Potato: "Who would be devilish and devious enough to set a challenge this sick..." *In the distance a figure, wearing a Monocle and Top Hat, draped in shadows laughs as he sips 'the best beverage in the world, Yorkshire Tea GOLD', and pets a corgi sitting in his lap "Why I wonder who it could be, Ladies and Gentlemen".
I couldn't stop laughing towards the end. honestly one the funniest episodes I've seen. Anyone who's played a domination without razing cities knows the grind, except this was that but on steroids. The number of times he repeated "never ask me to do anything like that ever again" had me wheezing.
I love the "your nuke attack succeeded" message right next to "you failed to stop a nuke attack by your plane" message the game gave you there. Really driving the point home that you nuked your own units.
"Conquered the desert on a moose with no name It felt good to have some faith in the game In the desert you can't remember the save and Canada will give you great pain"
No joke, I played a Mali game where I started out...in a small strip of desert, right below a bunch of jungle. Not tundra. But! I expanded north, through a lovely sugar filled river, to the coast, and south, where there was a bunch of hills, salt and silver, and...tundra. Tundra as far as the eye could see. I was on a relatively small peninsula, at most an 1/8 of the continent I was on, where almost the entire rest of it was tundra, except for almost another 1/8 in the southeast, which was snow surrounded by mountains. But, that had Eyjafjallajokul at the bottom, and there was a river running through the southern tundra, with some forests and salt around it, so I damn well conquered the rest of the continent from the barbs, and I DID settle profusely in the tundra. Tundra Mali won, eventually; thank god for their mine bonus, and for volcano yields; despite being litereally in snow at the bottom of the map, my Eyjafjallajokul city was easily my most populous.
28:45 "We've got something going on here in Winnipeg." It's funny how every once in a while someone manages to string a set of words together in a combination that has never been heard before.
I don't know what caused the bug specifically, but somewhere between turns 282 and 286, when you conquered 4 babylonian cities including Karkar, your amenities jumped to 65k+ I would have guessed it had something to do with the whole "removing unique improvements from civs when the city is conquered" thing, but babylonian unique bonuses do not interact with amenities at all. So it's just weird. If you can recover turn 282 by any chance, it's worth investigating a bit more into it.
It happens again around 1:28:41 on turn 319 after the trade deal with Mansa Musa, he goes from 558 up to 65565. In that trade deal he's getting a peace offer with amenities in the offer and in the cut between turns 282 and 286 he gets peace with India. So it might be somehow related to peace deals with amenities being traded?
@@vazacaks7597 I don't think that's related to the trade deal itself, as when the screen opens, before the deal is finished, he already has the full 65538 amenities available. I think it's just the trade deal he made earlier expiring at that point. Edit: just double-checked, he traded 65000 of his amenities with Gilgamesh, then entered a war against him on turn 319 by declaring one against Egypt. I think that was just an UI bug, where the amenities didn't actually update until Potato entered a trade screen.
I’ve had this bug few days ago. When I built a camp on furs luxury on my turn 15-20 as Genghis Khan and it was the exact same amount as the ivory on this video. I’ve thought that this bug was caused by a mod which allows to harvest strategic and luxury reasources (Because it’s stupid and annoying that you cannot build a district on that tile), but now it seems that this is a civ 6 bug itself, which came along with some of the patches. And in my case this happend very early in the game, so it might be some world generation bug, which for some reason places this insane amount of the resource within one tile.
I quite enjoyed the slow decent into madness as the game slowly progressed. Each turn turning Potato into a boiled, mashed, barely conscious mass of the remnants of the alcoholic beverage he once was. Too bad it didn't come with chives.
Spiff is just a source of pain for our poor Potato at this point. That being said, I can not WAIT for the next insane challenge. What'll it be, Spiff? Waterworld with the most anti-naval civ in the game? Tundra world as Arabia?
Arabia still has the ability to generate tons of faith and science and they have a good unique unit, it would be much easier. I don't think there are many challenges harder than this
@@wvman2374 oh god... but then again i don't think it's any doable cuz Vietnam legit can't build any district a lvl4 disaster waterworld with Vietnam, on the other hand...
I just want to imagine the canadian just founding a galaxy worth of ivory in a random babylonian city ( You got the 65000 ivory between turn 282 and 286 btw)
Just to add on to this, Mashkan-shapir, specifically, is the city that appears to have the Ivory in it, and presumably responsible for the bug. Some busy elephants up there in the north...
@@kierkegaardrulez 2^16 = 65536, it's 16 bits or 2 bytes. So, I suspect that the data type is "unsigned short int"(16 bits) for amenity resource count considering that the core of Civ 6 is written in C++.
I would love to see a mod where you can use any leader you want with any civ, it would add so much more replayability and potential memes into the game.
I love this playthrough. It's always exciting to watch pro players think of a different strategy to win a challenge. : ) And I got to tell you, these long videos are inspired. They are my life.
Potato: Why am I doing this challenge?!?! Answer: Because you were manipulated by an Englishman. Like many a proud Irishman before you! (Meant in a cousinly-we-love-you type of way!)
I’m just impressed with Potato’s depth of Canadian knowledge. He instinctively knew that Winnipeg is our centre of culture and science, and he honoured that. Bless your heart PMW.
Potato @26:10 : "I literally survived on 1 health" . I hope Spiff releases a video exploiting the hell out of some weird mechanic and winning this game in half an hour.
This is actually quite similar to how I normally play, long, slow, build up a crazy army, and dominate, or play world police, and try and resurrect fallen nations and city states, and just completely mold each map to my liking with canals for my navy, and air bases for my air force. Basically play real life USA in CIV. I have a sumarian game that's Dom win only, unlimited length game that is well over 2500 turns, it's on a real earth true start map, I have all the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Suez, and Middle East, for my navy to go everywhere, built canals connecting the great lakes in North America, and the 2 seas in west Asia. Plus the lakes in Africa, my navy can get to every body of water.
One of my all time favorite streamers/youtubers was Day9, he did exclusively starcraft for many years. He used to have weekly viewer challenges and one of the huge benefits was that putting absurd constraints on your play forces you to learn. You start paying attention to unit stats you never really cared about, you start looking for strategies you would never normally consider. It really does improve your overall play, I got a lot of those day9 daily vibes from this video, thanks potato!
Im glad to see the editor is (Scottish). I like to think you download your video on a thumb drive, throw on a large wool sweater, hop on a Schwinn from the 60s, and ride through a misty village to (a local ferry, which you take to Scotland) to deliver it personally
Damn. Even the Deserts of Kharak weren't this inhospitable! Hope you'll survive long enough to build a Mothership to send your people to their Homeworld.
I think audience chamber would be better than ancestral hall for this build. Tile improvements are nice but not necessary since your yields are already so low. Besides you can just work an oasis for easy early food. Getting those extra amenities from the audience chamber stacked up with the yield boost from autocracy would allow the capital to make more every Era. I just feel that suffering from low amenities really hurt this play through for a long time.
Stan Rogers, rest in peace, did a stunning version of Barrett's Privateers. My paw took me to see them at The Folkway in Peterborough, NH when I was wee boy. All these years later I can still pretty much sing it from memory. Bring's tears to my eyes just thinking about it.
Has anybody recommended this to the UA-cam overlords to be featured? This is an absolutely EPIC game! The spud man is a GOD: “I am sentient meat self-harming for the entertainment of other sentient meat’ is the whole internet described in a sentence. I mean tell me an AI would EVER, EVER come close to such comic and descriptive genius! GOATED
That's a nice empire you've built, but imagine how much nicer an empire built by Gandhi will look when you nuke all cities on the map then win. That'll be a pretty sight
I know this is probably torture for poor Potato but honestly, this is so much fun! Seeing such a skilled player just grasping for straws and tricks to pull this of is amazing
Damn, Nubia really blends into the desert! 1:04:45 Uh oh! The Cutie is also on his way to a science victory!!! 1:09:30 Is that THREE geothermal fissures in Sydney?! DAMN that's a LOT of science! I guess thanks to his pantheon Faith as well! 1:11:41 Isn't La Venta a City-State?! Damn Curtin, thought you wanted allies AGAINST the hawks of war not wanted to BE one!
What I expected in this vidoe: Desert Canada challenge. What I got: A potato losing his sanity... and Desert Canada challenge. Came for gold, found more riches I guess 😂.
Spudley McPoggers you absolute legend, been watching since you had sanity. Loving the stream of ideas to improve civ into its next iteration, thought I’d comment on some long term trends you’ve mentioned over time, namely city specialization: •more than civ 5 with specialist slots, we could have “the hill/river/ocean city of an empire specializing in unique aspects” •like in civ5, use of great people for tile improvements/“era score”/some use beyond just e.g. 2 tourism great works •conquering unique districts/tile improvements should remain for conquering civ All of these allow for cities to be truly unique, with the potential of becoming dominant in empire-wide priorities, and could instil a new dimension in governance not yet seen in civ. Suggestion: combine these ideas and have overarching government types interact with them differently. I.e. democracy enhances city differences at the expense of core “values” of the capital, and conversely totalitarianism decreases city specialization at the expense of amenities and increases, say, war production or dissent suppression. New balances must be struck beyond what your aims are towards other civs, your governance is ultimately tied to the domestic requirements of governance, like, you know, how governments work/emerged. What’s the fun in picking (F) for +5 combat strength just because you can? The contraints of your empire should reflect the requirements and abilities of governing. Ultimately; enhance Sim City capabilities, keep war a real part of the game but enhance interaction with governance, never ever get a political science degree, and be happy. Mad love from Toronto, you’re a beast. Go raibh maith agat
What you said about unique improvements dissapearing. I was playing on the real starting locations Europe map. And the Dutch had turned all the land around Denmark into a Massive Polder with 15 population. Which all died when I took the city and turned it back to sea in one turn. Guess the Georgians aren't as good at water management as the Dutch.
Absolutely love the Stan Rogers "Barrett’s Privateers" reference. Thank you for showing how cultured you are. Amazing how you handled this nearly impossible scenario.
I can imagine that it must be pretty difficult to make content like this day in and day out, mostly in the same game nonetheless, so THANK YOU for making such great videos for us!
1:13:50 I think it would be really cool. I remember playing command and conquer generals before, where I can play China, build a black lotus, and steal U.S.A command center, then I can build U.S.A infrastructures, and eventually their superweapon. It's really fun to have something that you have conquered before, instead of everything automatically changed to the civ we are playing. Civ VII maybe can have that.
I have watched dozens of your vids over time, but i have never laughed quite like this. The savescum and the failure of it focking killed me. I bite my thumb at thee, sir
Now I want to see a reverse of this this challenge. Either play as Canada again, but on an all Tundra map or play the all desert map again, but with a civ focused on desert like Mali.
Winning a science game without building a spaceport sounds really easy tbh, that was never the bottleneck. You can conquer one far before youve even gone into the future era.
I found since civ 5 the AI does not invest in advanced military, exept death robots in civ 6. The player gets a long run with aircraft and bombers. By the time a civ start building advance military you will almost always kill the AI. Even if the Ai gets a jump on tech, it will still delay building advance military. A mod would be needed to force the AI to build advance military for attach to resolve it.
Amazing video. I've always thought that unique tile improvements, buildings and districts should stay when you take a city, but I wonder if it would be too OP with certain combinations (probably totally broken in multiplayer too - have a few players pass a city around to get a lavra, sugaba, navigation school etc all in the one city). Maybe a balancer could be something like they stay, but have a permanent negative modifer against them (-20% against their yields or something), since your Civ's leadership doesn't understand how to properly use the technology.
This was a excellent video, and this sentient meatbag thanks you for your service in sacrificing your precious sanity for our joyous entertainment 🙇♀️🙏👏
I mean to be fair, if you were Nubia you would kind of instantly win, so to them this kind of map would have to be all tundra and even then they'd have the ranged unit production bonus
"We got something going on here in Winnipeg on the science and culture front" Having spent far too much time in Winnipeg for work, I can promise you you're the only person to have ever said that combination of words.
Barrett's Privateers mentions Sherbrooke constantly, but it's primarily sung (at least known for being sung) in Halifax. If you ever visit, you'll hear it :)
Thanks for the video sir! I think your idea of creating a Frankenstein's monster like civ via domination is a really cool idea. However, I think this would be well and truly broken with Germany, Rome and Russia's abilities. If I was the opponent in such a game, I'd just capitulate then and there lol
So here I lay in my 23rd year How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now It's been 6 years since we sailed away And I just made Halifax yesterday God damn them all! I was told We'd cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns, shed no tears But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers ~~Barrett's Privateers, Stan Rogers
It sounds like you need one of those 0 gravity chairs and an upgrade to your screen mount, preferably a wallmount which would allow you to tilt your screen so you can play properly from the chair
"Now I need to make sure I never get a Friendship with him again as nice as he is, hes a nice guy, i like him a lot but, we can never ever have a friendship with him again" - PotatoMcWhiskey 41:00 *1 turn later* We'd be happy to let the world know we stand united as friends.
Try winning a diety game with no victory conditions on apocalypse mode while starting in the most advanced era that you can. Combine that challenge with your desert one at a marathon pace for added hilarity.
We need a Canada revenge tour, joke game where you do the inverse and just destroy desert civs in an arctic environment.
Yesssss
Yesss, with another restriction to make it interesting, maybe one city challenge
Amen
Or go with a desert civ and kill many civs with no bonuses in the desert
I Really want this, just like a 10 minute video of just pure destruction with a superbuffed map for a certain civ
40:55 - "I need make sure I never get a friendship with [Mali] again"
41:30 - Mali asks Potato for a friendship which is accepted
lol that lasted long
think he wanted to say alliance there
I saw that.
Buffling stuff
Exactly. You cannot send spies to Allies but you can to friends.
alliance not friendship
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Potato: "Who would be devilish and devious enough to set a challenge this sick..."
*In the distance a figure, wearing a Monocle and Top Hat, draped in shadows laughs as he sips 'the best beverage in the world, Yorkshire Tea GOLD', and pets a corgi sitting in his lap "Why I wonder who it could be, Ladies and Gentlemen".
Ahhh yes, quite the spiffing fellow if I do say so myself.
He's a cheeky little sausage
I’ve once drank like an entire box of Yorkshire tea gold in 4 days
Let's scarr him away ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️
@@decca1810 I usually run out of tea whenever I decide to watch Spiffs stuff again
I know its terrible but I love the episodes where potato goes a bit insane and goes off on one. I hope he got in some RnR after this one to recover.
I couldn't stop laughing towards the end. honestly one the funniest episodes I've seen. Anyone who's played a domination without razing cities knows the grind, except this was that but on steroids. The number of times he repeated "never ask me to do anything like that ever again" had me wheezing.
"I went for the colosseum pretty quick"
Potato, Turn 154
Quick as he could.
I love the "your nuke attack succeeded" message right next to "you failed to stop a nuke attack by your plane" message the game gave you there.
Really driving the point home that you nuked your own units.
"Conquered the desert on a moose with no name
It felt good to have some faith in the game
In the desert you can't remember the save
and Canada will give you great pain"
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You realize that you will now have to play Mali in the tundra, right?
No joke, I played a Mali game where I started out...in a small strip of desert, right below a bunch of jungle. Not tundra. But! I expanded north, through a lovely sugar filled river, to the coast, and south, where there was a bunch of hills, salt and silver, and...tundra. Tundra as far as the eye could see. I was on a relatively small peninsula, at most an 1/8 of the continent I was on, where almost the entire rest of it was tundra, except for almost another 1/8 in the southeast, which was snow surrounded by mountains. But, that had Eyjafjallajokul at the bottom, and there was a river running through the southern tundra, with some forests and salt around it, so I damn well conquered the rest of the continent from the barbs, and I DID settle profusely in the tundra. Tundra Mali won, eventually; thank god for their mine bonus, and for volcano yields; despite being litereally in snow at the bottom of the map, my Eyjafjallajokul city was easily my most populous.
Mali still has bonuses there, like their unique building and unit, and tundra actually has 1 food on it and wood for chops, it needs to be on snow
@@atocanboi409 And don't forget the extra gold from mines! That saved my ass in my game.
If you look at that Ivory, it appears as if a strategic resource. That's why it accumulated so much. It's probably a problem with the map generation.
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28:45 "We've got something going on here in Winnipeg." It's funny how every once in a while someone manages to string a set of words together in a combination that has never been heard before.
Ah, the ever eventful prairies
I loved the random MS Paint time with Potato (50:17). I'd like to see more of that.
He does that a lot on his live streams. I'm jealous of his paint skills.
Yeah definitely watch live streams - you can’t stop him bringing out Paint even if you wanted to. :)
I don't know what caused the bug specifically, but somewhere between turns 282 and 286, when you conquered 4 babylonian cities including Karkar, your amenities jumped to 65k+
I would have guessed it had something to do with the whole "removing unique improvements from civs when the city is conquered" thing, but babylonian unique bonuses do not interact with amenities at all.
So it's just weird. If you can recover turn 282 by any chance, it's worth investigating a bit more into it.
It happens again around 1:28:41 on turn 319 after the trade deal with Mansa Musa, he goes from 558 up to 65565. In that trade deal he's getting a peace offer with amenities in the offer and in the cut between turns 282 and 286 he gets peace with India. So it might be somehow related to peace deals with amenities being traded?
@@vazacaks7597 I don't think that's related to the trade deal itself, as when the screen opens, before the deal is finished, he already has the full 65538 amenities available. I think it's just the trade deal he made earlier expiring at that point.
Edit: just double-checked, he traded 65000 of his amenities with Gilgamesh, then entered a war against him on turn 319 by declaring one against Egypt. I think that was just an UI bug, where the amenities didn't actually update until Potato entered a trade screen.
@@PrismariLaura Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining that! I'm quite curious about what's going on here lol
@@vazacaks7597 so am I! I'd love to get my hands on that save in the right turns lol
I’ve had this bug few days ago. When I built a camp on furs luxury on my turn 15-20 as Genghis Khan and it was the exact same amount as the ivory on this video. I’ve thought that this bug was caused by a mod which allows to harvest strategic and luxury reasources (Because it’s stupid and annoying that you cannot build a district on that tile), but now it seems that this is a civ 6 bug itself, which came along with some of the patches. And in my case this happend very early in the game, so it might be some world generation bug, which for some reason places this insane amount of the resource within one tile.
I also want to say that I, personally, like the longer format of these last two videos! Maybe not ALL the time but for something like this it's nice!
I quite enjoyed the slow decent into madness as the game slowly progressed. Each turn turning Potato into a boiled, mashed, barely conscious mass of the remnants of the alcoholic beverage he once was. Too bad it didn't come with chives.
Spiff is just a source of pain for our poor Potato at this point. That being said, I can not WAIT for the next insane challenge. What'll it be, Spiff? Waterworld with the most anti-naval civ in the game? Tundra world as Arabia?
Same desert world, but this time with Vietnam
Arabia still has the ability to generate tons of faith and science and they have a good unique unit, it would be much easier.
I don't think there are many challenges harder than this
@@bigfudge2031 If there is, I'm sure Spiff will find it.
@@wvman2374 oh god... but then again i don't think it's any doable cuz Vietnam legit can't build any district
a lvl4 disaster waterworld with Vietnam, on the other hand...
Spiff is going to disappear for a few weeks to figure out that resource overflow bug Potato found.
The last half hour of this was just a sublime descent into madness, topped off with the nuclear missile. Love it.
Looking at the barbarians with units an era ahead of you, an apostle with the Heathen Conversion promotion would have been really strong
When potato starts a sentence with "Ok, listen, sometimes ..." you know some major bs is about to come up 😂
I just want to imagine the canadian just founding a galaxy worth of ivory in a random babylonian city ( You got the 65000 ivory between turn 282 and 286 btw)
Just to add on to this, Mashkan-shapir, specifically, is the city that appears to have the Ivory in it, and presumably responsible for the bug. Some busy elephants up there in the north...
Fascist Canada realized ivory can be made from people too. +65,000 copies overnight.
65536 is exactly 8 Kibibytes.
@@kierkegaardrulez 2^16 = 65536, it's 16 bits or 2 bytes. So, I suspect that the data type is "unsigned short int"(16 bits) for amenity resource count considering that the core of Civ 6 is written in C++.
I would love to see a mod where you can use any leader you want with any civ, it would add so much more replayability and potential memes into the game.
Potato, there is a MOD for Unique tile improvements where if you conquer a city you keep them. Not sure about the Unique districts
I love this playthrough. It's always exciting to watch pro players think of a different strategy to win a challenge. : ) And I got to tell you, these long videos are inspired. They are my life.
Potato: Why am I doing this challenge?!?!
Answer: Because you were manipulated by an Englishman. Like many a proud Irishman before you!
(Meant in a cousinly-we-love-you type of way!)
Cousin love means something different in Ireland
I’m just impressed with Potato’s depth of Canadian knowledge. He instinctively knew that Winnipeg is our centre of culture and science, and he honoured that. Bless your heart PMW.
Best. Video. Ever. I’ve never actually watched a person go insane before. My son and I loved it.
Now I'm scared to finish watching this ...
Potato @26:10 : "I literally survived on 1 health" .
I hope Spiff releases a video exploiting the hell out of some weird mechanic and winning this game in half an hour.
This is actually quite similar to how I normally play, long, slow, build up a crazy army, and dominate, or play world police, and try and resurrect fallen nations and city states, and just completely mold each map to my liking with canals for my navy, and air bases for my air force. Basically play real life USA in CIV.
I have a sumarian game that's Dom win only, unlimited length game that is well over 2500 turns, it's on a real earth true start map, I have all the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Suez, and Middle East, for my navy to go everywhere, built canals connecting the great lakes in North America, and the 2 seas in west Asia. Plus the lakes in Africa, my navy can get to every body of water.
One of my all time favorite streamers/youtubers was Day9, he did exclusively starcraft for many years. He used to have weekly viewer challenges and one of the huge benefits was that putting absurd constraints on your play forces you to learn. You start paying attention to unit stats you never really cared about, you start looking for strategies you would never normally consider. It really does improve your overall play, I got a lot of those day9 daily vibes from this video, thanks potato!
Im glad to see the editor is (Scottish). I like to think you download your video on a thumb drive, throw on a large wool sweater, hop on a Schwinn from the 60s, and ride through a misty village to (a local ferry, which you take to Scotland) to deliver it personally
Are there local ferries from Ireland to Scotland? I'd think the distance is a bit too long for that simple of a jaunt.
@@aaronsirkman8375 Isle of Bute isn't that far across the way; Glasgow, not much further.
"Let sentient meat work together.." Timeless classic.
Damn. Even the Deserts of Kharak weren't this inhospitable!
Hope you'll survive long enough to build a Mothership to send your people to their Homeworld.
Potato was challenge to become a Dominatrix! That doesn't sound right, hmm?!
I think audience chamber would be better than ancestral hall for this build. Tile improvements are nice but not necessary since your yields are already so low. Besides you can just work an oasis for easy early food. Getting those extra amenities from the audience chamber stacked up with the yield boost from autocracy would allow the capital to make more every Era. I just feel that suffering from low amenities really hurt this play through for a long time.
Good run, can't wait for the hard mode upload next week.
Stan Rogers, rest in peace, did a stunning version of Barrett's Privateers. My paw took me to see them at The Folkway in Peterborough, NH when I was wee boy. All these years later I can still pretty much sing it from memory. Bring's tears to my eyes just thinking about it.
He wrote the song
Turn 182: "We're starting to get in the ballpark of... [being tied for last place in science and 1/2 of the top two civs]!
Has anybody recommended this to the UA-cam overlords to be featured? This is an absolutely EPIC game! The spud man is a GOD: “I am sentient meat self-harming for the entertainment of other sentient meat’ is the whole internet described in a sentence. I mean tell me an AI would EVER, EVER come close to such comic and descriptive genius! GOATED
That's a nice empire you've built, but imagine how much nicer an empire built by Gandhi will look when you nuke all cities on the map then win. That'll be a pretty sight
OOH! I like GREEN!!!
I know this is probably torture for poor Potato but honestly, this is so much fun! Seeing such a skilled player just grasping for straws and tricks to pull this of is amazing
Damn, Nubia really blends into the desert!
1:04:45 Uh oh! The Cutie is also on his way to a science victory!!!
1:09:30 Is that THREE geothermal fissures in Sydney?! DAMN that's a LOT of science! I guess thanks to his pantheon Faith as well!
1:11:41 Isn't La Venta a City-State?! Damn Curtin, thought you wanted allies AGAINST the hawks of war not wanted to BE one!
Spiff doesn't just break games. He breaks content creators as well.
Perfectly balanced...
On the precipice of madness.
What I expected in this vidoe:
Desert Canada challenge.
What I got:
A potato losing his sanity... and Desert Canada challenge.
Came for gold, found more riches I guess 😂.
Oh my, I genuinely felt your joy of capturing that last city! 10 players dom maps can be sooo tiring
Spudley McPoggers you absolute legend, been watching since you had sanity. Loving the stream of ideas to improve civ into its next iteration, thought I’d comment on some long term trends you’ve mentioned over time, namely city specialization:
•more than civ 5 with specialist slots, we could have “the hill/river/ocean city of an empire specializing in unique aspects”
•like in civ5, use of great people for tile improvements/“era score”/some use beyond just e.g. 2 tourism great works
•conquering unique districts/tile improvements should remain for conquering civ
All of these allow for cities to be truly unique, with the potential of becoming dominant in empire-wide priorities, and could instil a new dimension in governance not yet seen in civ.
Suggestion: combine these ideas and have overarching government types interact with them differently. I.e. democracy enhances city differences at the expense of core “values” of the capital, and conversely totalitarianism decreases city specialization at the expense of amenities and increases, say, war production or dissent suppression. New balances must be struck beyond what your aims are towards other civs, your governance is ultimately tied to the domestic requirements of governance, like, you know, how governments work/emerged. What’s the fun in picking (F) for +5 combat strength just because you can? The contraints of your empire should reflect the requirements and abilities of governing.
Ultimately; enhance Sim City capabilities, keep war a real part of the game but enhance interaction with governance, never ever get a political science degree, and be happy.
Mad love from Toronto, you’re a beast. Go raibh maith agat
What you said about unique improvements dissapearing. I was playing on the real starting locations Europe map. And the Dutch had turned all the land around Denmark into a Massive Polder with 15 population. Which all died when I took the city and turned it back to sea in one turn. Guess the Georgians aren't as good at water management as the Dutch.
Absolutely love the Stan Rogers "Barrett’s Privateers" reference. Thank you for showing how cultured you are. Amazing how you handled this nearly impossible scenario.
Unique improvements and buildings should remainwhen u capture a city but have negative loyalty pressure
@1:14:31 theres a mod for that ( well a pair of mods) "Captured cities keep unique districts" and "captured cities keep unique improvements"
I can imagine that it must be pretty difficult to make content like this day in and day out, mostly in the same game nonetheless, so THANK YOU for making such great videos for us!
I love civ and I struggle to even finish a game. I'll never understand how he has the drive to play so much.
1:14:40 is a great idea of replacing/choosing abilities
But should work only if you completely conquered a civ
1:13:50 I think it would be really cool. I remember playing command and conquer generals before, where I can play China, build a black lotus, and steal U.S.A command center, then I can build U.S.A infrastructures, and eventually their superweapon. It's really fun to have something that you have conquered before, instead of everything automatically changed to the civ we are playing. Civ VII maybe can have that.
The game blessed you after the garlic hills bit, that was classic 😂😂😂
Hands down one of the best Civ VI videos ever created!
an absolute perfect documentation of a gradual loss of sanity. Just lovely
Your pain was hilarious - thanks for committing to the grind 😂
Damn what a cool churn! Great job Potato!
Makes me appreciate Ursa Ryan who goes through horrific challenges on extra large maps daily lol
I have watched dozens of your vids over time, but i have never laughed quite like this. The savescum and the failure of it focking killed me. I bite my thumb at thee, sir
It was really interesting watching Potato descend into madness.
We're watching a mad man becoming insane. Take it what ever way you like. I personally think of the lego joker.
I REALLY appreciated the delve into madness that lead to the Bo Burnham singing.
Gives "Canada Dry" a new meaning
Now I want to see a reverse of this this challenge. Either play as Canada again, but on an all Tundra map or play the all desert map again, but with a civ focused on desert like Mali.
I was listening to the audio and not able to watch the video, but immediately knew that Spiff floated this challenge.
That was amazing Potato. Good job hanging in there, it was so fun to watch you losing your mind.
Winning a science game without building a spaceport sounds really easy tbh, that was never the bottleneck. You can conquer one far before youve even gone into the future era.
looking back at this, you're still a legend for this
It’s budget Dune spice wars
I found since civ 5 the AI does not invest in advanced military, exept death robots in civ 6. The player gets a long run with aircraft and bombers. By the time a civ start building advance military you will almost always kill the AI. Even if the Ai gets a jump on tech, it will still delay building advance military. A mod would be needed to force the AI to build advance military for attach to resolve it.
you know that potato lost his mind when he doesnt say "churn" a single time in this insanity
Amazing video. I've always thought that unique tile improvements, buildings and districts should stay when you take a city, but I wonder if it would be too OP with certain combinations (probably totally broken in multiplayer too - have a few players pass a city around to get a lavra, sugaba, navigation school etc all in the one city). Maybe a balancer could be something like they stay, but have a permanent negative modifer against them (-20% against their yields or something), since your Civ's leadership doesn't understand how to properly use the technology.
The laugh after “maybe I’ll do it” is energy I feel on spiritual level.
My vote will always be for challenges you find fun/creative vs. just insane difficulty that becomes tedious.
This sentient meat pushed the likes up to a mighty 62, won't be long now till we hit 1 million!
This sentient meat is happy. I hope you feel happier by the time you posted this video.
Shouldve just settled Winnipeg 1 tile north and you wouldve gotten the +3 era score from settling near Païtiti
Builder, Settler, Trader, Spy - a new hit thriller by one P. McWhiskey!
This was a excellent video, and this sentient meatbag thanks you for your service in sacrificing your precious sanity for our joyous entertainment 🙇♀️🙏👏
I mean to be fair, if you were Nubia you would kind of instantly win, so to them this kind of map would have to be all tundra and even then they'd have the ranged unit production bonus
"We got something going on here in Winnipeg on the science and culture front"
Having spent far too much time in Winnipeg for work, I can promise you you're the only person to have ever said that combination of words.
The Sanity rant at 1 hr 11 min is amazing. Love you, Potato!
Barrett's Privateers mentions Sherbrooke constantly, but it's primarily sung (at least known for being sung) in Halifax. If you ever visit, you'll hear it :)
Thanks for the video sir!
I think your idea of creating a Frankenstein's monster like civ via domination is a really cool idea. However, I think this would be well and truly broken with Germany, Rome and Russia's abilities. If I was the opponent in such a game, I'd just capitulate then and there lol
43:33 The Sherbrooke in the game is based on the city in Quebec. The Sherbrooke you are referring to however, is a small town in Nova Scotia.
at approximately 50:00 Potato starts losing his mind haha. love the content brother!
Watching Potato slowly go insane was more fun than watching the actual gameplay
“We need to keep on clapping those technological cheeks” is now officially my new favorite Potato quote. Well done and bravo good sir.
Incredible. I really liked these last two videos, maybe I should try to catch more streams
Potato - "Living in a desert world is a horrifying experience..."
Just you wait until the sand-worms attack!
So here I lay in my 23rd year
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
It's been 6 years since we sailed away
And I just made Halifax yesterday
God damn them all! I was told
We'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers
~~Barrett's Privateers, Stan Rogers
The more i watch your Civ 6 content the more i want to play Civ 3 or SMAC.
It sounds like you need one of those 0 gravity chairs and an upgrade to your screen mount, preferably a wallmount which would allow you to tilt your screen so you can play properly from the chair
Just a reminder! It's been a year! Hard version?
Ngazargamu, I have come to bargain.
*Potato singing a song of pain and death*
Me just bopping along
"Now I need to make sure I never get a Friendship with him again as nice as he is, hes a nice guy, i like him a lot but, we can never ever have a friendship with him again" - PotatoMcWhiskey 41:00 *1 turn later* We'd be happy to let the world know we stand united as friends.
Try winning a diety game with no victory conditions on apocalypse mode while starting in the most advanced era that you can. Combine that challenge with your desert one at a marathon pace for added hilarity.
This was of the best videos to ever grace YT. 10/10 sacrifice and content. From other 'Sentient meat' ;)
I watched this at 2x speed, the amount of sanity it sounded like u were loosing is way more than u you were claiming
Remember boys always research how to flank in a domination game.
"It was torture, but it was kinda fun at the same time." That's basically every game on deity for me.
Fellow sentient meat here, there is a mod that lets you keep unique buildings when you capture cities if you want to try it.