two kickass boats. And honestly, when the other civilizations agreed, they weren't much bigger so it seemed like a lot. 1000 years later, they realised their mistake
Well to be fair, Jerusalem only started getting a bit rough about 100 years ago, before that it was a stable part of the Ottoman empire for a few hundred years.
He ruled over an era of peace that lasted for thousands of years, he built one of the worlds strongest economies from nothing using his own two hands and a single employee, he donated generously to the impoverished as they suffered from natural disasters, he was always willing to let anybody who wanted to hang out on his party yacht regardless of what they were able or willing to pay, he even supported the laws that would restrict his own power. Diplomatic victory makes perfect sense. I would vote for him.
Yeah I was thinking about this, doesn't it make sense to vote the guy with no actual bias to a given country, who has donated and helped various people in need, and who has shown what rags to riches looks like, all while not living lavishly. That sounds like PRIME world leader material.
I imagine this meeting going something like this. "Well, we've all agreed we don't want you to lead the world." "That's fine I don't want to lead the world." "Well, now that we know you're humble we're going to promote you anyway." "What?"
It actually works though, people love the line 'true leaders don't look for power, that have power thrust upon them' and tend to do exactly that to people who say they dont want the leader role.
It kinda make sense tho. It's indeed better if you agreed about the points others pointed out and probably even agreeing about ways to work it out instead of being denial and/or aggressive about it. It's like getting less sentence in court by pleading guilty or getting out of jail by having a great conduct.
Many people go with "A dude with a donkey becomes world leader" but looking at it. He is essentially just some insanely wealthy dude who got on the good side of a lot of governments and then did a ton of philantrophic work.
"We've lost two Diplomatic Victory points, but because we voted on ourselves to lose Diplomatic Victory points, we only lose one point" Now, THIS is how diplomacy works!
Tomyris: *Gives Matthias gold* Kupe: *Gives Matthias more gold* Tomyris: Where this Hell is Kupe getting all this gold from? Matthias: I... gave it to him.
Tomyris: WHY! Matthias: He said I could move through his lands whenever I wanted. Tomyris: You do realize he has no actual land to pass through right. Matthias: Well he may settle down one day in which case I need to be able to move across his lands. Besides I wasn’t the only one to give him money, Jerusalem is also giving him money because he is there suzerain.
Kupe: "Oh, most definitely. As soon as we find a suitable location for our capital, we can get on with establishing a Senate and settling this fate business."
"We have done nothing to earn it." Explored the whole world and made connections between all cultures, sold resources to people that wanted them, never closed your doors to other people, never waged war, sinked more effort in helping people in need then economies of whole countries, was a beacon of world cooperation being able to path needed decision and always being aware of what would be supported by majority. Yeah...
@@ballom29 I imagine myself that somewhere along the way in their early visits to civilizations of the ENTIRE WORLD centuries before the other civilizations, maybe global (land-)society had somehow gotten it into their heads that the Maori were "hyper-futuristic spacegod-beings that could sail the deeper oceans!". That would imply to me that somehow they convinced everybody else that the greater ocean was their territory.
"it's very difficult to generate grievances against someone who doesn't own any land that you want to take" ne'er has a more british statement been spoken.
Don't give any aid when the aid request starts. Wait until the there are "0" turns remaining, then give 1 more gold then the highest bid to win. I've never had an AI beat that late aid amount and you save a lot of gold.
It's best to do this because the AI actively tries to outbid you. If you drop 100 gold more than them and they can they will increase their bid. If they feel like they've safely won the contest they won't. Their total bids will usually end up lower if you don't bid till the last turn.
I mean let’s be real if there was a gathering of humans that traveled the earth and introduced every society to one another and traded with everyone gathering resources on their travels and selling them and then uniting them in a world Congress and constantly emptying their coffers to save the lives of those in need….I’d vote for them too 😂
No wonder nobody got any hostility towards them. But I dont think this experiment is going to work online, when some 10 year old kid playing this game will attack anyway the setlef in the sea, if he wants to.
wel.. the doctor has been called raggedy man and president of earth before.. but it's not nice to call his present companion a donkey.. while she is clearly an equatorian bureacrat from the planet ZXTY, and no ofcourse the fact her manure transmits atmospheric dispersable nerotransmitters has nothing to do with the world suddenly becoming peacefull... nor has it why she is hunted by the Judoon for genocide of the daleks, while she clearly only went along with the doctor to pay devros a visit..
World superpowers are impressed by the unending generosity and humility of a small anarcho-primitivist tribe that they give it legitimacy on the world stage, ultimately deciding that this tiny nomadic nation’s ideals are the key to ending world conflict and strife and electing their tribal leaders ruler of the world
You basically made a civilization of seafaring uncle Irohs who just wander around giving people tea advice and money. Who wouldn't want those guys in charge?
For some reason I imagined that shot from the intro, where there's a fire nation boat full of masked soldiers, but instead of the soldiers it was just a bunch of copy-pasted Uncle Irohs holding a tea cup 🤣
Spiff: "you guys are right, I do have too many diplomatic victory points, silly me. Here take them away." Eleanor of Aquitaine: "Wow, thanks for being so agreeable, here, have a diplomatic victory point!"
I have seen someone lose a game of Civilization 6 on turn two: They where relocating one square over to gain bonuses from a river... which then flooded and killed the settler.
every single time i watch one of your videos you're like "you can win this STUPID game with NO EFFORT it is SO EASY" while devoting incredible effort to meticulous skillful strategy in pursuit of the most difficult victory conditions possible in a very complex game. give yourself some credit man.
Right? Full pacifist, no land, no conflict, just a generous amount of friendly foreign intervention. This man literally just scammed all the nations into world peace.
@@Arrakiz666 Haha, I like "scammed all the nations into world peace"! Like once he won Diplomatic Victory everyone was like "Damn it - I wanted to go commit genocide on my neighbours! ...Ah well, I guess not being a warmonger is fine. Stop building the nukes lads - we don't need them any more."
Everyone- We can't let this homeless sailor be the chairman of the UN Kupe- I agree......+1 diplomatic point Everyone- *visible confusion* (Thanks for all the likes I didn't expect this to be that funny)
Maui features in all Polynesian myths and legends as a demigod. His roots are in Hawaii where all other Polynesians trace ancestry from. So he is Hawaiian, Maori, Tongan, Samoan, Tokelauan, etc
Spiff: "I see your entire city got burned down by a volcano eruption. I can offer you one shiny gold coin" Poundmkaer: "What?! Just a single coin? What am I supposed to do with this?" Spiff: "Well, that's more than anyone else has going to offer you. And no wonders why, you silly ungrateful douchebag"
Poundmaker: "I require aid! A volcano erupted all over my nation!" Other AI: *Laughs hilariously at how it was delivered* Kupe: *Pulls out a lute* Toss a coin to your Cree, oh ocean of plenty...
Well in terms of actual society and economics if everyone stops playing the whole machine grinds to a halt. Then your overlords have 2 choices, capitulate to your requests, or convince their hired goons from various branches to force the populaces back to work.
I feel like "Maori" was actually just a con being run by a dude out of his apartment next to the UN building. Kupe's just been walking in and out of different royal courts and embassies talking about how great his country is, and everyone just kinda agreed. Meanwhile, three dudes and a mule in the middle of nowhere keep having to pretend to be important local dignitaries anytime some foreign delegation arrived.
I'd like to imagine the maori travelling in disguise as sea merchants and giving vague clues and rumors about the supposed location of their ocean kingdom then just scamming the hell outta them. I mean, it did happen a lot, especially during the age of exploration
Diplomatic Victory is so cheese. I was going for a Science Victory with Korea and got a Diplomatic Victory because France settled a city too far for them and kept losing control of it. So with my superior technology, I kept liberating the city and giving it back to them along with giving aide. Got me a Diplomatic Victory two turns before my Science Victory on Turn 330.
So you won a Diplomatic Victory, by repeatedly giving France back a city that wanted nothing to do with them, over and over again??? That's how Diplomacy Works
I remember my first game on Civ was on Civ 5, as someone who loves science and technology, I was trying to win with the Science Victory. Yet, Science gave me so much power that I had to stop myself from destroying everyone else, and I did yet eventually got the cultural victory
The diplomatic victory here actually makes perfect sense to me. Regardless of what the rest of your civilization was like, you successfully negotiated dozens if not hundreds of diplomatic agreements with every single empire in the world. Time and time again, you brought issues to the peace table and resolved them. You supported the right people at the right time and put money in the right places when it needed to be there. That sounds EXACTLY like how a politician gets elected to be the leader of their government. It just so happens this government is in command of the entire world.
Yeah, a few mechanics used in this playthrough are slightly nonsensical, but all the exploits make logical sense. People in another comment thread going on about "why don't they patch this". Like, what aspect of this victory actually needs to be patched? It's playing the game as it was designed.
@Pedro Albino No they didn't, this is a straight up exploit, it completely breaks the game, you don't even need to play the game to win, I can guarantee you this will be patched.
@@jabloko992 I wouldn't say it breaks the game, as this win would be excruciatingly hard to achieve if he didn't have the game settings on apocalypse mode, not to mention it was a much easier game to abuse on pangea as well. As far as in-game though, yeah it fucking abuses the mechanics lmao. That open borders shit killed me, that was literally broke.
I think this is amazing. Winning by being excessively nice to everyone for thousands of years. Truly fantastic. I would irl vote for people who did that
Unironically yeah, kind of. It's not all that uncommon for 1st world countries to offer "aid" as an excuse to establish themselves as an essential element of the aid recipients economy
@Viktor Magnusson Have you gotten a glimpse at how Reanu Keeves has been looking lately? He is getting kind of Immortal Monkey God King looking... and he is at least half as immortal as Sun Wukong these days That is the connection... as per why I would be talking about Reanu Keeves in a Civilisation game... well, some questions you don't want answers for
"We managed to convince the world that we, a civilization that has never settled a city, who never grew a population, should lead the world" Spiff has created the illuminati in civ 6
To be fair I can imagine that to have diplomatic holding they lied about having a kingdom but they keeping it secret with excuses like "it's holy/sacred" so no foreigner can know the location. They became the Atlantis of that world
@@kos2919 3 dudes in a boat show up with a donkey "aye fam wanna come over? Our capital is like, the size of your entire country" World leader: sure, why not? Boat dudes: well sucks for you, because you can't. Our capital.. goes to a different school.. she's from canada.. you can't meet her. But she exists. Trust us.
@@Indy509 But Wakanda actually have land and when neighbouring countries were in trouble like war and colonized they never help. Wakanda is like Japan's isolationism wet dream.
Just imagine that this actually happened in history, that there was a group of people roaming around helping all other societies in their time of need, instead of assaulting them and conquering them. Little by little they build frienships and conections, selling the best sea trained horses, until they become the most influetial and respected civilization in the whole world, cited in texts all over as the great saviors, being revered as gods of mercy, prosperity and "sea-horses", from the minoans to the sumerias, shaping history, creating the world one step at a time by horse dealing.
It's almost the history of Switzerland. We never had lot of resources and we don't have many cities, but we managed to buy the world and are the n01 diplomatic city in the world tanks to our gold
@@aguimathi Switzerland is exactly what I was thinking of watching this video. Their main global exports are managing other peoples' money and hosting other peoples' diplomats.
Just imagine that this actually happened in history, that there was a group of people roaming around living in other societies and selling them stuff, instead of assaulting them and conquering them. Little by little they build friendships and connections, selling the best jewelry, until they become the most influential tribe in the whole world, cited in texts all over, being revered as masters of trade, diplomacy and "art", from the middle east to the Americas, shaping history, creating the world one step at a time by gold dealing.
I like to think of this victory as the mauri just boating close to other civilizations and then swimming in and the other civs assuming they were from atlantis.
After a certain tech level the barbarians begin to spawn in boats. Taking Suzerainity of Jerusalem let him sit inside a friendly cities territory and never worry about being killed by barbarians, since barbarians encampments can only spawn in land tiles not currently in visual range of any player. There were 3 city states on that tiny island meaning no barbarians would ever spawn there, and since he has no cities to conquer, the AI won't ever declare war on him and levy those city states to kill him, and city states never declare war unless their Suzerain declares war.
@@FolgoreCZ This, I have almost 800 hours in Civ 6 and almost twice that in Civ 5, I can't even count the hours I've put into Civ 4 and earlier titles when I was young. Trust me I know my Civ :P
Civilization 6: Exists. Spiff: "I can't do anything about the number, it's the sixth in the series. But I can take out the "Civilization" part." End result: RANDOM SQUATTER ELECTED WORLD LEADER! Spiff: "Perfectly balanced."
This is the greatest civilization campaign I have ever had the pleasure of watching. This is no exploit. Kupe and his followers, who've been a small nomadic group for thousands of years, and his crusade of helping people by taking money from where it's not needed to where it is, even from the same nation, probably by taking it from corrupt government officials, is the most diplomatic thing to ever happen on any civilization game. He was for his entire life a chill dude who just wanted to hangout and help people in need. He managed to outnice Mr Rogers. Material possessions? Creator of Philosophy? He puts Diogenes to shame. That's world leader material. Thousands upon thousands of years from now people, as people colonize the galaxy, they will still be talking about what a cool dude he was. He deserved every single one of those points and votes.
No, this wouldn't work. It only works with ai, on multiplayer, people are actually smart, and they would make sure he doesn't win a Diplo victory, also, there is a pretty large chance they would have won at that point, because most games take less than 250 turns to win.
Would be fun to see a crusade between players who defend the sole settler trying to unite the entire world and the heathens who attempt to kill it before he reachs a diplomatic victory.
Honestly, as exploitable as this is, I do genuinely like this style of diplomatic victory. It's not about cooperation; it's about being able to work with everyone's best interests. It's a cool way to make it work in-universe, while also making it possible to win despite being an adverse system.
Being a Maori myself. It's rare to see content creators talking about Maori or anything to do with New Zealand. So I really enjoyed this. Ka Pai Te Mahi! (also like your spore vids.)
A year ago a mod of Age of Empires 3 (Wars of Liberty) had added Maori, between many issues still show bugs, but are fun and in some aspects interesting and midly op
(38:30) Funny how you ended the game with more military power score than Australia. I can understand how you ended the game with the 2nd most Gold and wasn't last in Diplomatic Favour - but Australia apparently is just so unprepared for conflict in that reality that three men with sharp sticks and a donkey are considered more powerful than their entire civilisation.
"That spot in the ocean where the foreign emissaries are sent" lmao I wish it'd have happened historically such a story is just too good, nice one spiff
If you think about it, it makes perfect sense that a cityless group would be very diplomatic, and would be better than most at leading the world, as they don't have roots to defend.
And would have 0 political power, as they have no economic power, and no military to defend it with. Basically would never progress past hunter gatherers, so would be wiped out first.
@@ifiguredouthowtochangemyna3945 Yes, send your entire navy to chase a few sailboats. You could totally justify the cost of going after pacifists with absolutely nothing to gain whatsoever. (Sarcasm) But, unfortunately, people like you DO exist, and would simply go after people for being too happy with their existence, like some sort of vile Eldritch abomination whose only purpose in life is to spread despair everywhere; whose only way they get their rocks off is by targeting the innocent. One day though, you're gonna run out of peaceful people to target, and be left with the beasts who used to be soothed by their music. They will rip you limb from limb. It's funny how tyrants literally destroy the only things standing between them and annihilation, and are shocked when they meet their end being put down like a rabid dog.
Kupe the legend, sailing around the world scamming governments out of their money and using it as disaster relief. Not out of kindness, but just the sheer need to be given the Best Person on Earth Award.
Spiff: "What are you trying to tell me, that i can found cities in order to exploit my way to victory?" u/Cardoo: "No, Spiff I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to."
Civs actually try to get the religion that said civ is known for like Spain will want Christianity China, Japan, Korea, And Khmer will want Buddhism America and Sweden will want Protestantism and Ghandi will want Hinduism
That's just the nice guy on his boat pretending to be a country. For a time there were some confusion as other world leaders thought he actually owned land. He eventually became everybody's friend, coming with loads of golds to help you when in need and asking for golds to repay the favours when not. Might as well make that saint of a man the world leader.
@@Djorgal Its basically like Jesus Christ incarnate entered a game of Civilisation. And then proceeded to win the game with 3 disciples, 2 boats, and a donkey.
Dear Spiff.. The devs of 7 Day's to Die have been introducing all kinds of broken game mechanics to keep players from "exploiting" the game..Can you please show them how futile their efforts are, when faced with the power of Yorkshire Tea?
@@thespiffingbrit Impossible. Impossible! Im-POSSIBLE! There's yet a game to be developed that can successfully hinder Lord Spiffing Brit's efforts to exploit it until kingdom come! IM-POS-SI-BLE!!! :P
Man I really wanted to like that game as it's two things I enjoy, Civ and sci-fi, but it was just terrible. The honest to god worst thing they did in the game was make you land first rather than all at once as with out fail I would land, start scouting, and BAM new neighbor(s) almost touching my one city or completely boxing me in if they were feeling generous. Also love the first time I went bankrupt because I made use of that automate feature on builders who decided to mass build nice things that cost energy per turn.
Basically, everyone choose the only one without any military, scientific, economical or religious Ambition. A Tribe which has proven to be extremeley superior in Politics as a non-settled Tribe was able to compete economically with Superpowers and helped half of them overcome huge Disaster by convincing everyone else in to help, too - not to forget them beeing the main help in most cases. A Tribe, which has proven to be altruistic, non-violent and charitive with its whole Recources and all else they ever owned - spiritual or materialistic - they gave away at some point in History. This is basically a "Star Money"-Tribe :D
I always come back to this video almost religiously. This to me is what this series is all about. Not glitches or exploits, but alternative ways of playing. Such as Prison Architect without building a Prison, playing Spore without evolving, or civilization 6 without settling a city.
Kupe is a Tupuna (ancestor) of Ngāpuhi (a Māori Tribe). Maui is a Demi God who pulled up Aotearoa (New Zealand). Kupe was The first person to Find Aotearoa after Maui pulled up the land.
I forsee 1 of 2 things in that timeline A: The Maori invent house ships, farm ships and factory ships, allowing them to live on the seas forever B (my personal favorite and probably the most likely): The Maori move into the world congress and live in it as kings and queens
Now I'm picturing a bunch of expensively dressed politicians arriving by airplane for the World Congress, and the location of the World Congress is a wide open plain where a group of dudes and a donkey are the only thing around for miles.
In this timeline, the title of "Honorary Maori" is the highest award one can receive, as their people since the Great Union have filled every major public office or leadership role. They are a people without a state, without land, without worry, they are the constant rock upon which modern society as they know it sits. They are, the noble, kind, peaceful, Maori.
For a super extra easy diplomatic win, save before each world congress so you can always vote on the winning proposals with minimum votes, letting yourself save all of your diplomatic favor to outvote everyone in the endgame. Or just be Spiff and already know what the AI will pick every time.
"We've done nothing!" Uh, you discovered every civilization on Earth and then made zero attempt at colonialism or imperialism. You invented political philosophy before going on to live a selfless, nomadic existence, devoting all your resources to acquiring funds for the express purpose of disbursing them to people in need. If this culture actually existed, I would 100% vote to put them in charge of everything. Are you kidding? You'd have to be crazy not to.
Honestly... this would probably be the most interesting cultural hypothetical theory to study in the entire world because theoretically speaking, it is possible to exist... not feasible but, it actually is possible. Wow... the political scientist geek in me got really interested in this as a philosophical study and theory!
I'd imagine it would tickle them. It's playing the game within the rules established. Though they'll probably need to nerf Kupe if they haven't already.
I mean they changed the diplomat’s ability to granting your capital a copy of the luxury resource from the city state they’re established in so they’re at least aware of it in some capacity
Yes, there is one small wrinkle in this strategy in that you need to eventually find some safe land where your two units will not only not be murdered by barbarians, but also not blown up, drowned, or buried by natural disasters. For some reason, the map generation on archipelago has always liked to create at least one tiny island with a handful of city states and basically nothing else. That'll do.
@@01ZombieMoses10 Well the other wrinkle with this strategy is that at higher difficulties you just wont be able to compete in the helping missions unless you are the only one participating.
He may have just turned off barbarian spawning in the advanced game setup menu. (edit: I'm not sure, but I don't think I've seen barbarians in any of the Civ games Spiff's played.)
@@mokkingbird He did a lot of shady things he didn't tell us about. Amani for example as far as I know has never given a copy of every strategic resource you have discovered.
So you are essentially playing the Knights of Malta 1.) An independent internationally recognized entity yet has no actual sovereign territory 2.) Has a military but never actually uses it 3.) Goes around the world providing aid to nations in need.
Do you mean the Knights of the Hospital of Saint John while they were in Malta, or a different group of knights? Cos the Hospitallers absolutely used their military if that's who you're talking about.
Random guy with a donkey fast-talks his way into becoming chairman of the UN
Who's to say it wasn't the donkey that becomes the chairman?
Kaaduu is my father
Wait a minute. Jesus ride to Israel with a donkey........
Aku ni Musta Yeet its all canon now
@@michaeljhonmariano6462 they predict this civ 6 update i cant belive it
The AI: “We need to stop kupe from winning a diplomatic victory”
Kupe: “I agree”
*Kupe wins
AI: “wait what?”
@@Lesatur you could make another account
@@SorowFame or three
"I did not make the rules, I just follow them."
That's how I won my first diplomatic victory too, once I realized that the AI would vote for that no matter what.
I mean when you can trade some grapes for 500 gold this doesn’t seem that far fetched
“Hey dude, I got a kickass boat, four dudes, and a donkey. Can I be leader?”
All the other civs: Yeah sure
I am sure they said 'awesome' donkey. Otherwise it would have been just silly to vote them.
*7 Those warrior bois sure are tough
two kickass boats. And honestly, when the other civilizations agreed, they weren't much bigger so it seemed like a lot. 1000 years later, they realised their mistake
Other civs: As long as none of these suckers get the throne, why not?!
(Spiff is basically Tyrion Lannister here)
Worked for the US President in some way... :D
"I'ma go park my units in Jerusalem, a very safe and stable place to chill out for the next few hundred years" said no one ever
Underrated comment lol
Sad truth: "Jerusalem" = City of Peace
@@peytongonavy be by mi B B I’ll B too be
Well to be fair, Jerusalem only started getting a bit rough about 100 years ago, before that it was a stable part of the Ottoman empire for a few hundred years.
@@nevets2371 Are we forgetting the crusades?
When you vote for yourself to lose diplomatic points and thus win diplomatic points: *task failed successfully*
"Mission failed! We've got them this time."
So you are going to lose 2 diplomatic points?
Maori: Well yes, but actually no.
*Task failed successfully*
@@winxwest2964 the definition of that meme haha
@@BloodfelX thats basically "omaewa mou shindeiru"
Next time someone asks me why I am living in the streets, and have no home... I'd respond with "I'm going for a diplomatic victory"
Have you visited every country before that?
@@thomasfplm More important - does he have a boat? Or a donkey for that matter? It seems this are essentials to have if you want to lead the world.
@@robertnett9793 and 2 more homeless along the donkey, dont lose detail now-
@@ataulfoagapito8378 Right. Right. You mustn't half-ass your attempt to diplomatically control the world...
@@robertnett9793 More importantly still - did he invent political philosophy?
He ruled over an era of peace that lasted for thousands of years, he built one of the worlds strongest economies from nothing using his own two hands and a single employee, he donated generously to the impoverished as they suffered from natural disasters, he was always willing to let anybody who wanted to hang out on his party yacht regardless of what they were able or willing to pay, he even supported the laws that would restrict his own power.
Diplomatic victory makes perfect sense. I would vote for him.
Not only that: He was the first to circumnavigate the globe and was the first discovered political philosophy.
Yeah I was thinking about this, doesn't it make sense to vote the guy with no actual bias to a given country, who has donated and helped various people in need, and who has shown what rags to riches looks like, all while not living lavishly. That sounds like PRIME world leader material.
This is the single most brilliant TH-cam comment I've ever read. Well done. Well done.
very good! lol
You have voted for him.
It's insane that you can win a diplomatic point by voting for yourself to lose diplomatic points
I can explain: that's when you fake being humble so some people in the congress pity you and not take two VPs
I imagine this meeting going something like this. "Well, we've all agreed we don't want you to lead the world." "That's fine I don't want to lead the world." "Well, now that we know you're humble we're going to promote you anyway." "What?"
@@abebuckingham8198 Exactly
It actually works though, people love the line 'true leaders don't look for power, that have power thrust upon them' and tend to do exactly that to people who say they dont want the leader role.
It kinda make sense tho. It's indeed better if you agreed about the points others pointed out and probably even agreeing about ways to work it out instead of being denial and/or aggressive about it. It's like getting less sentence in court by pleading guilty or getting out of jail by having a great conduct.
Many people go with "A dude with a donkey becomes world leader" but looking at it. He is essentially just some insanely wealthy dude who got on the good side of a lot of governments and then did a ton of philantrophic work.
Bill Gates...
@@bunnyben5607 Bono
Aah yes the infamous philanthropist draining stranger's economy by selling favors
Epst3in?
I totally agree! XD
"We've lost two Diplomatic Victory points, but because we voted on ourselves to lose Diplomatic Victory points, we only lose one point"
Now, THIS is how diplomacy works!
I love domocracy
Everyone: You suck!
Mauri: Yeah we kinda do
Everyone: Hey those Mauri aren't SO bad..
Being Gracious in defeat makes people like you more
I LOVE IT. It's like if the entire office/school hated you so as a show of comradery you started kicking your own ass.
Congratulations you played yourself
You're playing an insurance company during a world that's constantly going through apocalypses.
I love it.
Incorrect, as he actually pays out. And we all know insurance companies don't if they can help it.
@@Tn5421Me Tbh, he only paid as much as he could get away with. Poor Poundhome or whatever got 1 gold.
more like a private estate for hire
He is like jews.. No city challenge..
@@Skyfall8865 what about Israel?
Tomyris: *Gives Matthias gold*
Kupe: *Gives Matthias more gold*
Tomyris: Where this Hell is Kupe getting all this gold from?
Matthias: I... gave it to him.
OMGLOL
When you vote for yourself to lose diplomatic points and thus win diplomatic points: task failed successfully
Tomyris: WHY!
Matthias: He said I could move through his lands whenever I wanted.
Tomyris: You do realize he has no actual land to pass through right.
Matthias: Well he may settle down one day in which case I need to be able to move across his lands. Besides I wasn’t the only one to give him money, Jerusalem is also giving him money because he is there suzerain.
So funny! This comment nails how this game is so hilarious!!
The Money is in Returning LMAO
Suddenly, all the nations in real life hear a call from on high:
*The Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, an undiscovered tribe in the Amazon, HAVE WON THE GAME!*
That's a real tribe, by the way.
I just hope this could happen some day
GG everybody
@@kingpanguan me too
@@thespiffingbrit Guess what i found your other yt account you cant hide your xcom progress from me
HAHAHAHA
"The senate will decide your fate."
Kupe: "I AM THE SENATE."
Kupe: "Oh, most definitely. As soon as we find a suitable location for our capital, we can get on with establishing a Senate and settling this fate business."
@@Diego-zz1df " I love democracy"
Yessss!
Not yet
No capital = above the law
"Hey, where did you get all that money from?"
"Uh... the ocean?"
"Idk man I just kinda found it"
"It was just floating there, and had the British stamp of 'You Take This, You Keep This' on it. And yeah, who am I to refuse the British?"
"err... internet."
@@Ocelopillitl, so, bitcoin?
@@mikemartin9833 don't tell me that you never watched Fairly oddparents :o
Spiff: "Australia probably just sent out an envoy to drown while trying to find our settler"
Me: *sudden realisation of what happened to Harold Holt*
Mystery Solved!
Lol
"We have done nothing to earn it."
Explored the whole world and made connections between all cultures, sold resources to people that wanted them, never closed your doors to other people, never waged war, sinked more effort in helping people in need then economies of whole countries, was a beacon of world cooperation being able to path needed decision and always being aware of what would be supported by majority. Yeah...
but he still scammed the hell out of every nation.
How many gold did he gained by opening his imaginary borders with others country?
@@ballom29 had he ever lied to them though? Had he broken any laws? Had he not provided what was agreed upon?
@@ballom29 I imagine myself that somewhere along the way in their early visits to civilizations of the ENTIRE WORLD centuries before the other civilizations, maybe global (land-)society had somehow gotten it into their heads that the Maori were "hyper-futuristic spacegod-beings that could sail the deeper oceans!". That would imply to me that somehow they convinced everybody else that the greater ocean was their territory.
You know, fair point.
This sounds like every Civs cool uncle
"it's very difficult to generate grievances against someone who doesn't own any land that you want to take"
ne'er has a more british statement been spoken.
Didn't really work for landless peoples in real life though.
@@fieldy409 that's because they had something else that was wanted or they're actively negating the supply of a wanted resource
@@fieldy409 It is called "british" statement for a reason.
Don't give any aid when the aid request starts. Wait until the there are "0" turns remaining, then give 1 more gold then the highest bid to win. I've never had an AI beat that late aid amount and you save a lot of gold.
I was wondering if it worked as well.
Big brain
Why spend more than you need to?
It's best to do this because the AI actively tries to outbid you. If you drop 100 gold more than them and they can they will increase their bid. If they feel like they've safely won the contest they won't. Their total bids will usually end up lower if you don't bid till the last turn.
@@danpowell806 3rd Rule of Acquisition: Never pay more for an acquisition than you have to.
I mean let’s be real if there was a gathering of humans that traveled the earth and introduced every society to one another and traded with everyone gathering resources on their travels and selling them and then uniting them in a world Congress and constantly emptying their coffers to save the lives of those in need….I’d vote for them too 😂
Joyboy
Civilizational robin hood
@@bensoncheung2801 Bro now I really need an Ancient Kingdom mod so I can play as Joyboy.
@@DanksterPaws Be B y. Y
No wonder nobody got any hostility towards them. But I dont think this experiment is going to work online, when some 10 year old kid playing this game will attack anyway the setlef in the sea, if he wants to.
imagine losing your job because of covid and the local homeless man gives you 10 million dollars, then gets elected president of the world
1 dollar
Can someone explain to me what gathering stormz is
@@gjin4551 civ 6 dlc
@@alwaysmeepin9609 should i buy rise and fall or this
@@gjin4551 my opinion gathering storm. Although you should look into it before taking a strangers opinion on it.
This just in, homeless man dressed in rags with a pet donkey has just been elected President of Earth.
I mean when you put it that way the description isn't a farcry from that of Jesus.
Guess that explains the title "King of Kings."
Well, when everyone is enemies with everyone except you, it's quite obvious who they gonna vote for!
A few years ago I d have been shocked but... I mean Donald Trump is at the head of the USA...
wel.. the doctor has been called raggedy man and president of earth before.. but it's not nice to call his present companion a donkey.. while she is clearly an equatorian bureacrat from the planet ZXTY, and no ofcourse the fact her manure transmits atmospheric dispersable nerotransmitters has nothing to do with the world suddenly becoming peacefull...
nor has it why she is hunted by the Judoon for genocide of the daleks, while she clearly only went along with the doctor to pay devros a visit..
Vermin Supreme 2020
Trajan: Where is Your capital?
Kupe: What’s a capital?
Someone: Where's your capital?
Kupe: *shuffling in his purse: I have this 1500 gold coins.
Matthias: "So, where's your capital city located?
Kupe: You're looking at him.
Ghost Fenrir1 I am the state!
World superpowers are impressed by the unending generosity and humility of a small anarcho-primitivist tribe that they give it legitimacy on the world stage, ultimately deciding that this tiny nomadic nation’s ideals are the key to ending world conflict and strife and electing their tribal leaders ruler of the world
makes sense. If only love worked like that
Anarcho? They had a Tribal Leader, It would simply be a Nomadic-Tribal civilization.
Honestly the settler icon probably wasn't accurate, Kupe probably had a yacht or smth, they probably weren't cavemen
Cree people: Suffer a volcanic eruption.
Maori: Can I offer you a coin in these trying times?
nice shot
A single, solitary coin :D
@@MrEvan312 Like a single chocolate chip in a granola bar
@@IndigoGollum Naw that'd be too generous. More like one strand of orange pulp in a orange juice jug just full of water.
"the Maori needs to lose points."
Maori: yesn't
Maori:I agree
The world: Good choice, here have a victory point.
well yes, but actually no
Clearly it should be "Yeah, nah" ;)
Yes, I don't
"Look how reasonable the Maori are! That's the sort of leader I could really get behind"
You basically made a civilization of seafaring uncle Irohs who just wander around giving people tea advice and money. Who wouldn't want those guys in charge?
He totally gave those Cree people a white lotus tile.
*Ozai and Azula screaming in the background as tea shops spring up in every city*
T_T brave little soldier boy comes marching home
For some reason I imagined that shot from the intro, where there's a fire nation boat full of masked soldiers, but instead of the soldiers it was just a bunch of copy-pasted Uncle Irohs holding a tea cup 🤣
Little did spiff know that by granting land access rights to all people he gave them all the ability to walk on water
Specially those from Jerusalem. I'm sure they are the best when it comes to walking on water.
@@sixjhontongalamar979 Jesus was from Nazareth, not Jerusalem.
@@user-rr5ce1wb2j And he was also called Yeshua you heathen.
I mean, if we're gonna get super technical about it and rain on somebody else's joke...
@@user-rr5ce1wb2j nah, jesus was from detroit.
@@Cybetrexs I knew it!
Spiff: "you guys are right, I do have too many diplomatic victory points, silly me. Here take them away."
Eleanor of Aquitaine: "Wow, thanks for being so agreeable, here, have a diplomatic victory point!"
I have seen someone lose a game of Civilization 6 on turn two:
They where relocating one square over to gain bonuses from a river... which then flooded and killed the settler.
I've played standard games with only 7 players becasue the Maori died turn one from a hurricane.
Hahahahha
I once killed another civ's settler on turn 1.
@@kelvinyonger8885 Yeah, glad I'm not the only one to have gotten a free turn 1 settler.
@@josgretf2800 they forgot to level up their dodge stat
7:37 "We know Hungary is roughly on this continent with Australia"
AUSTRALIA-HUNGARY
cursed
Austro-Austalia-Hungary
Only if Hungary has to recognise Lizzie Two as head of state like we do.
I'm hungarian and I can confirm that we are indeed on the same continent as Australia.
Everything I learned in high school geography was lie!
every single time i watch one of your videos you're like "you can win this STUPID game with NO EFFORT it is SO EASY" while devoting incredible effort to meticulous skillful strategy in pursuit of the most difficult victory conditions possible in a very complex game. give yourself some credit man.
Seriously. He's astonishingly good at a ton of the things he plays!
Funnily enough, this is the most diplomatic victory of diplomatic victories.
Right? Full pacifist, no land, no conflict, just a generous amount of friendly foreign intervention. This man literally just scammed all the nations into world peace.
@@Arrakiz666 Haha, I like "scammed all the nations into world peace"!
Like once he won Diplomatic Victory everyone was like "Damn it - I wanted to go commit genocide on my neighbours! ...Ah well, I guess not being a warmonger is fine. Stop building the nukes lads - we don't need them any more."
@@Arrakiz666 If any of those conspiracies about a shadowy government manipulating foreign nations is true, I would expect them to be Maori
Maori shadow council: "What can I say except 'you're welcome?'"
@@jacobp.2024 "For taking nukes out of your skies."
Everyone- We can't let this homeless sailor be the chairman of the UN
Kupe- I agree......+1 diplomatic point
Everyone- *visible confusion*
(Thanks for all the likes I didn't expect this to be that funny)
This is pure gold
@@jeffevio Yep. Literally worth pure gold :'D
@@jeffevio his purity only solidifies his case. The irony.
That's exactly how politics works actually.
Well I mean we have a Dr of History in charge of the World Health Organisation, so it doesn't seem that mad! 🤷♂️
Maori tribe wins by fixing everyone's problems
Maori: "WhAt CaN I SaY ExcEpt You'RE WeLCOme!"
Darrell Willis Underrated comment
That moment when you realize Maui is a Maori man
@@roberteospeedwagon3526 He's tongan, I think.
@@bubermarcus8607 Maui is from Maori mythology
Maui features in all Polynesian myths and legends as a demigod. His roots are in Hawaii where all other Polynesians trace ancestry from. So he is Hawaiian, Maori, Tongan, Samoan, Tokelauan, etc
Winning that first aid request for Poundmaker was basically just "Can I offer you a nice coin in this trying time?"
Spiff: "I see your entire city got burned down by a volcano eruption. I can offer you one shiny gold coin"
Poundmkaer: "What?! Just a single coin? What am I supposed to do with this?"
Spiff: "Well, that's more than anyone else has going to offer you. And no wonders why, you silly ungrateful douchebag"
Poundmaker: "I require aid! A volcano erupted all over my nation!"
Other AI: *Laughs hilariously at how it was delivered*
Kupe: *Pulls out a lute* Toss a coin to your Cree, oh ocean of plenty...
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
Dread Penguinlord Greetings Professor Falken.
Thats what some AI thought after playing Tetris for the first time.
Especially with Gandhi in the game.
Well in terms of actual society and economics if everyone stops playing the whole machine grinds to a halt. Then your overlords have 2 choices, capitulate to your requests, or convince their hired goons from various branches to force the populaces back to work.
Is this an xkcd reference I spot?
Only Spiff and his gents could find a way to turn Civ 6 into the East India Trading Company.
I like thy videos...
That's very appropriate as the EITC was a world power for a time. I'd love if Megacorps were introduced to Civ VI or perhaps a spinoff.
Someone on reddit did this a week ago. He just took that guys seed and played the same game and monetized it.
@@Petemossfunguy He said this at the start of the video
@@thespiffingbrit Up late on a Sunday night? You cheeky sausage, you.
I feel like "Maori" was actually just a con being run by a dude out of his apartment next to the UN building. Kupe's just been walking in and out of different royal courts and embassies talking about how great his country is, and everyone just kinda agreed. Meanwhile, three dudes and a mule in the middle of nowhere keep having to pretend to be important local dignitaries anytime some foreign delegation arrived.
This is the kind of meme lore that I live for
Lu Fei same
Foreign delegation: "....Why is there a donkey here?"
Kupe: It's......Have you seen Shrek?
Well... Works for the dude who sell the Eifel Tower.
@@RomanianJ96 So in that world before movie was a thing there's already play about the romantic comedy of Shrek?
I'd like to imagine the maori travelling in disguise as sea merchants and giving vague clues and rumors about the supposed location of their ocean kingdom then just scamming the hell outta them. I mean, it did happen a lot, especially during the age of exploration
hot take: this is how the legend of atlantis originated
This isn't the history of my people in the slightest, but I really want it to be 😂
@rainbowsnek that's not a hot take thats facts. That's how the legend of atlantis came to be
Diplomatic Victory is so cheese. I was going for a Science Victory with Korea and got a Diplomatic Victory because France settled a city too far for them and kept losing control of it. So with my superior technology, I kept liberating the city and giving it back to them along with giving aide. Got me a Diplomatic Victory two turns before my Science Victory on Turn 330.
"F* it, I don't want to live on this planet anymore"
"Wait, stop, we want you to be our king"
"Eeeeeeehhhh?"
So you won a Diplomatic Victory, by repeatedly giving France back a city that wanted nothing to do with them, over and over again???
That's how Diplomacy Works
I remember my first game on Civ was on Civ 5, as someone who loves science and technology, I was trying to win with the Science Victory. Yet, Science gave me so much power that I had to stop myself from destroying everyone else, and I did yet eventually got the cultural victory
@@Alexandar358 *looks at Hong Kong*
The diplomatic victory here actually makes perfect sense to me. Regardless of what the rest of your civilization was like, you successfully negotiated dozens if not hundreds of diplomatic agreements with every single empire in the world. Time and time again, you brought issues to the peace table and resolved them. You supported the right people at the right time and put money in the right places when it needed to be there. That sounds EXACTLY like how a politician gets elected to be the leader of their government. It just so happens this government is in command of the entire world.
Truth be told, a borderless government that fixes everyone else’s problems sounds pretty damn good
@Arkryder 52 Unfortunately. But that's why it's a neat concept in fiction.
Except you got all that money from selling open borders to your none existent civilization and from resources spawned from thin air.
Yeah, a few mechanics used in this playthrough are slightly nonsensical, but all the exploits make logical sense. People in another comment thread going on about "why don't they patch this". Like, what aspect of this victory actually needs to be patched? It's playing the game as it was designed.
@@cozycowboy well,isn it united nation...kinda
The game is so balanced that even the slightly niche "No City Strategy" wasn't overlooked by the devs!
I'm pretty sure this is not a deliberate design by the devs lol.
@Pedro Albino No they didn't, this is a straight up exploit, it completely breaks the game, you don't even need to play the game to win, I can guarantee you this will be patched.
@@jabloko992 Probably not as it doesn't work against players
@@jabloko992 This has existed since at least civ 5. I remember playing a germany no city game.
@@jabloko992 I wouldn't say it breaks the game, as this win would be excruciatingly hard to achieve if he didn't have the game settings on apocalypse mode, not to mention it was a much easier game to abuse on pangea as well. As far as in-game though, yeah it fucking abuses the mechanics lmao. That open borders shit killed me, that was literally broke.
I think this is amazing. Winning by being excessively nice to everyone for thousands of years. Truly fantastic. I would irl vote for people who did that
Global insurance company
actually there's a population who did those exact same things in real world history.
Never gonna happen tho lol
@@BlackRoseImmortal75 who
@@BlackRoseImmortal75 who?
That time Spiffing Brit breaks the game by just sailing around and HELPING EVERYONE THE BEST HE CAN.
...Is this some new colonisation strategy?
Unironically yeah, kind of. It's not all that uncommon for 1st world countries to offer "aid" as an excuse to establish themselves as an essential element of the aid recipients economy
It worked for Sun Wukong and the other lesser not as noteworthy companions in The Journey West
@Viktor Magnusson A Water Dragon pretending to be a Horse is kind of like a boat... if you squint a little bit while drunk
That's called neo-colonialism and it's a bitch.
@Viktor Magnusson Have you gotten a glimpse at how Reanu Keeves has been looking lately? He is getting kind of Immortal Monkey God King looking... and he is at least half as immortal as Sun Wukong these days
That is the connection... as per why I would be talking about Reanu Keeves in a Civilisation game... well, some questions you don't want answers for
“One of the stupidest challenges I’ve ever done” I look forward to whatever qualifies as THE stupidest
@@thespiffingbrit At this point, I can't tell if you are joking or being serious....
@@thespiffingbrit But... how?
@@kitfenn9722 i imagine if one of the players plant the bomb, and the CT defuses it with nobody dying. that would be one way
@@thespiffingbrit I respectfully request a video of this.
@@Vanta_Blue I second that motion
"We managed to convince the world that we, a civilization that has never settled a city, who never grew a population, should lead the world"
Spiff has created the illuminati in civ 6
Illumanti is just three buff dudes and a donkey who would have known
Illumaoriati
@@rjwhaley7382 with a bunch of gold made from nothing to give away
ha that's what I thought too
He is basically the shadow government of several city-states.
This must be how medieval aristocrats feel when they see merchants getting wealthy. "How are you making gold without owning any land?!"
It's that Sigma Maori grindset.
Because he basically traded favors for cash
*and then the war started
Winning a diplomatic victory with gold, i see you've taken inspiration from real life
I mean when you consider the fact that Qatar was able to host the world cub despite their… controversial labor laws (aka slave labor).
"Those wayer dudes are uncultured and haven't discovered the wheel, but they are really nice people"
...nice people, they should rule the world. lol
To be fair I can imagine that to have diplomatic holding they lied about having a kingdom but they keeping it secret with excuses like "it's holy/sacred" so no foreigner can know the location. They became the Atlantis of that world
@@kos2919 3 dudes in a boat show up with a donkey "aye fam wanna come over? Our capital is like, the size of your entire country"
World leader: sure, why not?
Boat dudes: well sucks for you, because you can't. Our capital.. goes to a different school.. she's from canada.. you can't meet her. But she exists. Trust us.
@@kos2919 kinda like wakanda?
@@Indy509 But Wakanda actually have land and when neighbouring countries were in trouble like war and colonized they never help. Wakanda is like Japan's isolationism wet dream.
Just imagine that this actually happened in history, that there was a group of people roaming around helping all other societies in their time of need, instead of assaulting them and conquering them. Little by little they build frienships and conections, selling the best sea trained horses, until they become the most influetial and respected civilization in the whole world, cited in texts all over as the great saviors, being revered as gods of mercy, prosperity and "sea-horses", from the minoans to the sumerias, shaping history, creating the world one step at a time by horse dealing.
It's almost the history of Switzerland. We never had lot of resources and we don't have many cities, but we managed to buy the world and are the n01 diplomatic city in the world tanks to our gold
Mathias yeah and those “sea-horses” is Mercenaries
@@aguimathi Switzerland is exactly what I was thinking of watching this video. Their main global exports are managing other peoples' money and hosting other peoples' diplomats.
Just imagine that this actually happened in history, that there was a group of people roaming around living in other societies and selling them stuff, instead of assaulting them and conquering them. Little by little they build friendships and connections, selling the best jewelry, until they become the most influential tribe in the whole world, cited in texts all over, being revered as masters of trade, diplomacy and "art", from the middle east to the Americas, shaping history, creating the world one step at a time by gold dealing.
They way you said it makes me feel like it actually happened.
I like to think of this victory as the mauri just boating close to other civilizations and then swimming in and the other civs assuming they were from atlantis.
What's a mauri
@@isaacstocking7746 Bro that's what I'm thinking.
@@isaacstocking7746 i think he meant Māori
"Meaning our settler is nice and safe"
Lands the settler.
After a certain tech level the barbarians begin to spawn in boats. Taking Suzerainity of Jerusalem let him sit inside a friendly cities territory and never worry about being killed by barbarians, since barbarians encampments can only spawn in land tiles not currently in visual range of any player. There were 3 city states on that tiny island meaning no barbarians would ever spawn there, and since he has no cities to conquer, the AI won't ever declare war on him and levy those city states to kill him, and city states never declare war unless their Suzerain declares war.
@@cr4zyj4ck I'm pretty sure Force2Reckon ment the time he landed the settler while exploring to take the goodiehut.
@@FolgoreCZ This, I have almost 800 hours in Civ 6 and almost twice that in Civ 5, I can't even count the hours I've put into Civ 4 and earlier titles when I was young. Trust me I know my Civ :P
@@cr4zyj4ck There is a chance for a barbarian camp to spawn within visual range. It's happened for me, but not commonly.
@@samsonguy10k nope
Civilization 6: Exists.
Spiff: "I can't do anything about the number, it's the sixth in the series. But I can take out the "Civilization" part."
End result: RANDOM SQUATTER ELECTED WORLD LEADER!
Spiff: "Perfectly balanced."
The game is now called "6". Just 6.
Next video: "Civ 6: Winning without leaving the main menu"
The video after that: "Civ 6: Winning without downloading the game"
Well technically you've won by not even playing it. You've won in real life.
*sperm wins civ 6*
The video after after that: "Civ 6: Winnig without buying an computer"
@@thecheesen play on switch or console
"John Curtin sends his delegation to drown in the ocean, with the hopes of eventually finding out settler" So THAT'S what happened to Harold Holt
Shinto religion "very aggressively owned by Hungary" 🤔
I'm off to a very important meeting to do with maoris!
*drowns*
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Anthony Hopkins "Kupe isn't a place. It never was."
This is the greatest civilization campaign I have ever had the pleasure of watching.
This is no exploit. Kupe and his followers, who've been a small nomadic group for thousands of years, and his crusade of helping people by taking money from where it's not needed to where it is, even from the same nation, probably by taking it from corrupt government officials, is the most diplomatic thing to ever happen on any civilization game. He was for his entire life a chill dude who just wanted to hangout and help people in need.
He managed to outnice Mr Rogers.
Material possessions? Creator of Philosophy? He puts Diogenes to shame.
That's world leader material.
Thousands upon thousands of years from now people, as people colonize the galaxy, they will still be talking about what a cool dude he was.
He deserved every single one of those points and votes.
Imagine pulling this off in a multiplayer game then an hour or two in someone realizing you don't even have a city down.
Pretty sure they would just load a few military units into boats and come kill your settler.
No, this wouldn't work. It only works with ai, on multiplayer, people are actually smart, and they would make sure he doesn't win a Diplo victory, also, there is a pretty large chance they would have won at that point, because most games take less than 250 turns to win.
Would be fun to see a crusade between players who defend the sole settler trying to unite the entire world and the heathens who attempt to kill it before he reachs a diplomatic victory.
I wish players were dumb enough for this to work.
Aside from being easy to kill the strat also relies heavily on the AI just handing you gold and being incredibly predictable in WC.
Honestly, as exploitable as this is, I do genuinely like this style of diplomatic victory. It's not about cooperation; it's about being able to work with everyone's best interests. It's a cool way to make it work in-universe, while also making it possible to win despite being an adverse system.
The world: let's find an exoplanet!
Some guy in a boat: aww yis
Lmao it des, antithesis of the netdeckers
Lmao
Gotta send aid money to those mindworms
Everyone in the comments: “haha just 3 dudes and a donkey”. The 4 Warriors standing with them so they don’t get attacked: “Am I a joke to you?”
"Kupe and the Maori aren't exactly at the top of my tierlist"
Meanwhile in high-level play: autobanned despite already being nerfed lmao
Turns out broken bonuses on the surface don't mean much when smart folks know the ins and outs of abusing their favs.
Being a Maori myself. It's rare to see content creators talking about Maori or anything to do with New Zealand. So I really enjoyed this. Ka Pai Te Mahi! (also like your spore vids.)
A year ago a mod of Age of Empires 3 (Wars of Liberty) had added Maori, between many issues still show bugs, but are fun and in some aspects interesting and midly op
(38:30) Funny how you ended the game with more military power score than Australia.
I can understand how you ended the game with the 2nd most Gold and wasn't last in Diplomatic Favour - but Australia apparently is just so unprepared for conflict in that reality that three men with sharp sticks and a donkey are considered more powerful than their entire civilisation.
Spiff probably made Australia bankrupt and with no money to sustain an army.
They lost their military in The Great Emu War.
Australia was a prison colony. And prisoners can't have weapons you know.
To be fair have you seen a donkey in combat? They are formidable when they want to be...
Nah, you don’t own land tiles, you just own *THE ENTIRE OCEAN*
"That spot in the ocean where the foreign emissaries are sent" lmao
I wish it'd have happened historically such a story is just too good, nice one spiff
If you think about it, it makes perfect sense that a cityless group would be very diplomatic, and would be better than most at leading the world, as they don't have roots to defend.
More like would be attacked on all sides by everyone, BECAUSE they have no roots.
And would have 0 political power, as they have no economic power, and no military to defend it with. Basically would never progress past hunter gatherers, so would be wiped out first.
The hell are they gonna do? Invade their city? The ocean is their only city XDDD
@@ifiguredouthowtochangemyna3945 Yes, send your entire navy to chase a few sailboats. You could totally justify the cost of going after pacifists with absolutely nothing to gain whatsoever. (Sarcasm)
But, unfortunately, people like you DO exist, and would simply go after people for being too happy with their existence, like some sort of vile Eldritch abomination whose only purpose in life is to spread despair everywhere; whose only way they get their rocks off is by targeting the innocent.
One day though, you're gonna run out of peaceful people to target, and be left with the beasts who used to be soothed by their music. They will rip you limb from limb. It's funny how tyrants literally destroy the only things standing between them and annihilation, and are shocked when they meet their end being put down like a rabid dog.
@@ifiguredouthowtochangemyna3945 how tf you invade a party yacht, they can just move the yacht out of reach
"Sea Nomads bring about world peace."
*start building huts*
"nuclear war threatened."
I believe that the strategy is actually called the SeaLand strat.
New Sea Land. But they wrote the S backwards.
Except unlike the real Sea Land other people agree that you exist.
@@baerauble dont let spiff hear you say that. He loves SeaLand.
But Sealand is useless irl
Called it before me.
You're a immortal and the best swindler in history. Even surpassing the legendary person that sold a non-existant airport amongst many other things.
Kupe the legend, sailing around the world scamming governments out of their money and using it as disaster relief. Not out of kindness, but just the sheer need to be given the Best Person on Earth Award.
Yes
Spiff: "What are you trying to tell me, that i can found cities in order to exploit my way to victory?"
u/Cardoo: "No, Spiff I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to."
Imagine 4 homless dudes and their donkey becoming the most influential people in the world
Technically not homeless: They had boats.
Shrek, is that you?
jesus?? is that you??
Reminds me of the Emperor Norton.
15:30 - "England founded a new Religion: Hinduism"
Absolutely brilliant.
Civs actually try to get the religion that said civ is known for like Spain will want Christianity China, Japan, Korea, And Khmer will want Buddhism America and Sweden will want Protestantism and Ghandi will want Hinduism
@Viktor Magnusson
England: Time for colonisation India
India: no u
I like how this run is essentially just becoming an insurance agency, taking gold from people and giving it back when something happens
"Aggressively help out". Sounds very good. So its like a crusade, i mean "peace-keeping".
That or "bringing democracy"
jaypea leones I see someone takes after Anderson.
Shall we Keep the peace?
I'm curious to see how this panzers out.
@Mr Very noice "Ready to die" plays in the background
In a weird way, this is actually kind of playing the game.
Agreed. Like he deserves the diplomatic win with all that diplomatic trading and congress votes.
That's just the nice guy on his boat pretending to be a country. For a time there were some confusion as other world leaders thought he actually owned land. He eventually became everybody's friend, coming with loads of golds to help you when in need and asking for golds to repay the favours when not.
Might as well make that saint of a man the world leader.
@@Djorgal Its basically like Jesus Christ incarnate entered a game of Civilisation.
And then proceeded to win the game with 3 disciples, 2 boats, and a donkey.
@@BloodfelX At least he's nothing like Gandhi, that's for sure.
@@Djorgal Kupe to Ghandi: "While you were partying and developing nukes, I studied diplomacy."
The main thing I learned from this is that you can actually send people gold during an emergency, instead of having to do the Send Aid project.
Dear Spiff.. The devs of 7 Day's to Die have been introducing all kinds of broken game mechanics to keep players from "exploiting" the game..Can you please show them how futile their efforts are, when faced with the power of Yorkshire Tea?
7 Days to Die is quite the meme of a game
Hmmm, memes.
Yes please, this needs to happen.
Cries In Console.
@Keith You seem to have a bit of a problem with the game. Are you okay?
For the love of everything tea. Can we please get a video from Spiff co on the perfect balance of sid meier's civilization beyond earth.
@@thespiffingbrit Thanks for trying Spiff, Maybe try Elder scrolls Online. If there is a perfect balance in that game to find I would love it.
Hey! Are you from Nederland or Deutschand or Suid-Afrika, perhaps?
@@thespiffingbrit Impossible. Impossible! Im-POSSIBLE! There's yet a game to be developed that can successfully hinder Lord Spiffing Brit's efforts to exploit it until kingdom come! IM-POS-SI-BLE!!! :P
Man I really wanted to like that game as it's two things I enjoy, Civ and sci-fi, but it was just terrible. The honest to god worst thing they did in the game was make you land first rather than all at once as with out fail I would land, start scouting, and BAM new neighbor(s) almost touching my one city or completely boxing me in if they were feeling generous. Also love the first time I went bankrupt because I made use of that automate feature on builders who decided to mass build nice things that cost energy per turn.
@@gerhardvanniekerk3759 he could get in trouble when he does that in onlin games
Basically, everyone choose the only one without any military, scientific, economical or religious Ambition.
A Tribe which has proven to be extremeley superior in Politics as a non-settled Tribe was able to compete economically with Superpowers and helped half of them overcome huge Disaster by convincing everyone else in to help, too - not to forget them beeing the main help in most cases.
A Tribe, which has proven to be altruistic, non-violent and charitive with its whole Recources and all else they ever owned - spiritual or materialistic - they gave away at some point in History.
This is basically a "Star Money"-Tribe :D
I always come back to this video almost religiously.
This to me is what this series is all about.
Not glitches or exploits, but alternative ways of playing.
Such as Prison Architect without building a Prison, playing Spore without evolving, or civilization 6 without settling a city.
Kupe: "What can I say except you're welcome... for the tides, the sun, the sky!"
*Maui has entered the chat*
@@ctakitimu are you sure Kupe and Maui are different people?
I mean, nobody ever saw them in the same room...
@@Lakhshamana Ha ha ha! I think they were brothers in my country's myths
Kupe is a Tupuna (ancestor) of Ngāpuhi (a Māori Tribe). Maui is a Demi God who pulled up Aotearoa (New Zealand). Kupe was The first person to Find Aotearoa after Maui pulled up the land.
@@tipeneball9979 in short, he set foot on the isles and yelled "DIBS!"
Me: "No way can he beat an empire building game without building an empire"
TheSpiffingBrit: *Continues being himself*
Wll, technically he did build an empire... a trade empire with no land owned! XD
I forsee 1 of 2 things in that timeline
A: The Maori invent house ships, farm ships and factory ships, allowing them to live on the seas forever
B (my personal favorite and probably the most likely): The Maori move into the world congress and live in it as kings and queens
Now I'm picturing a bunch of expensively dressed politicians arriving by airplane for the World Congress, and the location of the World Congress is a wide open plain where a group of dudes and a donkey are the only thing around for miles.
Playing as pirates in alpha centauri be like this
Friggin' sea nomads
In this timeline, the title of "Honorary Maori" is the highest award one can receive, as their people since the Great Union have filled every major public office or leadership role. They are a people without a state, without land, without worry, they are the constant rock upon which modern society as they know it sits. They are, the noble, kind, peaceful, Maori.
For a super extra easy diplomatic win, save before each world congress so you can always vote on the winning proposals with minimum votes, letting yourself save all of your diplomatic favor to outvote everyone in the endgame. Or just be Spiff and already know what the AI will pick every time.
This isn't even an exploit just a legitimate play style
"We've done nothing!"
Uh, you discovered every civilization on Earth and then made zero attempt at colonialism or imperialism. You invented political philosophy before going on to live a selfless, nomadic existence, devoting all your resources to acquiring funds for the express purpose of disbursing them to people in need.
If this culture actually existed, I would 100% vote to put them in charge of everything. Are you kidding? You'd have to be crazy not to.
We just don't ask how 3 men and a donkey survived for thousands of years.
With the key being no one stomps their settler unit the whole game. I would never have that luck.
I mean except for the part where he's salivating over countries being hit by natural disasters...
@@RedRocket4000 no one stomped the settler because he couldn't have war declared on him because he didn't have a city
Honestly... this would probably be the most interesting cultural hypothetical theory to study in the entire world because theoretically speaking, it is possible to exist... not feasible but, it actually is possible.
Wow... the political scientist geek in me got really interested in this as a philosophical study and theory!
"We need to drain their money with very creative trade deals"
*Offers the same deal as every round before*
I want to see a developer reaction to this
I'd imagine it would tickle them. It's playing the game within the rules established. Though they'll probably need to nerf Kupe if they haven't already.
I mean they changed the diplomat’s ability to granting your capital a copy of the luxury resource from the city state they’re established in so they’re at least aware of it in some capacity
@@MissFeatherstone so it's not possible now?
So three sage's and their donkey who lived for enternity has won diplomatically? Not surprising
Spiff: pronounces Canberra wrong
Every Australian: angry screeching
I think you will find that Spiff pronounces every word exactly as it should be, it's simply that the Australians can't speak English English.
@@ragerancher That's why american english is what is taught around the world... not british or australian LOL
"Canbruh"
@@ragerancher It's not an English word, though.
checkmate, atheists
"THAT'S A BLOODY OUTRAGE IT IS! I'M GONNA TAKE THIS ALL THE WAY TO THE PRIME MINISTA!"
Me, an Australian
16:15 "you will be directed to same spot in the ocean where all of the foreign dignitaries were directed" I bet it is the famous Null Island.
This entire run: "What can I Say except Your welcome!"
"Our settler is safe because no one can access the water yet."
Did someone forget about pirate barbarians?
Barbarians also need the tech to sail. Since he was likely playing on prince it takes a while for the average tech to go up so that barbs get ships.
Yes, there is one small wrinkle in this strategy in that you need to eventually find some safe land where your two units will not only not be murdered by barbarians, but also not blown up, drowned, or buried by natural disasters. For some reason, the map generation on archipelago has always liked to create at least one tiny island with a handful of city states and basically nothing else. That'll do.
@@01ZombieMoses10 Well the other wrinkle with this strategy is that at higher difficulties you just wont be able to compete in the helping missions unless you are the only one participating.
He may have just turned off barbarian spawning in the advanced game setup menu. (edit: I'm not sure, but I don't think I've seen barbarians in any of the Civ games Spiff's played.)
@@mokkingbird He did a lot of shady things he didn't tell us about. Amani for example as far as I know has never given a copy of every strategic resource you have discovered.
So you are essentially playing the Knights of Malta
1.) An independent internationally recognized entity yet has no actual sovereign territory
2.) Has a military but never actually uses it
3.) Goes around the world providing aid to nations in need.
Do you mean the Knights of the Hospital of Saint John while they were in Malta, or a different group of knights? Cos the Hospitallers absolutely used their military if that's who you're talking about.
@@AGrumpyPanda I’m talking about the CURRENT Knights of Malta, historically they had territory and used their military, but not anymore.
That's how the Grey beards became so powerful in Skyrim
"So now that we've discovered Hungary, which is on the same continent as Australia..."
And this is why I love Civilization games.
Australia-Hungary lol