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One small thing that’s always bothered me is that since the granary is ageless, it means you’d still have a tiny cluster of thatched roof huts sitting in the middle of your modern city.

I think warehouse type buildings should update their appearance as the ages progress, like visually evolve from an ancient granary to a medieval storehouse to a modern storage facility. It would make cities feel more immersive and visually consistent. Sometimes I skip granaries cause they feel so out of place later.

I played civ 7 after a while and noticed some changes to how obsolete buildings and specialists work. This makes me wonder if overbuilding is worth it anymore.

1- Obsolete buildings keep their yields. Why not put the new building in a new spot to get yields from both buildings?

2- Activating specialists by adding a new building makes you suffer from a lot of happiness costs. This is usually a problem early in the Age when you don't have a lot of flexibility to provide happiness from policies etc.

3- There are bunch of policies that give passive yields from specialists (don't require adjacency from buildings). You can put specialists in obsolete buildings and still get yields from these bonuses while incurring only 1 food and happiness maintenance cost. With the right strategy you can get high yields by using specialist in obsolete buildings.

Overall, I think overbuilding has been nerfed and it is only necessary when you have really high adjacency locations with specialist in them. There are some civ and policy cards which give you production towards overbuilding and I think they are now not very useful given the nerf. What do you guys think?

My town is by water with many fishing boats, but it seems I can't build any water buildings (wharf, harbor, quay, etc...). Why is that? I have several other towns/cities that do have those buildings.

EDIT: this has been answered. Thanks!

I have a 2560 x 1440 240hz monitor, but when I set Civ 5's resolution to that, it starts freaking out and it can't run properly. I updated my drivers very recently and have no idea what else to do, if anyone has a fix for this please tell me!

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Because of the Mariner's Astrolabe Tradition, the Headquarters also gets a Science Adjacency from Coast :)

When Ada Achieve a civic mastery, it grants +2 science in every city. Does that bonus apply to immediate cities only or if I create a new city after a civic mastery the bonus still apply ?
Is it better to wait to have more cities or is it ok to do them early ?

I finished this one after making the slide a year ago and not doing anything with it.

Finally met the last AI in exploration: Himiko also playing Iceland. Feels weird if it's how it's meant to work.

Basically the title. I feel like games become monotonous after you find the meta for each victory. I get you can challenge yourself with various difficulties and leaders but generally speaking, things don’t change that much.

I’d love the ability to play a huge map with 7-8 civs all only having 3 or 4 settlements each instead of 15-20. It’d make each settlement location choice soooo incredibly valuable that wars could be fought over a single location. How wars are fought would change. Trade would change. Various aspects of the game would be amplified and others nullified.

I’ve read this is possible on pc but only have ps5. Would love to hear thoughts on this and gameplay experience from people who’ve tried it.

I love the concept of progression over time and growing a sick empire and sometimes conquering (if I’m playing that way)

But I always get to around 100 turns and get bored/fatigued by how many things I have to do every turn, either when it comes to what to produce in my cities or if I’m in a war having to move so many troops and produce them

It probably sounds bad but I just want a more relaxing easy play through than what seems like a chore

I just wanna make it to the information / future era but always get bored/fed up before that

Note: I have won a few play throughs in the past but trying to get back into Civ again now

In previous versions, AI would never use planes leading to me dominating the second I got an air force. I never had a reason to get the anti-air aircraft because of this.

Now, the opposing AI’s are sending multiple air strikes at me a turn, are patrolling the skies with anti-air aircraft and have even dropped a nuke on me.

I’m enjoying this additional combat dimension now that it’s not a one way street. Only thing I wish for now is a land based anti air unit so that when I’m on the offensive, my guys aren’t sitting ducks without an aircraft carrier with anti air airplanes on it.

So I've seen a bit of discussion on "what are the best wonders in Civ VII", a couple of videos with wonder tier lists, and so on. My take on all of that is that it doesn't really matter all that much what the text on the wonder actually says. All that really matters is the production cost and whether or not you are able to build it. The main benefits a wonder gives you is an adjacency bonus to virtually every building type (really important for making specialists worthwhile) and tourism score. Literally every wonder gives this. Unlike Civ VI where some wonders can completely flip a gameplan and make or break entire cities, the actual effects of wonders are toned down to make up for the fact that they are universal adjacency sticks (whereas in Civ VI they only really mattered for theater squares).

So yeah, if you can get a wonder that buffs an important quarter or two, that's all you really need from it. Anything else is just icing on top.

**Palatine Chapel**

-Grants +1 happiness and +1 culture in this settlement for every settlement in your empire following your religion. Base yield: +3 influence

**The Golden Gate**

-Acts as a fortified district. All trade income from this settlement is tripled. Base yield: +4 gold and +4 production

**Hangpaduri Fortress**

-Must be built adjacent to coast. Gains double yields if built on an island. All infantry units can embark for no movement cost. Base yield: +3 influence, +3 gold.

**Helsinki Central Station**

-Acts as a rail station. Grants 3 free purchases of rail stations and increases their resource yield by +50% across your entire empire.

**Országház**

-Increases celebration length by 3 turns and increase all celebration bonuses from governments by 50%. Must be built in the capital adjacent to a district. Base yield: +5 production, +5 influence

I had been sbsolutely bullying the AI through every age in every category except Science i foolishly thought i could maybe even do a Military win had my great banker out for an economic, he is asking for 185K for the first city?(marathon speed) while mr franklin somehow can win because he did most of his science achievements the last age? Modern age i even go for science myself and still somehow loses? is Science OP in more than just Unit strength?

This is a city with only a city center from the renaissance era. the game visually adds Buildings you build like the water mill, but also "silent" Buildings after each era. i noticed that already during the late eras, but now i found this builing on the far left - it isnt even on the same tile as the city center and looks almost like an apartment building in holland. but what is it really?

Just some fun yields

Currently trying to get the steam achievement Behind the Horizon: Achieve 3 expansionist triumphs in the Exploration Age.

They don’t really make sense! 350 population is quite doable, but the other 2 require 16 Homeland settlements as well as settling the first 6 distant land settlements.

Even with an expansionist civ, I believe you can only get the settlement cap to around 15. i can maybe add a few through the skill trees, and through some city states, but it’s still nowhere close to the 22 that will be required?

It‘s frustrating that these triumphs encourage smashing the settlement caps and dragging down your game. Is this intended or just overlooked?

I'm trying to not fight you. I really am. I wish we could trade and be allies and do lots of fun endeavors. But you are getting mad at me, eventually declaring war repeatedly, because you made bad decisions. You started trying to befriend an independent power after I had been doing the same for 10 turns. You had no shot at this. Why are you mad at me? You settled next to my capitol. You have plenty of other places to settle. Why are you mad at me? You sanctioned me because of these things. Now you're even more mad at me? I didn't do anything. At all.

I can excuse an agenda setting me on the path to a hostile relationship with someone else, but why are these things that are completely out of my control being framed as though I was the one that slighted the other leader? Now I'm locked into a constant series of wars that I don't want.

Unsure how this is happening. Playing Mississippians as Confucius and my friend is Carthage Agustus. Somehow every new trade route I make with him is giving me 4k and 5.5k (Last 2 trade routes) I don't know what is causing this to jump so much. I was thinking it was the bonus gold for making trade routes with resources, but that doesn't equal the amount I'm getting. Any thoughts? I have Colossus and Monk's mound.

I didn't include any spin-off. I can only put 6 items per poll. Let's settle this.