you just get lost in the moment. 8 cities all simultaneously building coal power plants in +10 industrial zones ... if you don't immediately rush computer tech, you are just boned :D
@@Terrados1337 which is why I always rush Computers and don't bother with coal power plants. I tend to just go straight to oil for the aoe boost, then hit computers. I'm also suzerain of Valetta like 75% of the time by that point, so i just spend 160 faith to immediately purchase said barriers. By the way, did you know that you still get the aoe boost from oil power plants if you haven't actually unlocked oil? I can only handle Emperor thus far, however.
There is a bug with the shared visibility of Cree. Once you are their ally, Kandy stops producing a relic for both you and the cree and you stop getting a free envoy when being the first civ to meet a city state. If you are playing the cree this is a bummer because it will simply mean no more envoys by meeting city states and no more Kandy relics.
Mid game for me is always where is the Forbidden Palace and Kilwa gonna go. Right now in a Sweden game, got a lot of rainforest, so hopefully I get that nice Chicken Pizza since someone stole the Great Library… For newcomers tho… just focus on district adjacencies and future expansion before being wonder obsessed like me.
@@MannexX actually heard it from Potato himself in a vid where he was going for said Pizza… which I think the AI took anyways cuz Deity wonder production bonus is just mean.
@@docbrown7087 I was ready to rage chop it all since they were on hills and my capital could use the Ruhr. But everything worked out. Pretty good culture game after not playing for so long. And without monopolies. Probably super quick game if I had those enabled lol
Something interesting to talk about is when do you decide on a victory plan? In previous videos you have said that if you want a culture victory having your Theater Squares all placed by turn 120 is what to look for. How about Science and Domination? How soon do you start planning towards winning?
Domination has stages. 1. Archer and warrior stage, if you have a weak or scaling neighbor invade them and coast on the early power jump 2. walls and crossbowman. avoid war unless your civ gets a big power spike. Focus on science and gold 3. bombards and heavy cavalry. figure out if you can beat your neighbors and either take em or pivot to science 4. planes and tanks. if you're still domination build your airpower and look for strategic resources like oil, uranium, and aluminum. Religion is turn one, culture is after your settle spam about when you get drama and poetry, science can be delayed as long as you've been keeping up, and domination has moments where you say "i can invade now"
@@elsanto2401 this is useful, thanks. I recently won my first deity games (science as Germany, diplomatic as Australia) and then screwed my Ottomans domination game by invading Mongolia and losing all my crossbows to knights.
you help me so much as a beginner, you are a literal gamechanger for me. its unbelievable to me what you are able to achieve in just a 100 turns! love your videos.
The reason the AI never considers selling cities is that it's really hard for him to estimate its value well, so exploits like the AI selling amazing cities for crap would happen. It happened in civ 5 where they did try it
I've watched a lot of your videos now and sweet Jeezus but you talk fast!! I thought Kiwi's spoke fast!... It does show that your brain works super fast and your speech is trying to keep up. Very entertaining to watch.
I think a Harbor would be better in Xochialco. It has 3 adjacency compared to the 1 (once you have the Campus) from the Commercial Hub, and while the buildings have no base gold yield, they _do_ improve the 4 remaining lake tiles in the city, turning them from 1f0p1g into 2f1p3g tiles (once you have a Seaport), as well as giving 3-4 production from Shipyard (6-8 with adjacency bonus card, but that card doesn't seem worth it this game). In addition, it gives housing, so your city won't ever have housing problems, and the trade route and gold from city-state bonuses are equal between Harbor and Commercial Hub. Or, in other words, it's the only way to make those five lake tiles really worth it; otherwise they're just lost tiles like tundra, desert or mountains.
I love your Civ6 content. That being said, you speak so fast and cover so many concepts in each video I find it hard to follow at times and I'm not brand new to Civ6. I'd love to see a bunch of shorter videos that each go over a specific key topic. Just my two cents! Cheers!
He's MENTIONED it in the series, just not a whole lot. He's been doing surprisingly little warring for a Civ built around capturing enemy units and turning them into builders!
@@JacksonOwex The ability to capture enemy units as builders is only for the Eagle Warrior unit, not the civ itself, and it's only when the Warriors themselves attack, not when defending from a melee attack. So pretty much once the Classical Era starts and the enemy has crossbows and men-at-arms, there's no special benefit from going to war beyond the norm.
For some reason Civ is just a game that I really like to watch being played, but one I end up struggling to play myself. Adapting my empire as more of the map is revealed, reacting to the AI, and just general planning on what my focuses should be is something I struggle with. Early game when some plans fall through, or failing to take advantage of inspirations/eurekas, balancing when to pump settlers with when to build up infrastructure can be just so frustrating that it takes the fun out of everything.
You might be overthinking it, and that's why you can't adapt emotionally with plans that are not getting thru. Have you ever played it up to the end even though your plans did not pan out? I only started really getting good after 400 hours in but those 400 hours were absolutely fun as I just played and enjoyed it and did what I felt was right while learning from my mistakes and eventually got good. And that's also without any guide from youtube, with Civ 6 as my first civilization game too. TLDR; just play it and learn from your mistakes, don't get too emotional. It's just a game. Now I only play Deity and most of the time I win, meaning in the early game I already know if I am going to win or not.
Duuude, the tile in Malinalco next to campus was not a hill, it was a volcanic soil, you totally could have built the Oxfort there, just Malinalco didn't have the university yet
I noticed in Teayo you have atleast a +4 Industrial Zone (2 mines, a quarry, and an Aqueduct over by the stone/Niter. Have to give up a Maize Farm for it though. Question about chopping. Is it worth chopping out Maize or Copper (which provide gold instead of food/production respectively)? You give up a build charge (plus the wait for the builder if you don't have one near it) for some gold.
Maybe from having large cities. We get 0.3 culture per turn per citizen. He also had Pingala giving +1 culture per turn per citizen in his city; and suzerainty of a culture city-state.
I challenge potato to watch his dido play through from 3 years ago and just trrrrrryyyyyy to not cringe at the inefficiency that he called his empire lol. Watching now vs then videos are so much more try hard and I'm here for it.
Why did you build the commercial hub instead of the harbor in Teotihucan? Wouldn't it be better for long term growth? Is there not enough water tiles or resources for the city to use?
I wonder if you're not sleeping on Valetta's suz bonus? The ability to buy walls and city center buildings with faith is incredibly powerful - it's almost a cheat code in certain situations. Such as, facing an Emergency and moving into an expansion phase. Being able to set down a new city and instantly give it a monument and granary is just a huge growth accelerator. Likewise, Walls with the double-shot Victor promotion can turn any city into a real tank in an instant.
Make sure you hit dark age before 1980ish so you can finish a 2050 game in heroic age and have 3 dedications to play with till you reset. Always Faith first to fend off early missionaries then culture science production gold
Cree: settling one city in vast empty lands bordering only their own empire Potato: The Cree are being agressive with their settlements, curse you my only ally in the game!
I'm new to Civ6 (well civ in general...last time I played was Civ2 as a kid). How do you get the bonuses to show on the gov cards? Is it a setting or a mod.
I'm still trying to build builders by turn 100... How do you already have multiple districts, trade routes, universities, Merchant Republic, wonders and a military? haha
Hey potato, I wanted to ask: are diplo points good for anything except for the diplo victory? The reason I ask is if they aren't, surely at 8:01 you would be better off spending your diplo favour on a great person type you aren't earning so you can still earn your great merchants, seeing as you aren't going for a diplo victory?
True, but you usually don't have enough to override what all the others vote for. In this case I think it was 11. I think Great Engineer was 9 so it would only take 3 votes, but there was no way to know that before hand. Personally, I usually sell most of my diplo favor.
@@thetzar2573 Nah, Maori forward settles are usually too bad. He settles cities SO close to other people that they basically auto-flip. If he placed it in a crappy spot just raze it when you beat it as a free city, I can't remember for sure if you still get grievances for taking or raising free cities, I don't think you do.
Valletta, you lost Valletta! You didn't deserve it in the first place, you had it when you wanted to build the walls against Korea and didn't use it :P
Is there a (special) reason you choose to play on standard tempo over online tempo? I somehow think when playing vs AI on online tempo, there are sooo much more things to think about.. But I dont know. I appreciate your tips and tricks videos very much and hope for an answer! :)
I feel like the opposite is true for me: on online tempo there's much less to think about, because the best decision is always the one that gives you the most gold. The increased speed of the science and culture trees makes it impossible to keep up with production wise, so just get more gold and buy what you need.
@@Jack_Rakan how do you fall behind in production if all prices are scaled? shoudln't the primary difference balance wise between game speeds be things related to units moving in the same number of turns so war is weaker and whatnot
@@jamismiscreant7514 it's because the scaling gets fucked by static non-production dependent bonuses: yes, normal production cost and science/culture output of districts and buildings are kind of balanced themselves. But as soon as you add bonuses trough stuff like unique improvements/ city-state bonuses, Pingala and the like, your science and culture start running ahead of what your cities can handle normally. Also yes, war is much weaker... for the player only, because the double production AI can still vomit out units if it wants/needs to.
Personally I think if you get the right city state to be suzerain of then definitely go for that. By right city state I mean it provides you with either a lot of gold or something towards your victory type.
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Which mod do I need to use to see the yields that others sivs are making?
If u meant the yield ribbons at the top-right of the screen, it is not a mod. Go to Setting/Option -> Inteface -> click on show yields in HUD and choose "Always On".
I really wanted to watch this. But you talk and click too fast ! Yes, I watch your stuff on 0.5 speed but then the thing takes twice as long to watch. Please mate, slow down for those of us who aren't 25 anymore.
I haven't really found time to play civ6 lately. So I play vicariously through you, while doing other tasks.. thanks Haha
We are on the same boat bro haha.
Same same! Have hardly played all year
Absolutely. This game takes up way too much stinking time. Thanks potato, for scratching that itch without necessarily staying up all night to play!
Same
My plan for any civ playthrough:
1) Make production go brrrr
2) cry when my carefully planned coastal cities sink beneath the waves
Ahem. Flood Barriers
you just get lost in the moment. 8 cities all simultaneously building coal power plants in +10 industrial zones ... if you don't immediately rush computer tech, you are just boned :D
@@Terrados1337 which is why I always rush Computers and don't bother with coal power plants. I tend to just go straight to oil for the aoe boost, then hit computers. I'm also suzerain of Valetta like 75% of the time by that point, so i just spend 160 faith to immediately purchase said barriers. By the way, did you know that you still get the aoe boost from oil power plants if you haven't actually unlocked oil?
I can only handle Emperor thus far, however.
@@CiaranMaxwell lucky to have valetta around, that's one very strong bonus!
And no, I didn't know that, pretty cool
@@Terrados1337 That's why I like Barbarian Clans mode. Valletta may not be in the starting set, but it'll show up eventually. ^_^
There is a bug with the shared visibility of Cree. Once you are their ally, Kandy stops producing a relic for both you and the cree and you stop getting a free envoy when being the first civ to meet a city state. If you are playing the cree this is a bummer because it will simply mean no more envoys by meeting city states and no more Kandy relics.
Mid game for me is always where is the Forbidden Palace and Kilwa gonna go. Right now in a Sweden game, got a lot of rainforest, so hopefully I get that nice Chicken Pizza since someone stole the Great Library…
For newcomers tho… just focus on district adjacencies and future expansion before being wonder obsessed like me.
Was that an auto-correct gone wrong, or is that how you reference that wonder 😁
@@MannexX actually heard it from Potato himself in a vid where he was going for said Pizza… which I think the AI took anyways cuz Deity wonder production bonus is just mean.
@@stormrider1049 oh cool.
I do like the name though 🙂
@@stormrider1049 Me and my brother always call it that too. I always chop jungle so I never go for it. We also like Potato Palace.
@@docbrown7087 I was ready to rage chop it all since they were on hills and my capital could use the Ruhr. But everything worked out. Pretty good culture game after not playing for so long. And without monopolies. Probably super quick game if I had those enabled lol
Something interesting to talk about is when do you decide on a victory plan? In previous videos you have said that if you want a culture victory having your Theater Squares all placed by turn 120 is what to look for.
How about Science and Domination? How soon do you start planning towards winning?
Domination has stages.
1. Archer and warrior stage, if you have a weak or scaling neighbor invade them and coast on the early power jump
2. walls and crossbowman. avoid war unless your civ gets a big power spike. Focus on science and gold
3. bombards and heavy cavalry. figure out if you can beat your neighbors and either take em or pivot to science
4. planes and tanks. if you're still domination build your airpower and look for strategic resources like oil, uranium, and aluminum.
Religion is turn one, culture is after your settle spam about when you get drama and poetry, science can be delayed as long as you've been keeping up, and domination has moments where you say "i can invade now"
@@elsanto2401 this is useful, thanks. I recently won my first deity games (science as Germany, diplomatic as Australia) and then screwed my Ottomans domination game by invading Mongolia and losing all my crossbows to knights.
@@TheGeneralDisarray hey very cool, the first deity wins are the hardest!
The ranged vs siege unit difference against naval units is my new Civ fact for the week! Thanks!
you help me so much as a beginner, you are a literal gamechanger for me. its unbelievable to me what you are able to achieve in just a 100 turns! love your videos.
The reason the AI never considers selling cities is that it's really hard for him to estimate its value well, so exploits like the AI selling amazing cities for crap would happen. It happened in civ 5 where they did try it
Dunno if a typo in video title affects anything: "Deicision" should be Decision.
Great series, thanks :)
Wow, I didn't know that technologies are more expensive to research, if you're ahead of the respective era. :O
damn, that thing you did with the tile purchasing mechanic is one of the reasons I watch you, mans done the damn calculations, impressive detail 👏
I have learned from this series that tempo is potato's new favorite word.
Tempo is sooo pog!
I've watched a lot of your videos now and sweet Jeezus but you talk fast!! I thought Kiwi's spoke fast!... It does show that your brain works super fast and your speech is trying to keep up. Very entertaining to watch.
Big fan, great videos! Got me back into civ6. I prefer to 200% scaling because I generally watch on my phone.
I think a Harbor would be better in Xochialco. It has 3 adjacency compared to the 1 (once you have the Campus) from the Commercial Hub, and while the buildings have no base gold yield, they _do_ improve the 4 remaining lake tiles in the city, turning them from 1f0p1g into 2f1p3g tiles (once you have a Seaport), as well as giving 3-4 production from Shipyard (6-8 with adjacency bonus card, but that card doesn't seem worth it this game). In addition, it gives housing, so your city won't ever have housing problems, and the trade route and gold from city-state bonuses are equal between Harbor and Commercial Hub.
Or, in other words, it's the only way to make those five lake tiles really worth it; otherwise they're just lost tiles like tundra, desert or mountains.
Yeah, I think some of us underestimate Harbors. I have.
I love your Civ6 content. That being said, you speak so fast and cover so many concepts in each video I find it hard to follow at times and I'm not brand new to Civ6. I'd love to see a bunch of shorter videos that each go over a specific key topic. Just my two cents! Cheers!
You can slow down the video in UA-cam in the settings. I always pause and rewind to rewatch certain concepts.
Yoy haven't touched on one of the Aztec's biggest bonuses, which is you can build a district in no more than 5 turns if you use builder charges.
yeah it low key makes aztec expansion extra fast even in the late game.
He's MENTIONED it in the series, just not a whole lot. He's been doing surprisingly little warring for a Civ built around capturing enemy units and turning them into builders!
@@JacksonOwex The ability to capture enemy units as builders is only for the Eagle Warrior unit, not the civ itself, and it's only when the Warriors themselves attack, not when defending from a melee attack. So pretty much once the Classical Era starts and the enemy has crossbows and men-at-arms, there's no special benefit from going to war beyond the norm.
i want to thank you for making beginner guide like this coz there are still peoples in the world who was start playing civ 6.
For some reason Civ is just a game that I really like to watch being played, but one I end up struggling to play myself. Adapting my empire as more of the map is revealed, reacting to the AI, and just general planning on what my focuses should be is something I struggle with. Early game when some plans fall through, or failing to take advantage of inspirations/eurekas, balancing when to pump settlers with when to build up infrastructure can be just so frustrating that it takes the fun out of everything.
You might be overthinking it, and that's why you can't adapt emotionally with plans that are not getting thru. Have you ever played it up to the end even though your plans did not pan out? I only started really getting good after 400 hours in but those 400 hours were absolutely fun as I just played and enjoyed it and did what I felt was right while learning from my mistakes and eventually got good. And that's also without any guide from youtube, with Civ 6 as my first civilization game too.
TLDR; just play it and learn from your mistakes, don't get too emotional. It's just a game.
Now I only play Deity and most of the time I win, meaning in the early game I already know if I am going to win or not.
@@wafercrackerjack880 Not OP but in a similar boat. I enjoy the early game but the mid game and later become a slog. I've yet to finish a single game.
Wow, watched so many Civ6 playthroughs and never even noticed an ahead of time penalty for tech cost.
Saaaaame
Duuude, the tile in Malinalco next to campus was not a hill, it was a volcanic soil, you totally could have built the Oxfort there, just Malinalco didn't have the university yet
41:37 "tings that make you go... hmmm"
Nice Brainiac reference lmao 🤣 😆
lovin these play throughs. keep them coming !
I noticed in Teayo you have atleast a +4 Industrial Zone (2 mines, a quarry, and an Aqueduct over by the stone/Niter. Have to give up a Maize Farm for it though.
Question about chopping. Is it worth chopping out Maize or Copper (which provide gold instead of food/production respectively)? You give up a build charge (plus the wait for the builder if you don't have one near it) for some gold.
Hi Potato. Hoy are you generating so much culture? Even before the theatre squares, you are getting much more than I can with them. Thanks!
Maybe from having large cities. We get 0.3 culture per turn per citizen.
He also had Pingala giving +1 culture per turn per citizen in his city; and suzerainty of a culture city-state.
Thank you for finally providing your mod list!!!!
I challenge potato to watch his dido play through from 3 years ago and just trrrrrryyyyyy to not cringe at the inefficiency that he called his empire lol. Watching now vs then videos are so much more try hard and I'm here for it.
Why did you build the commercial hub instead of the harbor in Teotihucan? Wouldn't it be better for long term growth? Is there not enough water tiles or resources for the city to use?
I wonder if you're not sleeping on Valetta's suz bonus? The ability to buy walls and city center buildings with faith is incredibly powerful - it's almost a cheat code in certain situations. Such as, facing an Emergency and moving into an expansion phase. Being able to set down a new city and instantly give it a monument and granary is just a huge growth accelerator. Likewise, Walls with the double-shot Victor promotion can turn any city into a real tank in an instant.
Edit: maybe Valetta was yoinked by some AI? Can't tell if it's still there.
Make sure you hit dark age before 1980ish so you can finish a 2050 game in heroic age and have 3 dedications to play with till you reset. Always Faith first to fend off early missionaries then culture science production gold
In the southern regions are you going to build the admunsen scott research station?
That one needs a city planned for it in advance.
Great to see you potato!
Cree: settling one city in vast empty lands bordering only their own empire
Potato: The Cree are being agressive with their settlements, curse you my only ally in the game!
30:13
"Uhhh let's...a-go, itsa me Mario."
Over explained version of Potato is definitely the meet your girlfriend’s parents version of Potato lmao
*Sees 68 likes* * smashes that thumbs up button* Nice
I'm new to Civ6 (well civ in general...last time I played was Civ2 as a kid). How do you get the bonuses to show on the gov cards? Is it a setting or a mod.
I was playing Civ6 several days ago, but when I started watching u, I stopped playing cuz ur vids are better than my game
I'm still trying to build builders by turn 100... How do you already have multiple districts, trade routes, universities, Merchant Republic, wonders and a military? haha
Hey potato, I wanted to ask: are diplo points good for anything except for the diplo victory? The reason I ask is if they aren't, surely at 8:01 you would be better off spending your diplo favour on a great person type you aren't earning so you can still earn your great merchants, seeing as you aren't going for a diplo victory?
True, but you usually don't have enough to override what all the others vote for. In this case I think it was 11. I think Great Engineer was 9 so it would only take 3 votes, but there was no way to know that before hand. Personally, I usually sell most of my diplo favor.
At 24:06 you say that this trade route gives resources that are not listed. How do you know what recourses it gives that are not listed there?
There’s a mid-game? I usually just restart when I get forward-settled 60 turns in
Lel Maori moment
@@thetzar2573 Nah, Maori forward settles are usually too bad. He settles cities SO close to other people that they basically auto-flip. If he placed it in a crappy spot just raze it when you beat it as a free city, I can't remember for sure if you still get grievances for taking or raising free cities, I don't think you do.
Valletta, you lost Valletta! You didn't deserve it in the first place, you had it when you wanted to build the walls against Korea and didn't use it :P
Valletta being neglected is almost a meme on this channel.
you could've put up the combat screen in post production for both the archer and the trebuchet
8:13 what benifit do you get from the vote to block great merchant points.
Hi, how did you get your policy cards to have info i.e +17 science?
Do you have a guide on districts?
How do you see yields on policy cards? Is that a mod? If so which mod?
Oxford next to volcano? It seems to be a flat tile
Oi, can you post up your UI mod list somewhere? I know you posted it up somewhere before, I was just about to redo some of my quality of life mods.
Is there a (special) reason you choose to play on standard tempo over online tempo? I somehow think when playing vs AI on online tempo, there are sooo much more things to think about.. But I dont know. I appreciate your tips and tricks videos very much and hope for an answer! :)
I feel like the opposite is true for me: on online tempo there's much less to think about, because the best decision is always the one that gives you the most gold. The increased speed of the science and culture trees makes it impossible to keep up with production wise, so just get more gold and buy what you need.
@@Jack_Rakan how do you fall behind in production if all prices are scaled?
shoudln't the primary difference balance wise between game speeds be things related to units moving in the same number of turns so war is weaker and whatnot
@@jamismiscreant7514 it's because the scaling gets fucked by static non-production dependent bonuses: yes, normal production cost and science/culture output of districts and buildings are kind of balanced themselves.
But as soon as you add bonuses trough stuff like unique improvements/ city-state bonuses, Pingala and the like, your science and culture start running ahead of what your cities can handle normally.
Also yes, war is much weaker... for the player only, because the double production AI can still vomit out units if it wants/needs to.
@@Jack_Rakan how would those scale incorrectly (barring pingala) since they adjust the science you need not how much you get
This is kinda weird to learn from since most games dont have such a great starting area or so much free land to grab
Hey Potato, love the content. Any reason you're not pillaging the crap out of Korea seeing as she won't give you peace?
When's your next live stream Potato?
Is it better to get new bonuses from the level 1 stage of city states, or to work towards suzerainty with 1 or 2?
Personally I think if you get the right city state to be suzerain of then definitely go for that. By right city state I mean it provides you with either a lot of gold or something towards your victory type.
Which mod do I need to use to see the yields that others sivs are making?
If u meant the yield ribbons at the top-right of the screen, it is not a mod. Go to Setting/Option -> Inteface -> click on show yields in HUD and choose "Always On".
@@ngp.gaming thanks bro. found it :D
Harbours in lakes: Yea or Nay?
Can you get mods on epic games? Or just steam?
You can, you can just download the mods from the steam workshop and manually put them into your Civ 6 Mod folder
OMG! Potato loves me!!!
6:42 I think you meant science victory not diplomatic victory. I don't know if you can add a comment on it but, even if you can't now you're aware.
I'm not putting it past potato to make Deity-Decision = Deicision as a pun. I'm also not convinced it's not a typo... hmmmmmmm
How can you have such insane amount of empty land by turn 130? Is this large or huge map?
I am also wondering. I usually play on huge maps and even if I put a few less AI the map gets full fast
21:48 put down the lumber mill for the sake of my soul plss
w youtuber
18:45 you leave my mother alone
My mother turns 80 next week. Good luck with that sloppy peck tuber.
Siege units kill sea units
Caw caw 40:25
please say "relatively" more often
That would throw off his "tempo" lol
You marketed this video for beginners, but completely lost me in the first 2 minutes. You assume a knowledge of things that no beginner would know.
I really wanted to watch this. But you talk and click too fast ! Yes, I watch your stuff on 0.5 speed but then the thing takes twice as long to watch. Please mate, slow down for those of us who aren't 25 anymore.
Jesus Christ dude, slow down. You mispeak an insane amount and it's really hard to follow.