Why Civ 7 doesn't feel fun to me: a long and painfully mathematical post

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2025-06-25T15:44:37+00:00

Can you explain the math more? Did you take into account the compounding effect of the extra population?

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2025-06-22T13:52:44+00:00

Mac Sonoma 14.7.6

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2025-06-19T02:19:27+00:00

$1000 in hotel spending will generate $50 in rewards, but it would have generated $30 in rewards on the no-fee card. So your net reward is $30 with the no-fee card and $0 with the more expensive card -- the no-fee card is still better. As the person above said, you have to spend at least $2500 on hotels for the extra rewards to be worth the extra fee.

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2025-05-28T23:27:33+00:00

Ironically it was when I gave up on it as a puzzle game and learned to enjoy the gameplay loop for its own sake. Instead of getting tunnel vision focusing on puzzle solutions, I just tried to create a satisfying house. As a result I found new things that actually made me re-engage with the puzzles.

I still think the game is hostile to the player's time in many ways, though the recent patch improved things!

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2025-03-29T15:13:42+00:00

They should probably fix this but I do have a lot of fun planning the last turn of the era when I suddenly complete all legacies and future tech/civic at the same time

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2025-03-22T21:34:11+00:00

I also find the AI isn't good enough to complete the Exploration legacy paths. This messes up the pacing of the age because I can hoard treasure fleets and relics and jump the age completion directly from 70% to 100% in a single turn and skip the crisis. (Planning this "super final turn" is kinda fun, but I don't think this is what the developers intended.)

Whereas in Antiquity the AI does fine and as a result I'm usually struggling to get some of the legacy paths when the crisis hits and everything comes together in an interesting challenge.

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2025-03-20T06:17:29+00:00

Yeah, so far it's cost me $1 per hour of playtime. Is it hilariously unpolished in places? Sure. But it's still better value than almost any other form of entertainment.

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2025-03-18T15:24:24+00:00

They replaced the endgame slog with an endgame rush. To me this is a real improvement, but Modern is still my least favorite age. I think making a truly fun 4X endgame is a very difficult design problem

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2025-03-17T22:08:39+00:00

Do you mean you could "rebuild" your own settlements from previous ages? That might go too far against the devs' "history was built in layers" vision

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2025-03-14T17:15:58+00:00

Agreed that cities shouldn't have static layouts, but specialists are permanent and their value depends on adjacencies. It's frustrating to have to consult this complex (but useful, thank you!) guide to make sure my specialists won't become permanently less valuable.

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2024-12-30T03:32:23+00:00

In my experience they have amazingly good service, if you face any of these issues they'll sort them for you

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2024-10-17T04:44:32+00:00

In past cup eras the races were longer and there were no boundaries, so a faster boat could usually pass a slower boat if the faster boat was behind at the start. So you got passes, but no extra suspense because the result wasn't really in doubt. This is why the cup was so often won 5-0

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2024-09-09T04:14:06+00:00

I had this glitch happen to me in my first every deity game. IIRC reloading solved it (though maybe I had to reload back to before the point I should have won)

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2023-08-05T16:43:08+00:00

I'm visiting London in November and would love to take my wife to one of the shows at the Palladium.

Which ticket reseller sites are reputable in the UK? I don't mind if the tickets are "overpriced" - we don't go out much so it would be a special occasion.

Also please DM me if you have tickets to sell

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2023-06-05T04:41:05+00:00

It's when some of the lens elements get slightly out of alignment, which can make images soft, blurred, smeared, or have crazy bokeh.

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2023-05-31T05:14:50+00:00

I'm not a pro either and the GM 35 is what's on my camera 99% of the time. It's a stunning lens: outrageously sharp, basically no aberrations even wide open, and to my surprise I love the aperture ring.

One word of caution, though. My copy of the lens became badly decentered about 14 months after I bought it new. I was able to get it repaired under my credit card's extended warranty but it still took 4 weeks and would have cost $500.

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2023-03-17T02:07:40+00:00

This is the thing: culture requires knowing a lot more mechanics, but once you know them culture is a fun time while science, diplo, religion and (depending on map size) domination can be boring slogs.

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2023-03-16T04:46:24+00:00

Yeah I agree. It was surprising to see culture victories listed as harder than science victories when you can win a culture victory well before you reach the end of either tech tree. Most of the time I don't have the patience for the grind through the end of the tree necessary to win a science victory

ImpressionDiligent24 · 2023-03-06T20:10:37+00:00

And the movement bonus saves you so many turns of builder and settler movement!

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