Civilization VI

[KRonn]

Had third go with CIV6 when it was on free weekend trial, still couldn't get into it. 

Yeah...I bought it this weekend, pretty cheap with a bunch of DLCs and XPs.

The one thing I think CIV needs is tech spread. I know you can trade techs; but it should have some form of tech spread, so that one country isn't lobbing bows and arrows whilst its neighbour is producing T34s.

Yeah, good point, especially bad if you're the one with the bows and arrows... I play off and on, but rarely finish a game. Not a power player, I  just enjoy it to some extent.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Had third go with CIV6 when it was on free weekend trial, still couldn't get into it. 

Yeah...I bought it this weekend, pretty cheap with a bunch of DLCs and XPs.

The one thing I think CIV needs is tech spread. I know you can trade techs; but it should have some form of tech spread, so that one country isn't lobbing bows and arrows whilst its neighbour is producing T34s.

Yeah, good point, especially bad if you're the one with the bows and arrows... I play off and on, but rarely finish a game. Not a power player, I  just enjoy it to some extent.

Even the tech doesn't matter if you lack some vital resources.  I remember not having any local oil sources. 

[Eddie Teach]

I've been playing this for a few months. I really enjoy the city planning aspect, but many of the game mechanics are poorly thought out or just strange. The religious victory is too easy, rock bands are too powerful, and the diplomatic game is kind of a mess.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

I've been playing this for a few months. I really enjoy the city planning aspect, but many of the game mechanics are poorly thought out or just strange. The religious victory is too easy, rock bands are too powerful, and the diplomatic game is kind of a mess.

like real life then, save for the religious victory

[jimmy olsen]

More generally, the problem with all Civ games is that many of their mechanics snowball rather than hit diminishing returns.  The rich get richer faster than the poor get richer, which is an unstable system.

Yeah but that's a generic 4X problem (with Paradox games very much included) that few tried to address.

Its hard to think how to do this in a fun way even. Modelling decline in a way that is still enjoyable is the ultimate game design challenge.

Attila Total War?

[Josephus]

So I'm pretty new to Civ VI and the only bit I'm having trouble with is religion.
I haven't been paying much attention to it; but now one of the AI nations is THIS close to acheiving a religious victory. He's even converted me.
How do I stop his spread, or reconvert my own provinces. I don't have a religion, I missed the boat on that. If I purchase apostles, they are all of HIS religion.

[Eddie Teach]

Best bet would be to conquer a city with a third religion and pump out their apostles. Or restart.

[Jacob]

Conquer the holy city of that religion from him?

[DGuller]

The most sure way is obviously capturing the holy city, but that's usually the capital, so if you can capture that, you can fuck the enemy up regardless.  If you don't have the power to fuck them up in this way, then try to protect the holdout AIs from being converted OR conquered.  Conquering the lone holdout Civ yourself is definitely a bad strategic decision.

[Eddie Teach]

You can't attack their missionaries with same religion apostles, can you?

[Solmyr]

You could also use weak missionaries of their religion to go and lose theological combat to apostles or inquisitors of other religions. This will reduce the influence of this religion in a radius around where the combat takes place.

[Josephus]

Also when you attack missionaries, do you have to be at war?

[Darth Wagtaros]

Also when you attack missionaries, do you have to be at war?

No.

[DGuller]

Seeing this thread, I decided to reinstall the game from Steam, and give it another go.  I lasted 40 minutes before I got bored.  "Please, no more turns..."

[Darth Wagtaros]

Seeing this thread, I decided to reinstall the game from Steam, and give it another go.  I lasted 40 minutes before I got bored.  "Please, no more turns..."

I've found I restarted often. Resource limitations make sense for game mechanics, but if I have no domestic iron or horses I may as well stop playing. Same later on when I have 3 oil and 12 coal.  I'll get steam rollered.