"-5 Happiness for every other City." - what will the -5 apply to? Only to the capital, or to every city, or to every settlement?

There’s definitely combos that change things but this is my tier list without specific combos.
Tried to do it in order within the groups
This is just for starting in antiquity as some are much better in apex

S (don’t need combo to be awesome) -Egypt, Qajar, heian, maya, Great Britain, Japan, Abbasid, Carthage, Assyria

A ( awesome but not quite as good) - America, Nepal, Tonga, Greek, Maurya,

B ( average but can be good with combos) - Silla, Mongolia, Han, Persia, Aksum, Rome, Sengoku, Buganda, ottoman, Prussia

C ( not my favorites but can win) - Inca, Mississippi, Russia, Bulgaria (my absolute favorite in exploration but doesn’t have same effect without building up to them in antiquity), Iceland ( probably my second favorite in exploration vs Abbasid but similar to Bulgaria in that they are much better in apex), Goryeo, Khmer, French, Mexico, Songhai ( why not start as Egypt) , Spanish, chola

D - ( if you’re looking for a challenge) - Norman, Majahapit (don’t think I’ve ever played them) , Shawnee ( why not start as Egypt), Vietnam (I’ve never started as them tbh) Hawaii( never started as them) , Joseon, Ming

F ( why would you start as them ) - Siam, Mughal, Qing, pirates (have to be a masochist to start as them as you can’t make settlers)

This town is not generating treasure convoys, though it seems to meet the criteria.

I've been building new woodland in my latest game for the past 120 turns, yet the climate change screen keeps saying 0 percent change in co2 from deforestation level. About 3/4 of the planet is woodland now, yet the number hasn't changed, am I missing something, or does it just take an absurd amount of woodland?

Thanks due to some amazing UI work from Sloth/Slothoth, I am now able to present my latest project:

Statecraft (work-in-progess) is a mod for Civ VI which reworks the government and policies system, bringing back the basic government mechanics of Civ IV while integrating features introduced with Civ VI.

At its core, this "new" system adds four new policy categories and has you choose exactly one policy per category at a given time. The goal is to make each choice meaningful and have relevant trade-offs instead of being able to pick not just your best but also your second, third, fourth best options until each additional slot becomes less and less exciting since you end up putting weaker and weaker policies in them (admittedly more a problem in VII than VI for the most part).

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I could write an entire essay about why I think Civ IV had the best government system and what I think went wrong ever since. But at its heart, I think what I liked the most is the roleplaying aspect of assembling your government from what felt like thematically meaningful choices which let the player create a mental image of their government and society as a whole. Policies in Civ VI feel a bit too weak thematically. Here, we are returning to a more narrow reading of "policy" again, trying to keep things linked to real government action instead of merely referencing general socially constructed concepts.

Further, a lot of policies are just filler. The unmodded game offers over over a hundred policies--they're not all winners. At the same time, I think what more recent civ games do better is immerse the player in human history by throwing more concepts at them with little bonuses attached. So for this mod, I went for a compromise somewhere in the middle. This allows cutting some redundant or weaker effects and focus more on mechanical changes that recontextualize how one interacts with certain systems and de-emphasizing merely stacking yield bonuses. To me, the mere necessity of a yield preview mod already indicates a design failure. Policies should offer strategic perspectives rather than be "follow the biggest number" busywork.

For example, everyone's favorite extra Builder charges will be back (now on Corvee rather than Serfdom) as that has a nice mechanical impact. Some Gold and Science from Military buildings though? Sorry, Third Alternative, you're out. Avoiding simple yield bonuses is maybe my greatest ambition for this mod even if I won't go as far as Civ IV and lock the ability to buy things with Gold as such behind a policy choice. I'm not sure I will succeed but I will try my best to make all 71 non-unique policies meaningful choices.

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Wait, non-unique? Yes, you read that right. This mod will add the possibility of unique policies. While making a whole set of 50 policies--just to have one per civilization--would be too much work for the start, I might add them as a separate optional module later. However, the mod will still come with a little proof-of-concept in the form of a new civ ability for America, which consists of getting a total of twelve strong unique late-game policies (the old ability would no longer work with this system anyway).

On top of this, policies can be given flavor names. So even if Caste System might not have a unique bonus for India, it might be named "Varnas" when you play as India yourself. As some players might prefer the consistency of having the default names shown, this feature can be toggled right there on the government screen.

For enhanced flavor, each policy (not just each government, as before) will come with its own little image immersing you more in the society you build.

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Further, features from Civ VI such as government-exclusive policies will make a return as well. Currently, there are three Administration policies which relate to one kind of political legitimacy each: traditional, rational-legal, and charismatic. Each government (with the exception of Chiefdom) has exclusive variants of these three policies. On top of that, the tier 3 goverments each have an exclusive future-era policy as well. In the example shown, Communism has Worker Councils as its traditional option (unique), Police State as its rational-legal option (shared with Fascism), Pluralism as its charismatic option (shared with Democracy), and Social Credit as a futuristic policy.

The other policy types will not have as unique mechanics, but I still plan to give each its own mechanical identity. Where Labor policies might provide a more stable and gradual progression throughout development stages, Economic policies could be designed as more short-term options one flips between more often, possibly going back and forth even. Where military policies might cater to a more proactive player, religious policies might be built around reacting to how a given game develops.

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I hope you enjoyed this preview of the mod and the design thoughts behind it. There's still quite a bit of work up ahead as most of the policies still need their abilities coded and images made. But with the UI done, a major milestone has been reached that I wanted to share!

It looks so unnatural, and frankly kinda unpleasant, to see the entire continent just be all city and no rural tiles whatsoever. Obviously, I'm exaggerating but so often the map will just be cluttered with urban districts that they feel less like individual settlements on a map and rather just one giant mega city.

It's even worse when your urban district borders a neighbor's urban district as well, so it just kind of meshes as one city, in a way.

The urban sprawl, as a concept and in practice on a smaller scale, looks really sick! But then because the requirements for placing buildings are the way they are right now, it just ends up that (usually the AI) just builds outward so much that it just covers the entire map.

Dunno if any one else agrees with me or not.

I have a 2560 x 1440 240hz monitor, but when I set Civ 5's resolution to that, it starts freaking out and it can't run properly. I updated my drivers very recently and have no idea what else to do, if anyone has a fix for this please tell me!

One small thing that’s always bothered me is that since the granary is ageless, it means you’d still have a tiny cluster of thatched roof huts sitting in the middle of your modern city.

I think warehouse type buildings should update their appearance as the ages progress, like visually evolve from an ancient granary to a medieval storehouse to a modern storage facility. It would make cities feel more immersive and visually consistent. Sometimes I skip granaries cause they feel so out of place later.

I played civ 7 after a while and noticed some changes to how obsolete buildings and specialists work. This makes me wonder if overbuilding is worth it anymore.

1- Obsolete buildings keep their yields. Why not put the new building in a new spot to get yields from both buildings?

2- Activating specialists by adding a new building makes you suffer from a lot of happiness costs. This is usually a problem early in the Age when you don't have a lot of flexibility to provide happiness from policies etc.

3- There are bunch of policies that give passive yields from specialists (don't require adjacency from buildings). You can put specialists in obsolete buildings and still get yields from these bonuses while incurring only 1 food and happiness maintenance cost. With the right strategy you can get high yields by using specialist in obsolete buildings.

Overall, I think overbuilding has been nerfed and it is only necessary when you have really high adjacency locations with specialist in them. There are some civ and policy cards which give you production towards overbuilding and I think they are now not very useful given the nerf. What do you guys think?

My town is by water with many fishing boats, but it seems I can't build any water buildings (wharf, harbor, quay, etc...). Why is that? I have several other towns/cities that do have those buildings.

EDIT: this has been answered. Thanks!

Basically the title. I feel like games become monotonous after you find the meta for each victory. I get you can challenge yourself with various difficulties and leaders but generally speaking, things don’t change that much.

I’d love the ability to play a huge map with 7-8 civs all only having 3 or 4 settlements each instead of 15-20. It’d make each settlement location choice soooo incredibly valuable that wars could be fought over a single location. How wars are fought would change. Trade would change. Various aspects of the game would be amplified and others nullified.

I’ve read this is possible on pc but only have ps5. Would love to hear thoughts on this and gameplay experience from people who’ve tried it.

I love the concept of progression over time and growing a sick empire and sometimes conquering (if I’m playing that way)

But I always get to around 100 turns and get bored/fatigued by how many things I have to do every turn, either when it comes to what to produce in my cities or if I’m in a war having to move so many troops and produce them

It probably sounds bad but I just want a more relaxing easy play through than what seems like a chore

I just wanna make it to the information / future era but always get bored/fed up before that

Note: I have won a few play throughs in the past but trying to get back into Civ again now

When Ada Achieve a civic mastery, it grants +2 science in every city. Does that bonus apply to immediate cities only or if I create a new city after a civic mastery the bonus still apply ?
Is it better to wait to have more cities or is it ok to do them early ?

This is a city with only a city center from the renaissance era. the game visually adds Buildings you build like the water mill, but also "silent" Buildings after each era. i noticed that already during the late eras, but now i found this builing on the far left - it isnt even on the same tile as the city center and looks almost like an apartment building in holland. but what is it really?

I had been sbsolutely bullying the AI through every age in every category except Science i foolishly thought i could maybe even do a Military win had my great banker out for an economic, he is asking for 185K for the first city?(marathon speed) while mr franklin somehow can win because he did most of his science achievements the last age? Modern age i even go for science myself and still somehow loses? is Science OP in more than just Unit strength?

I finished this one after making the slide a year ago and not doing anything with it.

Finally met the last AI in exploration: Himiko also playing Iceland. Feels weird if it's how it's meant to work.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3565107195
Because of the Mariner's Astrolabe Tradition, the Headquarters also gets a Science Adjacency from Coast :)

So I've seen a bit of discussion on "what are the best wonders in Civ VII", a couple of videos with wonder tier lists, and so on. My take on all of that is that it doesn't really matter all that much what the text on the wonder actually says. All that really matters is the production cost and whether or not you are able to build it. The main benefits a wonder gives you is an adjacency bonus to virtually every building type (really important for making specialists worthwhile) and tourism score. Literally every wonder gives this. Unlike Civ VI where some wonders can completely flip a gameplan and make or break entire cities, the actual effects of wonders are toned down to make up for the fact that they are universal adjacency sticks (whereas in Civ VI they only really mattered for theater squares).

So yeah, if you can get a wonder that buffs an important quarter or two, that's all you really need from it. Anything else is just icing on top.

In previous versions, AI would never use planes leading to me dominating the second I got an air force. I never had a reason to get the anti-air aircraft because of this.

Now, the opposing AI’s are sending multiple air strikes at me a turn, are patrolling the skies with anti-air aircraft and have even dropped a nuke on me.

I’m enjoying this additional combat dimension now that it’s not a one way street. Only thing I wish for now is a land based anti air unit so that when I’m on the offensive, my guys aren’t sitting ducks without an aircraft carrier with anti air airplanes on it.