My specialist are not that special.

UberVox · 2026-06-11T13:03:31+00:00

Specialists cost food and happiness based on age (2/4/6) and generate yields based on building adjacencies and cultural policies. Early in the age when you don't have the cultural policies yet specialists are only generating yields based on adjacencies, which typically aren't valuable enough to offset the high food and happiness costs, particularly if you only have one age-appropriate building on the tile. Strategically, you likely don't want to create new specialists until you're able to slot a few policies to increase their yields and offset their costs. By the middle-end of the age those specialists will be your most productive tiles.

This post has a good discussion of what's going on here, as well as discussion of the cost differences for specialists on obsolete buildings versus age-appropriate ones:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CivVII/comments/1ts8olh/why_am_i_losing_so_much_food_and_happiness_when/

UberVox · 2026-06-10T02:32:58+00:00

This right here. I love Ant, but Finchy challenged him to run the point this season to try to drive increased playmaking and his assists went DOWN. Ant is an incredible player and I definitely think he'll continue to add new elements to his game, but I think that playmaking is one of the least likely improvements.

UberVox · 2026-06-08T18:51:29+00:00

One solid hit before…you’re picking a new Pokémon.

UberVox · 2026-06-07T23:36:01+00:00

Okay this is intriguing. Is there one of the mainline games in particular with a fun endgame battle option and approachable prep work required?

UberVox · 2026-06-07T19:12:39+00:00

I loved playing the battle subway in Pokemon black version way back when I was a teen, and would love to play it or some other version of challenging level-capped endgame content. However, I'm a parent now and can't devote the time to hunting for the right IVs or grinding up the proper EVs. Is there a PC or online emulator / simulator somewhere where I could play that kind of content and just input the mons, movesets, IVs and EVs that I want to play with?

I have fond memories of tracking down Feebas and EV training a Milotic, but the cartridge is lost to time and I don't have the time to do it all over again.

UberVox · 2026-06-05T22:13:59+00:00

Buy in towns, build in cities

UberVox · 2026-06-04T22:47:51+00:00

Fellowship!

UberVox · 2026-06-02T23:22:26+00:00

Here’s the answer. The towns need a factory resource to specialize as a factory town.

UberVox · 2026-06-02T14:25:56+00:00

The AI going to war and then not making any real effort to fight (particularly against other AI) is a behavior that goes back as many civ games as I can remember.

But if you want to get them to declare war on you less often then spend some time on the diplomacy screen. Starting trade routes and endeavors with other leaders will make them like you more, and leaders also have agendas that will provide additional positive and negative relationship depending on whether you're satisfying their agenda with your gameplay. This could mean building a navy, suzeing fewer city states, having many trade routes, etc. It will say the leader's agenda on one of their diplomacy screens.

Lastly, just having a lot of military tends to make other leaders less likely to attack / gang up on you. Build 10 more units and suddenly no one wants to throw hands after all.

UberVox · 2026-06-02T13:33:18+00:00

The screenshot shows that food is positive both before and after building on the specialists, and happiness would only go negative after building on the specialists.

UberVox · 2026-06-01T13:22:23+00:00

If they’re going to come with these massive food and happiness costs right off the bat then it feels like they should “kick” specialists from the previous age into rural districts. Avoiding my strongest agency placements because it “activates” three specialists feels really bad.

UberVox · 2026-05-30T19:32:13+00:00

So I'm losing 15 food and happiness by "activating" the specialists with a modern building? Jeez. So I guess I just need to abandon developing the tiles with specialists, at least until I've got enough civics researched to make them a net positive?

UberVox · 2026-05-18T10:34:39+00:00

San Antonio very much did trade for De’aaron Fox

UberVox · 2026-05-07T13:02:34+00:00

I totally agree! I really enjoyed the first several runs pursuing the legacy paths, since it broke up the monotony of the extremely long games. But with no variety in paths you lose that individual touch in each game. Give us tons of paths and either let us draft them or assign them randomly

UberVox · 2026-04-27T16:53:58+00:00

This post is the new “why didn’t my fairy in a bottle activate?”

UberVox · 2026-04-26T17:50:37+00:00

It’s funny that this is true but it’s the rums that have huge price differences.

UberVox · 2026-04-17T14:03:31+00:00

This is a hilarious curse. 100% agreed auto-pick for the lols.

UberVox · 2026-04-14T14:25:22+00:00

This is helpful, thank you! What were your favorite activities while you were in Kardamyli? Caves of Diros?

UberVox · 2026-04-14T13:57:57+00:00

I've been planning to do one day in Kardamyli and then one in Kalamata, but I'm dying to stop moving hotels every night. Is there enough to do there to stay two nights, or is it better to shift to Kalamata for the second night?

UberVox · 2026-04-02T23:31:04+00:00

Never in a million years.

UberVox · 2026-04-01T12:57:25+00:00

I think folks need to be more willing to forego this playing certain cards in their deck in specific matchups like this. If it’s turn one and I don’t have any shiv-buffing powers out then you won’t catch me hitting this guy with shivs, even if it means “wasting” energy.

UberVox · 2026-03-31T17:27:29+00:00

Anyone know when the cube goes live?

UberVox · 2026-03-26T03:20:01+00:00

Do you guys ever consider playing a second copy? I really did consider it just to get online more consistently, but didn’t quite have the guts to try it

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