I talked about settling cities and early game strategy - Civ 6 Overexplained Arabia Let's Play Ep 1
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4:04: "A lot of people mistakenly think that Arabia is a civilisation that wants to go for a science victory. That is somewhat true, but I think they're far better of for a science victory."
Exactly what I thought.
I noticed that too, I think he meant to say faith first.
One could agree its partially true.
Ah yes, the floor here is made of floor.
i watched that part 3 times because i thought i heard it wrong lol
@@carrotizgud9222 the ceiling is the roof
The longest first turn in the history of TH-cam, All I can say it's I got time
Especially when I compare this tutorial masterpiece to a german tutorial video I recently watched... where literally the first sentence was: „Your civ‘s boni aren‘t very important when you choose your starting location“
Ultra facepalm!!!
Somehow not the longest first turn i've seen... multiplayer can be special
Filthyrobot has a video where he sits at the Civilization select screen for over four hours straight explaining civs. These mad lads
@@maxjahns9063 :D
How smart must be that guy to actually say that?
Eat the Fish not the bones!
Instructions unclear- got nuked by Ghandi.
RIP you made a _too_ favourable impression.
Rflmao, Ghandi still a war monger? I'm on my first play through and Gandhi already attacked me and after making peace, he warned me that my settlers were too close.... funny guy
@@mosesp5908 Its an ongoing joke in the Civ series since Civ 2. In Civ 6 Gandhi ALWAYS has both the 'Peacekeeper' and 'Nuke Happy' agendas (not played in a while so I cant remember the exact names of the agendas). He very rarely if ever denounces or declares war unless you are warmongering against other civs or declare on him, but then if he has nukes R.I.P to your cities.
@@bportermusic Which of the civ's had the anti nuke tech? civ2 or 3?
@@burstcity3832 Oh that was Civ 2 with the SDI facility if I remember correctly, it made a city 100% immune to nukes. I fondly remember one game where Germany AI had an isolated start and fully ran away with research and was close to launching a ship. I prepped a submarine or two full of nukes and sent them his way .... and all his cities were immune :(
Me, clicking on this video:
Uhm, problably not gonna watch this whole video, because it takes OVER AN HOUR...
Me, one hour and 18 mins later:
Well, that was pretty short
Amazing video, learned so much!!!
i make the same mistake and click on the video :D
Great work!
That's why less than 50% of players finished a game according to steam achievements.
They just didn't get past turn 1
I've completed loads of single player games, but my daughter and I often play hot seat games, have done for many years, in Civ 6 and in Civ 5 before that... we've never completed one yet though
Yeah, I think at some point you definitely should finish a game 😂
But I can also understand those people never finishing one, bc when my friend an I play against each other one of us gives up before the end of the game almost everytime
At a certain point its usually clear that you are going to win, then it's just going through the motions and it can get boring; especially if the difficulty is set to low.
@@JMaximusIX I think mods also disable Steam achievements. At least that was the case with civ 5.
That could also explain why so few players never finished a game according to the achievements.
I think the last time I finished a civ game, it was either civ 3 or 4
Very exited to spend more hours watching this series than actually practicing the game and still get better
LMAO this hits straight where it hurts!!!
I've watched probably twice as much gameplay videos compared to playing the game myself... Still very happy with it :)
I've played 5 hours in total but probably have watched 50-80 hours of his videos 👀
Before my first game ever, I watched hours of videos and read through almost all of the wiki, and I won my first game (which was on king difficulty). After that I tried on emperor difficulty without any more reading or watching, and lost twice. Really shows how important reading up on game info really is.
This is big facts.
Rome: *merely exists*
Potato: _Your cities are so close. Your troops are so strong. You are making me nervous!_
@R H said _"Rome: merely exists"_
*_Impossibru !_* Rome _never_ *merely* exists ! Even that first settler is looking at expanding, preferably over anyone near.
Rome is like an Asian soccer mom that cares more about your progress (in early expansion) than you care about it yourself, and will try to smack you silly upside in the head for failing in its eyes
14:31
Civ6 AI: "Hey, you should settle your nation's capital on this 1 tundra tile island"
Food? Who needs food? Just eat the seaweed
hhaha, nice notice
I would probably survive longer on deity if I settled a one tile island because the AI wouldn’t be able to attack me for awhile.
the Civ series is overrated
When you send a delegation to a civ who's capital is undiscovered to you it should then reveal the location of that city; after all, you just sent you delegation to it, they'd let you know where it is. That has always annoyed me, it's nonsensical.
Making an embassy does that, a delegation just requires a city
Maybe you're sending it with the unit you met/to the city you met for transfer? Idk, but I like the embassy mechanic later on so I'm not complaining.
The delegation was lead blindfolded to their capital
@@shiakou or they met on neutral ground
You obviosly forgot about the dark hoods they put over the heads of our emissaries before getting into the ancient van that drove them to the foriegn capital city. Newbies... sheesh! 😁
Threat levels:
Wolf
Tiger
Demon
Dragon
God
*Barbarian Scout*
The almighty *Stick 'n dog* has arrived
Ghandi
This is brilliant
I love this
Potato, I want to complement you on your ability to semi-impromptu such a well thought out walkthrough and deliver it so well. I’m someone who practices public speaking in a few capacities and your ability to think quickly and on your feet without rushing through key moments or using filler words really shines in this video! Really well done!
Anders Gilvear
Yhee he probably knows 10 times more, this is easy to him.
Agree this is very well explained
*compliment
fr, I wish I could explain myself like he does
Watching this video is equivalent to playing 10 games in terms of experience and fun.
"A lot of people think Arabia wants to go for a SCIENCE victory, that's somewhat true, but Arabia is better off going for a SCIENCE victory."
Meant to say Religion
"A lot of people think Arabia wants to go for a RELIGION victory, that's somewhat true, but Arabia is better off going for a RELIGION victory"
Fixt
Is it wants science, better religion, or wants religion, better science?
@@fianjames6622 James absolute mad lad
@@hitchikerspie yes
"... your ones are more intelligent because they're controlled by a player."
Whoa there buddy, let's not make any assumptions.
Typical AI discrimination smh smh
The first turn can’t possibly tak- oh my god it’s over an hour long he wasn’t memeing
Now you know how it is, playing multiplayer with your best friend who always likes to play while smoking a joint... XD
Max Jahns I wish I knew what it was like to play multiplayer with anyone T-T
But I know what you mean (Also oof)
@@jaydenliberty9536 I read a couple of chapters of a book I've been engrossed in lately while playing with my friends. Turns can take quite long. ^^"
@@maxjahns9063 Without fail, my friend always plays Peter (he doesn't know how to use religion either) and forgets to end his turn, so we end up waiting 10 minutes for him
The first impression thing is from the difficulty. Settler gets +2 relations boost, prince doesn't have anything and deity is -6
UI = 'User Interface' in the spirit of overexplaining :D
i personally think this is amongst the greatest pieces of content you have put out there, easily TOP 5. I remember when i started playing civ and i had such a hard time, that a playthough like this would have helped out a lot. Thank you so much potato for doing this. You are an amazing content creator!
For someone who played before any DLC and is coming back to a lot of new content and balance changes, I can't agree more. Thanks potato!!
Also agree. I played Civ III and IV for a couple years each, but haven't touched the series since. Until Epic gave away Civ VI for free.
And now I don't remember anything (though I was never good anyway). Its the vanilla game, but this video is still incredibly helpful.
So when it comes to First meetings, this is what i found.
- When you meet another civ, one of the three different scenarios will happen:
1. If you meet them within 6 tiles of their nearest city, they can ask you to sample their hospitality. If you agree, their nearest city is revealed to you.
2. If you meet them within 6 tiles of your nearest city, you can ask them to sample your hospitality. Same effects, but other way around than in scenario 1.
3. If you meet them outside of the 6 tiles range, you can propose to exchange locations of capitals. Capitals are revealed for both of you.
- Making a favorable first impression: First impressions are determined by the first of your units your rival sees. The effect eventually wears off.
- Satisfying/ going against their agenda,
So basically the first impression is random score.
I think the first impression bonus is also dependent on difficulty. On deity I've only ever gotten a good first impression 3 or 4 times. Otherwise, it doesn't matter if I find them with a scout or combat unit, they almost always get a -3 bad first impression.
Jack Rakan that is better than I am used to - average first impression on Deity for me the last few months is around -4 or -5
@@Jack_Rakan & @Scott Stratton I just bought the game on ps4. Currently playing at Prince difficulty and got a -3 first impressions score.
someone in reddit said this:
First Impression seems to be a mix of your dialog response as well as their agenda. It can also decrease depending on how you conduct yourself
42:42 “tangenital” Oh myyyy... Wasn’t expecting naughty trigonometry in a Civ vid.
You missed one point about the scouts which I learned from one of your (!) earlier videos: Scouts can be very rewarding when you meet city states first. Two scouts are often very good because when you meet for example a cultural city state it's like an extra monument you get as a gift (+2 culture). If you meet only one city state first it's just fine, but often you meet two or three first and this is the point when I realized that scouts are extremely useful. Just think of the science or production bonusses you can get from them!
Main critique, players being smarter that the AI is taken as a priori. Lol. Great content Potato.
Is it at all possible for you to do over explained Civ. traits videos on each Civilization/leader? I really liked how you broke down the traits of Arabia and stated what victory types that their Traits are geared towards. Love the Video!!!!
I think the civilopedia can help you, if you select the entry of a leader, it will give you a basic rundown of start location and victory type. I think.
I just started playing Civ VI in the past few days, and I've plowed through about a dozen of your guides. I have never, ever, watched something on TH-cam that is an hour long. Your videos are so dense with useful insight that I would feel disadvantaged if I don't watch everything I can. Hats off! You've turned the learning curve into a mere speedbump.
Meanwhile me:
"The advisor lady gave this tile more check marks I'll settle here"
True enough.
Next step is to figure out why the tile got the check marks, though.
42:41 I feel like horses being "all tan genital" was under-explained.
Why is accidental humour 10x funnier than intentional humour?
Who doesn't love horses with tan genitals?
This is why we love you man!
Sometimes we can recreate but not understand, watching this informed me of all my mistakes that I do within the game.
Really appreciate it man, if you have the time you should do Over Explained series for all the victories you can do.
Does that mean the entire game will take years?
At this rate might as well shut off the computer and play the game in real life
Half-Life: 3 please dont.
About 25 days no stop (considering the game will take 300 turns)
It will take approximately 6000 years.
yes, next question
30 minutes
wow
the pain
thank you sir may I have another?
One thing I've noticed is that exchanging information with a civ when you first meet them increases their First Impression score.
I tested this by reloading and trying both options. I don't remember the exact value of the difference (I did the test over a year ago), but it was enough that I tend to just be nice to every civ I meet IF I can afford a delegation with them the next turn. That seems to be a reliable way to keep the AI from attacking in the very early game.
42:42 "tangenital" - love it
When i know I'm on a peninsula, I usually send the warrior towards it. Since the scout is faster than the warrior, I try to send the warrior towards the smaller part of the map. That way, it tends to stay closer to my capitol to defend against barbarians. The scout can cover more ground, so it's better suited to exploring the larger part of the map.
250 hours and I never knew about rotating the map. I learn something new every time I watch your videos! This one was great
32:35 i was so hyped for the little concept you were about to explain and then the text appeared lol
It's great that he discusses it though! I've always wondered how production carries over if there's nothing to work.
I'm confused by the text. Does it carry over or not? You say in the text that you were wrong and this section was incorrect, you can save 1 turn. You start the section by saying you can, but conclude by saying you can't. Which part was wrong. Your hypothesis or your conclusion?
I'm so excited for this series, I have watched only a portion, but it's clear you have put a ton of effort into it.
I have not played the game for more than 5 hours but i will watch this.
Petition to make #OneLastTurn in the Description #OneFirstTurn
Also, holy hell. 30min first turn. That's almost as much as his Let's Play videos. Marathon speed has nothing on PotatoMcWhiskey. Love it.
I was only able to finish a game on King before watching your videos. Now I've been able to easily win 2 games on Emperor. Here I come Immortal!
This is great. I learn the MOST when you're actively commentating your thought process and everything you consider when making decisions. Really does help learn the game.
This was a great series man. The first few episodes were so insightful. Thanks for taking the time and I hope you do it again with another Civ
I've actually learned a lot from this episode, hopefully next one comes out soon. Good job Potato!
You can see the adjacency bonuses for districts by hoving over their pin icon, makes it a hell of a lot quicker than opening up ths civopedia :)
DIY Miracle I just learned this and it saves so much time! And saves me mistakes, because honestly - having to go to the Civilpedia usually means I convince myself I “actually remember it perfectly” and so DON’T look it up; which is stupid and never correct, lol.
Thanks for putting these together! I was struggling with prince before finding your channel and have worked my way up to Deity since. Great content!
Ik you tend to repeat yourself a lot by explaining your early game in every video. But this kind of video is still sooooo helpful and I learn something new every time you come back to this topic
The first turn took 28 minutes, not 30.
TH-cam is going to demonetize you for clickbait.
rounding error
Thank you for Overexplaining! Civ 6 is more fun when you learn the game deeply it makes you think constantly
I just really wanted to thank you for a video that helped me so much and required so much patience on your part! Loved it!
This is a series I didn’t even know I wanted but now I do
Others: Yes! I settled my city oh boy I can't wait to build my first district! Let's just wait for the other players.
PotatoMcWhisky:
I find these videos a lot more helpful at improving as a player. I still enjoy the let's plays but I like the longer videos where you explain things in more depth
Just wanted to circle back and say thank you for this series. It really helped me a lot; I won my first deity game (2nd deity ever, after an aborted random match that went awry early) after watching just the first 2-3 episodes. Even subtle things like choosing to be a harbor empire or a commercial hub empire. Keep up the great content - and thanks, again!
Very well explained, Really glad someone out there is sharing this. Your videos have completely changes how I approach this game, Keep it up man.
One thing I’m still trying to figure out is when to extract the resource and when to improve it.
32:56 I love your save file names lol "I was wrong about pillaging 01-06" "Proving a Point" etc. I need to start naming my saves like that!
This video gives so much value to my gameplay, I've been playing civ 6 for a year and almost everything in this video taught me something new that helped so much
> makes a 1 hour 18 mind extremely detailed and useful tutorial
> also makes ONE repetition slip
all comments about the latter. Such is life
I’m playing as Saladin rn and while the production ain’t as good as I like the faith is insane. I was able to spam Lahore units and just roll over Colombia and Zulu. Not sure how good that strat is on higher difficulties but usually dom is hard early game for me and this was stupid easy
Also try to get suzerainship of Valetta. Insta-walling and watermilling new cities can be quite helpful.
automatically been guaranteed a great prophet/a religion is pretty huge on higher difficulties, since it can be very dicey trying to get a religion and even GOING for a religion is risky since you have to forgo other early infrastructure (including/especially Campuses) to do so. So as Potato says, the awesome part about Saladin is you don't have to choose, you can have the religion without losing the science (or visa versa).
@ lol cool story little guy
Christian Bai Weird, totally unprovoked flex, but okay. You do you bb.
Christian Bai you must be super fun at parties bro :)
I'm just about to start my first game after playing the brief tutorial, and this was extremely informative. Thanks so much!
Love the depth of detail you went into! I came here straight from playing Civ3 so it's refreshing
thank you very much for an amazing video. Was looking for some quick tips and tricks on Arabia, had no clue will be ending up watching an 80 mins video. it was worth it. there is a lot that the game doesn't tell us. such a steep learning curve.
Every time I see Saladin I forget he has that little cone with the point on the top of his hat.
Barbarian Scouts (and other Barbarian units) do not go rogue. They start attacking the civilization or the city-state that cleared the Barbarian Outpost those Barbarian units were connected to
I appreciate this series because I’ve only played like 20 hours so this is really helping me learn the game. I’m not fully new to Civ games, I know the mechanics more or less, but for reference on how long it’s been, my last Civ game I played a lot of was Civ Revolution. So while I have the idea down I felt like I was playing with 200 years of rust build up.
This is fantastic! I've been just kind of winging it when it comes to city placement, but this really helped me see the long term benefits of putting some thought into it
I appreciate your dedication to accessibility, learn a lot from you, remind me of a thinker from apolyton days -- vel or velocyrix -- keep killing it.
"If you die, all of your investment goes down to zero"
In other words, if you die, you lose the game
What if you're losing in the long run if you don't go for the developmental option instead of military? Sometimes you may have to take risks.
Just speaking in general, not saying Potato didn't make the optimal decision there.
This is the kind of let's play that I want to see. Thanks so much for the detailed explanation of how to play this game well!
I had worked a good bit of this out myself, I've played several hundred hours. This is the first strategy video I've watched. The way you used your scouts in the early game was very informative for me. Loved the content. OH! the hotkeys, thanks so much! I didn't know about those.
Love the video. Hope you can make a video sometime showing how you tactically try to defend against an early invasion with limited defensive units.
As a casual (I can only win on Prince) - Listening to the full thought process is nice. Thanks.
I'm in the same place. I think I've just accepted that I'm going to lose a lot, which is fine. I enjoy trying and learning. I'm never going to master it though.
thanks so much for this series. as a beginner to the game, I'm really enjoying the explanations and reasoning behind every micro decision. I appreciate it!
Love your videos, always very informative with a lot to learn. I especially like how you continue to offer "new player" guidance consistently. I wouldn't call myself a NEW player, but I'm eager to watch talkthroughs like this any time. Keep up the quality content!
4:09 yeah thats true.
4:16 wait what?
Meant to say religion in the first bit, oops.
I think he just misspoke and wanted to say that Saladin appears at first glance to be a leader for a religious victory but in fact is far better off going for a faith supported science victory.
PotatoMcWhiskey yeah that was what i was assuming but didnt know for sure
When girls say "You couldn't handle thisss" so you go as long as possible to prove a point
Really great video, I always was searching for some detailed explanations on plannig whilst progressing the game. I feel like a just blinked and the video ended. Cant wait on your next one!
Greetings from Germany!
watching 2 of your vids an me realising how bad i actually was (i just played 2-3 games tho until now) instantly getting better with just the knowledge and turn up the difficulty to the 2nd hardest. thanks for overexplaining, i love things to think about ♥ and it actually made the game way better for me, so i can enjoy science and culture strategies too
Instructions unclear Montezuma is screaming at me at 15 eagle warriors are surrounding my capital.
Call Ghandhi to send nukes
Montezuma can't surround you with Eagle Warriors if you are Montezuma.
Well, I guess technically he can but it wouldn't be a bad thing.
I would love to have the instant tornado over a barb camp mod, what is the hot key for that ? lol. I actually cheered when that happened, finally, justice for those times when 3 barb camps all spawn at the same time and I face multiple horsemen, horse archers and swordsmen with only a warrior and slinger to sort them out.
Great content as always, thankyou :)
Avidly wait to purchase a " Im a spuddie" mug , or " left click should NOT mean move!" T shirt, keep up the good work !
This is fantastic! I would really enjoy whole series of this type of commentary (my biggest drawback is that I can't handle shitty starts and in the same time I don't like restarting. I have never gotten a start that looks theoretically good. Maybe I am just unlucky.). Keep up the most amazing work, dude!
Stellar explanation, I'm impressed. This totally reinvigorated my interest in Civ. Subscribed!
Excruciating detail? Count me in!
You could have also mentioned when you were first talking about policy cards and Discipline vs Survey If you're playing as Germany, because they don't HAVE to make that choice. Iin fact, they don't get a choice at all. They HAVE to take BOTH of them because their ability gives them a military policy card in all governments. But since this is an Arabia game, I forgive it ;)
Also, Arabia's ability to get a religion is REALLY good. On paper. It's been my experience that if you don't get the first belief, you won't get the religious beliefs you want. Feed the World and Meeting Houses (it WAS Warrior Monks before one of the patches, but it's Feed the World now)
On promotions. One thing I've discovered is that your units don't gain XP if they're ready for a promotion. It's not like D&D where any XP you gain after you gain a level, but before you take the level, rolls over to the next level. Any XP over what's needed for the level is lost. That's why I take a promotion immediately.
When you have a military unit in combat, you might want to wait until the promotion also heals the unit
This episode has earned my sub and attention. I have had Civ VI for years on Steam but never played it... Now I'm deployed with the military, with my gaming laptop, and have chosen to take a look at games that take more time to learn.
Thank you.
One useful tip with early game scouting, I like to check the settler lens (4) periodically, because sometimes I will see some red tiles which will point me in the direction of a city-state's 3-tile border area (or also the loyalty markers for another civ's city). Easy way to know which way to scout.
Me: *puts on 5 speed*
Potato: *starts speaking faster*
The AI first impressions of you is determined by how many turns it takes to meet you ( not taking into effect hidden agendas etc) , not by the unit they meet. It improves by 2 points every 10 turns from a preset -10 at turn 1.
You met Rome on turn 10 = 10 -2 = -8
You met Pachakuchi on turn 40 = -2 / You also met Georgia on turn 40 = -2 ( plus -2 for not having walls ) giving the -4 from her
This series will be very helpful for new players picking up the game now. Keep up the good work.
Keep coming back to this series, very few content creators can explain civ as competently and as compelling as Potato does
Only the true fans will know the original title to this video before he changed it.
Or those that still have it in their notifications
you can’t possibly over... oh my 😍
You have a good way of explaining. I appreciate the long form video tutorial. I always struggled with the new Civs even though I’ve been playing the series since Civ I on SNES. You r explanation about the tile product in the starting location intrigue me. I’m inspired to test this out!
This was a fantastically indepth explanation of the things to do during the early game. Thank you very much!
This game is getting played to its conclusion, right?
yes
@@PotatoMcWhiskey after this game you Will be very tired
I’m not sure how many people share this opinion, but I prefer the longer, single game videos over the multi part let’s plays, similar to the recent maya video
Thats why I do a mixture of different videos! :)
I love them too
Thank you so much for this series, I'm already learning a lot!
Great video... been playing this game for quite some time and been struggling ever since I started... watching this videos made me realize how much I don't now about this game!
All my Civ 6 "god start" games (for instance, I started next to plains/Torres, on a river, near the sea in my current game) end up being disappointing...always. This was never an issue in Civ 5, and I've been playing Civ since the first one in the 90s, and have 1300 hours in Civ 6, so I'm not totally clueless. These games just end up being no better than when I get a half tundra start. It is to a point that I don't even get excited when I see one. Has anyone else experienced this?
When Rome says they like cities with a lot of land, is that in relation to how much land they control or does the threshold increase as the eras progress?
That’s a good question. I often think those AI agendas are pretty ridiculous. Especially Ghandi who‘s constantly complaining about not building nukes in the ancient aera. It would be nice if there was a clear explanation, what those agendas mean and how you are able to fullfill them...
Or at least disable some late game agendas in the early game.
It's compared to how much land they own. They like empires bigger than them
+Adam Desai, it's the same with all AI agendas, they don't have a specific number in mind for how much of something they want you to have, they just want you to have more than them. Like the Cultured or Technophile agendas.
@@maxjahns9063 the dutch too, they always builf lots of militairy and a trader isnt your top priority usually.
Now, this is what I'm talking about! What a great and helpful video-- thank you!
Love this, probably the most helpful video you've ever done, even as all of your videos are extremely helpful!