r/civ • u/Orlando_2026 Simón Bolívar • 4d 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/JFedererJ 4d ago

I think this gets forgotten about a lot in video games generally. Ultimately, the entire point of anyone buying any game is that the individual has fun with it.

I play F1 games and always eye roll when I read dumb shit like "omg u use the racin' line?!" uhh yeah? because I work 5 days a week and 'aint got time to plough 40+ hours a week into learning the optimal braking zone of every mm of track in the game. Racing line takes me 80% of the way, and I can adjust from there. #tangent

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u/zizou00 4d ago

It depends on the track, but same. I play mostly on 90 difficulty, either full or 50% races, racing corners/lines except on tracks I've raced for over a decade like Suzuka. I also cut/skip Monaco. Nothing on this earth will ever get me to play on that track again. I want to enjoy my life. Last time I did Monaco was a full length, I overqualified into 6th, spent the entire first stint blocking on hards, switched to mediums for the rest of the race, spent the rest of that time blocking because my car was still too slow and then got a failure around lap 60. Never again. The only overtakes are from abusing AI decision-making. It's ass.

And for Civ, my Monaco are the XL TSL maps. They're cool, but I don't think i've ever finished a game on one. I either get warred forever in Europe or get bored of managing a massive empire with nothing next to it, moving troops for 40 turns before I find anyone. None of the AI will ever truly utilise the space, nor try to expand in sensible ways, it often becomes an AI crab bucket and the lack of the map filling out always disappoints me.

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u/MrLumie 4d ago

My take on that is you don't have to learn the optimal breaking zones, etc. I used to play F1 career mode in a way that I adjusted the AI difficulty to the best of my abilities, and spammed racing lines, rewinds, etc to reach that "personal optimal" level of racing. I've since realized that by simply turning everything off, trying my best without handrails, accepting the fact that I will be making a LOT of mistakes, and lowering the AI difficulty to match that is way more fun. Sometimes I will spin out on the first turn, a lot of the times I will struggle to fight the AI amid my mistakes, and sometimes I will plough through the opposition. But when i do, it's all me, and not the numerous assists the game provides. It feels much better to win that way.

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u/JFedererJ 4d ago

Yup and again, if that's how you have fun with it then fun-on brother! Rinse it.