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Yeah they got rid of the global happiness, which frankly didn't make sense why one city falling apart would wreck all your cities on the other side of the map or why how your cities getting conquered would make your civ happier (the game logic was that you were losing the dead weight). And in molar's defense, it created that meta (in vanilla civ vi) where you could just spam cities. That was fixed with the first expansion, which added the pressure/loyalty system which is a pretty organic counterbalance by comparison. Now, you have to factor in external pressure when placing a city. Each city in the game exerts loyalty pressure on surrounding cities (iirc it was based on culture output and governor perks? it's been a while), the closer you are, the stronger the pressure is. If loyalty falls below a certain threshold, your city will just secede and become independent. If another civ's pressure reaches a certain threshold, that city will then join that civ. When a civ hits a golden age, their loyalty pressure goes up, and when they hit a dark age, their loyalty pressure crashes. So there's a whole subcomponent of the full game that remediates the vanilla city-spamming strat though quantifiable risk: I think the other thing molar is complaining about is how the cities were "unstacked" the way armies were unstacked in civ V. instead of just building everything in that one 'city center' tile, each of the production trees (religion/science/eco/military etc.) and wonders are placed on map tiles alongside the farms/mines/pastures etc. You no longer have the mega-capital that can build every single building and wonder, you're limited in the number of districts you can build based on the city's population so you have to be strategic in your city placement (think like "there are a bunch of mountains for a science buff, so this will be a science city to start" or "this city has a windy river perfect to max out the buffs for a market district"). The best part though is that when you build the buildings, they show up in their respective districts on the map! It's all color-coded so it's not visual clutter. Blue is science, pink culture, yellow eco, red military, orange is entertainment, rust is prouction, white religious, etc. It also makes espionage more interesting because you send your spy to a district on a mission related to that district. Classic 'steal a tech' from the science district, siphon gold from the eco district, sabotage the factories in the production district, temporarily reduce the city's loyalty (or if you're playing against civ 6 hater @molarbear, you send the spy to his dam to blow it up and flood his countryside). I think when you factor in the complete game (so that it's apples to apples), civ 6 is just a much more dynamic game than civ 5. To the extent that the civ development formula is 1/3 classic, 1/3 revised, and 1/3 new, I think they mostly went in the right direction on how to take a good game (civ V) and make it better (civ VI).

before it was "finished" with the big couple DLC packs, the purists looked down on it yeah. but that's like comparing apples and oranges I like civ 6 way better, it's such a dynamic game in comparison, but @molarbear is a big stinky doodoo head

happy birthday @jesus!

speel check has also been put off too

I've been sick with probably-covid since last Sunday so everything's been out of until tonight

I ascended to civ vi and the I had a child and have no time for that, I'm pretty sure that 2% was me accidentally opening civ VI instead of aoe IV a couple times because the buttons are right next to each other and look the same at a glance

I don't know, I can't see past the beard

I am traveling/in a complete state of disarray so prob good to leave it at even number

It's just a pre-installed news app that reported very honest news.

my money is on @GuyBeardmane

lol I gave my buddy a poffin and then I've been unable to log back in all day been getting the "unable to authenticate this account" error all day

E-eeeeeeeeeeeeze NUTZ gottem

happy birthdaykatt!

who is the boss at old mcdonald's farm? the C-I-E-I-O

the 'sports' tag might be identifiable enough but also pooh is the sportsboss

yes but how much are the prescription glasses after?

happy birthday cool dude xd

Narrator: he did an eblast later but forgot to include that

Do you have a deadline for sign-ups? I can do an eblast later but I'd have to include that

I finally did my first route yesterday. When they came out, my game would crash any time I tried to start a route so I just ignored the feature entirely.

This guy had an outstanding resume and I am shocked that he was available for the role.

Happy belated boardiversary, old man!

happy birthday @molarbear you son of a gun