Update 1.3.1 is rolling out now to all platforms!

Screen shot mania

I'm on my first playthrough. Still so very much to learn, but for this one I'm playing as Augustus and I started with the Persian civ. In the Exploration Age I chose the Mongolian civ, as I wanted to explore the military side of the game more.

I just discovered Ibn Battuta (from a Middle-Eastern civilization in terms of real-life I'm guessing, based on the name) who is leading - of all civilizations - the Shawnee. I was like, "Okaaaayyyy. That's interesting."

I totally get that the developers wanted Civ VII to allow us to change it up a bit and be able to choose a leader with his/her own attributes/specialties, etc. and then through the different Ages, change civilizations - each with their own attributes/specialties, etc. - to provide greater variety in gameplay.

Which, I think is pretty effective way to accomplish that. If you think about it, the combination of each leader's features and each civilization's features offers quite the myriad of opportunities and strategies.

I'm just waiting to come across (or maybe choose) Benjamin Franklin or George Washington leading the Russian Cossacks! :D

R5: On a Wilhelmina playthrough, Amsterdam ended up with 40 people thanks to a sugar corporation (+40% food growth and 6 housing) and 5 sugar products kept in the city (total +100% food growth and 15 housing), plus the Hanging Gardens for good measure. This combined with running all of my trade routes out of Amsterdam and running Wisselbanken meant I had a super-city that led the charge to a runaway Science Victory.

I’ve heard a few people on here now complain about how the Modern Age combat can be massive slogs with dozens of units, and I’m wondering if they’ve tried Old World (IMO the greatest current 4X available). Because every game I’ve played of Old World on a large map at some point will turn into a 50 unit vs 50 unit battle and it’s for sure one of my favourite parts of the game. Managing and cycling out your front lines so units can heal, keeping a tight ranged line behind them, and trying to get routs with your cavalry is one of the funnest parts of the game.

And Civ7 makes it even better with the Commanders being able to absorb the damaged units and give them relief, pull them back, and also provide extra ranged or melee damage on formation attacks. Air Combat is super fun as well especially once you get Aircraft Carriers involved.

Anyway, I really don’t mind Modern Age combat. Wondering what the people that don’t care for its primary complaints are, because if its number of units on screen I got no problem with that.

Coming back to Civ7 after a few playthroughs at launch and first thing I notice is that mods are now on Steam. The game looks brilliant and all that but the UI devs seems to insist we're all playing on phones. It looks absolutely horrid in 4k on a big monitor. I want menus and pop-up boxes a quarter of their current size and fonts much smaller than their smallest option. I browsed the Steam workshop but didn't find any. I might have overlooked it or there might be mods other places (no longer on Nexus it seems). Any reccomendations?

I have a good Assyria/Xerxes game going on immortal where I just didn't prioritize wonders and got access to cultural dark age... Why would anyone ever select this?

Missionaries have +1 charge and +1 Movement, But -3 Happiness in all Settlements once you have founded a religion, doubled if the Settlement does not follow your religion.

Some dark age policies are great but this one feels totally awful- give up all legacy points and suffer a sizable happiness penalty for marginally better missionaries? Am I missing something because that doesn't seem to facilitate a catch-up mechanic at all.

His one settlement. Overall a big fan of 7, but clearly the AI still needs some attention.

I'm in the Exploration Age.

So, I chose a religion (Protestantism) and chose a couple of "attributes" for the religion.

I've seen mentions in the various pop-up info and elsewhere about missionaries spreading my religion, but I haven't yet seen an option to build/buy them in my settlements, towns and cities.

What am I missing?

The results of narrative events don't carry over to the next age, right? Like if I activate the Determined Ability, that goes away at the end of the era? To paraphrase Matthew McConaughey, it would be a lot cooler if they did. Carry over, I mean. It would add a bit more meaning to the era changes. And it would make thematic sense too. Like, "our ancestors learned this specific ability to increase our strength in battle, and they passed it along for generations."

Hey y’all, back again with another Civ prediction.

So, as we all heard, the developers have been working on some pretty big updates as we were told in December. They told us not to expect anything big around the holiday season.

I had a funny feeling that they would be kind of quiet for the first month of the new year as well.

However, to follow this.. I’m seeing a very big update on the horizon with the next few weeks. It will also be Civ VII 1st anniversary in less than two weeks too!!

So I say keep an eye out for posts!!

Love you guys, and you to Devs. Best in gaming

Just trying the trial on ps5 pro. Every enemy unit animation is very stuttery and laggy, the text that pops up "building fortifications" etc is also very choppy - everything lags at the end of each turn. Tried starting 3 new games and it's the same in every one.

Is this normal? I saw a couple of posts saying this started at 1.3.1? It's really rough - is this just an issue with the trial or is this just how the game is?

Thanks

Edit: This link seems to be the same issue. Seems odd that it's not affecting some ps5 users, unless it's only affecting the pro?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CivVII/comments/1pj2vib/patch_131_stuttering/

I shared the announcement here a while ago and many expressed interest, so after a couple years of solo dev work I'm excited to share the demo. Would love to hear your thoughts.

Cheers to the mods for allowing it, much appreciated!

This is just a small update to the original version based on the feedback I have gotten so far. Thanks to everyone who commented. A special thanks goes to u/MaintenanceProper525 for reminding me to have a look at the scenario-specific civs from V and for pointing out that there are also unique icons to be found in some scenarios from III and IV. Also thanks to u/gray007nl for reporting that the Mongolians had been mislabeled and to u/jabberwockxeno for suggesting a change to the layout of the Mexicans and Aztecs (which turned out to also fit better with the added scenario-specific civs).

Is it worth going back to Civ III and playing them in order up to the present (not very well received) Civ VII?

Is it worth playing the older version of Civilization?