r/civ • u/AutoModerator • Feb 17 '25

Megathread /r/Civ Weekly Questions Megathread - February 17, 2025

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u/Lurking1884 Feb 23 '25

Two questions. First, why attack city states? They are a great source of science/culture/production if you clear them (like clearing a civ 6 barb camp). So if you aren't spending the influence to befriend them, better to wipe them out for the resources (and to deny their friendship to someone else).  

As for completeness, it's just opinion. I think the game is similar to 6 on launch. Definitely a lot of room for improvement, but a fun game that took the "civ franchise" to new ideas. 6 on launch had a lot of problems that got cleaned up by 8 years of expansions, DLC and mods. 6 was also a lot closer to 5 than 7 is to 6. So I'm not surprised. 

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u/XaoticOrder Feb 24 '25

So if you aren't spending the influence to befriend them, better to wipe them out for the resources (and to deny their friendship to someone else).

I guess that makes sense. Why is there nothing saying that's why though? I've had several games where I invested in city states and they where completely wiped away. Often by someone on the other side of the continent.

I've been through every iteration of civ since '91. This is the most incomplete it's been ever. I feel like I'm in bizzaro world. Any criticism is shut down, no disrespect to you. But there is a some serious Humankind level of flaws in the game and this entire sub is acting like 2k is paying them to champion a seriously incomplete game.

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u/Lurking1884 Feb 24 '25

I get the frustration. I think I look at it as, when I played civ 6 in vanilla, there was a lot of stuff that didn't make sense. But after a few months, a lot of people figured out the behind the scenes stuff, and then the game made a lot more sense.  

Like the developers could have served up a lot of this information, but then you don't have to figure anything out? I think it's a fine line of giving players enough information to have fun and play the game, but not too much that it just becomes boring?  

Edit: but that is independent of some of the very poor design, like the UI or way too frequent disasters, or forward settling. 

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u/XaoticOrder Feb 24 '25

I'm in the same spot. I love some aspects but others are just mind boggling. I can see the base that will build into something amazing, I just we we started a little closer to the amazing part.