r/CivVII

For reference I am playing on PS5, and wanted to know what the take on the DLC is? I would love to not think about it and get it all, but did not realize how many individual expansions there were when I purchased the game, so im not super keen on dropping $60-80. Is it best to just wait for a sale? Do they ever do a full bundle later in the life of the game? Or is there just one or two specific expansions I should go for and ignore the others?

I usually put random leaders and civs on when beginning a game (on a Switch, so Small map and 6 total civs) and ever since the 1.4.1 update I've somehow gotten the same 3 leaders as opponents EVERY TIME I START A NEW GAME: Xerxes the Achaemenid, Trung Trac and Himiko Queen of Wa. It's usually not that bad, but having 3 of the other 5 opponents be the same people kinda make it boring, because I know exactly how they're going to play, who they're going to ally/fight with and which wonders they're going to try to beat me to Other than manually selecting opponents (which is boring also) any way to make it more random? Is there a way to prevent certain leaders from being picked??

I must be probably very dumb at this game cause theres no way. Im playing in governor mode. My order in the capital is usually 2-3 scouts and one settler. I play on standard map and put 6 players only. I play in continents. And I swear this game is trying to kill me.

Every time I restart either my begging is terrible with only 2 resources very far way from the city center OR when I have actually a ok setup for the capitol, I have 4 independent power around my capitol and another leader literally like 20 tiles way. I settle my first city, the independent powers take the city. I come around just to discover that in my continent there’s me + 4 AI’s and one AI completely alone in the other continent.

Come on, am I just bad at the game, hyper winy, or is the code of the game just a jackass?

Seriously, who would use the "+50% Reduction in Commander Recovery Time" mementos, taking up a valuable slot? This is one of the more absurd examples, although there are plenty of practically useless mementos. Maybe, future tech or civic should also give a slot for an additional mementos and several options to choose from depending on the leader's attributes and the mementos unlocked in the meta-progression? Or maybe there should be some other way to implement this, because right now it's completely unclear why there are so many mementos if some are truly powerful, while others are practically pointless.

I hadn't played much since the test of time release. Just a couple games. Mostly because my boyfriend who introduced me to this game died earlier this year.

But I've noticed I am not nearly as reliably getting my wonders built before the AI. I am a wonder-whore and it is pissing me off. I haven't changed any settings from how I used to play, and I reliably mixed up my leaders/civs from game to game and never had much difficulty.

I was hoping someone could explain what I might be experiencing and how to adapt. I wanted to get into twitch streaming since this is the only game I will sit there and continuously play for hours, but I realized I need to actually learn everything that changed with test of time first.

What has changed that is making it harder to beat the AI to building wonders? I have reliably lost out on hanging gardens and maui in the three games I just kinda YOLOd.

Yes, they usually don't, just like warehouse buildings. However, when moving to a new age, all buildings from the previous era lose their specialization—scientific, cultural, or otherwise. So the question arises: do they become a regular building from the previous age, imposing a penalty to the construction of apex buildings, or does the game remember that they were originally production buildings and shouldn't impose one?

Is this a bug or a feature?

Title:
Kush (Nubia) Civilization Mod for Civ VII

Just finished my first custom Civ VII civilization mod and am looking for feedback/suggestions

Adds Kush as an Antiquity civ with:

• Pitati unique ranged unit
• Nubian Pyramids unique improvement
• Unique Kush civic tree and traditions
• Custom icons/art (AI & Photoshop)
• Hatshepsut historical association
• Abbasid/Songhai progression
• Kushite city/citizen names and Nile-region start bias

Workshop:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3784966596

Would appreciate any feedback, especially on balance or bugs.

I plan to soon create mods for Scythia, Pueblo, Nabateans, Gaul, Babylon and/or Sumer, and Tiwanaku and/or Caral. Then may jump to exploration age and so on. Have potential plans for ~80 new civs as an overhaul but we will see.

So I’m play with some friends and I’m 1 turn away from hitting 100 points in Science victory to start the 5 turn run off but it also just so happens to be the same turn we hit 60% in the modern age changing the victory difficulty to 1.5x which also puts my friend into the Cultural victory on the same turn as my Science victory but we find out that he only has to do 4 turns for his cultural victory while I have to do 5 turns for my science victory though we get them on the same turn.

I thought it was always 5 turns for a victory after you met the conditions. Why did he only have to do 4?

And if we both did win on the same turn how does the game decide who won?

We’ve all seen the animation for every Wonder a million times, but there are some I find myself watching all the way through, every time. They’re also just a nice break for a sip of coffee. I just wish they were timelapse animations, and not just boom boom boom.

I can’t not watch the Great Lighthouse be built. Somehow it’s just lovely, and I love seeing it go up. Also Doi Suthep is beautiful with those floating lanterns. And if I can get Colossus (almost never) I’ll watch it all.

What about you?

Know the game got bad reviews when it came out. Usually takes a while before the updates and DLCs make it a solid game. How's it going to that end?

Is there a way to see how things lile policies will change how much culture/gold/happiness you produce? Lile it will just say 'do tou want +2 happiness on happiness buildings or +1 happiness per assigned resource', how do you choose?