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I really hope the Third XP tackles this stuff, rather than meaningless busy mechanics like corporations, disease and (shudder) random events. All the pieces are there - local happiness, amenities, loyalty, policy cards and governments, resources and power, maintenance, happiness and loyalty districts, governors, continents, grievances - but FXS have quite stitched them all together yet. I keep coming back to “empire management”, along with something like Social Policies / Ideology and Cultural Influence, being the two big missing pieces for Civ VI. Bit like the population and housing - great mechanic, if only I actually cared about Population size. But currently not much seems to turn on the happiness system - it’s easy to maintain happiness, it’s usually pretty stable, it seems to rarely make a significant difference to yields until late in the game at most, and while it’s tied to loyalty it’s not tied to much else (eg Era Score). I particularly like the way via Policy Cards happiness gets tied to your Culture level, Government, and even Military and I like how Happiness is one of the few ways to get +% in the game. I agree Civ VI has a great happiness system.

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There’s also a mod on Steam that introduces power requirements for Cities and negative happiness if you don’t have power that I need to try. Have you made any other changes to make that work? eg make amenities cover more than 4 cities? Civ V‘s advantage is just you may have already bought it, so why move to a new version? Or you want to play a Civ game, and Civ V is cheaper.Ĭlick to expand.That sounds super interesting. Personally, I think the whole Civ V v Civ VI discussion is done.

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I know you can’t expect people to do things for free or against self interest, but that seems like a needlessly rubbish approach for FXS to take for such a well loved game. I’m sorry to hear FXS aren’t still supporting stability for Civ V for MP. That must surely weigh on FXS’s decision to have a 3xp or not. Still, interesting the gaming press has basically bought into a Third Expansion happening. There’s discussion and prediction of a Third Expansion, although based on no more that fan posts. Regardless of which is actually “better”, Civ V is much cheaper to buy complete than Civ VI and so perhaps there’s a legitimate discussion about whether Civ VI’s improvements aren’t worth the additional cost. Has wonder though whether price has increasingly become the nub of the difference between Civ V and Civ VI. I hear this criticism a lot, but to me the overall cost is fine once you aggregate that cost over hours played. There are some criticisms of how much Civ VI costs with all the expansions. I don’t really see that as a bad thing either.

I think that’s basically right - Civ VI is basically all of Civ V’s mechanics (except Social Policies and Ideologies) and a few mechanics from earlier games, but just more fleshed out and polished. Article discusses how Civ VI wasn’t such a big change in the franchise compared to Civ V, and that Civ VI is really just a iteration or evolution of Civ V. While I think Civ VI could use a little more empire management, I think Civ VI’s encouragement of wider play is basically right (3) no Venice (a point specifically made in the article). Hopefully that’s something a Third Expansion of Civ VI might fix (2) Civ V dis-incentivised “wide” by having more empire management (eg global happiness, more restricted gold). The only real differences I can see are: (1) Civ V has more permanent choices than Civ VI because of Social Policies.

Civ VI seems to have almost all the same mechanics (and where it does, I think Civ VI basically does those mechanics better). How is this still something people talk about? Is this just a meme that’s past its usefulness or relevance, or is there a real difference that’s still worth discussing? I haven’t really played Civ V, but at this point (ie after GE) I can’t even see there is all that much difference between the two games.

I think these articles are mostly driven by slow news cycle for games - particularly for a website focused on niche games - but I thought people might be interested to read and discuss. Article from Strategy Gamer discussing Civ V v Civ VI - link here.Īrticle basically discusses opinions on why it’s taken so long for Civ V to overtake Civ VI on steam.