(Civ 6) 5 Settling Mistakes EVERYONE Makes In Civilization 6 || Guide For Civilization 6

[@TheCivLifeR]

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[@blowc1612]

No, you're jokes are lame. Trying so hard to be funny that it's all forced and terrible.

[@dmitritelvanni4068]

Wait... Pistons.... You a Michigander?

[@spikemoody1757]

As someone who just got this game for Christmas, I was not expecting useful tip videos like yours to still be coming out, neither was I expecting them to be so funny

[@DarknessIsThePath]

Same, bought it at xmas and at first I wss wondering why Im so far behind CPUs lol

[@heartlesshalf-breed514]

Replay value is unmatched

[@gravityking]

2"003 Detroit Pistons defense treatment"

[@harryc657]

"If you don't plan your cities and districts, you're screwed." Unless you're Australia. All you need is a city and a sea side to have a 5+ science district. If there's a mountain nearby, your population will open their third eye.

[@Smilemonster1912]

Not to mention the powerful outbacks

[@theblasphemousgamer4888]

@Jon In SLO Babylon moment

[@doragonsureia7288]

So you say when playing Australia, you put those mistake/rules upside down (pun intended)? I wonder if that's intended from the devs. They do often implement fun stereotypes.

[@alex2005z]

Great point about production over food, but you should have mentioned early game is the exception, since you need some more food and the initial population is very important. Mid and late game you can just get 1 farm triangle for the big cities and 1 divided by multiple cities for the smaller ones

[@NgarKua]

you only need enough food to keep up your production pumping out settlers early game. Bur you're right, still need food. Especially if you have multiple high yield tiles around your capital. You want to exploit those with many pops. But if you have to choose between food and production, I'd say production always.

[@alex2005z]

@@NgarKua for the first tile I would choose a 4-2 tile over a 2-4 tile any day. (Food first production after)

[@NgarKua]

​@@alex2005z That is correct, if you can have decent production tiles later. But if I have to choose between more food overall or more production overall within second ring, I'd choose the latter if I'm not Germany. Because in Civ 6 production is most important resource generally and always better to have more. Food, on the other hand, and like alcohol, should be taken with a limit. Over consumption will lead to amenity problems. And if you hit your housing limit, extra food will go waste, while extra production is always welcome. But I agree with you, having high food tile to work initially, is usually better than working high production less food tiles. having 2 pop working while all other nations only have half your workforce is really nice.

[@Tofuey]

So weird coming from civ 5 where the whole game was all about making your cities fat and plump.

[@alex2005z]

@@Tofuey thats what having dedicated districts does

[@arthurhubert4849]

nice guide, although if i had to be honest, i have a few criticism for each of your point : 1. prod is indead very important, but early game, you need enough food to at least get your 4 pop quickly in your cities. so settling near at least one good food tile 3/0 or 4/0 (4/1 if you re lucky), or even settling on one idealy is important. you need to at least work 2/2 tiles but if you only work tiles with 1 food, that city is gonna take a veeeery long time to be useful. 2. yeah you got that one, no one care about loyaulty 3. Planning is indeed very important. howerver, perhaps planning every single district up to when your cities will get 16 pop (assuming it ever does) is a bit excessiv. Moreover your needs may evolve throughout the game and you ll change some of it. So unless you play a civ that rely consequently on district adjacency, (germany, dutch, america's preserv...) perhaps that s overkill. Also, just think about that moment when a few horses and iron will spawn right in the middle of your beautiful planning.... might be awkward. 4. the fact that you re making this argument while playing dido inland is quite ironic. harbor being the best ditrict in the game generally compensate the weakness of coastal settle. Yes having a river is much better for a settle on the coast, but it isn't mandatory at all. you have both the fishing ship and the lighthouse that provide all the food and housing you miss from the land, while the shipyard provide a lot of prod. 5. settling min distance is indeed a very good idea and i do it most of the time. however, just remember to look at the tile under your city because if going min distance makes you put a city in the desert... perhaps consider going a little further. more generally, it s always better to settle a better city (better tiles) than being as close as possible

[@boul4630]

5 should depend on your Environment, difficulty and space you got since every City has a 3 rows for districts and wonders. Also maybe the game settings as in winning conditions etc are a reason to go for larger cities than a bunch of smaller ones. What I mean by that if you either play untill one Nation captured everyone else or you got alot of space on your continent, Island make large cities and make those absolute beasts. And of course they should be close to each other and not like 20 tiles off but 6 tiles distance from Center to Center seem healthy to me.

[@benismann]

plan smart, nitre can just spawn on ur +5 campus spot at any moment, so u should make more flexible plans or

[@panner11]

3. Agreed, planning too far ahead ruins the fun. It puts the game on rails. You want some aspect of emergent and organic gameplay, you shouldn't strap yourself down to a strict path.

[@bluciuswastaken]

2 years late, but as a new player having another perspective helps immensely! o7

[@billyjohns332]

this guy really sat there for 2 and a half minutes talking about starving and sending his population to the mines

[@ethanhall8762]

9:22 while you’re not wrong about coastal production, getting Auckland is honestly amazing since it’s +1 production on coastal tiles until until industrial era when it becomes a +2 throughout your entire empire. Throw Mausoleum in your capital and a fishing boat pantheon and you can have a fantastic coastal capital. And Mohenjo Darò also with all cities on the coast also can have fresh water benefits

[@1977Futre]

U mean taking the city state Auckland?

[@ethanhall8762]

@@1977Futre getting suzerainty

[@yurisoares2596]

@@1977Futre Doing that would make that hyper strategy fail. You have to make the city-state your vassal by sending envoys.

[@FinalQueue007]

For my first city i set myself up in front of some mountains, thinking it would be good defense for now. Which it could've been, if i was paying attention. Literally set up my city right under a volcano. Which blew up like 3 times within 30 turns (had the mod on that increased the occurrences of catastrophic events.)

[@dmitrijssmalko3602]

Play manor lords.this is complete shit

[@janisz8490]

I don't like to be that guy but I analysed your starting location on this video and I believe that settling your capital one tile to the west would be much better for your start in that game. I think that because: 1. By settling in place you deleted down the forest and missed spot of 3prod/1food and free chop later. 2. You missed free era score from settling near floodplains. 3. Tyre would be closer to the Wheat which is like free Irrigation boost. 4 and most important. You could settle really good city to the east of your capital on the tile with Dyes. It have a lot of production, fresh water, late but still easy access to truffles and is overall really good city to settle. It cannot be done since Tyre is too close and settling it more to the east is not as huge as exactly on the Dyes. If I missed something and it's actually better to settle in the spot you settled in, please tell me I want to know if it's good analysis or not. Thank you. Also I hope I'm not annoying with this comment heh. Anyway, it's a good video to learn more about civ6, keep up great work man! :D

[@NgarKua]

You mean east? That would've cost him a turn waste. I'd go for NW tile which is between truffle and current city. You'd get 2 high yield tiles right out of the gate, work truffle very early, you may switch gear towards Dance+Ethics northward, and you'll get another production city in the east. For the second west city, I'd go for a tile west of Dye. He'd get 2 4-yield tiles to work immediately, settled on a plain hill, have immediate access to both nice production and food tiles, 2 yummy tea tiles will be in range and he'll have a free bridge when sending trade between those cities. Yes he won't get free access to the dye but truffle will be enough before getting irrigation. You can buy that wheat tile with gold you get from truffle. Man, 7 yield tile without improvement? That's something you don't miss to grab for starting years.

[@jonnylaser85]

Nah . Either option is okay and neither is game breaking . I’d prob settle in place also. Work the 2-2 base and very quickly grow to truffles and work that with your 2 population. Stronger early start. Where your option is more of the long term better option. All depends on if you want early game strong tempo… Atleast that’s how I view it 🤷🏼‍♂️. Nothing like being 3 months late

[@njmfff]

#6 not building Entertainment Complex. Yeah, you don't need them in every city, but you can make at least one to give happiness to your other cities (six tiles away, just like workshop). #7 building every district in every city - it's redundant, because one industrial complex can give bonus to all other cities within six tiles (of district) so you're kinda wasting turns and 'hammers" because only ONE bonus will apply (usually highest). However, be aware that some civ benefit from having lots of districts, such as Japan and Germany for example.

[@jerryamescua]

If you’re trying to get engineers than multiple industrial complexes are essential

[@Stovetopcookie]

I have to say these are really good points. As someone who’s played civilization since the original on the super Nintendo, I’ve really had a hard time grasping the newer versions beyond Civ 4. I appreciate this video, and now I am inspired to take this up again with the new information you’ve provided

[@wandregisel6385]

I was never a regular player of these types of games, but when I came to Civ 6 from FreeCiv, which is an open source game based on Civ 2. There, growth is king, so the fact that Civ 6 is less about growth (though pretty sure early growth is really important, not something the video seems to account for) is surprising to me

[@michaelquintero2315]

Coastal cities are great if you're playing Domination in a map with a lot of water and you need a place for your boats to heal or you want to create a canal through a skinny stretch of a long island.

[@originstories]

I've been playing Civ6 on Xbox gamepass for the last couple of weeks. Accidentally won my first Spain marathon Prince on large small continents map through a cultural victory while I finished preparations for the last 3 capitals in domination. Just started another Spain game, marathon King on huge small continents. Coming up on turn 200 with 5 cities after just defeating Brazil and annexing two of their 3 cities. Your videos are extremely helpful. I was already making the mistake of trying to focus on food, which in hindsight was a big mistake in my last playthrough. Literally every city in that run required me to juggle between housing, amenities, and then finally units. I'm going to focus on production moving forward.

[@zacharytaylor2423]

The real issue with food in civ 6 is that growth slows dramatically as your pop increases. Unlike earlier games, most cities never actually hit their food cap, so doubling the food does not double your pop. If it did, the game would be very different and I think both your first and last tip would be very different. With the right policies, wonders, civics and planning you can get the amenities and housing to support huge cities spaced farther apart. But in practice you get more pop per land and more districts per pop by building smaller cities closer together. The somewhat sad (IMHO) thing about this is it encourages people to pick a victory type early and specialize their districts. If the growth mechanics made larger cities with more diverse districts viable, then it would reward strategies like racing down the civics tree to win a science victory, or keeping several victory options open until the late game.

[@charlesduke9750]

I enjoyed and liked, however, this video showed me that so much worrying about everything is boring. I mean, aw man. I'll keep on playing on King, build cities in a way that seems sensible to me and enjoying (plus usually winning) the game. Many thanks though and keep it up.

[@Tallorian]

Planning is all good and great, I love it. Until you get iron(niter, coal, w/e) right in the middle of your nicely planned district haven before you were able to lock all of them. One of my biggest issues with civ6 is that you can't build districts on damn strategic resources after they're revealed. Also, I've had successfully settled -20 loyalty cities (not in dark age ofc), it's tricky but with all the policies all you need to do is to add 1-2 trade routes for the food gain and buy granary+watermill if possible so that it gets new pop almost instantly. Even 1 extra citizen gives a lot more resistance to pressure, and after getting to 3+ it's mostly safe from revolting (unless dark age, naturally).

[@tarikay93]

There is a mod that allows you to harvest strategic resources.

[@Tallorian]

@@tarikay93 Well, isn't it sad and pathetic (on the part of devs) that players gotta rely on mods to fix probably the most obvious and glaring issue with the core mechanic of the game?

[@tarikay93]

@@Tallorian Yes :)

[@Stovetopcookie]

As someone who played since Civ I on SNES it’s been so hard to break old habits!

[@jtsimson7164]

New video idea for you, “best map and setting for each leader”

[@DavidSmith-mt7tb]

Sometimes the hardest eurekas are the building farms ones. It's like well I needed more production and chops. When am I gonna build farms. Maybe at feudalism lol

[@alex2005z]

Yeah especially when you get the builder card then

[@DavidSmith-mt7tb]

@@alex2005z yeah, feudalism gives you that farm triangle thing, which is great in cities struggling to get their pop up to get more districts, but +1 food on 1/1 or 2 food tile just isn't great. Bottom line: people don't wanna work sub 4 yield tiles, so improving something to only 3 total just isn't worth it. I farm bonus resources that get to 4+ yield after, but often there isn't enough to meet those eurekas.

[@alex2005z]

@@DavidSmith-mt7tb I meant that you get the extra builder charge card in feudalism, so improving before that feels like a bit of a waste

[@DavidSmith-mt7tb]

@@alex2005z truth. I think the feudalism boost is the one that requires 5 farms, right? But farms suck until then and you make a good point, are also harder to justify building till then. Like you wanna set up farm triangles before to get the boost and then the buff, but it's hard to till after.

[@alex2005z]

@@DavidSmith-mt7tb if the card came earlier you could time it so that you would get the bonus right after building them, but thats how it is

[@ttpp374]

The best quote ever said of Alexander the great "he is looking at my city like a full course chicken dinner" 😂😂

[@WoWisdeadtome]

While a lot of this is reasonable it sounds a little more absolute than it probably should be. Production potential is certainly important but if your food is too low it becomes very hard to realize that potential. Frequently if I have something like spices and grassland with woods and a rice in marsh and several high production tiles I will lock the first two citizens in on the 4 food, 1 production and 5 food tiles to grow the population very quickly. Even though the production is low to start if you limit them to building only items your policies or the world congress do half (or more) of the work on it's not so bad (think city center as the AI always votes for that) and it gets more of those high production tiles working faster. By the end of the game that city will have ultimately put out more production by getting more citizens to work faster than it would have if you focus on the production tiles first. Basically this is a roundabout way of saying you need both food and production to found a good city. You can also potentially chop things out of the city and replant woods with lumber mills later if needed. Coastal cities may or may not have low production and it depends how late you settle them. If you've discovered oil they might be very productive. Is Auckland in the game? Can you become Suzerain of it? Is it in danger of being conquered? Did you scout well enough to know you are going to be on or near a lot of coast so you can take God of the Sea pantheon? These are good guidelines but the actual decisions are highly context dependent.

[@MrTheBest247]

Video about Settling mistakes > immediately settles under volcano with no initial 2 food tiles XD

[@TheCivLifeR]

spicy air never hurt anyone

[@cmarkn]

@@TheCivLifeR tell that to the folks of Pompei

[@Tnkrumpets]

Always appreciate the Civ tips and good humor! Big fan of the channel, here for the ride!

[@TheCivLifeR]

Glad you like them!

[@InfernoProj]

You’re absolutely hilarious. Instant subscribe

[@joshret]

Guys if your girl: Has long hair Has a sexy body Is rich from jewelry And is easy to be friends with Thats not your girl, thats Gilgabro.

[@alex2005z]

The point of coastal cities is for generating gold, and they do that really well.

[@TheCivLifeR]

ye but building them up is a real pain

[@alex2005z]

@@TheCivLifeR just dont. Who said those people need living conditions?

[@poundstone1000]

@@alex2005z hmm meaning bro?

[@alex2005z]

@@poundstone1000 dont build them up

[@kirstywalker6950]

The English and vikings spawn near the coast. Its there play style

[@balael7377]

I love these vids. The game is meant to be fun. No rules needed

[@Carter-pu3xg]

its kind of funny, my sister and my father both play a TON of this game, and have 1k+ hours of playtime, but they don't do any of these things. I play the game less than both of them, but whenever I play them in multiplayer, I obliterate them on higher levels than they are. My sister is the main culprit. Every mistake that was in this video is a mistake she makes. In a recent game we had together, she had tons of coastal cities like 10+ tiles apart from each other, with tons of farms and little production. She apparently didn't know that the pin tool existed in the game, and has 0 city planning. Whenever I try to give her tips she scoffs and says her way of doing things is perfectly fine. She was going for a culture victory. I won on turn 193 with a culture victory. I had 260 science, 750 culture, and 600 tourism. She had 123 science, 148 culture, and ? tourism. Its very clear that it might be beneficial for her to maybe try these tips out.

[@zant2146]

Let people enjoy stuff however they want omg

[@KraigFang]

I’ve been a Civ fan since the first one on SNES when I was very young lol… Keep rocking!

[@k-edu]

Planning is boring (with markers and so on, yet i do it in my mind ofc). I'm ok winning on deity with timer without planning. There is actually no time for planning if you have timer... it is ticking too fast. I barely finish all actions sometimes.

[@Entropy__]

Been playing for 2 weeks and was trying to keep them fully apart...and getting wrecked :P Will try overlap next game!

[@razzaus1570]

Keep em as close as possible you wont regret it.

[@Entropy__]

@@razzaus1570 what do you recommend? 1 tile or 2?

[@26Rudders]

When he said build the city in the city limits does that mean inside your borders?

[@KraigFang]

I got this on my iPad, not sure it’s as intricate graphics or even an editing mode… but of course my memory is horrible so I may have forgotten or literally didn’t notice it 😂 Either way it’s awesome watching these vids, channels like this and games like these. Growing up all my friends wanted Mortal Kombat or Metal Gear Solid (and will admit that was a fav of mine also in the PS1 days lol) but none liked when I played Civ 2 or Sim City 🤭

[@Why_So_Serious_279]

Sorry if this was already asked, but what mods are you using?

[@hohenzollern6025]

Uhhhg... close city spam. On this I disagree. Your capital, should not share a single tile. It needs em all. Ya gotta put those wonders somewhere. Then any cities I settle around my capital, also get lots of room. After that, I'll be capturing cities, and the AI loves to settle close, so My inner core will be large powerful cities, surrounded by the smaller spam cities, which I honestly hate. I really hate those close cities that cant build anything or do anything... they all spend the rest of the game just struggling to keep up, whilst my core is so advanced. When you have that super powerful capital, it gets obscene how fast it can crank wonders, even early game. As long as you got sprall from early game conquest that is. Ya still need the sprall, but that capital NEEDs to be massive.

[@digitalk1llraymon448]

Honestly, unless the strategy you're playing requires a wonder, or you're using a Civ that benefits greatly for them, you shouldn't waste any space/production on wonders. Most wonders end up being a drain on your resources for minimal rewards. Of course that changes depending on certain map situations. But for the most part, its better to let the AI make the wonder and then you take their city later if you need it

[@raicantgame6634]

Ah, just picked up the game and have definitely been making the first mistake. "But we have so much food, why do we suck?!"

[@jimcecil4558]

If you play on earth would you argue Panama canal is a good spot? It makes traversing oceans so much easier. But sometimes a bad spot for production.

[@Milennin]

I know I need to work on placing cities closer together.

[@TheCivLifeR]

never underestimate district power

[@marinewillis1202]

@@TheCivLifeR I tend to spread out just to block off the AI and lock down territory. Probably stupid but I like to get clear defined borders using natural chokepoints etc and then let my empire fill in.

[@RandomGuyTalking]

In regards to tip #5...could your industrial zone get adjacency bonuses from districts or mines in a city that's yours that's right beside it? I hope I said that right lol

[@mushybag]

Yep it's possible

[@davidholmes3728]

Yes

[@duraluminiumalloy9248]

Not just your city - ANY city.

[@SmallPotato2313]

@@duraluminiumalloy9248 true even city states

[@steveoishere]

Number 2 is great but if all your cards are on loyalty mid game you better be going all in on war food is important 3 farms and a granary and 7 mines or lumber yards is better not have 6 pop with 3 mines

[@bishopbrennan3558]

As an Irishman, I appreciate the dig at the Famine Queen!

[@qervo4405]

I saw the video only to know if the miniature was clickbait...it was

[@grudgebearer1404]

I'm a production guy but i had some real fuckrd up cities stuck on 6-8 population due to no freaking food available at all and only hill and mountain tiles nearby. It was stuck as a shity place until i unlocked farms on hills, then it became my strongest city from there forward

[@adamsalusky4601]

Another great video, thanks. Love the 03 Pistons D comment too!

[@ocularomlete1402]

The WHOLE production over food argument is perfect😂😂😂 thanks for being a psycho when playing civ like me🫡

[@flipcoin5327]

Your funny I love your metaphors

[@cutiepie5884]

Lmao you’re hilarious 😂 😂 😂

[@DerPuppenspieler]

Bad first spot your down 😂, yes that’s so fucking true. That’s why my friends and I start many times a new round.

[@mcmumbles9484]

Holy shite, that Queen Victoria line was heavy.

[@MarkGuthrie]

what mod is that for the map tiles?

[@jonnylaser85]

Production is king… but kinda need food to work all those production tiles. You can have all the mines in the world , but if you don’t have the pop to work them what’s the point… I get what he means tho. There’s nothing wrong with long term booking and building a huge city tho. Just be smart about it and do that in peace times

[@finalstation]

I am so triggered by the notification pop ups that I automatically tapped on the x at 1:10

[@gabealbuquerque1728]

Damn, I was always putting my cities like 6 tiles away so they would have their own 3 tiles distance each.... this is why i constantly get shit on lol

[@Necrosaint]

"You can always get granaries or water mills." And I just came from video where you said to never build those...

[@PaintrainX]

I like the things you speak about. But the footage is highly annoying. Slow things down and show people footage that actually matches what you're talking about.

[@rawtooth4704]

Im new to this game but enjoy it Im always learning from others

[@1Animeculture]

1: "food over production is bad as you get no bonuses from high population" Khmer: *exists*

[@Dragons4Dummies]

I settle near wheat then crush it with commercial buildings and wonders in the midgame

[@mjstcua]

Tip of the day Stay close and tight like Ben and Rasheed Wallace

[@Bluecatte]

and here I always thought the magic number was "5 Spaces Away" so you at least were able to throw up things like neighborhoods etc. how does japan and the Maori factor into these tips? they're HUNGRY to be Coastal-Only.

[@do0myk]

nah i'll still grow 30+ pop cities thank you very much. Big number good

[@yurisoares2596]

With that start as Phoenician you shouldn't even settle, hit restart button and be more happy.

[@johnnymac6242]

Me happily on my way to a military victory, turn 250, settler difficulty duel vs ghandi. Making 100 more culture than ghandi. Randomly lose to culture on turn 230 even though i have literally every wonder

[@eskewroberts7663]

Yeah, I never make that 1st mistake anymore, It's all about production baby so as extension, I don't make mistake #4 much either

[@fanofrpgalore1546]

Video: Do not value food over production Game: Throws me into a map of six tundra hill tiles with no plains in sight

[@mateuszzdyb3547]

i'll take cities on the coast all day long. harbor plus liang spawn fishing boats is a food, prod & cash monster. if you get Halicarnassus wonder and befriend Mohenjo-Daro Nan Madol Cardiff and Auckland you are invincible

[@SuperTristin101]

I honestly thought where you settled destroyed whatever was on the tile

[@digitalk1llraymon448]

It depends on what it is is, On resources, it automatically gives you their yields. But woods and rainforest get removed completely

[@gustavinus]

I hate having cities crammed just 3 tiles away from each other LOL ... it sucks hard

[@ALookInto587]

Ah, good sir. I see you are an advocate of Military and Spence games. But as a business man, it shan‘t matter where I place a city, for it needs only one, or two, district(s), and the rest basically comes for free. I know my strategy isn‘t good and incredibly stupid, but it‘s super fun. For why should I need to produce? When I can just buy!

[@NgarKua]

In Khmer, you only need to respect your work ethics in tundra lands. regardless of tile quality, you'll be swimming in food and production along with faith. With Urban Complexity : Worship and Districts in wood mods, I reach to future era in 10th century AD and my science was over 2000 and culture was over 9000 per turn. Well, I colonized a sixth of a huge world which was covered in snow. Even without mods, that was a very strong combo, especially if you get rivers on tundra.

[@justviktr3264]

coastal cities gain a lot housing and food with a harbor

[@tenderloinlive8411]

Bro spent half the video talking about food and sounds like he vapes jewlews or puff bars.

[@VitorEmanuelOliver]

You sound like a cool version of Masaman (look up his channel and listen to his voice)

[@steveoishere]

Number 5 is interesting I also do it mid distance but sounds ok to me

[@TheCivLifeR]

mid is fine tbh as long as you close everything off later

[@steveoishere]

I think I deleted my last message about water tiles but Low production to get Harbours and you are right and I usually regret building city’s Relying On mostly water what’s the point really water units are the worst in the game by far and like you said no protection even after you get the harbour that’s really only for more gold and food nothing in the game is worse for you than a 15 population water city

[@ashe_xox]

Great tips and information and your humor rounds out all your vids, well done big daddy montezuma

[@nyny]

I tried map tacks, but without knowing what adjacency patterns and knot recognizing each of the icons it is very hard to use. I spend forever clicking through the build to see the +# symbols and then not knowing if a bonus resource should be gutted to make space for something. There is a chasm of info needed to make use of the mod

[@DoctorShroom]

5:05 Which governor diplomatic loyalty policy thing? And then which garrisoned loyalty policy card?

[@malcolmwalker6725]

Dude funny as hell ctfu... Might subscribe to this guy... I got the game on xbox

[@madslick4147]

Humor is on point my guy

[@TheCivLifeR]

:D

[@JayJay-wf2oe]

In early game, Faith > Culture > Food > Science = Production. As time goes on, the value of food drastically goes down and production goes up. By late game production is on the top with culture and science imo. Faith becomes somewhat useless after you got the pantheon, but at the first 25 turns it's beyond anything else. Food is so important because you need it to reach 2 population so you can start building settlers sooner. Also in early game more population = more worked tiles = more overall production, so having some starting food will benefit your overall production in the long run. Yes reaching 10+ population is not as rewarding but the first 4 population and arguably 7 is a must-have. Personally I think 8 is the sweetspot. It costs as much amenity as 7 which allows you to build 3 special districts, but also have 1 more worked tile.

[@TheCivLifeR]

sums up everything pretty nicely although depending on the game faith might be important for longer

[@JayJay-wf2oe]

@@TheCivLifeR yeah, for faith focused civs some extra faiths are always neat.

[@Lankpants]

Whether faith becomes useless depends on victory type. It's the only yield that matters for religion. Like, you need 4 pop in a late game city for religion, 1 to work a farm and 3 to work the holy site. It also comes back hard late game for culture after a mid game slump. You can't have too much faith to buy naturalists, cultists (if they're enabled) and rock bands. Also, it's definitely relevant for longer than just a pantheon, because monumentality is one of the most busted things in the game. High early game faith strats spamming out settlers with monumentality and abusing the free builders from ancestral hall are really strong.

[@MrInsdor]

that didn't explain the situation in the thumbnail at all sadly still looks like a great spot to settle to me

[@Neo0311]

Uhh. Workers are worthless without civ to work the tile. That's your bonus for a high population.

[@briandobbins6878]

Wait! How can I build a navy without a coastal city? Naval warfare is One of the main reasons I play civ games.

[@sargentthiccboi9333]

I think it’s always good to have at least 2 coastal cities if possible for that exact reason

[@jonathanpilcher337]

At the end of the day just do whatever works and is most fun for you. If you want a slightly less than optimal coastal city for rp reasons and/or greater naval supremacy then go for it. Personally I usually play on water heavy maps where coastal cities are invaluable anyway

[@Facesforce]

The hive City selling method is actually a universal tactic in the civ series, 5 being the sole exception. Essentially, always build settlers from every city, followed by workers. The more cities, the more net gross you take in. Then follow-up with a state religion that takes gold and either provides amenities or production, and you've made a machine. I prefer pogodas over meeting houses, as the bonus faith allows your theocratic crusade machine to wipe almost everyone by the mid game. Do this, and you'll win 9 out of 10 games while weaker players go for the other, beta strategy to win the game. That being said, I miss spies and nuclear suitcases hiding in caravan stacks so much.

[@zombek666]

That is good tactic if you do not have to many opponents. I like to play against 15 maybe even 20+ civs on huge maps. Usually there is enough space for 5 cities. Then we clash and warfare is unavoidable. What settings do you play?

[@Facesforce]

@@zombek666 I normally play with about 20 civs on Emperor difficulty and with Barbarian Tribes mode on. Typically, I end up doing a early religon rush, followed by a wave of either swordsmen or horsemen, Barbarian horsemen if desperate and try to claim as many cities as possible. Then transition into a temporary peace, spreading more cities to every possible tile, and using garrisoned troops to maintain loyalty. I don't bother spreading my religon until the late middle ages, and will typically rely on scripture doctrine in order to organically spread it, while focusing my city states exclusively on economic or religon city states. Typically, the best way to accomplish this is to wipe out my 3 closest neighboring civs and then use the peace time diplomacy score to get the others to be only annoyed at me. Raze the cities that are not effective at that time, but hold the ones that are needed to keep up the supply lines of troops to the front defended. Better to build them from scratch then suffer the loyalty rebellion mechanic. Then after the conquest, enter a period of reconstruction and mass settlers using the Colonization tree. If you are playing as China (One of the better civs for this, due to thier worker charges and build wonder ability), wait out the era of Crossbowmen until you can make the earliest gunpowder infantry. Use Cash to upgrade standing army, and then use a mixture of religous purchases of troops to renforce the front, while sending apostles to convert them. At that point, stop focusing on minmaxing cities and begin steamrolling as many AI's at a time. You should have three to four seprate army clusters of units to sack and pillage. Oh, and another tip, Use Battering rams and thier upgraded form. Never upgrade to medics. This will stop you from dealing chip damage to walls, and let you seize faster. Using this strategy, I have never once made it to the future era *laughs*. One of these days, I'll go for a science victory or cultral to see what it's like, but religous and domination is too busted.

[@sargentthiccboi9333]

@@zombek666 that’s exactly what I do. And to make it even more fun I turn off the turn limit

[@monimatulova7463]

Thanks, this video helped me

[@Adanoft]

I never build mines or lumbermills. Food ftw. Settle alwas 7 tiles away for maximum covrage.

[@bigbubbles55]

Played my first game blind I thought I was doing good i had just discovered gun power, had a sizeable force of calvary and saw a notification saying Germany was dropping nukes

[@combustible8464]

Write that down. *Write that down!!*

[@TheCivLifeR]

lol spongebob

[@alex2005z]

That down

[@kirbydonoho5707]

lol dude your voice sounds like Anton Yelchin's voice from the movie odd thomas . haa !

[@nxamaya]

You can tell that this is an impostor posing as TCL cause he buys a "scout" (ewww) at 5:40

[@TheCivLifeR]

I was forced to under gunpoint. im safe now but ill never be the same again

[@mmccarthy9458]

The easiest way to learn the lesson of production over food is to play true start location earth map as Egypt or Arabia. Dead sea no production.

[@ericdavis1421]

Is there some "hack" to mever see a post from someone again? New thought 🤔

[@dgray3771]

But the 2 fishy tiles! It depends on the civ as well. Indonesia better get to the coast.

[@braders790boop]

is it still worth building an aqueduct on a river when you are already getting fresh water? is the +2 housing worth it?

[@wojtekpawlowski5660]

Only if you can get some crazy adjacency bonus with industrial zone

[@ethanwmonster9075]

Also late game you have access to ways of dramatically being able to increase how many pops a city can hold so prioritizing food overproduction is a gigantic mistake.

[@TheCivLifeR]

thats true

[@cmarkn]

Late game you demolish the farm and build your spaceport or Big Ben there.

[@ethanwmonster9075]

@@cmarkn when you get 10 or 15 pop demolishing the farm does nothing

[@cmarkn]

@@ethanwmonster9075 it gives you an empty hex to build something else on.

[@skrie]

Maptags mod doesn't understand Canal placement.... which is unfortunate because I don't do either.

[@crashmyzebra]

You trolled me with the thumbnail dude

[@Coolthings246]

I have a problem where I focus on the river and not any luxuries etc I could build around it

[@chrisyasko9367]

The scramble for Africa 💀💀💀I’m fuckin weak

[@Schnizzori]

Great Video. What mod are you using that shows you the adjacency bonuses from map pins?

[@saxongroove5898]

Detailed Map Tacks

[@Schnizzori]

@@saxongroove5898 Thank you very much. Very helpful !

[@FuzzySlippahz]

You sir are an absolute tyrant lol. Love the content

[@TheCivLifeR]

lol appreciate it