who can be blamed for thVIs mes6 ? [civ6 review]

[Proteus_MST]

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-AI unit spam. Both City-States and main Civs will have scads of club men/chariots swarming around their territory which they never upgrade. Swatting down AI armies is easy-peasy, as their units tend to be 2 eras behind and thus get obliterated fast.
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Yep.
On the other hand it may be that he actually is that far away in military tech.
Btw. I definitely like the fact that now the (maximum) teczh levels of the AI are displayed on the timeline (so that, for example, you can see that your enemy is among the Civs who only have reached teechs of "Industralization"-Level (while you are already at information age and some other AI civs have reached nuclear age)

-Having to churn out inquisitors/apostles just to forestall the AI from converting my cities (they always agreed not to but always broke the promise the next ****ing turn, every last one of the bastards). Since "Religious Victory" is now a thing, I can't just ignore religious conversions. BTW, I think that's a stupid victory condition entirely. I realize the Diplo victory in V was problematic, but this isn't a step up.

Absolutely agree.
And if you denounce them for breaking their promise and after the necessary 5 turns wait declare a formal war, the warmonger penalty seems to be not much lower than, if you had decided to declare a surprise war on the spot

-City-state of which I'm suzerain is under attack by AI civs. Why can't I tell them to stop? Negotiate peace? Earn a casus belli against them at least, and get mondo credit for liberating an allied city-state that got conquered? I get a measly +5 for freeing people who were unjustly conquered? Stingy.
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Definitely ... regarrding the casus belli, there may b e something from a civic you unlock in industrial age, that gives you "colonial wars".
It may be that it is a casus belli against civs who attack city states of which you are the suzerain.

But even if it is the case, it comes quite late in the civic tree

[Sava]

You cannot name your cities.

Units have no "sentry" command.

[Ming]

The lack of both of those previously included features sucks.

[rah]

How could they have overlooked the city naming feature? WOW.

[Proteus_MST]

How could they have overlooked the city naming feature? WOW.

I remember that the city naming feature also wasn't included in Civ V right from the start.
Only came with one of the (first) patches

[rah]

Even more strange that it would be overlooked AGAIN.

[Sava]

Districts are either broken or designed very poorly. Specifically, the cost inflates to a ridiculous amount. Note the date and turn time and how bad it is already.

[Sava]

Civ 6 is receiving way more "ready to play out of the box" credit than it deserves. The critic ratings are absurdly high. It's like nobody played the game.

[Sava]

Religious units cannot heal.

[Proteus_MST]

Religious units cannot heal.

They can. But they need to be adjacent to one of your holy districts in order to do so

[rah]

So do you get the feel that districts is the new way to fight ICS.
III had corruption
IV had city Maint
V had global happiness.
VI Districts ???

Are there any other concepts being used to fight ICS.
Because "heaven forbid' that winning the game through just building cities should ever be allowed

[Sava]

The cost of district buildings does NOT inflate. So you are better off building all your districts before the buildings inside of them... from a production cost standpoint.

[Sava]

They can. But they need to be adjacent to one of your holy districts in order to do so

[Sava]

So do you get the feel that districts is the new way to fight ICS.
III had corruption
IV had city Maint
V had global happiness.
VI Districts ???

Are there any other concepts being used to fight ICS.
Because "heaven forbid' that winning the game through just building cities should ever be allowed

Districts and barb activity. I turned off barbs and there's no obstacle to ICS in the early game... assuming you can avoid the AI attacking you. I managed to get up to 7 cities before building any military units. If barbs are off, it is easy to build a city somewhere and wait for ancient walls.

[rah]

Have you found that optimal number of cities yet?