Too hard?

[BrokenDays]

Hello everyone, I wanted to know if Civ VI is it this hard or is just me? I played Civ V before and I still play it, and I know they are more or less completely different games, but I just find that VI is too hard, at least for me for some reason, for example when the AI declares war on me they can melt my cities and no other AIs cares about it, but when I do it, with the same units or even better units than the AI used I get shredded to pieces and everyone starts to hate me, I even got a tank to a city, it barely did any damage and died in 2 turns by the city itself, on a civ that was way behind me in techs, and also Arabia spammed (no joke) 20+ musicians going to my cities to play concerts, not counting the other civs doing the same, to a lesser degree but still spamming musicians, I am leading in Culture Victory and it's turn 350+ but it's insane, all of this on Settler difficulty, the difficulty 1!

Am I that bad at this game? Does it require way more micro management and more strategic positiong of districts which isn't necessary in Civ V, more balance in military, alliances, trades and so on?

Also if there is a mod that makes wonders and districts the same as it was in Civ V, as in not needing to place on a plot of land and instead it piles everything in the city it was built in, and one to make workers auto-repair/auto-improve I would be greatly appreciated, because I haven't found it.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

PS.: And yes, you can laugh and sh.1tpost and all for being bad at Civ VI if you want :P

[Black Hammer]

Mostly in Civ 6, you just need to build more cities.

[BrokenDays]

Well I have like 5 I think, it just made the AI spam musicians and be angry at me because my empire is too big so I really don't know

[Black Hammer]

You want five before turn 100, and by the time rock bands are a thing, you should be winning.

If you're actually playing on Settler, the AI is getting a -6 strength penalty on all its units, meaning you should be able to win wars even if your tech is an era behind.

Dig up some good strategy videos on Youtube. The Saxy Gamer and PotatoMcwhiskey have some good ones on the early game.

[Maya-Neko]

Going from Civ5 to Civ6 on the release it was definitely harder for me (had to go down around one full difficulty level), as there were many new things to learn.

But once you learn how the game works and how the game reacts, it gets easier to exploit things. That was the way to get better in Civ5 and you've to just repeat it for Civ6. It just takes time.

And different AI Civs have different agendas. Some of them don't like other Civs having a big army, other don't like weak armies. And there are also Civs complaining about other Civs not being big enough or being too big. Keep that in mind when dealing with the Civs, but don't let it influence your way of building your empire. You can please maybe 2-3 Civs in a 8 Civ game, but it's normally impossible to get close friends with everyone.

[jonnin]

there is a learning curve. The AI is pretty dumb but it will still roll you on your first game even on settler, as you learn terminology and how stuff works. After a while you should be able to see how things work together and beat it up soundly on prince, and slowly grow in skill to take the higher difficulty (prince is zero bonuses for both sides, above prince gives cheats to AI, below it, cheats to you).

[Brakiros]

Civ VI is considerably easier than Civ V once you figure out how to work the new building orders and functions you'll quickly find yourself pushing up the challenge. Only Emperor is an actual challenge now and even then if you get a good seed even with their Emperor level cheats aren't enough.

[BrokenDays]

Ah I see, it was as I thought just learning how everything works on Civ VI with the districts and whatnot. Yeah I'm winning in Culture and Diplomatic victory and I'm in the Information Era techs researching Giant Robots, but I just found it odd that all the AIs are spamming rockers going into my cities, and I have no idea how Arabia got a ton of rockers since they increase in price everytime, but maybe they have a discount or something unique to them to create them very cheap, didn't check that too :P

Thanks a lot for the answers! Gonna have to learn it more then xD

[Aachen]

Arabia does not have any special discount for rock band costs; no civilization does. Have you checked their faith/turn?

[BrokenDays]

No I didn't check that, but I can I think, I just said screw it and made an army of giant robots and won by diplomacy by the end since I destroyed the first civ which was leading in diplomacy, I was at second at the time. But yeah that's what I was saying, it was strange, every turn 3+ rockbands where going into my empire from pretty much every civ, and Arabia was spamming more than anyone, I think the AI just panicked since I was so far ahead and all that, but what I find strange that all of this was on the Settler difficulty, the easiest difficulty, which as far as I know is the tutorial difficulty in any game to learn how everything works, if it was on Prince or higher fine, I would not argue with anything here, so I don't know, like I said maybe I suck that much on this game xD

I'm attaching a summary of my game that ended in turn 480 I think, big map and won by Diplomatic Victory with Gorgo if anyone is interested in this (I have some mods installed but I don't think they affect the game in this manner):
https://filebin.net/egmr8g3s59mdy4r4

Thanks again everyone for the help and tips!

[Baby Nurse - high AF]

im fairly new to the game (civ 6 is my first try ever in the series). I play on diety most of the time.

I learned a lot in the beginning via Potatos YT channel.

He is very good at explaining stuff in the game. so check him out and you will improve in no time :-)

Saxy is also very cool, but he tends to restart a lot and not play his games all the way to the end - i would still recommend hos content though

[Uma~Uma]

You need to get used on how the game is designed and it would be easy for you. You can't play this game the way you wanted to be, like you can't turtle, you can't be pacifist and you can't be nice. AI in this game are just annoying and don't put your feeling too much for them, you see the opportunity you take the advantage on them.

What I did is I use marker on every good spot and plan my district placement already, at early 50 turn below I mostly have 3-5 archers, 2 cavalry, 5 melees along with pike a. At early game I never make any settlers, I mostly capture from AI that annoyingly trying to settle near my borders.

My range for each city are about 5 tiles or below, more city more stronger you are in late game. I have about 5-6 cities before turn 100 and have 1 or 2 catapult ready to raze any nearby enemy city. It is not good to build a city that far from each others, as for me the closer the better since you can put district close together for bonuses.

Around turn 200, once you have a strong foothold and cover big area. You can start focusing on your victory type. At turn 350+ you can win the game if you focus for Science, Diplomatic or Domination.

I love playing as Japan because that Civ is very flexible for me.

"Sorry for my bad grammar"

[valera-wrx]

Ah, so AI is still behaving like trash... 4 years passed, nothing changed.

[BrokenDays]

Originally posted by Aachen:

Arabia does not have any special discount for rock band costs; no civilization does. Have you checked their faith/turn?

Here is the last save I had and the peak of the Arabian civ before I destroyed them with my Liberty Prime army xD

https://ibb.co/vd8mgXf
https://ibb.co/wyXgpWv

As you can see they had 300+ faith per turn while I had 500+ faith per turn, they were spamming rock bands while I could buy one every 5 turns or so give or take, so I don't know if the AI panicked with my empire size and/or culture points and they were "cheating" to balance things out or if they had faith stockpiled or what.

And I'm watching the PotatoMcWhiskey tutorial videos for new players, there is a LOT of things I didn't see and didn't do in the game that he explained, thanks @BlackHammer for the tip, loving his videos, it's hard for me to watch new videos but he explains very clearly and I really liked him, thanks again everyone for the tips!