If you don't hoping to hold onto their bonuses the AI will often kill them instead unless they're one of the super peaceful ones. You can't do much about that initial housing cap after all, and even if you rush to grab everything you can for the extra housing you're sort of stuck at most around 12ish for a while depending on who you are (unless you're kongo, who get their neighborhoods super early and can laugh all the way to size 30+ cities easily) and even going into negative ammenities isn't really a big deal like negative happiness was in 5 (the impact feels more like negative health in civ BE, which wasn't a big deal either), so you've really got nothing to lose by settling as much land as you can early and smashing some city states. You kind of have to rely on your 'natural yields' and city numbers to claw your way back from the immediate disadvantages you have, cuz if you do something like, say, try and wait on settling to ♥♥♥♥ out an early campus or wonder or something, you're liable to get run over or lose out on so many city spots you can't recover.Ħ definitely encourages a wider playstyle with a bigger army no matter what you're going for, especially early on. Even if playing as a 'tall' civ like, say, Kongo, you still are typically going to want to land grab as much as possible early. Once you're secure and are happy with your land you can start turning to getting your economy strong and moving towards your victory. In 6 when you hit emperor you really have to open up with some military and then settle the land you can quickly, usually with some city state murder in there too if you want to get really strong. In say civ V I got used to playing tall, setting up a certain timing for the other 2 cities I'd usally make, etc, and getting by with the *minimum* amount of military. Yeah you really have less leniency to focus on different stuff early on once you hit emperor. When the time was right, I declared war on the City State and rushed a melee unit to capture it before the other civ had a chance to do it. What did I do? Ikept a few units near the city to make sure I could view the progress of the siege and war. I had a city state under siege and was about to be captured by a different civ. :)ĭo not be scared to liberate a large city from an enemy civ. Since districts can effect cities upto 3 tiles away, if you can get that perfect district that can hit two or three cities. Build industry and money to help your economy or Culture and science. Even if a city will never get pas 3 or 4 pop. However, this game changed that, you need to build as many cities as possible and specialize them. keep experimenting until you find the right difficulty for you! (Which is the way it should be).ĬIV V taught us to build a few cities and build tall. is struggling with the idea of districts as well. However, this game is a bit more complicated with districts and the AI, I suspect. Iv CIV IV and V I played on King and it felt the same. I am playing Immortal and it feels right to me.

WOW.īest way to find the good sweet spot is keep playing a game until you realize you either lost or made too many mistakes and need to restart - otherwise you will lose.

Civilization vi difficulty