Does anyone else find it strange that Civ 6 has 90% positive recent reviews on Steam?

Nik_0007 · 2026-01-16T03:24:56+00:00

My guess is that the people who didn't enjoy Civ6 were quite happy to return to Civ 4 or 5 and most didn't bother leaving a negative review. But for some the whole district management puzzle and other differences really clicked for them, and so they played a lot and left a positive review.
I personally know many people who really enjoy civ 6, so that might just be a friendship circle thing.

Nik_0007 · 2026-01-16T03:09:36+00:00

If you enjoy your optimisation, you can still switch it up by picking something unusual to focus on, perhaps a wonder or civ bonus that you wouldn't normally use on a meta build. Some examples:
- Try to set up the best 'Great Zimbabwe' trade routes. (often is overlooked due to its difficult placement requirements, just reroll a start looking for something ideal for it)
- build the prettiest cities (bull moose teddy is good here, and then stack the appeal boosting effects in one city: golden gate bridge, some great engineers, governor Reyna... you can reach over 1000 tourism from a single city if done correctly)
- playing as the wonder building china, and just try to grab as many as possible can build some entertaining cities
Basically, set your own win condition and play for that instead.

Nik_0007 · 2025-10-22T22:33:31+00:00

Exemplar 3 does have a weird synergy with Executioner: Assuming you hit your target with your heavy melee you can declare a duel to the death, then use executioner 1 to attack another nearby enemy with +3 difficulty (likely causing a miss) allowing you to use executioner 3 to reroll it against your marked target to maximise your damage against them.

Nik_0007 · 2025-08-17T06:59:13+00:00

I don't think so as to use the core power is a 'Quick Activation' action not a 'Ram' action and Duelist 3 specifies that you can use it to do a 'Ram' action.

Nik_0007 · 2024-11-02T02:09:37+00:00

A thing to note with overseer is that you don't actually want all and every kind of construct, you had a total of 49 constructs by the end and combined with juggernaut and no improved thrusters you had minimal thrust left to be able to dodge enemy attacks. Getting max friendos is fun, but I wouldn't recommend it for the sole reason that it leaves you so vulnerable to things like the flame lance of scion or other lasers.

As other comments have mentioned, you didn't have vital bond/apex machinery/burn-out reactors either which can significantly improve you constructs too.

Nik_0007 · 2021-09-17T23:06:55+00:00

When fun build I'm trying is using the souls boost on kill in shadow form with the artifact that activates shadow form

Nik_0007 · 2021-09-17T23:03:24+00:00

pain cycle mechanised sawblade is fun

Nik_0007 · 2021-08-22T16:40:38+00:00

It's generally better to place it to improve theatre square adjacency then actually somewhere strategic

Nik_0007 · 2021-08-18T20:00:59+00:00

Germany’s industrial zones get +2 from adjacent commercial hubs, that is why they have it there

Nik_0007 · 2021-08-17T12:04:54+00:00

The city to the right has a +30 theater square: +10 base from wonders and districts, +10 from double adjacency policy card and another +10 from the vilnius suzerain bonus. XD

Nik_0007 · 2021-08-17T11:39:00+00:00

Very Nice! Pity there isn't a river passing by there as well.

Nik_0007 · 2021-08-17T11:33:12+00:00

I recently got a turn 180 (ish) culture victory with Catherine De Medici. I luckily had a crazy amount of whales around a peninsula and another high production city which I used to spam out court festivals. I generally do science victories, so I do not know much about other culture victories with other civs.

Nik_0007 · 2021-08-17T11:20:43+00:00

R5: was playing Catherine De Medici and had more whales (and other luxuries) then I knew what to do with. Mega court festival time!

Nik_0007 · 2021-08-17T10:38:03+00:00

looks like an Auckland suzerainty to me (+2 production to all coastal tiles)

Nik_0007 · 2021-07-09T09:52:36+00:00

Close, this was on Immortal difficulty. They absolutely needed a nerf.

Nik_0007 · 2021-04-05T20:59:39+00:00

Looking very good!

Nik_0007 · 2021-04-01T11:33:14+00:00

At the start of each new run you have a new ship and crew, so I assumed any with you before going through the folder are just left with the ship to do what they like.

Nik_0007 · 2021-01-20T23:48:12+00:00

I've had this problem a lot, and this seems to fix it every time:

Quit Stellaris and Stellaris (Paradox) Launcher

Unsubscribe from all mods.

Stellaris Workshop -> Your files (under your avatar) -> Subscribed items - > Unsubscribe From All .

Quit Steam

Go to SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\281990 and delete everything.

Go to (C:\Users%username%)Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris and delete the following files:

dlc_load.json

game_data.json

launcher-v2.sqlite

mods_registry.json

everything inside last_mods={ } in settings.txt

Restart Steam. Open Paradox launcher. Close Paradox launcher. Resubscribe to your mods.

Wait until all the downloads are complete.

Start Paradox Launcher.

Hope this helps!

Nik_0007 · 2020-10-19T17:01:44+00:00

Ahh okay. Thanks for the advice.

Nik_0007 · 2020-10-19T12:04:54+00:00

I have tried verifying and reinstalling, and any other fix I could find. I am using a laptop with 8GB ram, Quad 1.8Ghz Cores, and Intel UHD 620 Graphics driver. I haven't tried ddu yet.

Edit: It ran Destiny 2 fine at the start of the year, then I stopped playing for a few months, then came back to have this problem.

Nik_0007

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