MrKasenom no default names, but since some IKEA furniture is named after towns it’s wholly possible I’ve actually named a town after a real one in Sweden.
I cant even tell you how many times unit cycle has made me see random swordsmen be in the middle of the ocean because i accidentally made them go there 50 turns ago
00:00 Option Interface HUD Ribbon 01:23 Disable Auto Unit Cycling 02:13 Disable Time of Day Lighting 02:52 Enable Quick Combat & Quick Movement 03:46 Hotkey Next Action 04:48 Locking in tiles to minimize food waste 09:34 Spies Siphon funds
@@tarkozkan6439 Yeah, I mean that is an option, but like you said it would be inconvenient and I'd get tired of doing that every single turn pretty quickly.
@@iago7932 Thank you! I spent a decent amount of time looking on the workshop for a mod like that, I guess I just didn't use the right keywords to find it. This'll definitely be one of the mods that I always use, thanks again!
@Crimson But there nearly nothing you dont get to know somewhere else - the only thing is the stored faith plus if you go into war you will miss out the gold for like 10 turns
@Crimson it's not stupid because it's all information that's viewable inside the game that doesn't require spies to acquire. You can see the information in the victory conditions window, but it's much more clunkier to see. This is especially so with gold, because then you have to go to a trade window to see
Great list! Just a quick note on *why* Auto Unit Cycler is annoying: 1) It gives you no time to observe the effect of your actions. Say, you attack a barbarian with a warrior, but with AUC enabled, you're immediately taken to, say, your scout and have no idea what the damage was. It's far better to only cycle manually when you're ready ("Enter" by default; I remap to "X"). 2) The cycling is pretty much random (even if AUC is off). Say, you're attacking a city with multiple units -- there's no guarantee that, following an action of one of your troops, the AUC will cycle within that group: you can be taken back and forth. It's better to manually click on the units in a group in a meaningful order (in this case, the attacking units), then cycle through the rest (civilian units, reinforcements, etc.).
Also, as I know, unlike ruins from civ5, villages don't have any windows saying "You got something something from there". So I found AUC really annoying in early game
In my first hours of playing, I also accidentally moved units to random tiles often, because I was aiming for a next unit but got taken to a next unit automatically and just clicked on an empty tile for the unit to move to.
CeilidhHall WELL. I would NOT have guessed, I was actually judging based on the shape of the icon (I would have expected it if it’s Icon was round instead of a triangle)
the ribbon isn't very good at that because it just shows the rate at which you each get science. instead, just open the science tab and see them 3 eras ahead of you
uhh... technically it's not food waste if your worker never work on that tile. it will be just an empty farm without plants on it. because it has no worker
Dzulfiqar Bagas Tito “uUhHhH” actually the game will often automatically put workers on high yield tiles, so you’re definitely gonna be wasting food if you’re not micromanaging workers, which a very casual player is probably not doing
@@johannesthie5444 Having smaller cities can be an advantage depending on the type of victory strategy you are working for and the version you are playing. Larger cities require more amenities to stay happy, meaning more luxury resources and entertainments and also larger cities become unhappy sooner during war weariness. Alternatively in a longer peaceful strategy, larger cities are good for having extra people to put on the campus and theater districts to bump up research. The good thing about civ is you have a lot of options for how you want to play your game.
@@johannesthie5444 lol bigger is not always better, with more territory comes more cities, units, having to improve logistics if you wanna stay fast and it’s laggier if you’re on comsole
I got this game two days ago, and last night (on the second day) i played for 9 hours straight. It is sad, but i cant help it. This game is indeed very addictive...
This game still needs an option to "close relations." Or something similar so that every single AI doesn't try trading with me every time I get anything new (resources/art/ect)
I heard of a mod called "right click close leader" that is just supposed to x out of the conversation like it never happened with one swift click, but I cant find it. Maybe you'll have better luck? LMK...
I think you can change that by modifying global parameters file on "Sid Meier's Civilization 6\Base\Assets\Gameplay\Data\GlobalParameters.xml" there's a line about AI Trade offers, I think it does it.
Viking denounced me, then kept demanding 7 gold for 30 turns. He offers it about every 10 turns, it's so annoying. He acts like he's gonna declare war on me every time I decline, but I have the biggest army in my game so even though he denounced me like 30 turns ago, he hasn't tried anything.
Here's mine: I'm a noob to Civ 6 and I learned today that you can make up for a lack of science and civics by chasing the boosts. My macro strategy was to only research techs I had boosted, even going so far as to pause several researches until I could finish them with a boost. Ended up leading in science even with a poor science per turn score. It also gave me a well rounded civilization, where I tend to over specialize usually. I also didn't know you could buy great people until a few hours ago, so I suggest looking over the UI in detail.
Hey, thanks for doing this tutorial. This is SO helpful for those of us who don't yet have an intuitive understanding of the game. Would love to see more of these!
I love this type of videos. I started with Civ 1 and spend a decent time in Civ III so bruteforcing myself through the game is a massive rerflex for me. And even in Civ III 15 years ago i had trouble to understand the tile bonuses etc. What i wanna say is, these type of "Civ 6 for absolute idiots" is so important for me. I should realllly really really try to learn more. I do so much stuff at random that you pros decide sophistically about.
I've been playing Civ 6 for two years now, and it seems like I still haven't learned all there is to learn. The ribbon is completely new to me, and that looks really, really useful. I also never really thought about switching off food production when I'm at my housing limit, but now that you mention it... well, duh! Makes perfect sense. I confess that I often don't micromanage my population unless I'm trying to put a rush on something, but I'll try to use my population more efficiently next game. I did know about siphoning funds being the best mission to send an idle spy on. Helps that the mission naturally has a much higher chance of success than anything else.
Phlebas The trick is balancing the micromanagement with fun. Namely, not forgetting to set food back once housing is solved. Setting down pins to remind yourself of stuff like this can be very helpful. Early game is where micromanaging workers is most influential. Manually striking a balance between growth (top priority, perhaps) and production (slightly lower, but still high priority, perhaps) can make a significant difference. Otherwise using “focus on” food and production on every city is usually a good bet. If you pay attention to housing of every city, you don’t have to worry so much about micromanaging food to min-max optimize. Just add it to the things you’re considering when teching: sewers and neighborhoods. Also barracks/stables and lighthouses. Even aqueducts/dams/canals, particularly in plans to synergize with industrial zones. But the easiest thing is to use farms/pastures/plantations/fishing-boats and unique tile improvements or buildings from your civilization or suzerained city states (like cahokia mounds). Just always be considering that. Realistically, growth is always desirable. So not letting yourself get in the position of inadequate housing makes the point moot. When you inevitably find yourself in that position (cuz you have to prioritize something else over builders, for instance), thats when this comes into play. Of course, early game trading excess resources/diplo-favor to be able to buy granaries when you need to focus on settler and other production-this helps a lot too.
I remember when Civ 6 was released, we had to manually configure the .ini file to remove unit autocycling. Feels so worthwhile knowing the quality of life changes are in the options list now. Thank for this video Potato.
I find the best tip in civ 6 is to only research a tech or civic half way and start researching a new one because if you meet the eureka requirement (tech) or the boost for the civic it gives it to you automatically and you may have half the next one researched already by doing so. :)
I know this is an old video and this comment is unlikely to be seen but these tips makes late game Civ on the Switch so much bearable! Waiting for turns to end being twice as long as the turn itself was no fun. And being able to see how I compare to other civs is game changing.
It's "smaller" tips like these I actually appreciate the most. I don't mind learning the big parts of the game slowly and by trial and error, but when it comes to small things that, when done right, make the experience way more streamline/easy/enjoyable/efficient, I'm all for them. So thanks, Potato!
I played Civ 5 for years, but had to stop when I got rid of the computer, now I just got Civ 6 2 days ago and have been playing it again but its quite a bit different than I remember 5 being so this helped me lots! Thank you!
it survived a long time against a massive congonese army, which for whatever reason decided to ignore the crossbowman until it suddenly killed it after like 20-30 turns
There was a huge greek army, the crossbowman fighted them bravely, the army was completely ingnoring him during a couple of tens of turns, until he was killed. I suggested placing down the pin as a memorial.
You blew my mind with that first tip. I haven't seen any of your video but when I saw a thumbnail in my recommendations my jaw dropped on the floor and I clicked ASAP. Why that ribbon isn't visible automatically? I was playing like stupid until now. I was playing smiling because I thought I was doing great job and then losing not knowing what just happen. You changed my whole life, man! I mean... as long as I'm still periodically interested in this game. (I still consider Civilization IV as the best one)
You should do an early settler rush to create a lot of settlements, then rush campus buildings and upgrades. It works for me, and I play as Japan(i really like the meiji adjacency bonuses).
Thanks Potatoe. Due to this and many other videos of yours I can call myself now TWO TIME Champion and ruler of the world (well... some part of it). Officially won the Civ G8 Event last night!
In EU4 in the mid to late game, it's fairly common for a battle to start without you realizing it's happening. Sometimes you just get a message that you lost a battle and wonder, what battle? So the attack animations prevent that at least.
I love your channel. Have never commented but after watching the Deity single city challenge i feel i must. You are awesome and thank you for all you do.
Great gameplay mechanics explanations on things like the food/housing link. Would love to see more short videos like that explaining different aspects of rules/gameplay, and how to use them effectively and efficiently.
On Immortal level, spies keep me in the game. Getting that first promotion is key...normally gain sources, followed by the unrest mission. Then its party time...as you say, a gold rush and then following its promotions. I usually change cities every 3-4 missions before they get caught.
Great video, thanks for the tips! Besides teaching me about managing food production, I got a better understanding of amenities and housing food growth bonuses! Gotta keep up that +3 amenities (20% growth) and 2+ housing to maximise food production for rapid population growth in the early game, I guess!
Making me feel weird for always checking out all the settings when installing a new game or coming back to one i havent touched in a long time. People please, check out the settings when you get a new game..
YES!! I started playing recently and it's so much information that it becomes overwhelming. But at the same time, even though I figured out a bit of management alone, it ends up feeling like the game is just clicky-click if I don't learn how to deal with it. But most tips are.... Overwhelming. This was a great list for me! I'm subscribing you! :)
I've been looking for guides all afternoon to help me understand this game better, and this is the easiest to listen to, and understand i've found so far. thank you
2:00 OH MY GOD, I can still remember when I realized there was an option to turn this feature off. I recall it switching to some unforeseen unit all the time, which I promptly sent in the wrong direction. I got intensely annoyed. Turning this off was probably really healthy for my heart xD
1:50 holy shit this can be fixed? This has been my biggest problem with the game since I bought it in launch and I am so blessed to have seen that you can disable that.
Ugh the food production micromanagement is so annoying, i cannot be bothered to manage it most of the time. Wish there was a way to automate tile assignment across your empire for situations where it is obviously wasted food etc. Doesn't help that I've seen the same tile work bug (6:35) so much that sometimes ive had to manually assign most of the city's tiles.
For me it's not just food management lol, I cannot stand ever letting the governor manage anything, I always have to make sure I manually assign every single citizen in all my cities to make sure the correct tiles are being worked.
@@jmwngu1358 make sure you've encountered other cultures or players first - The ribbon shows you their turn income in gold religion culture and science
@@DarklordofBarovia I’ve met people but the ribbon never shows at the top of the screen, I open a thing on the side and it shows up there. I just don’t know how to see what they have.
@@bigfudge2031 In two scenarios this info is useful: The first being when there's a good defensive city spot without freshwater in early game, which you want to force grow to a size 4 or 7 so the city can throw down another district. It would be useful to know if you can force grow cities above the pop limit efficiently, or if you get a 50% penalty. Secondly if there's some marsh late game you're only just getting round to clearing, and you want to know if it's good micro to buy a sewer beforehand when food-chopping, or if that's unnecessary.
@@bigfudge2031 City could be a few turns away from finishing an aqueduct or neighbourhood that would accommodate the pop gain. That's not true that the answer is irrelevant - it's a good question.
Perhaps one of the most useful Civ VI videos I have seen yet. Many thanks for sharing! I will be starting up a new game later on and will keep all of this in mind.
Thank you sooo much for this...i am new to civilization and this type of little things puzzles me and can spend lot of time figure them out. Also last time i played a rts was back in the aoe2 era...(original aoe haha)...since then i moved to stealth games and hack and slash and i'm coming back rusty after probably a decade of not playing rts so these tutorials are greatly appreciated
Omg, thanks for the “next action” tip, Potato! I already had unit cycling, “wait,” and End Turn configured to my mouse’s extra buttons. But I somehow missed that command option and have been wanting it for a LONG time. Civ 6’s keyboard commands are paltry compared to Civ 5. But this little optimization will make things more enjoyable for me. 😊
You knew Greece was going to be a problem! I like to change the game settings to domination only on deity and see if I can beat them before a certain era. The key to beating deity on all victory types is knowing exactly how an OP AI behaves and how to attack them at the right time.
1. Always show HUD ribbon 2. Disable Auto-unit cycler 3. Disable animated time of day 4. Enable Quick Combat and Quick Movement 5. Bind "Next Action" - key 6. Check city details for unnecessary food surplus that could be spent on other yields instead 7. Build Spies ASAP and send to AI with most Gold. 'Siphon funds' is a great way to lvl up your spies.
So just because i've never seen anyone bring it up...and i kinda accidentally learned it... (this may be something literally everyone knows and that's why its not talked about...i just recently started watching Civ videos) Did you know you can "loan" money to other civs? If you offer them a bunch of money up front you can get much more money back over 30 turns.
@@gabri-immortale you just trade a big sum of money say 100 gold for like ..4 gold over 30 turns and the later you go in the game the bigger the sums can be...you can actually use it as a strategy to kill loyalty too... because you can give them the huge lump sum then use a spy to take it back. I was just fooling around to see if it would work and...the computer will accept the deal every time. And late in game when you are offering thousands up front you start to get some big totals over 30 turns.
@@RickFoxChicken Exactly. If the strategic resources are tuned well, they should serve the role of making unit production strategic choices as well -- instead of spamming as many military units as possible, and thus making the gameplay potentially more diverse. As is, no human player is ever short of strategic resources and as long as there is AI civs, players would be dumbfounded to not trade those infinite resources off to AI civs. (The same can ofc be said of several other things. e.g. spy vs gold.) Except that enslaves human players into permanently watching for strategic resource overflows and busying trading surpluses off to AI as if Civ 6 was some resource management focused RTS game. In light of all that, not having a functioning trading AI is just a total blunder.
How do you show worked tiles when hovering over a city? At 5:00 you hover over Tofu and it does that. I don't see any option in the game options. Is that a mod?
Excellent! Other than the key-bindings this vid nails it for the iOS version as well! Great content, my schedule rarely allows me to watch your live-stream but your vids are priceless to my success in the only game I play. 👍🏻
I really appreciate these types of vids. I've been playing civ since the beginning on 5 1/4 floppy lol. I just fire the new civ up and play. I'd never find these things on my own lol
That thumbnail, nailed it, I need that Ah yes, gold. . . .definitely dont know what I'm doing lmao, I decided to play Medici France and I'm just like where are my Spies, what's this lady in waiting, Dark Age ?! Oh no I need help, I'm also watching your beginners guide, I'll definitely switched difficulty to Warlord, 6 is so different compared to 5 and 4, I started with 4, death stack army for the win
Spies are real game changers, not just in deity vs AI but in multiplayer too: 1) Most people will build their early cities with high adjacency bonuses in mind, which can often leave space between the districts, making them harder to defend 2) People tend to hone in on victory conditions much earlier, potentially from the start of the game. 3) Surprisingly, spies are underutilized. Usually people will have one, maybe 2 floating around just because they know they can be useful, but very few will use them to cap. If you're going all in on them people may respond too late to do anything about it. 4) Especially in online speeds, taking your units/army to attack someone else can be impractical, especially if they're on the other side of the world. Spies can slow them down in a manner that is actually practical. 5) gaining 2 points of diplomatic visibility when declaring a war. Even more important if you're playing mongolia. Spies are highly underrated. It's a shame the promotions are random early into the game, being able to get a quartermaster, polygraph, Seduction spy to base at home would be so good.
Such great tips thank you! I'm pretty new to Civ, slowly working up in difficulty, and I didn't know any of these things. Thanks for your amazing vids!
*Apologizes for naming a town CesarSaladTown* dude I’m playing as Sweden and all my towns are named after IKEA furniture.
Thats pretty Giga-Chad not gonna lie
“What shall we name this bench, sir?”
*Rolls face on keyboard*
“Amazing name sir, everyone will love this”
So just using the default names?
MrKasenom no default names, but since some IKEA furniture is named after towns it’s wholly possible I’ve actually named a town after a real one in Sweden.
Mine are all HL2 locations: City 17, Ravensburg, White Forest, Nova Prospekt, Black Mesa, Xen, The Citadel, etc.
Potato: You want to enable quick combat
Me: but me like seeing enemy get hit with club
Same.... ;___;
except after you have been playing for like 5 hours straight and is getting bored seeing ur cavemen whack other cavemen with club
@@joshualee1595 but after that we can see musketman shoot other musketman ;)
Joshua Lee The boring part is your jet bombers wasting 10 seconds to fly to the city to bomb it, other than that its often fine
@@Drew-vv9ef Yes, but if I disable the quick combat, I won't be able to see my scout take out a 0 health city by smacking 4 infantry with a big stick.
I cant even tell you how many times unit cycle has made me see random swordsmen be in the middle of the ocean because i accidentally made them go there 50 turns ago
Same here. Auto cycle can be really annoying, but it's useful for reminding me about units I sent out 20+ turns ago and forgot about.
@@samvimes9510 For me I just press the exclamation mark in the corner when a unit's done walking.
>discovers massive pantheon exploit that obliterates the game
>is accused of cheating because of civ info banners
I didn't discover the exploit!
@elijah mikle hey knows what the exploit is, he did a video about it. He's saying he didn't discover it.
@@PotatoMcWhiskey sorry about that english is hard, made public knowledge of it
@elijah mikle WAIT THERES A XBOX VERSION!? thank you, you made my day
It was Gods will with the pantheons!
00:00 Option Interface HUD Ribbon
01:23 Disable Auto Unit Cycling
02:13 Disable Time of Day Lighting
02:52 Enable Quick Combat & Quick Movement
03:46 Hotkey Next Action
04:48 Locking in tiles to minimize food waste
09:34 Spies Siphon funds
In ps4 version the Hud ribbon will never always be visible because you have to press circle to get back to the map.
Love u
I wish there was a way to enable quick combat and movement specifically for AI because I personally enjoy watching the animations for my turn.
@@darmius4697 I've tried, no luck unfortunately.
you can open the animations for your turn and disable them when your turn ends but its inconvenient to do that
@@tarkozkan6439 Yeah, I mean that is an option, but like you said it would be inconvenient and I'd get tired of doing that every single turn pretty quickly.
@@legioncxvii yeah wonder why didnt just add an option to do that. Maybe in a dlc?
@@iago7932 Thank you! I spent a decent amount of time looking on the workshop for a mod like that, I guess I just didn't use the right keywords to find it. This'll definitely be one of the mods that I always use, thanks again!
Someone accused you of cheating for toggling on an option... Brilliant individual
Well, i mean, yeah dumb, but obviously the guy just didnt know and really valued the function of the ribbon
Maybe someone got confused with CQUI or how this mod was called which showed stats from unkown civs as well
Crimson I agree it says too much
@Crimson But there nearly nothing you dont get to know somewhere else - the only thing is the stored faith plus if you go into war you will miss out the gold for like 10 turns
@Crimson it's not stupid because it's all information that's viewable inside the game that doesn't require spies to acquire.
You can see the information in the victory conditions window, but it's much more clunkier to see. This is especially so with gold, because then you have to go to a trade window to see
Great list! Just a quick note on *why* Auto Unit Cycler is annoying:
1) It gives you no time to observe the effect of your actions. Say, you attack a barbarian with a warrior, but with AUC enabled, you're immediately taken to, say, your scout and have no idea what the damage was. It's far better to only cycle manually when you're ready ("Enter" by default; I remap to "X").
2) The cycling is pretty much random (even if AUC is off). Say, you're attacking a city with multiple units -- there's no guarantee that, following an action of one of your troops, the AUC will cycle within that group: you can be taken back and forth. It's better to manually click on the units in a group in a meaningful order (in this case, the attacking units), then cycle through the rest (civilian units, reinforcements, etc.).
I dont have auto unit cycle in my options. Help :(
@@anterimac5196 You're playing console. It was a very lazy port and cash grab
Also, as I know, unlike ruins from civ5, villages don't have any windows saying "You got something something from there". So I found AUC really annoying in early game
In my first hours of playing, I also accidentally moved units to random tiles often, because I was aiming for a next unit but got taken to a next unit automatically and just clicked on an empty tile for the unit to move to.
If you have Victor with the free promotion ability, your spies will get that promotion too. So always build spies where Victor is.
CeilidhHall WELL. I would NOT have guessed, I was actually judging based on the shape of the icon (I would have expected it if it’s Icon was round instead of a triangle)
For real? That would be very helpful had i known this!
...and ships too; there are people not realizing that
Good to know!
WUT?!
Thx! 😆🤘
Always use the ribbon. Reminds me constantly how far behind I am in science versus the AI
Ikr?!
Cries in switch
the ribbon isn't very good at that because it just shows the rate at which you each get science. instead, just open the science tab and see them 3 eras ahead of you
Daniel Maher , I know, it’s depressing. If I don’t get the Great Library or Oxford, I figure I am toast unless I go for war.
@@whatislife459 we cant see half this shit on xbox one either
That info about food is huge! I play pretty casually, so I never remotely knew how much food I was wasting! That's honestly kind of game changing.
uhh... technically it's not food waste if your worker never work on that tile.
it will be just an empty farm without plants on it. because it has no worker
Dzulfiqar Bagas Tito “uUhHhH” actually the game will often automatically put workers on high yield tiles, so you’re definitely gonna be wasting food if you’re not micromanaging workers, which a very casual player is probably not doing
Actually it’s not you always should have enough housing so your city can grow I don’t understand why you would not want your city to grow
@@johannesthie5444 Having smaller cities can be an advantage depending on the type of victory strategy you are working for and the version you are playing. Larger cities require more amenities to stay happy, meaning more luxury resources and entertainments and also larger cities become unhappy sooner during war weariness. Alternatively in a longer peaceful strategy, larger cities are good for having extra people to put on the campus and theater districts to bump up research. The good thing about civ is you have a lot of options for how you want to play your game.
@@johannesthie5444 lol bigger is not always better, with more territory comes more cities, units, having to improve logistics if you wanna stay fast and it’s laggier if you’re on comsole
Warning: this game is EXTREMELY addictive.
This game is a time machine
I got this game two days ago, and last night (on the second day) i played for 9 hours straight. It is sad, but i cant help it. This game is indeed very addictive...
@@Kukken-ct3tv yep, it was so addictive that I have to stop for myself 2 years and just got back into it last week
@@johns5641 I've been on that cycle for 10 years. I have to just not play it or else I'm dedicating all my free time for a few weeks
Yeah my problem is I can’t ever finish a game because I suk
This game still needs an option to "close relations." Or something similar so that every single AI doesn't try trading with me every time I get anything new (resources/art/ect)
I was thinking this yesterday. They ask the same shit every round. It just eggs me on to wipe them out so I can shut th em up
I heard of a mod called "right click close leader" that is just supposed to x out of the conversation like it never happened with one swift click, but I cant find it. Maybe you'll have better luck? LMK...
I think you can change that by modifying global parameters file on "Sid Meier's Civilization 6\Base\Assets\Gameplay\Data\GlobalParameters.xml" there's a line about AI Trade offers, I think it does it.
Use it at your advantage advantage, i.e. if they desperately want to trade metal with you, that Civ probably has a obsolete army that you can crush.
Viking denounced me, then kept demanding 7 gold for 30 turns. He offers it about every 10 turns, it's so annoying. He acts like he's gonna declare war on me every time I decline, but I have the biggest army in my game so even though he denounced me like 30 turns ago, he hasn't tried anything.
Here's mine:
I'm a noob to Civ 6 and I learned today that you can make up for a lack of science and civics by chasing the boosts. My macro strategy was to only research techs I had boosted, even going so far as to pause several researches until I could finish them with a boost. Ended up leading in science even with a poor science per turn score. It also gave me a well rounded civilization, where I tend to over specialize usually.
I also didn't know you could buy great people until a few hours ago, so I suggest looking over the UI in detail.
Hey, thanks for doing this tutorial. This is SO helpful for those of us who don't yet have an intuitive understanding of the game. Would love to see more of these!
How do you get that ribbon on the top of your screen
I love this type of videos. I started with Civ 1 and spend a decent time in Civ III so bruteforcing myself through the game is a massive rerflex for me. And even in Civ III 15 years ago i had trouble to understand the tile bonuses etc.
What i wanna say is, these type of "Civ 6 for absolute idiots" is so important for me. I should realllly really really try to learn more. I do so much stuff at random that you pros decide sophistically about.
I've been playing Civ 6 for two years now, and it seems like I still haven't learned all there is to learn. The ribbon is completely new to me, and that looks really, really useful. I also never really thought about switching off food production when I'm at my housing limit, but now that you mention it... well, duh! Makes perfect sense. I confess that I often don't micromanage my population unless I'm trying to put a rush on something, but I'll try to use my population more efficiently next game.
I did know about siphoning funds being the best mission to send an idle spy on. Helps that the mission naturally has a much higher chance of success than anything else.
Phlebas The trick is balancing the micromanagement with fun. Namely, not forgetting to set food back once housing is solved. Setting down pins to remind yourself of stuff like this can be very helpful.
Early game is where micromanaging workers is most influential. Manually striking a balance between growth (top priority, perhaps) and production (slightly lower, but still high priority, perhaps) can make a significant difference. Otherwise using “focus on” food and production on every city is usually a good bet.
If you pay attention to housing of every city, you don’t have to worry so much about micromanaging food to min-max optimize. Just add it to the things you’re considering when teching: sewers and neighborhoods. Also barracks/stables and lighthouses. Even aqueducts/dams/canals, particularly in plans to synergize with industrial zones.
But the easiest thing is to use farms/pastures/plantations/fishing-boats and unique tile improvements or buildings from your civilization or suzerained city states (like cahokia mounds). Just always be considering that. Realistically, growth is always desirable. So not letting yourself get in the position of inadequate housing makes the point moot. When you inevitably find yourself in that position (cuz you have to prioritize something else over builders, for instance), thats when this comes into play.
Of course, early game trading excess resources/diplo-favor to be able to buy granaries when you need to focus on settler and other production-this helps a lot too.
0:00 every time he says "Heeeeeeey" I feel like he is about to say "Vsauce here"
No no no. "Heeeeeeeey, Vsauce, ...... here." And fill in the blank with Kevin/Micheal/other_guy.
I addicted civ6 for months, once i saw the ribbons in your video i thought you use the mod but you told in that video about how to enable it. It helps me a lot to improve my game. THANKS!
I remember when Civ 6 was released, we had to manually configure the .ini file to remove unit autocycling. Feels so worthwhile knowing the quality of life changes are in the options list now.
Thank for this video Potato.
I find the best tip in civ 6 is to only research a tech or civic half way and start researching a new one because if you meet the eureka requirement (tech) or the boost for the civic it gives it to you automatically and you may have half the next one researched already by doing so. :)
I know this is an old video and this comment is unlikely to be seen but these tips makes late game Civ on the Switch so much bearable! Waiting for turns to end being twice as long as the turn itself was no fun. And being able to see how I compare to other civs is game changing.
It's "smaller" tips like these I actually appreciate the most. I don't mind learning the big parts of the game slowly and by trial and error, but when it comes to small things that, when done right, make the experience way more streamline/easy/enjoyable/efficient, I'm all for them. So thanks, Potato!
I played Civ 5 for years, but had to stop when I got rid of the computer, now I just got Civ 6 2 days ago and have been playing it again but its quite a bit different than I remember 5 being so this helped me lots! Thank you!
Face it, Potato, i dont think people will ever stop asking about the ribbon xD
200 hours of casual play and I finally get the answer I was seeking in the first minute. Thank you so much!!!
08:00 "Little tip" - that's a flipping game changer - never thought that the penalty can actually become more than the production of food. Wow!
Why the "Here Lays Crossbow" pin? what kind of national hero died there? xD
it survived a long time against a massive congonese army, which for whatever reason decided to ignore the crossbowman until it suddenly killed it after like 20-30 turns
There was a huge greek army, the crossbowman fighted them bravely, the army was completely ingnoring him during a couple of tens of turns, until he was killed. I suggested placing down the pin as a memorial.
'Nam Flashbacks Intensify l
You blew my mind with that first tip. I haven't seen any of your video but when I saw a thumbnail in my recommendations my jaw dropped on the floor and I clicked ASAP. Why that ribbon isn't visible automatically? I was playing like stupid until now. I was playing smiling because I thought I was doing great job and then losing not knowing what just happen. You changed my whole life, man! I mean... as long as I'm still periodically interested in this game.
(I still consider Civilization IV as the best one)
I'm so ass in this game the AI is always like light years ahead of me. 😔
Same man
what difficulty level are you playing man
@@azmrhaq7336 prince
You should do an early settler rush to create a lot of settlements, then rush campus buildings and upgrades. It works for me, and I play as Japan(i really like the meiji adjacency bonuses).
@@jeaneljaylamputi2215 Campus buildings really? I always skip those entirely, what good do they even do?
Thanks Potatoe. Due to this and many other videos of yours I can call myself now TWO TIME Champion and ruler of the world (well... some part of it). Officially won the Civ G8 Event last night!
The food and housing tip is actually amazing. I'll use it more often in the mid-late game
Here I am playing this on the Switch being amazed at all the menus, HUD info, and game speed.
OMG. had no idea you could turn off that damn auto-cycle function!!!!! this is not a game-changer, this is a life-changer, good sir!!!!
In EU4 in the mid to late game, it's fairly common for a battle to start without you realizing it's happening. Sometimes you just get a message that you lost a battle and wonder, what battle? So the attack animations prevent that at least.
WOW, WOW, WOW - so many great tips here that make the experience so much better, most of them hiding in plain sight!!
This makes me want to play for 6 hours and it's already 10 pm, damn
I am one of those who asked about the ribbons, I even joined your discord just to ask about it.
literally looked for the mod for this for like half an hour yesterday lol
I’m one of those people who go through every single setting the second I buy I a game. I’ve had the ribbons since I started playing lol
Why didn't you try just asking Google instead?
To be fair, they've only added it in their latest update, if I remember correctly, so it wasn't always there
I actually love the day/night lighting, it hugely helps with headeaches when I play during the night.
So I'd encourage leaving it on :)
I love your channel. Have never commented but after watching the Deity single city challenge i feel i must. You are awesome and thank you for all you do.
Great gameplay mechanics explanations on things like the food/housing link. Would love to see more short videos like that explaining different aspects of rules/gameplay, and how to use them effectively and efficiently.
Honestly, there’s a lot of the UI that I’m still discovering. We get so use to playing civ a certain way that some feature will be over looked
On Immortal level, spies keep me in the game. Getting that first promotion is key...normally gain sources, followed by the unrest mission. Then its party time...as you say, a gold rush and then following its promotions. I usually change cities every 3-4 missions before they get caught.
Great video, thanks for the tips! Besides teaching me about managing food production, I got a better understanding of amenities and housing food growth bonuses! Gotta keep up that +3 amenities (20% growth) and 2+ housing to maximise food production for rapid population growth in the early game, I guess!
Awesome stuff
Holy shit, the auto unit cycling tip alone is a headache reducer. Thank you!
Making me feel weird for always checking out all the settings when installing a new game or coming back to one i havent touched in a long time. People please, check out the settings when you get a new game..
YES!! I started playing recently and it's so much information that it becomes overwhelming. But at the same time, even though I figured out a bit of management alone, it ends up feeling like the game is just clicky-click if I don't learn how to deal with it. But most tips are.... Overwhelming. This was a great list for me! I'm subscribing you! :)
It's so odd being taught Civ VI improvement by Dara O' Briain.
Yes. I knew the voice sounded like someone I’ve heard before.
I've been looking for guides all afternoon to help me understand this game better, and this is the easiest to listen to, and understand i've found so far. thank you
Thanks. I'm thinking about showing this to my cousin that's about to buy civ 6
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It is free on epic games now
I always set my day-night time to dusk so that I get the gorgeous dwindling sunrays glimmering on my rivers and lakes.
2:00 OH MY GOD, I can still remember when I realized there was an option to turn this feature off. I recall it switching to some unforeseen unit all the time, which I promptly sent in the wrong direction. I got intensely annoyed. Turning this off was probably really healthy for my heart xD
You are fantastic my good man. Straight to the point. Never had to hear your life story. Brilliant 👏 👏 👏
1:50 holy shit this can be fixed?
This has been my biggest problem with the game since I bought it in launch and I am so blessed to have seen that you can disable that.
Thank you for the Quick Combat/Movement tip, I was getting so tiered of spending most of my time in game waiting on the enemy turns.
Ugh the food production micromanagement is so annoying, i cannot be bothered to manage it most of the time. Wish there was a way to automate tile assignment across your empire for situations where it is obviously wasted food etc. Doesn't help that I've seen the same tile work bug (6:35) so much that sometimes ive had to manually assign most of the city's tiles.
For me it's not just food management lol, I cannot stand ever letting the governor manage anything, I always have to make sure I manually assign every single citizen in all my cities to make sure the correct tiles are being worked.
I so glad to find Civ 6 explanator in 2020. Lots of guides is obsolete
how do you get that ribbon up top?
Unit cycling is helpful as someone who just started playing Civ but I can definitely see myself turning it off after getting more comfortable.
I have over 600 hours in this game.
That toggle though, for the ribbon. No clue. You're a legend!
I have the ribbon on and I don’t see the difference between having it on and not. Does it look different on the PS4 or something?
@@jmwngu1358 make sure you've encountered other cultures or players first - The ribbon shows you their turn income in gold religion culture and science
@@DarklordofBarovia I’ve met people but the ribbon never shows at the top of the screen, I open a thing on the side and it shows up there. I just don’t know how to see what they have.
hats off to my favourite civ 6 player! informative, funny, and takes true enjoyment in the very mechanics of strategy!
Do 'food chops' gained from harvesting resources with a builder get reduced by the housing modifier?
why would you "chop" for food if you don't have enough housing to support it?
the answer is irrelevant because you shouldn't be doing it anyway.
@@bigfudge2031 In two scenarios this info is useful:
The first being when there's a good defensive city spot without freshwater in early game, which you want to force grow to a size 4 or 7 so the city can throw down another district.
It would be useful to know if you can force grow cities above the pop limit efficiently, or if you get a 50% penalty.
Secondly if there's some marsh late game you're only just getting round to clearing, and you want to know if it's good micro to buy a sewer beforehand when food-chopping, or if that's unnecessary.
@@bigfudge2031 City could be a few turns away from finishing an aqueduct or neighbourhood that would accommodate the pop gain. That's not true that the answer is irrelevant - it's a good question.
@@jeremyjones2361 is it really that hard to wait a few turns to finish the build?
@@bigfudge2031 when you need to tile for a district
OMG - that auto cycling is freaking game changer my dude , that was literally like 90% of my frustration towards the game hahahah
people are still going to ask about the ribbons 😂 you’re going to need a hotkey for a link to this video 😂😂
all these tips were very useful. I always wondered about the stats of all the leaders showing on the screen. thanks for answering it.
I bind "next action" and "fortify" to the side buttons on my mouse
I found this comment on 6th January 2021 and my life got better.
Why is TH-cam's game categorisation so bad?
It literally says Civ 6 in the title, it's not Beyond Earth
Civ6 is the source of 100% of my self esteem
Perhaps one of the most useful Civ VI videos I have seen yet. Many thanks for sharing! I will be starting up a new game later on and will keep all of this in mind.
+1 The food tip is a massive boost to my game
Thank you sooo much for this...i am new to civilization and this type of little things puzzles me and can spend lot of time figure them out.
Also last time i played a rts was back in the aoe2 era...(original aoe haha)...since then i moved to stealth games and hack and slash and i'm coming back rusty after probably a decade of not playing rts so these tutorials are greatly appreciated
Omg, thanks for the “next action” tip, Potato! I already had unit cycling, “wait,” and End Turn configured to my mouse’s extra buttons. But I somehow missed that command option and have been wanting it for a LONG time.
Civ 6’s keyboard commands are paltry compared to Civ 5. But this little optimization will make things more enjoyable for me. 😊
How do I get that ribbon at the top of the screen at 0:16 ?
You're blowing my mind right now and I have 814 hrs logged on this game lol
Finnally i found explanation about the upper enemies productions, and some other amazing tips. Thanks man
I actually like the unit cycler becuase I'm too lazy to keep clicking next unit
You knew Greece was going to be a problem! I like to change the game settings to domination only on deity and see if I can beat them before a certain era. The key to beating deity on all victory types is knowing exactly how an OP AI behaves and how to attack them at the right time.
8:09 This should really be an option in the game to automate.
I love how for 30 seconds he explained why gold is useful. Very informative
Hey @PotatoMcWhiskey ! Just curious, which civ game is your favourite?
whichever is the latest one -1
1. Always show HUD ribbon
2. Disable Auto-unit cycler
3. Disable animated time of day
4. Enable Quick Combat and Quick Movement
5. Bind "Next Action" - key
6. Check city details for unnecessary food surplus that could be spent on other yields instead
7. Build Spies ASAP and send to AI with most Gold. 'Siphon funds' is a great way to lvl up your spies.
So just because i've never seen anyone bring it up...and i kinda accidentally learned it... (this may be something literally everyone knows and that's why its not talked about...i just recently started watching Civ videos) Did you know you can "loan" money to other civs? If you offer them a bunch of money up front you can get much more money back over 30 turns.
How?
@@gabri-immortale you just trade a big sum of money say 100 gold for like ..4 gold over 30 turns and the later you go in the game the bigger the sums can be...you can actually use it as a strategy to kill loyalty too... because you can give them the huge lump sum then use a spy to take it back. I was just fooling around to see if it would work and...the computer will accept the deal every time. And late in game when you are offering thousands up front you start to get some big totals over 30 turns.
The trading system is problematic for many more things than the simple lump sum to 30 turn money exchange.
@@ecpgieicg agreed, I've found trading resources is a huge blunder. Just simple deals dont work, they just reload the original deal offered.
@@RickFoxChicken Exactly. If the strategic resources are tuned well, they should serve the role of making unit production strategic choices as well -- instead of spamming as many military units as possible, and thus making the gameplay potentially more diverse. As is, no human player is ever short of strategic resources and as long as there is AI civs, players would be dumbfounded to not trade those infinite resources off to AI civs. (The same can ofc be said of several other things. e.g. spy vs gold.) Except that enslaves human players into permanently watching for strategic resource overflows and busying trading surpluses off to AI as if Civ 6 was some resource management focused RTS game. In light of all that, not having a functioning trading AI is just a total blunder.
How do you show worked tiles when hovering over a city? At 5:00 you hover over Tofu and it does that. I don't see any option in the game options. Is that a mod?
TL;DR
"You should always steal gold"
You have blown my mind with the hotkey suggestion! thank you so very much!
I knew all 7 things in this video. I feel neither up nor down about this. Good Video Potato.
Excellent! Other than the key-bindings this vid nails it for the iOS version as well! Great content, my schedule rarely allows me to watch your live-stream but your vids are priceless to my success in the only game I play. 👍🏻
I couldnt see the *Thingy* in Interface :(
I really appreciate these types of vids. I've been playing civ since the beginning on 5 1/4 floppy lol. I just fire the new civ up and play. I'd never find these things on my own lol
i love ceasarsaladtown and would like to live there
Checked out this video purely because I saw the yield ribbon in the shot. I can't believe I didn't know this was available without a mod. Thanks!
Every 10 minutes on your streams? "How you do score ribbons" lol you finally made the video about it your poor tater
Dude... blew my mind with just the first two... One like and a sub, just because I'm already really excited.
"I saw that Pericles was going to be a big problem because of his cultural output, so I went to war with him and took all of his cities"
Looks like an average game
That thumbnail, nailed it, I need that
Ah yes, gold. . . .definitely dont know what I'm doing lmao, I decided to play Medici France and I'm just like where are my Spies, what's this lady in waiting, Dark Age ?! Oh no I need help, I'm also watching your beginners guide, I'll definitely switched difficulty to Warlord, 6 is so different compared to 5 and 4, I started with 4, death stack army for the win
I'm playing on console so I can't get ribbons 😭😭
I am on PC and I dont have it either...
Spies are real game changers, not just in deity vs AI but in multiplayer too:
1) Most people will build their early cities with high adjacency bonuses in mind, which can often leave space between the districts, making them harder to defend
2) People tend to hone in on victory conditions much earlier, potentially from the start of the game.
3) Surprisingly, spies are underutilized. Usually people will have one, maybe 2 floating around just because they know they can be useful, but very few will use them to cap. If you're going all in on them people may respond too late to do anything about it.
4) Especially in online speeds, taking your units/army to attack someone else can be impractical, especially if they're on the other side of the world. Spies can slow them down in a manner that is actually practical.
5) gaining 2 points of diplomatic visibility when declaring a war. Even more important if you're playing mongolia.
Spies are highly underrated. It's a shame the promotions are random early into the game, being able to get a quartermaster, polygraph, Seduction spy to base at home would be so good.
Such great tips thank you! I'm pretty new to Civ, slowly working up in difficulty, and I didn't know any of these things. Thanks for your amazing vids!
Seriously some of this stuff i would have never thought of and its completely genius