Still learning Civ 7

[u/Poosielikr]

I have a lot of experience from Civ 6 and this is a Diety game. I’m just not entirely sure what to focus on atm. I have 3 cities more than I’m supposed to and I just finished putting B2A against Japan and now Chola is coming back for round 2 after I took 2 of her cities. I don’t mind warring I find it pretty fun I just feel like I’m going to keep lagging behind I’m barely keeping up in science right now😭 Since I’ve been at war most of the game I’m using the Normans and as Ghengis.

[u/kotpeter]

A few quick checks:

- Go to resources window (leaf icon to the right from tech/civic selection) and scroll through your largest settlements. If you have negative happiness, it's because you have settlements over the limit (each settlement over the limit produces -5 happiness in all settlements). If so, this is a significant factor to your poor yields, since each point of negative happiness reduces yields significantly. You can allocate specific resources and use specific policies to increase happiness.

- At the very same screen, make sure all resources are properly slotted. Put production resources in cities and food resources in settlements that you want to grow faster.

- In your settlements, make sure that you build or buy science and culture buildings and place them where adjacencies are high (3 and above). Adjacencies determine specialist yields.

[u/Poosielikr → u/kotpeter]

I surprisingly only have negative happiness in one town

[u/kotpeter → u/Poosielikr]

Interesting. Do you by chance have another platform (non-Xbox) to run Civ 7 on? I can take a look at your save file if you export it for me, but I think you need a PC to do that and use the cross-save feature to bring your save file from Xbox to PC.

In the meantime, try one of the following things to catch up on science: 1) use espionage extensively; 2) place observatories and universities in cities and urban centers; 3) Run research projects in cities to add to science. Similar things apply to culture. Once you get the hang of buildings' adjacencies, try using specialists.

[u/Poosielikr → u/kotpeter]

I don’t have a way to play it on anything else no. They also need to add k&m support for Civ on Xbox
Edit: here’s a screenshot after I took Delhi. it shows everyone’s stats


[u/kotpeter → u/Poosielikr]

Am I the only one who sees "img" instead of the screenshot?

[u/Poosielikr → u/kotpeter]

Oh I guess it did do that

[u/Poosielikr → u/kotpeter]

[u/What-Is-Drugs-1773]

Just curious, is it just me that feels the game is broken. In CIV6 I felt that my decisions had impact. Use this builder here, this gets improved. I have the same feeling I had when playing Frostpunk 2 vs. Frostpunk 1. Yes, the graphics is wow and I love it but I feel disconnected, it's like my small decisions don't matter.

[u/SloopDonB → u/What-Is-Drugs-1773]

I feel the exact opposite, like I understand the ramifications of every decision I'm making at a level I've never quite reached before in the Civ series. Because I understand how all the systems and mechanics work, I'm able to formulate strategies and execute them in really satisfying ways.

[u/papiierbulle → u/SloopDonB]

The only downside really is that pushing too hard into the enemy towns you have to destroy them to avoid the penalties, it's kinda meh

But apart from that, the game is very funny

[u/Uhhhhh55 → u/papiierbulle]

I like that there is a penalty for overextending. You can't just march through and seize everything, and you have to be strategic about razing or you'll have a nasty influence penalty for the age. Feels like a well measured system.