: the moment anything went wrong, a war was declared: It wouldn't be able to re-evaluate and cope.

[@peepeetrain8755]

but good A.I is pretty hard to program. it maybe be easy to think of an A.I as a human player but you have gotta realise is that the ai is code, it has to follow some sort of order. no order and it won't work.

[@MatthaeusGT]

Tbh the AI has gotten much much better in civ with every update, it’s definitely a lot better than it was a while ago

[@rafaelfilipin]

@@peepeetrain8755 Honestly, I think after all the features we got with the New Frontier pass, they should focus SOLELY on AI from now on for the rest of Civ VI's life. They could use neural networks to develop a decent AI like people have done for Dota (much more complex game for an AI), chess, go, etc.

[@youtubeaccount7052]

That's why venetian arsenal is never built (by the AI). They can't plan their industrial zone on the coast.

[@seymour47]

1:45:00 This is such a great example of why sticking with KZbin is the right plan, there Potato.

[@Fr0z3n115Soldier]

what in the actual fuck was the 5 horse tiles in Rome at around the 30mins mark, I have never seen that many horse tiles just shoved together that way lol!

[@Benjmensch]

imagine you could put an industrial zone before researching horses there

[@abras1905]

@@Benjmensch rrr

[@TwilightFlower9]

@@Benjmensch Aren't industrial zones straight down the line from horses though?

[@ultru3525]

@@TwilightFlower9 yeah, but Babylon would still be able to do it, they only need to research mining and build 3 mines to unlock industrial zones. You could also do it as Gauls who unlock their Oppidums with Iron Working, and even get +2 adjacency bonus from strategic resources.

[@DatGitGhaz]

I had the same thing happen with deer tiles earlier today. 5 all next to each other

[@Maatkare]

Its interesting that you mentioned sleep & CFS. My suspected chronic fatigue syndrome ended up being obstructive sleep apnea! I had NO idea, I didn't even snore. Life changing to get that mouthguard. Unsurprisingly, not getting enough oxygen at night makes anyone feel like dogshit in a thousand ways. Cheers!

[@jlwise96]

omg potato getting mad at chat was angry Dad energy

[@TainyaGaming]

Misspelled toxic

[@tictac9229]

@@TainyaGaming no he spelled angry correctly, don't worry

[@thedeusvultguy5346]

@@tictac9229 It's petty as shit, people want to participate in chat even if they don't know.

[@tictac9229]

@@thedeusvultguy5346 lol fair, but it's honestly funnier to see him stirring with frustration

[@TomJakobW]

@@thedeusvultguy5346because people have no freaking standards and self-respect, and if you are a streamer or other professional, who constantly has to deal with morons with opinions and uncalled for tips that are just plainly wrong, it’s absolutely reasonable to ground them. Same goes for a streamer I saw that straight out challenged this ridiculous parasocial crap that people say/do - it’s uncomfortable, but it’s the truth. It’s just that everyone wants the easy way and never get into an uncomfortable moment. I still remember uncomfortable moments where I thought I knew something that I really didn’t and was put on the spot - I learned from that (I had to, since people literally could’ve died in this case; be glad that it’s most of the time not that serious, like being wrong in a game).

[@elbonnybar]

3:13:11 That's what TOP pun performance looks like. by the end of the stream everyone had 2 kid and a mortage, good dad jokes thou.

[@ReZeWeezie]

Really appreciated your talk around 2:24:00. Thank you!

[@ronaldb-hart6526]

Potato, I really appreciated your mental health discussion. Unexpected gold. Thanks for your candor. It helps, man.

[@connorlapresi4810]

His comment on “learned helplessness” was spot on. I actually studied that in college and was impressed by him just casually referencing it.

[@chrishenry571]

2:19:00 Good conversation on mental health and seems like healthy advice from a non-professional. Intelligent discussion, thanks!

[@Sjebjdkie]

Fr, I’ve been looking back through his videos and this real talk was something I appreciated.

[@thejurassicapple8495]

I woke up logged into my computer, around 10 minutes before the stream, then went back to sleep because I had no work to do and none of my friends were on. Now I feel like an idiot because I missed the stream. lol

[@shawndimery]

no one cares

[@killtyrant]

@@shawndimery He has 19 likes atm. Think your statement is incorrect in that no one cares.

[@HermyWormy123]

@@shawndimery there's no need to be an asshole

[@Pekoe.]

I love your content but if I hear that LOTR potato song one more time I might go insane

[@thetreeman1794]

This was the great massacre of the chat spuds.

[@DapSchaf]

something something 1984 something something orwellian

[@lordwhatshisname3408]

Kind of harsh throughout ngl. I understand the frustration when it comes to idiots in stream chat, but mass banning people for making mistakes is kinda rough. Reminds me of Wings of Redemption almost.

[@milesrasmussen6590]

Did he actually ban them? lol

[@jorgeuemura]

No one on that screenshot said "you can't", he acted kind of paranoid in there lol

[@jackmeholff7353]

@@lordwhatshisname3408 if he asks a question to chat and there are people purposely lieing then they should be banned like he said in the vid he is setting a standard, wings of redemption would beg his chat for money then talk shit to them when he only made 5 dollars your so off base it's like you don't have any idea what your talking about.

[@RiptideGaming_GXT]

"Boston is rebelling?" As a New Englander, I can tell you that Boston rebelling is an everyday occurrence lol.

[@marcuschance6810]

You gotta try this! Played with Secret Societies, Heroes, Monopolies, and Tech Shuffle. Since shuffle makes it harder to beeline, I picked Highlands map for a bit more room. Standard map size with 8 Civs. Void Singer relics are insane, and then the yields from Eiffel Tower are so sweet. Yields for days! Turn 255 win on Deity.

[@jasondeutschbein8102]

Nothing makes me feel quite as warm and fuzzy as a creator that advocates for good physical and mental health.

[@roxxdude1]

Is it just me or would the Maori be fantastic with the Preserves?

[@joeburnett1701]

Totes McOates!

[@salted6422]

It is on King difficulty at least. I just played a match and ended up winning cultural victory real fast, even though I really didn't invest into it. Though I did have a strangely good start, because the game decided to spawn me on a continent all for myself.

[@AlipheeseFateburnXVII]

@@salted6422 That seems to happen with Maori. Potato had a game like that as well, and it's even on the channel.

[@joshwarnick3343]

Yes, I just played a game with them, it was so much fun. Maori + Reyna/Liang + Preserves + Earth Goddess is amazing! Even more so if you can get Eiffel Tower and Alvar Aalto.

[@youtubeaccount7052]

Inca would be insane for the crazy breathtaking mountain yields

[@grocks50_98]

Two days in a row I missed the stream by a few minutes

[@elbonnybar]

Rome got *6 COPIES OF HORSES* in range of that city 30:32 what the heck?

[@Salamaddy]

Lmao absolutely bonkers

[@ekaruna42]

I think it was a legendary start, so maybe that’s why

[@dylan__dog]

Realistic Every single horse alive today is descended from a single herd owned by a bronze age culture that occupied the southern Urals There were other horses but theirs were so good that they supplanted all other breeds Rome just got similar ideas

[@Yumlick]

3:07:30 AI: What is my purpose? PMcW: You read cringe puns. AI: Oh my god.

[@editorjosh]

All of my sadness at not being able to catch these live because it'd be like 5 AM my time when this was ongoing.

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

CBT *also* an acronym for Classic BattleTech! Though, I'm not making fun of the therapeutic CBT at all - I spent the last 13 months or so using it thanks to a rather kindly therapist. Its helped at least a bit, I need to put it into more practice though.

[@AxeJamie]

That was a lot of faith, but not as much as I have in you potato!! Haha. No seriously though your really cool

[@PhantomNull13]

I want to have a new civ that gives scouts a base combat buff for each promotion. Maybe like 3 or 5 combat for each promotion so that they get progressively stronger as they do their job, with a sharp boost once they hit ambush. Maybe that'd be a bit strong, but at least scouts wouldn't be utterly useless past turn 50.

[@izzyjamm4]

I know what you mean. I always wanted to try domination with a scout army like with Cree or Inca

[@PhantomNull13]

@@izzyjamm4 i tried as scotland. Blitzed Victor to Embrasure, spammed out a ton of scouts, built the terracotta army then upgraded then all to highlanders and rushed for ambush. Actually managed alright, but wasn't quite quick enough. The last civ started getting tanks, and even upgrading to spec ops wasn't really enough to win with just recon.

[@izzyjamm4]

@@PhantomNull13 thats too bad. maybe it is impossible, considering scotland is kinda a science civ and it didn't work with them. Idk, im gonna try it rn

[@PhantomNull13]

@@izzyjamm4 honestly, it probably was, I just am not the best player. Also, leaving Babylon for last probably wasn't the best move, but I didn't have much choice since they spawned on the other side of the world and I needed to fight my way through to get to them. But apparently at some point they excavated an artifact and got combustion, so...

[@izzyjamm4]

@@PhantomNull13 oh god of course they did. im sure they somehow managed to build the great library too

[@SandmanTrials]

How did I miss this? Damn you, youtube! Like months later? This is literally the only channel I have ever given money to, so, how are not all videos automatically recommended? All preserve challenge?! Ugh...better late than never.

[@111ch1a1d111]

Dido might be interesting on a Terra map. Would get you the settlers and naval escorts to reach the New World, and if you aren't the first to reach it, move your capital to a city there to increase pressure to the other civs' colonies.

[@VexylObby]

She definitely needs more to her. The capital movement is fun, but not much else to her. ☹️

[@l0remipsum991]

Move capital project is expensive though. Good thing about Phoenicia is their settler spam ability and bonuses per Gov plaza and its buildings.

[@Zarastro54]

The AI is really bad at settling on the other continent on the Terra map from what I’ve seen.

[@agamemnonofmycenae5258]

1:20:00 I think an extra melee unit plus sun wukong would have distracted legions long enough for you to push back their onslaught. Should have made an extra warrior and went for wukong(both together cost one archer of production). 2 melee and 3 ranged are ideal for defence. A hero can be a game changer, but Wukong is a simply a next era strength warrior(bad luck there)

[@netri]

Came for the civ, stayed for the life advice

[@alapeno2495]

hearing potato get legit ticked when hes being lied to is funny as hell. bro youre a streamer you gotta get lied to

[@chrisradek6693]

Props to Potato here - he definitely taught chatters that if they're going to post info to help streamers, they better know what they're talking about before they type.

[@mynameisjonandirock]

I always listen to you and your thermonuclear bomb about the using talking about MH as the cure rather than for fixing it was a bombshell and then I have BPD and you knew DBT was for BPD and it's amazing, nice to hear you talking about this stuff

[@Nyitemare]

I can confirm that currently this video does indeed have the "preserve only challenge" thumbnail 😉

[@jasonarthurs3885]

@5:26, Mr. McWhiskey continually asks chat to verify when mods were last updated, yet STEAM provides that info in an easy to see side-panel.

[@markimhof3520]

Potato, for Highlands map, Slingers are better than scouts because of all the consecutive hills. Scouts very rarely can go 3 tiles.

[@PhantomNull13]

Unless scouts get a promotion from a village or natural wonder, in which case they can move over hills without penalty. Its a coin flip, do you think you'll get some villages in the course of your exploration or not.

[@markimhof3520]

@@PhantomNull13 good point. I was speaking pre-promotion which sometimes takes awhile to develop.

[@PhantomNull13]

@@markimhof3520 yeah, I feel like scouts are way more reliant on promotions than any other class. I really think scouts outta get a free promotion by default so they get at least a bit of a headstart depending on terrain.

[@markimhof3520]

@@PhantomNull13 but also, the reason I stated on a Highlands map not to use scouts is because a lot of hills are together meaning you can go really just 1 tile at a time regardless of slinger or scout.

[@PhantomNull13]

@@markimhof3520 yeah, I usually use warriors if I'm reasonably sure there won't be any villages for just that reason. But for the very early game scouting, I always get one, just because once it gets that first promotion, you're fine. Barbarians won't be able to keep up, making it much less risky to scout.

[@Tom_ohne_Hut]

I hit the coordinated like button at 22:09 07.02.2021... i feel like my edge browser :D Showing up to late is not a crime, not showing up is the crime! Loved your Bannhammer! Keep up your amazing contant!

[@markimhof3520]

Sorry I missed you! I really enjoyed yesterday's webcast!

[@davequaschnick2559]

Remember the Leader Overhaul that's coming folks. Should be the next patch before the final Season Pass dlc. I don't recall the exact number of leaders, yet I wanna say a Third or a bit better. Overhaul of "weak", "unbalanced" and plan those that don't work with ALL the new game modes, if my Old Man brain recalls correctly! LOL

[@justscrobbler1897]

Overhaul is coming after all of the frontier pass content has been released, not before.

[@williambarbre4404]

As a novice player I never say a thing in live chat because nagging doubt, but I have built an aquaduct to a volcano. Before that game I thought I couldn't. But way to enforce chat, Master Spud!

[@wat1243]

Game actually starts at 18:53

[@grimbli7808]

Holy crap that chat ban was amazing! I love you even more Potato. The mouse over classified it as a Mountain as he was asking, I would assume it's a mountain as well as a volcano.

[@alioth7403]

Build your regular monument first and then activate Voidsingers, and it will automatically be upgraded to an Old God Obelisk (which costs more production than the regular monument).

[@simhksim]

No they cost the same (60 production). The production invested in building a monument is lost if it isn't finished when you select voidsingers however.

[@Bigroundoughnut]

Not sure if you have a streaming contract but you should defo stream to both at once. That's the best way to grow and you can combine the chats. Best of both worlds

[@tylerhull94]

Just tried the preserve only challenge with Teddy, can say it is broken. Didn't even have time to build Eiffel. T204 Culture win with 1000 science and 1500 culture

[@Rey-vn5mg]

How? I always lose to science victory on deity

[@Nerfunkal]

That was fun, I was dozing off during the search for the drawing tablet and then BAM! Clankety, fumble, rustle, woke me up lol.

[@idcgaming518]

Potato: claims good goody huts doesn't work Me and my friend who have been playing with it for two years: "bullshit".

[@smackmack92]

Just commented that the Mongolian episode was long. Then I saw this ~4 hour beauty. Good bye my afternoon! 👋

[@pscyking]

I'm confused... No one in the chat history or the screenshot asserted that you _can't_ aqueduct to a volcano. Do chat messages get retroactively removed after a ban?

[@nolongeraperson]

Yes, actually.

[@iamamazing1885]

Also did he ban them from making comments or just from his stream in general? As if its complete ban from the stream that seems ridiculous and a little bit petty really. A feature of twitch appears to be a chat that spouts nonsense

[@Basketball_is_Life_88]

Raw Potato is gonna be your best base. Petra Bases with tons of desert hills are the best cities to push any win! You’ve been proud of me I did a mines only in my Petra city and had 120 prod 😂😁 1 turn I could make a settler ☺️🤪

[@Ooshgaar]

Probably couldnt of done much about it, and Potato is the professional player. But as soon as I saw Rome, I knew war was coming.

[@Josenxaviar]

Potatoe's Papa Pun Power Hour: where you stream for an hour and just let viewers tell their bad jokes and groan at their badness.

[@edubbya]

You’ve taught me everything I know. I’m now a full grown potat

[@evang7954]

"someone gave me false information" you forgot your french crys

[@raskopfritz60]

I was so excited when he read my comment to see if latin american resources would work! I'm proud in a kinda awkward way

[@Acklon]

47:04 I've not watched too much PotatoMcWhiskey and it was a hell of a shock to how swiftly he essentially told part of his chat to fuck off with their BS xD. love it

[@Luraigan]

As a west island Kiwi living in Sydney South Africa Schoolboy Rugby is top level comparing to Australia and New Zealand. The passion of the support however for the 3 nations ive witnessed personally is pretty similar with the schools with a few cultural differences. You should look up Kings College v Auckland Grammar haka. Pretty impressive.

[@jandrew4478]

When he asked the internet if they want “apocalypse”

[@johnelder150]

Loved the advice you gave Kevin Lawrence (and I *AM* qualified to give such advice, in the state of California). Some really good stuff there! He should have medical causes ruled out as things like hypothyroidism can mimic depression. Johann Hari's book, Lost Connections also draws attention to some of the things we lack in life that can make us feel shitty. An old American Psychiatrist, Alfred Adler used to send his depressed patients to go do something nice for somebody else--and as corny as that sounds, it worked fairly well.

[@johnelder150]

Salvia is Loki's Cabbage.

[@tinigartini]

Anyone else watch the vod and hoped he wouldn’t put on apocalypse mode so his forests wouldn’t burn

[@josefalcao-v2s]

Potato growing tought out the game at the same rate as the empire. Cute momment!

[@sholmen1872]

I’m laughing at your pain and at the jokes! 😂

[@WookieChef]

"If weed is the Devil's lettuce, what the fuck is salvia?" My beer nearly came out my nose.

[@knottseli5057]

this was streaming during my exam woo

[@Jose-wq4zr]

Yo props for not giving up after that raze

[@Josenxaviar]

Potato: "I'm pretty sure you can Aquaduct a volcano." Me: "...wut"

[@combustiblehare]

How about a challenge where you can build a total of one of each of the districts?

[@BundySloth]

I wonder don't you save some production if you build the monument first before taking the voidsingers?

[@Melchior11]

I think the production cost is the same. You just don’t want to activate Voidsingers while building a monument because it starts all over and you lose the production.

[@markimhof3520]

Potato!!! I learned that using preserves/groves in seaside towns with a lot of water tiles improves the "heck" out of the water tiles and makes them amazing!

[@insertname6670]

Potato went science mode when someone asked why do I feel like shit

[@farpasmasterfarpador9092]

The virgin "Hey whats up guys" vs the CHAD "heeeeeeyyy spuddies potato mcwhiskey here"

[@mobgoblin7016]

Potato so angry over trolls it’s crazy 😭

[@mlg42001]

The song u had in ur head was “I just can’t get enough” by depeche mode

[@B0Sajwah]

🤣🤣🤣 any money for the hostel. Thats such a dublin thing.

[@bigbenhgy]

Wtf since when can you aqueduct to a volcano?

[@juliakovacs4885]

It's a mountain, so afaik always

[@bigbenhgy]

@@juliakovacs4885 Maybe i misremember, but i think you couldn't do that at first. I don't know when they changed it.

[@MeidoInHebun]

@@bigbenhgy always, people have drunk and bathed in lava since ancient times

[@l0remipsum991]

volcano = angry mountain also why not?, people need hot water

[@shonk947]

A volcano is just a mountain with a feature (modding has also been able to add more mountain features)

[@drewcormier8493]

Should have named the second Lavaduct "Lavaduct 2 Electric Boogaloo"

[@grantshearer5615]

POTATO IS ULTIMATE CHAD!!! "I am willing to ban half of you to make a point and lay down the law." 42:20 Potato you MadLad, ultimate respect for the chadliness My 2 cents, I thought you could Aqueduct volcanoes, but was like "does civ really let you supply your city with sulphur infused water?"

[@haukjohanrasmussen6072]

haha i thought he was a goody goody guy, but dam he is ruthless!

[@waquin4611]

I watched this during math class, would do again

[@camrynfletcher3382]

The chat ban of Bull Moose Teddy is the least amount of power I’ve ever seen go to someone’s head. PotatoMcWhiskey? More like DictatorMcWhiskey, ayoooo

[@supermills03]

I've watched like hundreds of potato videos and just subscribed today because I was getting annoyed when one wouldn't pop into my feed.

[@seejayfrujay]

Granada is my current favorite city-state because of their Alcazar improvement. Beside the settler thing, I won a culture game on a slow map really fast. The AI seems to kills it very early.

[@jakedillon5984]

there needs to be a game thats like a cross between civ and total war

[@robintoonen8515]

Just imagine a friend reading those death jokes from reddit during the lecture.

[@robinsonghagen9338]

"We have to make an example in chat." Lol I love it

[@LagMasterSam]

I wish more streamers did that. It's so annoying when a streamer asks something and gets 20 contradictory answers in return. If you don't know, don't answer! Actually, the whole Internet should be more like that because there are way too many people who think they know things when they don't have a clue.

[@NetworKrakle]

@@LagMasterSam that’s boring! The internet is a place of chaos and disorder!

[@Rascarn]

not me pressing like on the vid at the same time as the live chat did

[@josephirizarry5332]

Potato is savage with enforcing the rules😂😂

[@420SpeeMan]

@2:25:19 = "Yeet me out of a cannon into the sun, my dude" - best one-liner in this vid, by the way

[@tatersmcgee406]

2:44:44 This happened to me a while back with Venlafaxine. About 3 1/2 weeks in I had a bad episode. I'll never take an antidepressant again x,x

[@barbaraelliott3510]

You video inspired me to try Bull Moose Teddy. I am still learning the game and I thank you for all the helpful tips. By sheer luck I rolled this incredible start on a Standard Continents map Game Seed: 168836069 Map Seed: 1688360669. The only game option I had selected was Corporations and Monopolies. As I said, I am still learning the basics and adding too many bells and whistles can get in the way of that. Correction: Continents, Standard Map size, Legendary start, Wet and Low Sea Level with Monopolies and Corporations.

[@vonspeedwagon1466]

I just started the vid so maybe you already did this but use a preserve to take advantage of the wonder that double yields from adjacent tiles

[@agnacore]

At 40:33, I'm curious what you mean by this (as someone trying to improve planning). Since 4 tiles out is the minimum for a city, did you mean westward toward Rome? How do you generally space cities apart? I know the "ideal" strategy is generally to put as many districts together as possible to maximize adjacency bonuses, but I'm curious nonetheless. Thanks

[@SkyenNovaA]

Potato woke up and chose violence towards those people who shared misinfo lmao

[@juano93]

I think Trajan wanted to use your lava but didn't realize he could do it without war. Or he just didn't like the sight of your city next to the volcano he wanted to use.

[@RanOutOfChannelNames]

Lol return of the spicy potatoe.

[@davidefalcoz7048]

Rome razed your city because you laughted when a meteorite hit her in a previous game