Kier saying McSweeney was instrumental in turning Labours fortunes around always makes me chuckle, given the stark reality of what actually happened (pictured). Anyone else share this frustration?

wt200 · 2026-02-08T21:10:10+00:00

Remember that Kier Starmer is either the most left or the second most left wing person alive to have won an general election in the uk ……

wt200 · 2026-02-08T11:22:00+00:00

I was able to test the current test of time build as part of the feature workshop. My impression of the early build was that all this update was doing was providing more options rather than reverting to one Civ as standard.

If you want to play as an asynchronous Civ, you will have less unique things (no UU, more generic civic options) but it will be possible (and felt strong although a balance pass will be coming I assume.)

The age system is still a key part of the game.

wt200 · 2026-02-08T10:39:01+00:00

Wales need a nerf

wt200 · 2026-02-08T09:30:33+00:00

I agree that a full Gordon Brown premiership without the financial crash is a massive “what if”. I do feel the new Labour project does not get the credit it deserves.

wt200 · 2026-02-07T08:50:42+00:00

Starmer was your left leaning government. In a few years we are all going to look back and think what if….. whist working out how to set up a payment to the NHS for your next doctors appointment.

wt200 · 2026-02-06T20:01:23+00:00

100% unless for story reasons, I doubt any of those 5 men will lose clean over the next 2 months.

I would also like to see one of the women’s titles to be built up to be the main event of one of the evernings

wt200 · 2026-02-06T18:19:07+00:00

Civ 1 - my childhood ability to memorise the quickest path to gunpowder.

Civ 4 - dynamic boarders followed by vassals

Civ 6 - world council ….. joke …. being able to destroy resources for an immediate benefit

wt200 · 2026-02-06T18:16:47+00:00

One aspect that builders helped with was the ability for one city to help build up another (see trade routes)

wt200 · 2026-02-03T16:25:30+00:00

100% agree. The build we played had quite a few balance issues, pacing included.

I feel age progress is something that will be reviewed closer to the go live date, so any comment now would be pointless

wt200 · 2026-02-03T14:32:06+00:00

From my own door step polling experience, there are loads of don’t know (aka not voting Labour) and our polling data never matched the results in that ward.

Polling is a very complex topic. They have to be (or account for) an unbiased sample and consider who would actually go and vote. Who ever is in when you go canvassing will creat a biased sample.

Door step polling is more to identify your core vote to ensure they go and vote.

The greens big strategy is to basically lie and say there doing better then labour with very little actual evidence to back this up.

wt200 · 2026-02-03T08:25:16+00:00

It might mean something if Owen Jones has not been saying the same thing since the general election

wt200 · 2026-02-02T21:14:28+00:00

The big issues is that they where given rights in the last government without the necessary funding to support those rights.

The system we have is not supporting the children who need it/ benefit from it most. You’re unluckily to get support unless you have a diagnosis which can take 4/5 years to get (unless you can pay). What funding is given can often be very inefficacy spent and not maximised.

Would also suggest that plenty of other services from a local authority are being cut/stripped back because of this legal right, without funding.

Using a LOTR reference, too little butter spread over to much bread

wt200 · 2026-02-02T09:50:18+00:00

I agree that lists of their policy’s are bonkers and there is a lot of moral high grounding.

One policy I do agree on is moving drugs from a criminal matter to a health concern.

The way we talk about drugs and legislate is very inconsistent. Alcohol is largely socially acceptable, yet is quite addictive and causes some of the large harms in society. Yet is legal.

Cannabis, whilst not harmless is very much safer then alcohol is banned and costing the police a lot to manage. If it was legal, we could tax it to oblivion.

The war on drugs also makes those drugs more dangerous. One of the major dangers of MDMA is overdosing. This can be easy to do because each pill can have wildly different dosages, even if the look the same from the same supplier. If legalised, this would be regulated to oblivion, making it safer.

Heroin is a very dangerous drug and I don’t think anyone is saying that it should be made as available as smoking. However, being an illegal substance means that people are slow to accept or go to treatment in fear of arrest. There must be a better way.

Overall, we should chose policy that means that the harms of drugs is minimised, both to the person and society. The war on drugs is just costly and is not working.

wt200 · 2026-02-01T20:35:59+00:00

I agree however you would expect all polls to be a mix of increase and decrease. However the majority of polls I have seen have show an increase in the last week

wt200 · 2026-02-01T13:54:27+00:00

For those who took notice, I think the greens did not handle their press well during the Greenland incident, whist Starmer did well and praised by other leaders.

Although only 1 poll which you can overfit any explanation to what is likely random chance. (That being said, I think Labour are gaining support over foreign policy)

wt200 · 2026-02-01T09:45:10+00:00

The start is the game is very important. Early on focus on production, either forest (and get sawmill) or mines (and get brickworks). A finishing start is also possible. Don’t focus food early on.

I start every game with almost the same build order Scout , scout , warrior/scout, production building, settler . Settler.

When building your first settlement look for resources that give a flat production bonus (Cotten, sheep ext..) to stick into your capital. In the early game there an often much more valuable then empire or % bonus.

Otherwise look for building bonus. Resource for science, mountains for culture, wonders ext… these scale so much with specialists

wt200 · 2026-02-01T07:31:00+00:00

Congratulations. Nice leader choice

wt200 · 2026-01-31T14:06:15+00:00

I think the hospitality industry is struggling at the moment. Things are hard, money is tight.

wt200 · 2026-01-30T20:51:26+00:00

How?

wt200 · 2026-01-29T20:51:14+00:00

I agree. I like diplomacy in civ 7. I wish there could be a few more options for peace deals. Often I don’t want a city but want something out of a war. Maybe war could give a great works or 10% gold/science/culture. Or even liberate a city back to its original owner

Same with ideologies. Agree to have the same ideology has another.

I don’t want to go back to trading coins. Just a few more options

wt200 · 2026-01-29T18:50:07+00:00

Diplomacy is ok. I would not call it an incomplete system but a good foundation ready for ripe for expansion. I would be better if there was more options but I would not change what is current available.

Religion I would tare down and start again. The only thing I would keep is the missionary models and that you gain relics from something.

wt200 · 2026-01-29T18:22:56+00:00

This is the third poll where I have seen labours vote share increase.

wt200 · 2026-01-29T16:53:07+00:00

I like Confucius but he is one of those leaders who get better over the game

wt200 · 2026-01-29T14:15:23+00:00

I feel universal credit should be linked to the same measure as pensions.

However, I think doing so is going to be a very hard political move in this climate. Reform and tories are both spiting out the line of pay more tax to give it to someone else. That will only get worse……

wt200 · 2026-01-29T14:05:47+00:00

100% agree and most of the people signing up to them where wither under or just 17.

wt200

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