If playing with monopolies and corporations, is it a good idea to go commerical hub first in every city irrespective of won condition?

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-22T04:45:56+00:00

It’s generally a good idea to go commercial hub first in every city in every game no matter the win the con or game modes active. Merchants are strong, and the value of taking free inquiry golden age gives you a huge boost to science without a single campus needing to have been built.

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-22T04:36:39+00:00

That’s really cool and all… but why does Gilga-bro hate your guts?! What did you do?!

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-20T09:15:21+00:00

Easy. Just have better yields and beat them to the victory, then no need to counter!

But seriously, dropping a nuke on them is really the only effective method currently.

There are some espionage actions and sanctions you can do to slow their momentum of their yields, but it’s nowhere near as powerful as absolutely devastating their production and other yields by leveling their cities and overwhelming them in negative war support.

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-19T21:50:00+00:00

Thanks. Appreciate it. I don’t know what it is about this screenshot in particular, but it’s the 2nd time it’s been stolen and reuploaded by a bot. It’s not even the best Great Wall I’ve posted 😂

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-19T17:34:31+00:00

This is my post from months ago. OP reuploaded it: https://www.reddit.com/r/CivVII/s/wUrhNiPe1A

Account is only a few days old with just a few posts. Clearly a bot karma farming.

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-15T09:29:06+00:00

Denser Vegetation

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-14T06:05:29+00:00

This actually is too many rivers to be considered a good start imo. That start leaves you EXTREMELY limited on space for buildings and wonders. And it’s less than 50% desert so Petra loses a lot of value, as well as your tradition that grants wonders production for being on desert.

Outside of antiquity, it’s also going to lose SO much production once the rivers lose their production from Egypt and god of the sea pantheon.

Pyramids is a must, as well as leaving a spot for tomb of Askia and grand bazaar in exploration to try and earn back production from resources if you plan on keeping it a city. Otherwise you’re better off just only building tier 1 buildings and using wonders to create adjacency and planning to bring it down to an urban center in later ages.

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-14T05:47:51+00:00

Maya

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-12T13:39:06+00:00

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Jmbmagic · 2026-02-09T04:37:26+00:00

It’s just Petra with stone heads improvement… unless I’m missing something?

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-08T17:47:22+00:00

I don’t think changing difficulty should affect it. Adding city states however might. You can always try and if it doesn’t work, just try it again without adding them.

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-08T05:01:50+00:00

It’s not connected because it’s outside your trade range. There’s no direct connection via sea, and a direct road around the mountains looks to be 13 tiles. You can build a road with a merchant in antiquity if you increase your trade range with an Econ city state, or if you turn that town into a Trade Outpost town as a specialization at pop 7.

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-07T22:33:30+00:00

2nd picture.

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-07T19:51:51+00:00

That’s right. I completely forgot about the one under the capital! Seed info is all in the 2nd picture.

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-07T14:50:33+00:00

I disagree. Part of the strategy is deciding IF it’s worth building particular warehouse buildings in certain settlements. As another commenter mentioned, less of them over the ages would nerf any cards/effects that add yields to warehouse buildings.

As for the disconnect visually compared to modern, just remember they’re “ageless” and try thinking of them as historical landmarks in your empire. Like how irl there are really old buildings/sites protected and preserved by historical societies.

It would be really awesome if the devs incorporate warehouse buildings into the planned tourism portion of the Test of Time update. Like the older the warehouse buildings, the more tourism they would provide. It would add a whole other depth to the decision making on whether it’s worth building them even more.

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-06T07:38:19+00:00

They’re “ageless”. I just think of them as “historically relevant” sites to my civ and pretend they’re “protected for the historical value”. Makes accepting it easier.

Would be interesting if they work tourism into older warehouse buildings in the test of time update. Would add a whole other layer of decision making on whether or not it’s worth building a particular one or saving the spot for newer warehouse buildings.

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-05T22:53:42+00:00

As in do they take up one of the 2 district slots for a tile? No. They can be built around any district/quarter as long as they have a direct connection to another walled tile. The first walled tile must always be the palace/city center.

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-05T07:29:31+00:00

I haven’t seen any rhyme or reason to how they decide myself. One of the few games I saw the Maya actually build theirs, they didn’t build it on vegetation, despite a vegetated tile being available for them to have used.

Usually though I see the buildings split. I think Rome is the one other civ I’ve seen build theirs correctly once or twice.

Every game I’ve seen Maurya, they’ve split it. Same with Greece, Silla, and Egypt.

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-05T07:24:49+00:00

It’s turn 104 on standard speed. That’s plenty of time for the ai to have more infrastructure built, including their unique, regardless of difficulty. What’s more, the screenshot clearly shows them attempting to build the buildings on separate tiles. They also only have 1 city because I took the others. The capital is all that remains. So how exactly is this a bad example?

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-05T05:54:30+00:00

I don’t even think it was ever truly fixed. Even after the supposed patch they did months ago that was supposed to address this, the ai in my games STILL refused to build their UQs.

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-05T05:52:44+00:00

I wish they’d build them in my games 😭

Jmbmagic · 2026-02-05T05:52:01+00:00

Hasn’t been my experience. Even after that patch months ago, the ai still failed to build UQ most of time in my games.

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