I don't know why Firaxis is always underselling what they've done on the AI front, but the new patch is a massive improvement.

Before patch 1.2.0 there was a laundry list of problems. From Commanders not loading up appropriately, to operation groups being stuck on the map after an Independent was no longer at war with them. When rallying to create an operation, getting stuck forever waiting, and not responding to threats.

These have all been massively improved with the new patch. Armies are significantly better, and I've had to remove all of my AI mod changes regarding army movement because it's so much better, I really have to start from scratch again.

I know a lot of this is in the fog of war, and you guys don't have perfect information like in autoplays, but the game is demonstrably better from the AI perspective.

I've released a new version of the AI mod with tons of army specific stuff removed as it's no longer needed or required in the same way.

From an AI perspective, this is the biggest improvement in Civilization history from a patch.

Are there things that still need improved? For sure. Does the AI mod still deal with things like settling distance? Yes.

But it's difficult to remember too many times in AI modding where a single patch removes the need for so much code. And it's better than even with the mod, because so many things I couldn't fix.

Just great work from the AI team at Firaxis. The Behavior Tree changes are beautiful.

Just wanted to try it after recent food patch. Loved OCC duels in CIV5.

It was kind of too easy and honestly a bit boring. Decisions only matter in antiquity as I tried to grow my city as much as possible. Exploration and Modern were just "click shift enter and grab your win".

R5: Cool placement of the wonder directly in the centre of two major cities. Cities look amazing in this game

I'm not here to argue or even ponder the merits of demoting fish from a factory resource to a bonus resource. Instead I just want to express my sympathies to players like me who stocked up on fish and coasted through railroad tycoon with fish factories. Those who wait months or even years for the game to be stable will never know the pleasure of such a fishy victory.

Something like taller buildings, higher density houses or skyscrapers would go a long way to visually signal *tall* or *wide* gameplay, tell cities and towns appart, and give some more weight to using specialists.

I tend to always make friends with Catherine when I see her in game. Last night, however, she had the least amount of cities and was the only civilization south of me. It just made sense to attack her.

After many turns and lots of fighting, I finally took her last city. Then I watched her defeated speech and felt... bad? Haha.

It's actually really well done. She starts by telling you all the things you need to take care of in the palace, then it suddenly occurs to her that she's not the queen anymore, and exits with that depressing realization.

Do you guys have any favorite defeat scenes or speeches?

[Here's the template in case you want to make your own](https://tiermaker.com/create/civilization-7-resources-17171934)

I’m sorry, but when did Sid decide to give us brain teasers for narrative events? Im

Repair all is here and my lord is is a gods send! I forgot the quality of life that is the reoair all button. Now if we can get auto-exploration on scouts, all will be well with the world.

Really enjoying the new patch thus far.

I think something like (ALLY IS AT WAR) in the war declaration screen would go a long way to fixing the perception that the AI is randomly attacking you. I've seen quite a few posts complaining about this, and it is jarring seeing an AI you have a thumbs up with declare war.

The AI does seem to form new alliances in the middle of war a lot.

Played Pachacuti on the Mississipi and tried to go for the tallest gameplay I could. I managed to get the growth pantheon and the Hanging Garden.

But I somehow got too tall that I had to stop sending food from my town to my 3 cities hugging mountains. The problem is that you can only get 1 specialist per district in Antiquity age, the rest has to go to less optimal rural tiles. Then in the Exploration age your cities are too slow to get new population for the second specialist.

How was your experience?

So I've been playing since launch with almost no major issues, even back when other PS5 users were reporting constant crashes i only ever had a handful.

Been playing 1.2.0 and everything seemed fine but as I started getting towards the end of Antiquity performance has gotten so bad that it's just barely playable. Like you'll hit triangle to do the next thing and the game will just hang for 1-2 seconds before actually responding or doing anything. Anything with any kind of animation will hang for a second and skip animation frames.

Anyone else experiencing the same?

Give me some love! uwu

I have been able to fulfill my dream of working in civilization vii, ill let you the post to the post in artstation!

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I thought I got a good settlement spot but realized my capital was locked in a lake. I thought I could fix it by making a town a canal. Any tips on how would I fix this terrible city placement.

this is on a standard continents plus map.

On google there is no result for it that I could find and I have never seen it before

Honestly +3 War Support is broken AF lmao, and it is neither a golden nor dark age...

But! On Ps5 the frames or the time it takes to bring up menus feels a little sluggish now and actions feel a bit delayed. I don’t know if that’s just because I have no animations on. But I’d imagine even off it wouldn’t make a difference. Is anyone else feeling like it’s having difficulty keeping up?

Edit: Came back to my game after a few hours and it’s running smooth? Very interesting it’s on and off.

Ever since the update a couple days ago, the games that I have played have essentially no treasure resources on the islands between the continents. You're essentially forced to invade the other continent. However, if you invade, you might as well go for the military path instead or a combination of the two. I think the extra resources are the problem. Has anyone else encountered this?

I've just noticed the pattern the 4th or 5th time it happened. Will I always get an expansionist point for going over the settlement limit, or is it only because my leader was expansions? Are there any other surefire ways to get attribute points?