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Playing a detailed turn base strategy game sounds boring and mundane to most viewers, but all it takes is study and you could have a game with HUGE replay ability for a long time that's actually very entertaining.
About two weeks ago I wanted a game where I could sit back and click. Stress free and play a game at my own pace. Well, Civilization 6 is not stress free, infact trying to control the world using one of the five victory conditions is hard and action packed !....... The AI is extremely intelligent and EVERY country by itself has a motive at working diligently for one of the five conditions to win. It actually competes against itself, attacking each other and spreading its own religion or being first in the race to colonize Mars.
You start as just another kid on the block, at harder difficulties at a disadvantage. If you play it smart you could totally avoid war completely the entire game, but even this could be a challenge because some will call you weak and threaten your peacefulness. You WILL BE HATED, the best you could hope for is avoidance from being attacked by trading, offering gifts or deals, and most of all stay away from their borders because it will know what your planning ahead. This part is amazing how it knows !
You can keep other civilizations at bay but you cant avoid your military. This has to be kept strong because of unexpected barbarian attacks, their rootless and relenting and will stay aggressive until you locate and destroy there encampments. You must stop EVERYTHING and search them out before too much damage is done. You better have an army every place in your kingdom !
At random and not so random times other Leaders will pop up in dialogue and tell you where you stand or offer advice……. The game constantly knows ahead of time what your planning. They say you can make great friendships where others will defend you but that’s to advanced for me at this time. I see options but that’s to complicated.
Learning curve:
Before I started, I watched a two hour "how to play video"…. It's almost necessary but I found it enjoyable as much as watching a good movie. They don't contain spoilers or considered cheating because every campaign is hugely random generated. You'll find winning is all in the small details of keeping EVERY city healthy so it's able to produce without working at a snails pace.
I started three times at standard difficulty, each learning by my mistakes. The last I decided on a Military Domination Victory and changed to Science mid stream…. Bad idea !..... Other countries didn't forget the carnage I dealt and I didn't properly win them over, never the less I got destroyed. I allowed my strong military get weak in the process…. It still could have worked but I didn't know better.
Tonight I'll start again with an all out Domination campaign. I'll keep their cities instead of selling them and dominate the world !!!!...... I can't wait !
Side note:
Civ 5 is no longer considered better than 6, that's old news that's considered false or preference.
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I used to do that in Civ 5 too. For some reason my favorite two victory conditions were religious and cultural.
I used to crush the AI with Egypt!
It does, as a result, give the impression of being "easier" than previous civs if you are familiar with the franchise as a whole.
If not familiar a good way to learn, imo, is to put the game on easy - crank the difficulty right down, select 1 other civ and the smallest map. This should make for a "quick" game. Then progressively increase the difficulty, number of AI opponents and map size.
According to who? lol. You? Because this is absolutely not the popular opinion.
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
And popular opinion is Civ 5 > Civ 6.
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
Granted, I love strategy games, so my opinion is inherently biased
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For me Civ 4 was the best, a big graphical update while retaining the depth of thinking of the predecessors. I hate to think what we will see for Civ 7 as the series is now firmly on the journey the rest of gaming is, making every easier gameplay.
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Let's just hope Humankind will be a decent continuum to this genre.
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I say 6 is good because I asked in steam before I got it and a lot say its as good but different. Several pages back on the forums someone also asked and same response.
I'm not sure if 6 is watered down or not, but because of the overall learning curve, I don't think I would want deeper, it's still heavy strategic.... call me a pansy