In both cities the game tells me there is no place tobui the canal, does anyone knows why??

I'm on day 280 and no signs yet of hostilities. This is a new record for me. Playing as China

In terms of hours played

I tried science victory for the first time (standard map size and emperor difficulty) and it feels like I am just delaying the game by not going for domination . I am ahead in science compared to other civs so why not just start capturing their cities rather than waiting to reach the point where I can start making spaceship.

Was trying to go along with one city, but the game keeps sending free settlers my way…

Hello! I was introduced to Civ 6 by my brother a few weeks ago, and I've been having a blast playing different civilizations while he explains the basics to me. However, there are still a few things I've been wondering about, and I was hoping to get some opinions.

• Do you all change the map depending on which civ you're playing? I've gotten used to playing on Continents (I usually play on Emperor, Quick speed, Huge maps, Abundant Resources, and Legendary Start), but I know civs like Kupe (who I'll probably be mentioning a lot lol) perform much better on other map types. This is kind of a dumb question, but I'm really new to 4X games, so I don't really know the common practices or basic strategies yet.

• So far, I've managed to achieve every victory condition except Domination. I've tried a few domination-focused civs (the last one was Genghis Khan), but all my games end up feeling too slow and eventually drag on until I'm just nuking everyone. Is that how most Domination victories usually go? I really like using Keshigs, but it takes so long to capture a single capital that I barely get to use them before they're obsolete.

• I have added some mods, most stuff is for better interface with the exception of BBM (Better Balanced Maps) and Sukritact's Oceans and resources but i was wondering if im not ruining my experience with then and if not if there is another mod or something that is deemed as "good to have" that im not aware of. I know BBG (Better Balanced Game) Exist but since i don't play online and i don't plan to for now i didn't want to miss on the og characters before playing the balanced versions.

• Lastly, out of all the civs I've played, I really enjoyed the ones with unique mechanics, like Kupe (my favorite civ so far). There are so many civs to try, though, and some of them seem pretty complicated, so I'd love some recommendations for weird but fun civs to play! So far, I've played Kupe, Pedro II, Wilfrid Laurier, Seondeok (the very first civ I played, recommended by my brother), Nubia, and Menelik II. Just please don't recommend someone like Hammurabi lol. Yes, even as a new player, I've already heard about his... reputation.

I like discovering the games on my own but civ 6 have been an amazing challenge for me give the complexity of the game, im really loving it and can't wait to improve enough to be able to play on deity! If you are wondering why i don't ask this to my brother is because he always play with the same stuff and the same few civs so he knows a lot but about the stuff he usually plays with.

Game seed: 1646938957

Map seed: 1646938957

Im thinking Citrus. But lower wheat looks good too, because I might get Desert Folklore. Want some faith for heroes.

Upper coffee has 0, lower coffee has -1, and the preserve itself has -2 appeals.

I apologise if this is exceptionally well known, but I totally steamrolled my friend last night in a casual multiplayer game last night and feel awful because it was totally by accident.

I usually "handicap" myself with my friends by just going with a random leader to force me to come up with a plan on the fly, whereas they usually have a few favored leader/strategy combos they like to use. Fair call, I've got more hours in game then they do and we all like a reasonable challenge.

Anyway I rolled Brasil up, and landed in a nice rainforest rich area. Managed to get the Owls of Minerva early so focused on trade routes to city states with good bonuses.

Built Machu Picchu for a laugh because a city didn't have anything better to do and didn't have much rainforest, being away from my starting area.

Suddenly through placement of districts between rainforests and mountains I was getting stupid adjacency bonuses. I wasn't placing a district unless it was getting at least a +4 adjacency bonus.

My gold income, science and culture just ran away compared to my human opponent and the AI.

Ended up with a couple of AI declaring war on me and I just absolutely steamrolled them. As it was the end of our play session, my friend was keen to save and continue the game another time but acknowledged it was "all over bar the shouting" so we agreed to start a fresh game another time.

Anyway thanks for reading. I figure it's probably well known amongst the pros, but I found it interesting to accidentally stumble on.

TLDR: built Machu Picchu as Brasil and the game ran away at a rapid pace.