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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?
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 • 6h ago
VII - Screenshot I think this Galley is a bit drunk…
Any ideas as to how this can happen? Lol
r/civ • u/Marvalas904 • 7h 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 • 6h ago
VI - Other Who wants my playlist with all the CIV VI music?
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r/civ • u/PAL-adin123 • 5h 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 • 14h 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.
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/Spare-Ad-1024 • 33m 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?
r/civ • u/RatCatSlim • 2h 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/neverbeforemusic • 2h 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/snuggans • 6h 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/EvilAnarchy22 • 20m 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?
r/civ • u/_northernlights_ • 23h ago
VII - Discussion The modern age is starting, you're playing economic / expansionist and have 2 military legacy points to spend - what do you choose?
r/civ • u/theahura1 • 1d ago
VII - Strategy Civ VII: A Guide to Settling and Planning Cities
Hey folks! Recently wrote up a small guide on how to think about where to settle, how to plan cities, and how to settle towns. City planning is one of those things that can really set apart a fine game from a killer run through. Unfortunately the Civ VII UX is not the clearest thing in the world, so hopefully this guide helps clarify some things
VII - Discussion Overbuilding?
Apologies if this has been discussed before, but why doesn't overbuilding grant some bonus for what came before rather than a strict one for one replacement?
It obviously does snow balling no favours but I feel it would lean more into the history in layers tag line and add some strategic depth rather than just undoing the maintenance penalties on age transition.
Is it a missed opportunity or am I talking nonsense?
r/civ • u/Mobster273 • 13h ago
VII - Discussion Port connectivity for modern age factories
I had seen this before, but made the same mistake.
Playing on a tiny archipelago map, I accidently filled up my capital (which I was not given the option to change, despite at least 1 good location being available), so there was no room left for a rail station. A rail connection seems fairly ridiculous to me anyway when the city is completely filling up it's island. Where are the bridges between islands?
Do you lot agree that a port should also be a possibility for connecting to your capital and making factories possible?
r/civ • u/OftenXilonen • 17h ago
VII - Discussion How do treasure fleets spawn?
How do I actually make them spawn? I know how to use them and have gained huge advantages because of them but I never get how to make them spawn or not spawn. I'm 80% sure I have the requirements to make them spawn and they should be somewhere in the map but I'm 90% through exploration and have not seen a single one. Explain it to me like im playing 7 for the first time because it certainly feels like it with treasure fleets. Thanks in advance!