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> It doesn't actually change the fact that wide is the only way to play. You can win civ6 without even settling a city.

dragontamer 6y ago
Computer players in Civ6 are... pretty poor opponents. While Prince CPUs start on even grounds (1-warrior / 1 settler start, no combat bonuses), but are incredibly poor at making decisions. CPUs fail to take terrain into account, they are pretty bad about aiming at weak units (settlers / builders), and they send their units into the slaughterhouse one-by-one instead of waiting for a tactical edge. Case in point: I've played multiple games where Prince-CPUs are hemmed in by barbarians and unable to expand for 100-turns, leading to a no-effort win from me. In contrast, Diety CPUs are "fake difficulty". Their tactics are identical to the low-quality Prince CPUs, but instead have a 5-warrior/3-settler start, a solid +4 strength (aka +15% damage) bonus applied to all units unconditionally, and +100% culture/science throughout the game. Needless to say, Deity level CPUs are the epitome of "fake difficulty" in Civ6. Its incredibly poor tactics wrapped up with just stupid amounts of bonuses over the human player. I'm honestly not very impressed. At least they don't get barbarian-rushed into nothingness. --------- Anyway, I find it unlikely that you'd be able to play "city free" vs a human player. The CPU players seem "exploitable", they have holes in their gameplans (even at the Diety level) that don't really feel strategic to me. I can believe you that you can beat CPUs "city free", but I don't really consider such a game to be an accomplishment due to the weak AI of Civ6.
Sophistifunk 6y ago
I've never won Civ 6, and I have a bajillion hours in across 4,5, and Revolutions. I just can't get anywhere. Even on the easiest difficulty, no matter where I focus all opponents seem to be running at 110% my speed in tech, production, and religion (which I wish you could ignore like you can in V).
- dlubarov 6y ago
  Not sure if you're aware already, but you can disable religious victory in the advanced setup settings.
  - Sophistifunk 6y ago
    Good idea, cheers

Computer players in Civ6 are... pretty poor opponents. While Prince CPUs start on even grounds (1-warrior / 1 settler start, no combat bonuses), but are incredibly poor at making decisions. CPUs fail to take terrain into account, they are pretty bad about aiming at weak units (settlers / builders), and they send their units into the slaughterhouse one-by-one instead of waiting for a tactical edge. Case in point: I've played multiple games where Prince-CPUs are hemmed in by barbarians and unable to expand for 100-turns, leading to a no-effort win from me. In contrast, Diety CPUs are "fake difficulty". Their tactics are identical to the low-quality Prince CPUs, but instead have a 5-warrior/3-settler start, a solid +4 strength (aka +15% damage) bonus applied to all units unconditionally, and +100% culture/science throughout the game. Needless to say, Deity level CPUs are the epitome of "fake difficulty" in Civ6. Its incredibly poor tactics wrapped up with just stupid amounts of bonuses over the human player. I'm honestly not very impressed. At least they don't get barbarian-rushed into nothingness. --------- Anyway, I find it unlikely that you'd be able to play "city free" vs a human player. The CPU players seem "exploitable", they have holes in their gameplans (even at the Diety level) that don't really feel strategic to me. I can believe you that you can beat CPUs "city free", but I don't really consider such a game to be an accomplishment due to the weak AI of Civ6.

Sophistifunk 6y ago

I've never won Civ 6, and I have a bajillion hours in across 4,5, and Revolutions. I just can't get anywhere. Even on the easiest difficulty, no matter where I focus all opponents seem to be running at 110% my speed in tech, production, and religion (which I wish you could ignore like you can in V).

dlubarov 6y ago
Not sure if you're aware already, but you can disable religious victory in the advanced setup settings.
- Sophistifunk 6y ago
  Good idea, cheers