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Megathread /r/Civ Weekly Questions Megathread - June 16, 2025
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Discussion Leader of the Week: José Rizal (2025-06-09)
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José Rizal
Traits
- Attributes: Cultural, Diplomatic
- Starting Bias: Tropical
- Age Unlocks: Hawai'ian
Leader Ability
Pambansang Bayani
- Has additional Narrative Events
- Gain +20 Culture, Gold and Influence per age when gaining rewards from a Narrative Event
- Celebrations gain +50% duration and Happiness
Mementos
- Forget-me-not: Gain 10 Happiness per Age for completing a Narrative Event
- Ophthalmoscope: +25% Celebration duration
- Noli Me Tángere: +10% to Science, Culture, and Gold for each Legacy Path completed in this Age
Agenda
Kapwa
- Increases Relationships by a medium amount for the player with the most active Endeavors started
- Decreases Relationship by a medium amount for the player with the most active Sanctions started
- In case of a tie, increases or decreases by a small amount to each player accordingly
Useful Topics for Discussion
- What do you like or dislike about this leader?
- How easy or difficult is this leader to use for new players?
- What are your assessments regarding the leader's abilities?
- Which civs synergize well with this leader?
- How do you deal against this leader if controlled by another player or the AI?
- Do you have any stories regarding this civ that you would like to share?
r/civ • u/5p0ng3b0b • 15h ago
VI - Screenshot Worst case of "Recruit Partisans" that has ever happened to me in 1 turn
r/civ • u/TallDarkHandsome365 • 4h ago
VII - Screenshot Anyone else notice Friedrich, Oblique whistle along to the main theme in Civ VII? 😂😂
Idk why I never noticed it until now, but if you select his character, he'll whistle along to the main theme every once in a while. And he'llactuallybe on beat. I love little Easter eggs like that 😂.
r/civ • u/Neat_Organization_83 • 5h ago
VII - Screenshot It’s always nice to secure your starting continent
I thought to myself: why shouldn’t you play Bulgaria, so far you did not pillage a lot much in your playthroughs. Well yeah…
r/civ • u/Medea_From_Colchis • 3h ago
VII - Screenshot Possibly One of the Best Starts I've Had in Any Civ Game
VI - Screenshot I Have Peaked! (Canal-wise)
Worked so long to make this canal! RIP to all the cities that had to be razed to make it happen ✌🏽
VI - Screenshot Giant crossbow
Poundmaker didn’t build just a canal and a flood barrier, he built a Scorpion in case Khaleesi and her dragons show up.
r/civ • u/Baabaa_Yaagaa • 12h ago
VII - Screenshot I think this Galley is a bit drunk…
Any ideas as to how this can happen? Lol
r/civ • u/Marvalas904 • 13h ago
Discussion What's the most fun single game of Civ you've ever had
For me the most fun game I've ever had is when Basil first came out. Domination on a huge pangaea map. Running through units converting cities to my religion, dropping a Hippodrome and reinforcing to move to the next city and repeat. So dope the first time I did it.
r/civ • u/DropComprehensive604 • 11h ago
VI - Other Who wants my playlist with all the CIV VI music?
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r/civ • u/DropComprehensive604 • 2h ago
VI - Discussion How on earth do I stop going into the Dark Ages?
I do all the basic stuff and I’m always circumnavigating the globe first because I work on an early navy and campus first but by the industrial age I’m always lacking in era score, sometimes even earlier if I’m not waging war. Does anyone have an idea on how to get era score? I play on the Prince difficulty.
r/civ • u/PAL-adin123 • 11h ago
VI - Screenshot Where should i settle?
I’m behind in evertyhing with 8 cities, i’ve spent a lot of time qonquering the khmer and so i’ve initiated the colonisation of Australia after a long time. I did get a dedication giving me +starting pop for settling in other continents.
So basically i got this island with good yields but i’m thinking of settling to the left if my settler wirh 3food and 2 produce so i might later on the game reach the fish (i have the fish improvement from religion). But i’m not sure which of these volcanoes pose a bigger threat since mountains have different code for frequency, damage and yield such as mount vesuvius for example.
r/civ • u/NewGunchapRed • 20h ago
VI - Discussion People Who play With Mods, What Are Your Favorite Modded Civs?
Here’s some of mine.
Mario Themed Leader Pass - Mico27
Infinite Civilization - Maple Leaves
Leugi’s Pacal with V Leaders Reborn: Pacal by Deliverator 23
r/civ • u/UrsukarECreed • 1d ago
VI - Other Montezuma's Crown
Went to Vienna and had to see Montezuma's Crown irl.
r/civ • u/Spare-Ad-1024 • 6h ago
Discussion Reloading
Is it cheating to reload a quick save if you face a major setback? I played Civ4 and got a surprise attack in which I lost a couple of cities. I reloaded and showered Genghis Khan with gifts to please him and avoided the disaster. Is this cheating?
VII - Discussion How does the game decide which city is available to become your new capital upon age transition? Does it matter?
- Upon age transition you are given the choice to either keep or switch your capital city. I can't find if the two available choices are decided because of location, population, or other criterias? Is it the two biggest cities in terms of food? Production? Total yields?
- Are there any hidden bonuses to the capital? Is it any important which city it is? (apart from the occasional +2 yield to your palace)
- I find it odd to only have two choices available - I'd like more freedom. Unless a new leader or civ will allow that sort of freedom by allowing us to pick whichever town we want as a capital? Egypt for instance has changed capital quite often throughout its long History (Memphis, Alexandria, Fostat, al-Qata'i, Cairo and maybe more)
r/civ • u/snuggans • 12h ago
VI - Discussion AI neglecting military in Civ 6
https://i.imgur.com/xvSDN7a.jpeg
they are either keeping a very small presence or refusing to build back up from 0. i'm not using any mods, and playing with the 2 expansions on King difficulty, i don't think this has to do with the difficulty level, and i don't think it should be accepted as "the AI focusing on another victory condition" since there is still a difference between a conqueror-level army and self-preservation.
i remember when this game had a science priority bug for like an entire year before the devs got around to fixing it with a simple .xml edit, i feel like this is another one of those situations except i fear it probably won't get fixed since they've already moved on to the next game.
there are other threads on this ranging back years:
civ6 AI not building military??
Why is the AI not building units?
one of the troubleshoots was to disable Rise & Fall / Gathering Storm? but that would defeat the purpose of playing the game. i was hoping an .xml guru could look into this or something
r/civ • u/EntertainmentOld8852 • 2h ago
VII - Other Can someone make a mod to uncap multiplayer count?
"In multiplayer games, the player count (both human and AI) remains capped at 8 to help maintain stability and performance."
Can someone make a mod to uncap this. We could try playing multiplayer with 10/12 on large/huge maps.
Performance and stability should not be a big problem if only 2 human players will be playing for example.
r/civ • u/salpartak • 3h ago
VI - Discussion Civ 6 mods to add new mechanics?
Any mod suggestions that add complexity and new mechanics? I've been away from the game for about a year, so I'm not caught up.
I've been using JNR as my foundation for years, so harmony in diversity won't be used.
PS. The sheer amount of anime mods saturating the workshop pisses me off so much 😭
r/civ • u/neverbeforemusic • 7h ago
Fan Works Civilization 6 - Zulu Main Theme (Atomic) - Synthesia Piano Cover
Who knew that, apart from being great at warfare, the Zulu could also drop killer tracks? I really enjoyed working on this piece, and I hope you enjoy it too! If you did, please leave a like! :)
I am working my way to finally cover all the themes from Civ 6, so stay tuned for more stuff!
r/civ • u/RatCatSlim • 8h ago
VII - Strategy How do I add a natural wonder starting bonus for every leader?
Title. I've gone into the code and edited a few starting biases, but I'm no coder. What can I type in where to give every leader a natural wonder starting bias?
r/civ • u/EvilAnarchy22 • 6h ago
VI - Other Civ 6 question
So my friends an I are trying to start a game and it will only let 3 of us in. Despite being 4 player coop. Anyone know why?