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And my build order is. 2x workers. Potery. Lumber mill. 1 farm on river, 2x embelics. I reasearch stone working. I then go back for the other 1st three techs. Ive always got my back to mountain, on river with coast. Then il build my artisans with influence. On higher skill you generally wont get Mids or Gardens. So use influence to have second city. (same cost). Id build masons, religion somewhere in there too. Then id build 4 guys maybe 8 guys and kill the nearest with a garison on their closest border as a spawn. Stuff the pop for now, you will get celt 1st. Or miya. But that says you prob dont wont kmer. S teir.

1 tip with caralans. Start ancient era with 2 adjacent outposts as you prob already do. But never put your city/outpost near goodies on coast, you have an embelic district for that. Caralans are long game, so play them long. Forward plan in the extreme. The embelic district, not only acts like a second city centre and build hub (you cant then put your c/o with its back to mountain/river bends), but it exploits surroundings, Science too. Use the spread to only place the most optimal districts in most optimal of location with far less focus of building 1 blob of districts. The adjacentcy will come later as you fill out the gaps.

Have you played the new update?

I just loove this mod so much, been using it for years. Are there plans of merging the basement and house together on the newest version, so we could just run down without a loadingscreen?

That fog mechanic was always soooo weird. Not sure why it does that. 100% agreed.

Excelent video as expected

Going forward, as you have stated, I think razing New Agra is the way to go. Once you build the palace, I think it will be time to go to war with Italy. If you don't get the bonus expert for a capture city, I guess burning Gurgaon then replacing it with one of your settlers would be good. I would probably burn Xico and then capture Milano. It would put you one over for city cap but minus 10 happiness is no big deal. I find happiness is the easiest to get at least in the beginning. Capitals are probably worth keeping. I bet the AI tends to build palace, triumphs and other special buildings in their capital, plus you get the great hearth.

I mean we cant stay at 1 civ, and must progress to another civ

I agree with what others have said. There isn’t enough HK content out, and the ones there are usually go warp speed through it. I always play slow so to see someone get to the classical era in 20 minutes is just too damn fast for me. Glad I stumbled on this channel as I’m getting back into the game on console. I have it on both but I’ve found that for some reason the PC version of the game gives no resources, even when set to abundant so I’ve been doing console as it does, but the controls are a bitch lol

Hey friendo. Cant u post a video of a fully decorated house? With all the claws showing and stuff

Did you know you can right click on hunts and caches when making your move, so that the unit will perform the associated action when it arrives at the destination? Just a tiny time-saving option. You do good series. I also noted that you'd put a farm in your queue, to eat up the lumber you were expecting to have. Dalrunin pointed out your queue had some resources invested in it, but i wanted to point to the source of the lumber shortfall from your initial calculations. I was wondering if you'd notice that while you were playing. I bought this game after seeing your first 3 videos in this series. Been pretty fun so far. I opt to not set policies, partially because i hadn't noticed that was an option until you mentioned it in a video, and i had quite a few improvements placed that i wanted to retain control of prioritizing which would get the next plow. My biggest city is a 15, i think, at which point the food situation gets very onerous to additional growth. Just brought chemists online, so we'll see if fertilizer can bump my food enough to grow again without churning out some baked goods and other food amenities. In light of this, i couldn't see giving control of where my fertilizers get placed, because I'll be prioritizing the food producing farms over the resource ones. Good luck with the rest of your playthrough. I've been spending a lot of time on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, since getting it free with my laptop purchase. Pretty fun so far. My Ara playtime has decreased as a result. Hope to get through a whole playthrough of Ara at some point though, and maybe find a multiplayer that i can join, though the game is so long i can't imagine how that would work unless you've got a dedicated group that meets regularly at a set time each week.

Things worked out for your double Triumph build, but you could have started your Stonehenge build sooner. Builds that are in a que use resources. You had a butcher shop waiting to be built in your capital that was hoarding 25 wood. You could have had Coahuila collect gold for now or build a military unit. Started Stonehenge, then proceed on, knowing your two triumphs were going to be built on time. Just like your supplies (lithic tools) and yanking them from buildings, it is always good to double check your build ques, when you are tight on resources for something you need to build. Always interesting to see your videos. Keep up the great job!

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Sure the commons quarters affected it but in my opinion the biggest reason you have so much influence is the new neolithic trait you got in this playthrough that gives you +1 influence per pop. You get essentially 3 neolithic traits now, you got food, science and influence per pop (agrarian better?), I think you'd be able to snowball just as easily without the amazing spawn point.

YES FINALLY

I just wanted to drop in and say thank you for this mod in the off chance you'll actually see this. It's an incredible mod and adds so much to my rp experience. So I just thought I would stop by and say you're friggin awesome!!

War. War never changes.

One thing I find annoying is regarding territory claims. Once you make a claim and before you hit the next turn, you can't cancel the claim and make a different choice. Once you make a claim, you are completely slotted in. What if you hit the wrong region by accident? You sneeze just as you hit the mouse button? You are reviewing your choice and you notice something you forgot? Just annoying and makes me question my choice three times over before I make a final selection. For your newest city Coahuila, you have a region that lists zero zones but provides resources. Could you build a Triumph there? Are there techs that allow you to clear space and make zones in these initial non-mountain regions, like swamps? I like games that make use of impassable terrain for other things like Natural Parks or Ski Resorts in Civ6. Most underground mines are in mountains. It would be nice if games made more use of impassable terrain.

The apothecary change was from a previous update. Worth noting I am a warmonger in 4x games but I wouldn’t keep any city I capture with Mexico because a captured city doesn’t get the extra specialist.

Some tidbits for everyone. If you capture an enemy's capital, you keep their Great Hearth. In the trade screen, after selecting an item for trade, you can see how long it will take for you to get that item AND it lists how many items your trade partner has. If they only have a few items, you may want to select something else. When selecting a project, if you select a zone first and it has a resource, the game will give you a suggestion of what to build. Basically a zone with cows selected and the game will recommend you build a farm there, as you need a farm to boost how many cows you will collect each turn. Personally, I like the right side bar for selecting where and what to build in a zone as it keeps all info about all your zones there. For first tech into the Bronze Age, I prefer Sacred Rites to get your religion sooner.

Will you play another run once the new update is out?

Another tidbit of info. You can above the city cap but only through conquest. 1 City over cap and you lose 10pts of happiness, I believe in all your cities. Unfortunately you can't raze a city that is part of your empire. You can only raze cities that you conquer and only when you first decide what to do with that conquered city. ARA really needs to add the ability to raze your own cities.

I agree with your statement about cities in ARA. I have seen no immediate downsides to reaching your city cap as quickly as possible. At least not like other games. I started a new game as Russia, +1 city cap, super continent large map with just 9 civs in the game, lots of room to expand. I like to play where I develop my cities and just enough military to keep others away. I just got the event that lets you get Republic government early so now I can go to 7 cities. The big problem I'm running into now is maintaining Amenities. To keep all my cities with feasts, all my noncapital cities are building feasts constantly. My capital is building jewelry which isn't fast enough to keep all 4 cities active with jewelry. If I can build a harvester, I tend to build that instead of a crafting improvement. When I had 2 cities, I didn't have a problem keeping all the amenity slots filled in my empire. Basically it wasn't a problem I was expecting. The more cities you have, the more important it becomes to establish your amenities supply chains. Get that feast chain established, work on your grain store chain, finally get your bread line going. That is why grain is so important.

A bunch of info to pass on. Cougars give 1 feast, so a good early game hunt. You can cascade tooltip to tooltip to tooltip. Once I had a region that had 5 food as its base resource value. I haven't seen any other base resources reach that high. Replacing an amenity at any time besides its start time causes it to be lost. For example, replacing jewelry at any time other than when it has 10 turns to go will cause the jewelry to be used up and not go back into your inventory. On the map, improvements that are being built have a turn counter on them. When using the build city function of settlers, there is a lot of cues the game gives. The game highlights regions that have 4, 5 and 6 zones, with 6 zone regions having the brightest. I think the carrot rating for zones operates with 1 and 2 zones for 1 carrot, 3 and 4 zones for 2 carrots, and 5 and 6 zones for 3 carrots. I agree zone count for a region needs to be available besides when having a settler build a city. Otherwise we have to build a settler to keep around for that info.

FYI, UI changes are available on old saves but balance changes are not.

I love the visual of Cesare getting bored while you explain the diplomacy screen

Since patch 1.1 came out and it isn't compatible with previous saves, are you going to start over? Personally I would be ok with that, since you are only 3 episodes in. I assume you already made that decision. The changes to the crafting tab are very helpful. You could even use the same mapseed if you wanted and rapidly progress to where you are now or even off screen to catch back up.

Really enjoying this series! Its been great to know this game better, and I appreciate the effort you put into making it so informative. Looking forward to the next one!

I can work till act 2 in all difficulties then i will get confuse badly

I think (but can't fully confirm) that Benito's trait for Tribes only applies on tribes that you first meet. I don't know the actual algorithms, but based on my gameplay experience it seems as though there is some sort of internal system of checks that set a tribe's initial hostility/friendliness when it is met by its first Empire, and then that baseline is what everyone starts with when they meet that tribe. It's all anecdotal, but my experience has been that all "Mexican" tribes (i.e. tribes I met first and carry a Mexican name) have started as Friendly, while any tribes that are Unfriendly or Hostile have exclusively not been Mexican (that were met first by someone else and carry their Empire's naming). In this game the Unfriendly tribe you met was Nagpur, an Indian city (which, possible spoiler, means India may be close), so I think that baseline was established by them and you then just inherit it. That said, whether that's correct about Benito or not, I don't think it SHOULD be. The trait, in my opinion, should be that all tribes begin Friendly, and it should apply to all Tribes whether you first meet them or not. Possibly an oversight in the code or maybe by design, but either way I think it makes the trait much weaker than it SHOULD be.

Boo! This episode was over way too fast. Digging this series

Since you didn't build a second scout in your second city, I think you should build an Apothecary in your capital. Since you want to build lots of farms with the granary, the apothecary should go into region Xalapa. This will get your city health to 60 which will give you a boost to city growth. Herbal medicine is a decent amentity or stockpile a bunch for trade goods which is an awesome amenity.

You need a lot of timber for Act 1 to build all of your improvements. I hear that you need even more metal bars for Act 2.

I'm pretty sure your capital is in a southern world area. The snow and forests regions indicate you are near a polar region. When moving units, you can target a cache straight away for a scout instead to waiting for the scout reaching the region first. Same thing with hunting. Just pay more attention to your alerts and how much damage your hunter has taken. I've lost units because I forgot about sending a unit to hunt.

On turn 20 you had enough money to rush-build your settler and get it built 2 turns earlier. That helps at any time, but is important if you think the region you want to settle may be contested.

This seems like a nice game!

I've played about 40hrs of ARA so far. I haven't gotten past Act 1 yet, as I keep learning things and trying different leaders. I definitely like the general feel of the game. As far as early builds, I think your statements about farms on the city center applies to workshop. City center region is too important for anything but those improvements that get boosted. With that I think a scout then spearman is a better starting build. You need so many things in the beginning - Workshop, Grain (Farm), Settler, Dwelling, more units for hunting and gathering and exploring. You really need that second region to start building your improvements, unless you start with the dwelling, which does give you a production boost. I think the production boosts on items at crafting buildings, such as feasts at greater hearths, are actually straight production increases. That is mostly a technicality as the goal is to reduce the production turns or to get multiple items per turn. I think they could improve the hunting mechanic. You fight a tiger which needs three hunts to kill. Send 3 spearman as one formation and each one causes one hunt to be knocked down. I look forward to further episodes. Keep up the good work.

I cant stop watching this series!!! I dont tend to completely view series like this, But this one is super enjoyable. Greetings from Mexico!

I’ve found that on prince or lower build start doesn’t matter as much, I believe with fewer on the map it’ll matter even less. So far I’ve gotten to grand duke and starting at duke I’ve only found two start orders that work well consistently. That being said I have yet to reduce the civs on the map, only increase to make the war start easier. Peaceful start is scout, settler, spear, and two archers. Research archery first, and rope making second or third depending on land. On the second city choose security and build a dwelling first on duke and a watchtower first on grand duke to get to 60 security. Deploy the troops there. Beyond that there’s too much if this then that to say how I build. Much like other 4x games it’s all about playing the situation you’re in.

I’m all but certain that updates don’t apply to old saves. When they changed several buildings the changes didn't take effect on games started before the updates.

The way you explain yourself so clearly is really special.

The best explanations of Ara I have seen. You took your time to explain most of the icons on each screen and what they do. Most other Ara players like Potato and Quill just jumped into the game. Thanks for the very good play through for a beginner. Very well done!

I'm excited for this new series. This game looks promising. Watching from Brazil 🇧🇷

I stand by Scout/Scout to open, just because I think that early exploration is SO critical. I don't mind Scout/Spearman for the reasons you mentioned, and depending on how efficient the patch makes unit upgrades and re-mustering having a spare Anti-Cav after hunts isn't bad. But getting the additional exploration has proved very beneficial in the early game in games I've played. Also, something worth noting about notifications, specifically the Idle Unit notification. Be very careful not to right-click away the Idle Unit notification, because doing so removes cycling through Idle Units from your turn queue, and it won't be available in your "Next Turn" spot. It makes it easy to miss idle units if you do this by accident, because you no longer have anything that alerts you and takes you to them. Moose's method of using the notification itself is solid and advised, but even if you want to handle it through the "Next Turn" button you MUST keep the notification on to do so.

Ive heard that the game becomes a real resource hog for your pc in the late game, is that correct?

I can’t find the staff storage.

This comment is about science/tech: In general with 4X, tech gets you a lot of advantages if you can get ahead - better military, faster growth, more resources, better resources In Civ6, more is better. get that campus down quickly, build buildings. build more cities. repeat. In Humankind to me, it feels reverse. slow down your tech growth. get to the end too fast and you are just burning your science gains or have to jump to the next era and thus lose out on fame gain. but maybe you can skip Ancient and Classical era to get that tech jump, as your fame gain from stars grows as you get into later eras. Science cultures also feel weird if you go from Science to Non-Science. If you get all the science fame stars with a science culture and then switch to Non-Science, you can't earn many if any science fame stars. This has always been my troublesome point of Humankind. I haven't played Ara yet, just going by your video. In Ara, since you can't go back, you do have to be very sure you have all the unlocks you need right then. Ara eliminates the need to develop useless techs, it looks like. Playing on Pangea and land locked, skip those ocean techs until you get there.

first time watcher, glad to see someone doing a learner's guide type playthrough since I could really not follow what PotatoMcWhiskey was doing in his LP

It's been a while since I visited your channel. Just started playing this game, and then see this video pop-up in my suggested feed. Must be kismet. Great video!

Assyrians the GOAT, also looking forward to your take on Ara.