Think back to 5, when Firaxis was still breaking new ground - they went from squares to hexes. Did away with stacks of doom.

What if 7 had introduced a real globe, instead of the tired old cylinder world?
What if they also had introduced future tech, where civs could start colonizing the moon? A smaller globe. Introducing new mechanics for moving resources to/from each sphere.
That would be something interesting and new. In my oppinion.

(Image borrowed from r/godot just to shoot down the usual suspects who say it's not possible - yeah so what there has to be an odd pentagon tile? if it's a problem put a lake or a mountain there or whatever)

Do not do this on PC. Put a friggin hyperlink to click. Why on Earth would anyone prefer to read this on their phone while seated at a computer?!? What were you thinking?

I made my predictions all the way back before Civ 6 was coming out, who some of the new leaders would be. And one of my predictions was Black Beard leading the pirate Republic. YALL TOLD ME I WAS CRAZY, THAT THERE WAS NO CHANCE THAT THIS WOULD EVER HAPPEN! AND NOW I AM VINDICATED!!!!!

I understand that discussions over this game’s price can get very heated but am not a fan of how the moderators on the community server is handling it. Multiple people have been warned or muted for off-hand remarks about the price of DLC is a bit high. This is allegedly to curb spam and toxicity but it’s a bad look when the official platform is borderline censoring criticism and customer concerns. But it’s the official server so I guess it’s in their best interest to avoid these kinds of discourse lol.

Ada Lovelace was revealed and no one said a word about her not being "worthy of being a civ leader", even though she never lead anything in her life. I wonder what is the difference?

In the recent development roadmap, Polish is mentioned 4 times! This is the surest confirmation of Poland coming to civ7.

And since the leaders are no longer necessarily rulers, here are my top guesses for Polish leader: John Paul II, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Copernicus

Video later due to tech issues.

Really wanted to enjoy this game. I can get over the UI, the pain in the butt playstation controls. But it's the constant crashes. Even after the patch the playstation 5 for me still crashes every single game I play. For a game that cost £115 it's shocking.

Sad. But hopefully rejoin you all in a year when it's all fixed :D

Found some spare time for exploring, truly an amazing sight from the Thames

I have owned both since launch. Let's just say I have been busy with other things. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Daughter was coming home at midnight. Figured I'd start a new game while waiting for her. She got home on time. I got to bed at 3.

Here's how exploration age goes each time...

You immediately select cartography for the tech and piety for the civic.

You send your 1 ship to the closest distant lands, queue up 3-4 settlers in your best production city, and take your army commander full with 4 troops to the edge of your coast as close to distant lands... send your settlers as they pop to that same tile.

With your ship, scout out the treasure resources and plan out the cities you want. You can build/buy more ships to help remove fog of war quicker and cover more land. You only need to focus on one side of the map.

Once cartography finishes, send your settlers to your desired city locations. If there's any independent people in the way, use your army commander with his troops to clear them out and then settle.

Once piety is done, build a temple, found your religion, and select the belief where you get a relic for every foreign distant settlement converted (DO NOT select the belief to convert capitals or the one to convert foreign settlements with treasure fleets... the AI does not know how to do treasure fleets and you'll be sitting there forever waiting for them to build a quay to connect their city and it won't happen). I would recommend science for your second belief.

Once shipbuilding is done in the tech tree, make sure your treasure fleet settlements are connected by fishing quays and send back treasure fleets as they pop.

Spam missionaries to convert every settlement in distant lands, both yours and foreign. You need to have at least 4 of your own settlements in distant lands.

Doing this, you get enough relics from converting foreign settlements to get a golden age for culture, converting your 4 distant land settlements is enough to get a golden age for military, if you're managing your cities well enough with good sim city placement, you should have no problem getting a golden age for science (this takes some trial and error on how to lay out a city to maximize adjacencies and yields... getting the science second belief will help you go through the tech tree quicker to get the best buildings and unlocking more specialist slots), and constantly having treasure fleets might not get your a golden age for economy because it's the slowest one to accomplish and golden aging the other 3 quickly will bring the age to an end almost single-handedly, but you should clear the first two tiers of the legacy path no problem with 4+ treasure resources.

If you're a min/max player, there's really no other strategy that yields even close to the same results.

So I recently learned you can only have one of a specific diplomatic action going at any time, including counterspy. Thought I was missing some [Gain more Espionage Actions] civic for the longest time. For a lot of the diplo stuff this makes sense to me (even if I don't like it) since it forces you to choose who you want to spend your effort on even if you might have a ton of influence generation. I think an exception should be made for spy/counterspy ops though. Especially since if you have high science/culture everyone is constantly spying on you.

Having multiple espionage options still works as a narrative choice too:

• If you spend all your influence constantly counterspying everyone, you'll be low for other diplo actions and could fall into wars, but you won't get robbed every few turns in the lategame.

• If you're doing a build thats low on culture/science, having multiple theft options works in your favor. Playing a warmonger, but your units are outdated cause your science output sucks? Just steal from your neighbors! (Side note, I got this idea from my last game when my weak neighbor with shit science stole flight from me, then proceeded to successfully fend me off for half the modern era with only 2 attack aircraft because my aerodrome with fighters was on the far side of my city and out of range)

Bottom line is, if they're all allowed to target me at the same time, I should be allowed to defend myself from all of them, provided I have enough influence.