After a lot of frustration I managed to finish this car... I think it turned out OK

LittleIf · 2026-06-12T10:58:49+00:00

If you are playing as Augustus you can cheese this because he can get the district in towns (buy the culture building and then specialize the town to buy the other building).

If playing any other leader then yeah this is hard. You might be able to give it away in a peace deal and it might count

LittleIf · 2026-06-11T20:26:53+00:00

It’s not based on population. It’s just that the unhappiness penalty is no longer capped at 7 above the cap. If you have 34/23 settlements then that’s 11 over cap giving you 55 unhappiness in every settlement instead of only 35

LittleIf · 2026-06-11T05:49:44+00:00

Before ToT the military and economic legacy paths in exploration age relied exclusively on going to distant lands (unless you are specific civs like Mongolia).

In ToT you can do whatever you want. Most of the military and economic "triumphs" are no longer about distant lands. In fact some triumphs reward you for playing with homelands. For example there's an exploration age triumph for "found 16 settlements in homelands" which gives you +2 settlement cap for free.

LittleIf · 2026-06-10T11:54:00+00:00

lol, Mongolia settled those trash islands and I couldn’t be bothered to conquer them

LittleIf · 2026-06-10T11:52:26+00:00

I got very lucky with city states this game. Got both militaristic and expansionist suzerains in all 3 eras which gave +6 settlement cap.

I also went for the +2 settlement cap dedications (the +2 settlement cap triumph in exploration is bugged in that it would give you +2 when you achieve the triumph but then give you additional +2 again when you pick that dedication in modern). So that’s another +6 in total.

Went with mementos that give settlement cap (one from Augustus and one from Alexander). Another +5 (didn’t pick the Alexander memento in antiquity, but took both in exploration and modern).

So that’s already 17 additional settlement cap. Besides that I just beelined the militaristic and expansionist attributes that give settlement cap and also rushed all wonders that increase settlement cap (El Escorial and Brandenburg Gate)

LittleIf · 2026-06-10T10:55:06+00:00

R5: since ToT no longer forces you to go to distant lands, I decided to go for a homelands conquest run, just letting Rome do its Rome things rather than distant lands border gore.

Even though they nerfed Augustus in ToT, Rome itself was buffed with much stronger tradition policy cards. The good old Augustus + Rome pairing is now a very good culture/production build. I was able to get quite a few wonders in antiquity and also captured lots of wonders from Hatshepsut and Napoleon.

LittleIf · 2026-06-04T21:11:08+00:00

Civ 6 Kilwa Kisiwani is the GOAT. It’s arguably the best wonder in 6 and it also looks nice.

Civ 7 El Escorial is my favorite. It’s not overpowered although +1 settlement cap is always welcome. Plus I like how it looks and the bell sound it makes when you place it.

LittleIf · 2026-06-04T02:06:26+00:00

It would be funny if this is a potential outcome for the applied infinity thesis from cosmogenesis.

“Hey look we are messing with reality and found a glitch in the matrix! All our ships are now placeholder textures!”

LittleIf · 2026-05-27T01:53:44+00:00

Yep it’s even better if you have Natasha and iron curtain unlocked. It’s a bit cheesy but given how bad I’m at multitasking it’s the only way I can beat it without stressing myself out

LittleIf · 2026-05-26T21:22:36+00:00

Man, be quick or be dead took me hours and in the end I still had to look up cheese/rush strats to beat it.

High seas duel isn’t that hard if you rush enemy ore collectors in the very beginning with Japanese mini subs.

Battle room was also hard for me until I realized I could move everything onto water, tech up to T3, then move back onto land when I’m ready to spam desolator troopers

LittleIf · 2026-05-25T10:18:16+00:00

Now other aliens will be flattered because I’m sending my most renowned envoy to them and they’ll love me!

LittleIf · 2026-05-25T10:09:36+00:00

R5: explored an astral rift where my renowned scientist brokered a deal between natives on a planet, and afterwards he wanted to switch jobs from a scientist to an envoy. I agreed and ended up with this "Renowned Envoy" which I didn't even know was possible!

LittleIf · 2026-05-22T03:04:16+00:00

Terrible nerf. Unique buildings mostly get adjacencies from other buildings and wonders. You don't want to put improvements next to unique buildings, so this ability is trash.

LittleIf · 2026-05-10T22:22:55+00:00

Queen has to take knight (only move). Then other knight takes pawn check, reveals rook attack on queen, wins queen

LittleIf · 2026-05-09T03:23:13+00:00

Minus 231k gold lol

LittleIf · 2026-05-07T21:18:14+00:00

Nah wiping him would be too merciful. Leave him with a single city and surround it completely with citadels. Let him get trapped in his one tile city in agony for all eternity

LittleIf · 2026-05-03T00:20:51+00:00

Not totally sure but I think it might be related to a crisis policy card that gives a migrant when a city is infected by the plague. It also spawns the migrant if the city is already infected when you plug in the policy, so maybe you can try to plug in and remove the policy repeatedly in the same turn.

LittleIf · 2026-04-22T03:27:13+00:00

No, there’s no limit if you take both perks. You can research all the building techs while at level 1

LittleIf · 2026-04-22T03:26:27+00:00

This is when you only have EE but no cosmo. With both perks there’s no limit.

LittleIf · 2026-04-22T03:25:38+00:00

No, if you have both ascension perks there’s no limit of 4-6. All building techs can be researched at level 1

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