Potato needs more recognition. This guy has been absolutely fantastic to watch and he does such a good job of talking to the stream explaining the thought processes. Really, thanks bro.
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Potato: "This guy just uploaded an 8 hour video, I'm not watching that." Me, having literally never watched civ 6 before but curious what it's like, seeing a 7-hour video of it in my recommended: *sweating nervously*
I’m surprised you can actually write those school reports. I can barely do work myself with videos like this in the background. If TH-cam was a thing when I was in school, I would have probably flunked.
Took me three days to finish watching the whole A-Z Nubia game but wanted to let you know I truly enjoyed it! I pass the time at work listening and sort of watching your games so I appreciate the 7-8 hour vids! :) Also, I cracked up at the Hamburger McBudLight joke you made.
I've noticed that one thing you tend to miss in almost any game where it is relevant is placing your capitol to take advantage of a civilization's unique tile improvements or other "prefers to build in a specific region" advantages. It was absolutely worth taking two turns to build your capitol next to that desert - Nubian pyramid next to a city center means +40% production for ALL districts, a boost that would have easily made up for the few extra turns wasted moving your first settler. You've made similar errors in the past - Hungary gets faster build speeds for any districts and buildings across a river from a City Center (and you actually moved your settler away from an ideal position in the recent Hungary game, meaning much slower campus and science buildings for no advantage). Same thing with Cleopatra - basically ignored the fact that with Iteru boosting the build speed for Holy Sites and the powerful synergy between Sphinxes and Earth Mother pantheon you could have had an easy go at a Religious victory even on Deity. Might be worth actually spending the start of these streams reading about the leader and their civilization's unique boosts and discussing how you plan to use them to your advantage - you tend to get a bit more distracted during live streams and doing this would help you have a clear plan and not mess up key city placements so often.
While I do agree with you the 2food 2 pro tiles are essential in the early game and moving would only granted growth and faith tiles. Also woulda trapped him next to the wonder and wasted those nice coast tiles
Agreed I think I had around 4-5 cities with Nub pyramids adjacent to the city center and it was pretty much a cakewalk. But I think he doesn’t care about that level of detail. What really matters is he’s become a celebrity - you did hear him mention how much he likes $$$... His reaction of “What was that noise” @6:56:20 was priceless. I suspect either the platform or mods he runs allows him to make crucial mistakes and still compete. My games would likely be over by Turn 55...
Its funny listening to this VOD 4 years later and how accurate he was about Civ 7 at 4:05:29 saying it wouldnt come out for 5+ years and then they announced it this year (2024) to release next year (2025)
Challange idea: Choose your techs and civics using the shift key queuing in turn 1 for the entire game. No changing the entire game Similar suggestion- click future tech and for the civics choose a second tier gov, third tier gov, fourth tier gov and then to future civic
I never realised you could put any policy card in the wildcard slot until I started watching your videos. I thought you could only put wildcard policies in there. Totally blew my mind.
On exploits: Since you're not competing as part of any speedrun = who cares Theres always a tradeoff between speed and entertainment value. The government exploit is super minor compared to say RE2 remake where you can glitch through huge chunks of the game hence why speedrunners don't do it - because its boring It also depends on the game. I know some bosses in WoW and FFXIV have been downed using exploits for World firsts and often the community doesn't care Keep doing what you're doing. I've learned a lot from watching your videos and you're a nice and reasonable guy
For diplomatic, just become Suzerain of most/all city states (pump out civics towards envoys and influence points), and try to get high tier governments early on. Since you cant easily predict Congress events, you'll usually just want to pump out Culture (since pretty much everything gets Great People, and you would already be doing so) and Science (Carbon Recapture, plus it allows you to get better units for Military Events). On top of this, play as someone that you can easily make allies with, like Wilfred Laurier. Alliances are very good for generating diplomatic favor. But if push comes to shove, you can always save-scum world Congress to vote in agreement with everyone else (but if you have to cheat for a diplomatic victory, not only is that cheating, but it's the second easiest victory behind Religious)
Dear Mr McWhiskey, Thanks for the video and great content. I really appreciate your time in making this available for my perusal. 2:15:44 - I really love the idea of the North Atlantic Archipelago, it's a great term, good job.
Georgia is in the Arctic? Wow! You know what is frustrating with the war in CIV, Civ VI. Oh, let me attack this axeman with this modern armour. Modern Armor loses. Now I have to replace my monitor after trying to punch the axeman. No wonder he beat the modern armour. ffs!
On using exploits. Occasionally using the change government exploit isn't the difference between winning and losing. It's a small optimization, often used after mistakenly not changing policies when they become available. Something like production preserving is a game-changing exploit that almost entirely changes the way you play the game. If you're going for purism, then sure, don't use either exploit, maybe don't use even UI mods, otherwise, depending on your objective, especially in a single-player game, do what you want.
A great video! I don't think it was discussed in the video, but what is the A to Z challenge exactly? Oo Thanks for the series though, makes working from home much more enjoyable!
Hmm, inspired by this I tried to play a game with similar settings - and either you are the God of Streamer RNG, or the AI has got a lot better! You finished the Pyramids on about turn 85, having given Scythia a good beating a couple of times... I was almost wiped out by Dido while I was still trying to rush researching archery, and by about turn 50 the AIs had grabbed pretty much all thy good stuff, INCLUDING the Pyramids! Of course as well as Dido I was crushed in between Korea and the Zulus!
Call me crazy but I'm enjoying your 7-hour long video xD. Every time I learn something new! e.g. Didn't know about the culture trick to change gov policies for free before this one!
Other challenge ideas: Win a victory using no Civ or Leader advantages. Win a culture victory using a different route than seaside-resorts/ski-resorts/wonders.
For the civ with no advantages, would you use a modded civ with no bonuses or just play as a specific civ and not use their unique stuff? I'm wondering who you can do that on without messing up the game. Maybe if you play as French Eleanor and never build wonders or the UU/Chateau?
Settings inteface, show advanced details I think Was a mod they introduced into the main game because it was so good, so don't worry about not knowing, it's a common question :)
Had a negative comment, but you know what? It doesn't matter. Enjoy your day sir. Just know that I am in camp "anti-exploit if you want to show achievement".
Hehe, I feel you. My stance is literally a 180 of his but I've never seen good come from a youtube discussion. I'll leave it to the stream watchers to argue. Have a nice day.
I don’t know what’s so hard to understand about the exploit. As an example, in mortal kombat the original you could sweep multiple times if your timing was good and the opponent couldn’t do anything about it. It was considered an exploit and unfair but if you were playing someone and you swept them, why would you NOT sweep them again? Similarly, why would you not exploit a minor glitch against a computer on deity which already cheats?
Players like PotatoMcWhiskey use exploit only to enhance the fun when playing the game. Spiff uses exploits to completely break games. Players like Potato wouldn't use an exploit that broke the game.
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Potato: no one's gonna click on a 7 hour long video
Me: *clicked on that 7 hour long video*
Randy Reso me too! 😁
Same here, could only watch a bit of the stream.
same. I skipped around a bunch though.
same
me too
Map making at 3:45
Game starts at 8:45
No wonder it's seven hours long, eh?
@@oakdragon8756 I mean, he played a whole entire game.
Potato needs more recognition. This guy has been absolutely fantastic to watch and he does such a good job of talking to the stream explaining the thought processes. Really, thanks bro.
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Potato: "This guy just uploaded an 8 hour video, I'm not watching that."
Me, having literally never watched civ 6 before but curious what it's like, seeing a 7-hour video of it in my recommended: *sweating nervously*
May I ask, did you continue watching civ 6 and start playing it?
Noone's gonna watch a 7 hr video. Potato has never written school reports and wants something on in the background while they write them.
Ross Tuddin holy shit am i you?
Ross Tuddin literally true. Haha finishing the semester with this on this weekend
I’m surprised you can actually write those school reports. I can barely do work myself with videos like this in the background. If TH-cam was a thing when I was in school, I would have probably flunked.
Really enjoyed watching the entire VoD, in chunks over the last few days.
Took me three days to finish watching the whole A-Z Nubia game but wanted to let you know I truly enjoyed it! I pass the time at work listening and sort of watching your games so I appreciate the 7-8 hour vids! :) Also, I cracked up at the Hamburger McBudLight joke you made.
"No one's gonna click on a 7 hour video"... well this is awkward
PotatoMcWhiskey Bastard is a rather uninspired insult towards an Irishman, but cheers to you for taking it an running with it on that guy.
I've noticed that one thing you tend to miss in almost any game where it is relevant is placing your capitol to take advantage of a civilization's unique tile improvements or other "prefers to build in a specific region" advantages. It was absolutely worth taking two turns to build your capitol next to that desert - Nubian pyramid next to a city center means +40% production for ALL districts, a boost that would have easily made up for the few extra turns wasted moving your first settler. You've made similar errors in the past - Hungary gets faster build speeds for any districts and buildings across a river from a City Center (and you actually moved your settler away from an ideal position in the recent Hungary game, meaning much slower campus and science buildings for no advantage). Same thing with Cleopatra - basically ignored the fact that with Iteru boosting the build speed for Holy Sites and the powerful synergy between Sphinxes and Earth Mother pantheon you could have had an easy go at a Religious victory even on Deity. Might be worth actually spending the start of these streams reading about the leader and their civilization's unique boosts and discussing how you plan to use them to your advantage - you tend to get a bit more distracted during live streams and doing this would help you have a clear plan and not mess up key city placements so often.
I think he doesn't like doing religious victories, for the rest I agree
While I do agree with you the 2food 2 pro tiles are essential in the early game and moving would only granted growth and faith tiles. Also woulda trapped him next to the wonder and wasted those nice coast tiles
Agreed I think I had around 4-5 cities with Nub pyramids adjacent to the city center and it was pretty much a cakewalk.
But I think he doesn’t care about that level of detail. What really matters is he’s become a celebrity - you did hear him mention how much he likes $$$...
His reaction of “What was that noise” @6:56:20 was priceless.
I suspect either the platform or mods he runs allows him to make crucial mistakes and still compete. My games would likely be over by Turn 55...
My Challenge to myself is to rewatch all of the A to Z Challenge, every waking hour, until it's done and play Civ 6 while doing so.
love your videos. i like how you explain what youre doing. also i prefer the long streams over video episodes.
I wish I loved anything as much as Civ players love arguing with other Civ players about how they play the game
Dustin LaMarr “You play religious civs? Who even are you?”
I know it's just a meme, but it's sometimes really tough for me to resist explaining the difference between Boomers and GenX when I see it.
ok boomer ;)
Its funny listening to this VOD 4 years later and how accurate he was about Civ 7 at 4:05:29 saying it wouldnt come out for 5+ years and then they announced it this year (2024) to release next year (2025)
I missed the last 4 hours so I'm jumping in. This made work more tolerable.
Challange idea:
Choose your techs and civics using the shift key queuing in turn 1 for the entire game. No changing the entire game
Similar suggestion- click future tech and for the civics choose a second tier gov, third tier gov, fourth tier gov and then to future civic
Damn Son! U blew up! I'm happy u are successful and happy u went back to youtube...still your day one supporter brother
wait this isn't behind a pay wall?
Potato : no one's going to click on a 7 hour long video,
The Video : has 116,710 views
I never realised you could put any policy card in the wildcard slot until I started watching your videos. I thought you could only put wildcard policies in there. Totally blew my mind.
On exploits: Since you're not competing as part of any speedrun = who cares
Theres always a tradeoff between speed and entertainment value.
The government exploit is super minor compared to say RE2 remake where you can glitch through huge chunks of the game hence why speedrunners don't do it - because its boring
It also depends on the game. I know some bosses in WoW and FFXIV have been downed using exploits for World firsts and often the community doesn't care
Keep doing what you're doing. I've learned a lot from watching your videos and you're a nice and reasonable guy
I would love to get teached by you!! :D
Pls do such a format, where you do a coaching for us plebs
When I read "A-Z Challenge", I thought it meant that at each choice you could make, you'd go whichever is the first alphabetically.
SourceOfBeing oh god, swarms of Great Artists everywhere
@@jaydenliberty9536 Are you sure? Campus, Encampment and Holy Site are all before Theatre Square.
Haha I swear I heard Scythia say ‘DUDE!’ when you you declared a second surprise war
So can we expect some guideline videos for specific victories? As you said before you wanted to show how to win diplomacy vicrory.
For diplomatic, just become Suzerain of most/all city states (pump out civics towards envoys and influence points), and try to get high tier governments early on. Since you cant easily predict Congress events, you'll usually just want to pump out Culture (since pretty much everything gets Great People, and you would already be doing so) and Science (Carbon Recapture, plus it allows you to get better units for Military Events). On top of this, play as someone that you can easily make allies with, like Wilfred Laurier. Alliances are very good for generating diplomatic favor. But if push comes to shove, you can always save-scum world Congress to vote in agreement with everyone else (but if you have to cheat for a diplomatic victory, not only is that cheating, but it's the second easiest victory behind Religious)
I dont know how people stream this game this guy clearly knows what he is doing yet all the civ pros in his chat telling him what to do /rollseyes
nab he needs to have a rule about back seat gaming!
The American equivalent of Potato McWhiskey would be Bacon McBourbon, obviously.
Dear Mr McWhiskey,
Thanks for the video and great content. I really appreciate your time in making this available for my perusal.
2:15:44 - I really love the idea of the North Atlantic Archipelago, it's a great term, good job.
Accidentally defeated my longtime ally when all her cities joined my empire when they rebelled from her
The best thing about Nubia is you don‘t need to build encampment and build a huge range army with great promotions
Thank you for not blocking full video behind paid subscription anymore.
Georgia is in the Arctic? Wow!
You know what is frustrating with the war in CIV, Civ VI. Oh, let me attack this axeman with this modern armour. Modern Armor loses. Now I have to replace my monitor after trying to punch the axeman. No wonder he beat the modern armour. ffs!
Taking cities is also recipe for making the game unbearable with an empire of 30 cities. Can tend to be a lot funner without taking enemy cities!
Please continue the series potato!
I realise this is an older vid, but holy shit, did Potato speed this footage up in editing? The actual speed he is speaking at
I always build walls in cities on the coast because water barbs are a pain.
Wow! That’s a neat canal city!
On using exploits. Occasionally using the change government exploit isn't the difference between winning and losing. It's a small optimization, often used after mistakenly not changing policies when they become available. Something like production preserving is a game-changing exploit that almost entirely changes the way you play the game. If you're going for purism, then sure, don't use either exploit, maybe don't use even UI mods, otherwise, depending on your objective, especially in a single-player game, do what you want.
A golden cookie, would that be a shortbread, or more of a gingersnap?
Only Potato could fail a challenge before turn 1. A to Z without Alexander
The desc shows the outer worlds
A great video! I don't think it was discussed in the video, but what is the A to Z challenge exactly? Oo
Thanks for the series though, makes working from home much more enjoyable!
Hmm, inspired by this I tried to play a game with similar settings - and either you are the God of Streamer RNG, or the AI has got a lot better! You finished the Pyramids on about turn 85, having given Scythia a good beating a couple of times... I was almost wiped out by Dido while I was still trying to rush researching archery, and by about turn 50 the AIs had grabbed pretty much all thy good stuff, INCLUDING the Pyramids! Of course as well as Dido I was crushed in between Korea and the Zulus!
the guy saying vibe check in chat got vibe checked himself
Nubia always appears in my civ 6 games.
Call me crazy but I'm enjoying your 7-hour long video xD. Every time I learn something new! e.g. Didn't know about the culture trick to change gov policies for free before this one!
Other challenge ideas:
Win a victory using no Civ or Leader advantages.
Win a culture victory using a different route than seaside-resorts/ski-resorts/wonders.
For the civ with no advantages, would you use a modded civ with no bonuses or just play as a specific civ and not use their unique stuff? I'm wondering who you can do that on without messing up the game. Maybe if you play as French Eleanor and never build wonders or the UU/Chateau?
@@chungisfungus3925 Or if you play as Mapuche (?) but never use Trade Routes. That kind of thing.
Love your vids but arguing with chat for 10 minutes about rules just hurts my ears... :(
So toxic
but that is pretty much the case if you have a live stream :D
How do u get that banner that shows other players key stats (military strength, sci, culture, etc)
Settings inteface, show advanced details I think
Was a mod they introduced into the main game because it was so good, so don't worry about not knowing, it's a common question :)
He says it just past 1:15:00
Thanks!
I missed the end of the livestream, so thanks for posting!
Can't wait to catch your next live stream...with love your resident channel troll Jesus
Were are the first 4 hours?
its processing
Will Switzerland overtake USA today? New numbers are still outstanding, was between 11 and 12 UTC past few days...
Lmao tomyris’ revenge
Man, honest question: does youtube has macros that could show the challenge explanation, type of victory/game you are going for?
Why don't put magnus in spaceport' city while running space projects? Maybe don't change much but still
Hi - I am a US subscriber to your channel. I’d like to become a member, but I don’t see a join button to click. Is there something I am missing.
Are you on desktop
No - iOS
What setting are you using so that you see what your workers are doing when you hover over your city title card?
Sukritract’s UI mod
Welcome to blblbl 0:10
You gave us a preview of your next video
noone watches an 7 hour long vods? Ehm.... I keep watching your A-Z Vods.... I hope my YT Prem gives you something :D
i am doing this challenge im just having a hard time with nubia
The vod never got edited down did it
Have you completed the A-Z Challenge? I have seen through Catherine.
Actually India (Changdadupta) I can't spell either.
Had a negative comment, but you know what? It doesn't matter. Enjoy your day sir. Just know that I am in camp "anti-exploit if you want to show achievement".
Hehe, I feel you. My stance is literally a 180 of his but I've never seen good come from a youtube discussion. I'll leave it to the stream watchers to argue. Have a nice day.
I've watched the 10 hour long Jerma seaman vod. 7 hours of civ six is nothing .
Hm, do i waste over 7 hours of my life, or do i just waste about 3.5 at the cost of Potatos voice turning nigh-incomprehensible?
I've trained my ear to listen to potato at double speed his normal quick chat now sounds slow to me :)
@@Bonobogiraffe the key is to work it up, don't just start playing at 2x start with 1.25x and one you get used to it then go to 1.5x and so on
1.25 is the best i can do as a non-native, any higher and the chat messages he reads become a total gibberish to me :(
Potato will eventually learn how to manage live chat. Learn not to engage the trolls too much.
im so happy whales happened, thank you! i was at work but i came back to check XD
7 hours... ok, i don't have a social life, so what's the problem?
4:58:50 Your wish is my command! xD
I don’t know what’s so hard to understand about the exploit. As an example, in mortal kombat the original you could sweep multiple times if your timing was good and the opponent couldn’t do anything about it. It was considered an exploit and unfair but if you were playing someone and you swept them, why would you NOT sweep them again? Similarly, why would you not exploit a minor glitch against a computer on deity which already cheats?
Hey Potato, will you ever play Frostpunk?
what is the a to z challenge?
What is the a-z challenge
Texas would obviously be CowboysMcLonestar. Also Whales rofl.
I know huge is just too long but could you go for large maps more often? Civ is just better with more competition.
I said it in char before. I'll watch a 7 hour video
How do I see the yields thougfh?
Did you know that we skipped Alexander by mistake ?
I didn't know that's how you got that name
anyone know how i become a channel member i can't seen to find the join button
It should be next to the subscription button.
i think I'm insane cause I clicked on the 7 hours vid😁
Hey you skipped Alexander in this series 😅
F for Sedeinga
Players like PotatoMcWhiskey use exploit only to enhance the fun when playing the game. Spiff uses exploits to completely break games. Players like Potato wouldn't use an exploit that broke the game.
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Wait, Test Religion Please Ignore? That's my alliance in Eve Online; Test Alliance Please Ignore. How funny is that?
Potato Vrs Spiff, you say?
What’s the Name of Leader HUD overlay mod? 1:14:00 thanks spud
Not a mod just a setting
well ask Tamar about terrible land ^^
She already is the worst leader and now had the worst capital i have ever seen down there in the snow
no subtitles :(
Is his accent that bad?
J L no its because some people can’t fucking hear JL
7 hours of subtitles is hard, I'll try get some software for it
Maybe u will try multiplayer? I think it would be more interesting than playing with AI as for u, as for viewers
U is a letter, not a word you worthless troglodyte.
If Stalin becomes a Civ, they could make a special bonus called "Not 1 step back". Sacrifice city population to do bonus bombardment damage.
The military aspect of civ6 completely kills the game.....the AI can't deal with the one unit concept plz make an army one tile system PLZ
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6:43:17 nicht schlecht :)
McWhiskeyPotato has a xiaomi phone
So so wrong about the 7 hour video wrong thingy lol