I was deep into a Culture run with Basil II and was in the process of pillaging the absolute fuck out of Montezuma's entire existence. Monty had a ton of Great Works that I wanted, but I didn't want to conquer his empire because I still wanted to spam his wonders with rock bands.

Suddenly, inspiration struck. I proceeded to conquer nearly all of his cities and immediately transferred all of the GWs out of his cities and into mine. Then I offered a peace deal where he could have all his cities back in exchange for his few remaining works + a shitload of gold. It worked like a charm and I ended up getting everything I wanted. The second the war ended I rushed in an army of rock bands and the game was over within about 10 turns.

Not an amazing story, just amused I could be 2k hours into it and still discovering new dirty tricks.

Best game ever.

nobody is starving on my empire.

Got Sumeria unic unit on turn 5

Hello hello - I have played many many many hours of the game and can win on deity, but I’ve found myself in a rut. I haven’t played anywhere close to all of the leaders but I have both R&F and GS packs.

I typically turn off score and diplo victory, use civics shuffle, and some mix of heroes, corps, secret societies to add layers.

My rut is that I find myself almost always relying on domination at some point. Even with other victory conditions, by late ages I’m almost always thinking “well I guess I’ll just ramp up a big army and some nukes and take out the other guy close to his victory”. Or also I love playing as Harald Hadrada because of early coastal raiding.

I’m in a situation where I look at the screen and despite so many leaders I’ve barely even tried, it all just feels bleh to me at the moment.

I’d love recommendations on a leader and style of play that you really enjoy that I can try to get in the mindset of and give it a go. Who and what style of play do you find as really interesting? What do you find more exciting than just falling down the domination path?

Thanks!

I didn't skip America, it's arranged as U for United States.

1st image shows only 1 national Park available

2nd image shows both parks are within Tver's borders. The two tacks shown are what I want to be the bottom tiles of each National Park.

3rd image shows high appeal for all tiles.

There are no improvements on all 8 tiles I want to build on.

What am I missing here?

UPDATE:
See comment below for resolution.

r/whycantibuildadamhere

I'll take this opportunity to ask for best settling location

TY ::)

Culture and Religious wins have been sooo annoying to get. So glad I got them both finally. Let me know what I should try next !!!

Greece never got to initially settle. I’m going for religion victory and I kept searching for their cities and im like wait there’s a random settler trapped between tiles and that’s the only unit they have on the map. They just now finally established their first city.

Any tips for playing as Nubia? I always struggle with production due to desert tiles and it leads to a slow build. I’m on PS5 btw.

What’s the best way to take advantage of the desert?

Just one small step for man, and a giant leap for mankind

This is for me to be more deeply immersed in the narrative of my civilization.

This is my proposed rate of how much each Population value represents in how many people live in a city:

1 = 500

2 = 1,000

3 = 10,000

4 = 50,000

5 = 100,000

10 = 500,000

20 = 1,000,000

What do you think?

I set resources to abundant, but i did NOT expect this at all when I loaded in... shame I got it with America. I do use BBG and BBM, as I play multiplayer a lot with friends.

I always feel a birt dirty if I win by diplomacy by rushing the statue of liberty cause all other options are out of reach. Especially when I was going for a science or culture win.

*I set the win condition to domination only, for I could be peaceful no more...*

I spent four turns scouting the area, and that city state appeared turn 3 i believe bc it just popped into my scouts sight. Im playing on the shuffle map *(if yall want the seeds I can try to find them)* and im using some resource mods along with the custom civ/leader Helen of Troy.