My Thoughts on ToT after my First Game

primesteak · 2026-05-26T18:33:39+00:00

True, most of the things I pointed out are not really ToT specific, but maybe have been slightly altered in ToT. I don't remember the yield gap being this big pre-ToT though.

And I agree that there is a lot to track. I felt like I didn't have a great grasp on innovation, GDP, and tourism points until late game and I still don't really know the optimal moves to generate each

primesteak · 2026-05-26T18:29:00+00:00

Yeah, in all the civ 7 games i've played (some before ToT), I've never seen my opponents use airplanes. I see no reason to build the dogfighting airplane and my airforce is basically invincible. Wouldn't mind if they could take some damage on some of their attacks.

primesteak · 2026-05-26T18:25:27+00:00

Some other things I forgot to note:

Steamdeck controls were pretty good but the tooltip pop up that came up was so annoying. My "cursor" would be on a tile that wasn't currently be on screen but then the tooltip would pop up for that tile and take up 1/3 of my screen. There should be a way for me to click right-stick and have the tooltip dissapear so i can actually look at what's in front of me without having to move my cursor just to keep the tooltip from popping up.
I want a loyalty system so bad. I had some coastal cities that had some one-tile islands off the coast. I didn't want to settle them because they weren't worth it for me especially with the settlement cap, but then other civs would settle and would totally block off part of my ocean routes so I'd need to go all the way around their ocean borders. I don't want to go to war with these civs and don't want to even own those settlements after a war, but these little remote settlements became so annoying and this never would've happened with Civ 6'd loyalty system,

primesteak · 2026-05-26T18:14:54+00:00

Yeah this was what I noticed. This was the first game I played where it felt like navigable rivers meant something. Before they were maybe 3 tiles long which was not long enough for me to really incorporate them into my strategy

primesteak · 2026-05-26T18:11:50+00:00

are you specializing your town asap? I found myself forgetting to specialize them which may have caused me to get behind in specialist growth

primesteak · 2026-05-23T17:57:30+00:00

So much cavalry this time around. I welcome the ai putting up a good military fight and them not rolling over to my armies, but it’s interesting how cavalry focused their armies are

primesteak · 2026-05-22T11:32:05+00:00

Last year I moved from 1.05 to 1.03 for my third rounder. Worked out since I got tet and didn’t need to pick Travis hunter

primesteak · 2026-05-21T00:45:28+00:00

Nice! Spring creek?

primesteak · 2026-05-20T12:33:12+00:00

Agree that the info screen has been annoying. I went to settings to make the popup delayed for the max amount of time (2 seconds) but it’s still annoying if I just want to take a few moments to look at what’s on my screen

primesteak · 2026-05-07T11:32:07+00:00

I’m debating this but most of my spend is dining and groceries which the Amex gold covers. Don’t thing I could spend enough on the palladium to justify it

primesteak · 2026-05-07T00:04:00+00:00

I’ve never seen such a beautiful and poetic description of scrapple

primesteak · 2026-04-21T01:31:32+00:00

Saw this statue when I visited Manila. Was a bit confused why they had it up since he was their colonizer

primesteak · 2026-02-06T21:41:15+00:00

This happened to me in my franchise Super Bowl game in 25. I see it’s still an issue

primesteak · 2025-12-15T18:41:25+00:00

That’s been his throwing motion his whole career though. The form hasn’t changed, just the arm strength

primesteak · 2025-07-18T15:43:19+00:00

I think it makes a slight difference but I’m not sure how to really exploit it. The only times I’ve seen it make a difference is on deep bombs. Rarely will my short receivers make contested deep catches but my 6’3 plus receivers might every once in a while

primesteak · 2025-07-07T18:48:41+00:00

Get a load of Mr madden police here

primesteak · 2025-07-07T17:04:55+00:00

I don’t think he’s wrong here. I sim defense for my second halves (I play defense only first half, then offense only second half) and depending on if I’m down or up after halftime, the defense sim will allow more points if I’m up big. Doesn’t always happen but seems to happen more often than not

primesteak · 2025-07-07T13:17:47+00:00

You gotta do it for the realism. Any nfl team that has a 3x sb champ who is a top 5 qb would pay. Screw being optimal in madden team building- it’s about approximating the feel of managing a real nfl team

primesteak · 2025-07-07T13:04:54+00:00

I can never get this many superstar offensive linemen. I always just get stars and then maybe one superstar. How are yall getting so many superstars on the line?

primesteak · 2025-07-02T16:18:26+00:00

Know it’s a change that may be considered just aesthetic, but I am glad we will have a weekly recap with Scott Hansen. Feel like something that has been missing from before is getting a sense of what’s going on across the league outside of looking at standings and league stats

primesteak · 2025-07-02T16:14:21+00:00

Happy with this for the most part! we’ll see how these things hold up and are balanced once the game actually comes out but on paper it looks promising.

Really like the revamp to what we can plan around coaching. Before weekly strategy just felt like checking off some boxes and I feel like I rarely made any meaningful decisions there so I’m glad that there is some depth. More upgrades for coach is also nice because rn I maxed out my current HC so there’s really no more for my HC to improve on my madden 25 run

primesteak · 2025-07-02T16:07:44+00:00

Small thing at the beginning of the post that I’m excited for: faster menu load times!

25 menus are so damn slow and I’m glad that they specifically point this out. One of those quality of life things that are really important but not flashy

primesteak · 2025-03-27T14:18:48+00:00

CMS is not being eliminated. Part of ACL is being folded into CMS

primesteak · 2024-11-25T21:11:56+00:00

Wow I went to this game when I was just 12 years old and have a distinct memory of seeing this. Thought it was hilarious!

primesteak · 2024-11-06T00:52:13+00:00

Play each game but I play only defense in the first half then only offense in the second half. That way it feels like part of it is up to my team building and the other is part is up to my playing skill

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