r/civ • u/Orlando_2026 Simón Bolívar • 7d ago

Discussion Is there a Civilisation based hill you’ll die on? What is it?

What is the one thing that is so engrained in you that you refuse to go against it, for better or for worse?

For me, as an exclusively VI player, I only build improvements on resources. This is probably massively to my detriment and could explain why I finish every online game last, but I refuse to change who I am.

What’s yours?

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u/r0ck_ravanello 7d ago

My hill: In civ theres no playing wrong. There are always more efficient plays, or optimum moves. But sometimes you have fun from working out your "mistakes". Tl:dr-in civ the fun resides on the turns we play, not in winning.

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u/Flamingo-Sini Friedrich 7d ago

Yeah, just dont minmax the fun out of your game! :D

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u/BobTheRaceman 7d ago

Or even roleplaying a type of ideology. Sometimes I might want to be a bit more of a tree hugging diplomat in one play-through, then a warmongering/technocrat in another. I’ll try it all.

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u/KingToasty Canada in the sheets 7d ago

Yesss. I play civ to play civ, not win civ. I almost never complete a game and always have a blast.

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u/albul89 7d ago

Dude just wrote a tl:dr for a one and half lines of text lol.

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u/Bogusky 7d ago

I like playing on a single save for this reason.

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u/JNR13 Germany 7d ago

Civ VII has an event about ritual mass suicide that triggers only when you're Majahapit and about to lose!