It sounded like someone requested this series! It's always nice to have things like this, all the talk of a new Civilization game coming(don't know if they have confirmed it is Civ 7 or will be more of an offshoot like Beyond Earth) will make people interested in checking out the current game.
Me : Rerolling until I get spawned in an actually fun island that isn't that great I never get one that scratches the itch- often times when I get smth decent Turns out I settled in a way that only allows for one city instead of two- which is so annoying.
I rerolli till I get to the junction of three continents(so I get access to twelve luxury resources, or more if I'm lucky with what's on the coast) I always warmonger early game and try to get twelve luxury resources before medieval age, and this is a lot easier to do on deity difficulty.
@@slwrabbits Believe me, I understand. However, one of the funniest things I have seen is Potato roll an insanely good start on a live stream and then watch 2 hours of people begging for the map seed.
I introduced this game to my wife. She is interested so we are playing a chill game to get used to it, and immediately she said: Gotta catch them all. (Referring to wonders)
Oh man thats good . I was finally having something good going until a barbarian galley showed up and got my capital to 13 health but then i killed him with my slinger which was a bit far away
in my disaster 4 game and with barbarian clan turned on, they just straight up destroyed my second coastal city (I can do almost nothing because archer attack is weak on naval unit and my capital is inland)
They destroy your districts as well. I played first game and started war with England. Then all my cities were being attacked by barbarians at once making builds extend to rediculous lengths
I'm so happy to see CIV overexplained again! This is how I learned how to play Civ, and since I'm getting my friends to play too, this is a great video for me to send to them. Thank you so much potato, and I'm very grateful for this! Keep doing you!
Even as a veteran player I love watching beginner guide videos like this. it'd be really fun to watch you progressively move up in difficulty and introduce more advanced concepts
Playing Maya helped me understand how close should citys be, and how to play with strengths of a leader in mind, so I think Maya helps a lot with learning civ6
Maya, like Australia, Arabia, Maori, Kongo, Canada, Inca, and Portugal all have such unique rules it can build bad habits. There are some fundamental, nearly universal strategies that should be learned before you get into the more exceptional civs. Civs that just give boosts to something are better for beginners. Rome, England, Greece, China, Zulu, America, Japan, etc.
I feel like Scotland is a great civ is a great leader for learning this! You learn how important amenities and happiness are while having a leader that benefits more from it
Doesn't matter how long I've been playing this game. These are always my favorite. Always a good touch up on basic stuff that may have slipped my mind or learn something new
I remember playing Civ III about 20 years ago, knowing nothing about global strategy games, just enjoying to watch the little camels of the caravans moving across the map. I started playing Civ VI after almost 2 decades of not gaming strategy games around christmas last year and I got hooked again, but also pretty frustrated, because the game became so much more complex. I watched your series and many of your others vids and I’m really happy that you do this series. Yesterday I gave myself the “permission” to play Rome in Settler mode and I enjoyed having a really easy game where I achieved a science victory for the first time. Was it a bit too easy? maybe, but hearing you say in 22:10 that we play because it’s FUN really resonated with my experience. I don’t have to rush myself to higher modes when I’m not ready for them prove that I’m a “real” Civ gamer or that I do it “right”. By starting the game I AM all of these things and the fun should be the main thing. So thank you not only for your explanations but also for “life advice”, just wanted to let you know that you have a positive impact in more than just one way with these vids ☺️
Civ 6 has a really satisfying learning curve and the mechanics are really neat - it’s a great game to come back into the genre! The only thing I don’t like (and miss from the old civs) is the gamification of it. The old civs had the advisors, it was more … “political”. I thought more about influence spheres and boarders and how a decision affects different diplomatic relations; also the graphics added a more serious element to it. When you had your advisors talking, it really felt like you’re the president in a briefing room. That needs to come back! Now it’s more “gimmicks and adjacency planning - the game”.
Potato's the one that got me confident enough to win my first games at a difficulty greater than Chieftain. For that, I'll always recommend his tutorials!
I've had this game for like a couple years but never played. I suddenly started playing it last week and already racked up a hundred hours. Game is VERY addicting. discovered your channel around the same time I started playing and this video helps a lot to get the more basic functions.
Shoutout to the Empire screen for showing the yield of districts. 19:24 This is really handy to help newer players understand just how powerful well placed districts really are.
Honestly this is one of the major reasons I never play on higher difficulty than Prince, despite having ~2700h in the game. The game, to me, is at it's most fun in the beginning - why take away all of that just to have the AI cheat more? I can absolutely beat the Deity AI but I don't play the game to win, indeed - I very rarely play past the Renaissance Era. And why destroy the fun of early expansion, snagging the 'right' wonders or religion by playing on Deity?
I have many thousands of hours into the Civ franchise. I still don't consider myself an expert in any way, shape, or form. That depth is why we love this game, and I love these vids because the back to basics information is still good to hear, even for us old heads.
To be precise on city center yields: first it removes features such as woods or rainforest (not terrain or resources like hills or rice). Mind that the 1 production or food from a forest or rainforest *will* be lost on founding. All resource and terrain yields will stay. Second, it brings the food up so that the tile produces at least 2 food (it will never bring it down from 3 or more) Third, it likewise brings production up to at least 1 on the tile (it will never bring it down) Where possible, settle on tiles where you can take advantage of raising food/production to 2/1 and/or tiles that you always want to be working. Perhaps the most common example is plains hills tiles, where a city center will bring it from 1/2 to 2/2 (since founding does not bring terrain yields down). That extra production in the early game is very useful.
The best beginners guide out there. Trying to learn the game since it has been released on mobile. The game has been super fun to learn, enjoying every step of it!
Potato: "If you're a young kid, and you're relatively new to 4x games, I would even go as far as to play as Chieftain." Me, a 30 y/o who plays on Settler: "Ouch. My pride."
😅 I am right there with you, and I have the benefit of having played a lot of Civilization: Call to Power once upon a time. I was actually pretty good at that game, but now I'm in my 40s and refusing to try anything but Settler in Civ6. Holy heck, they ramped up the difficulty in the intervening years!
Ah. I’ve found my people 😂 I played the original civilization on a computer years ago because my uncle let me play it and I saw that it was for sale on ps4 and couldn’t help but buy it. I suck so bad but I’ve spent hooooouuuuuurrrrssssss and I’ve only had it for a few days 😂😂
Well, as a beginner to the genre, this feels quite advanced! I will need to re-watch this a few times, while at the same time just play and experiment. I have played a few games by now, all quite random and sometimes frantic, so this will hope fully help me get a more stable start. Looking forward to learning more!
I can’t even imagine how much work a video like this is. And it’s so excellent! I have 3000 hours in civ and I’m still gonna watch the series anyway because I always learn new mechanics from Potato
I've been watching your videos forever and have been looking for a series like this that wasn't made 3+ years ago. You can't believe how happy this makes me!
Opening with “Over explained” as a title to the video is very correct. The super fast talking and explaining every random little thing tickles my adhd brain
Fantastic. I really got into Civ6 a few years ago with your Arabia overexplained series, and I always find them to be some of the most enjoyable to watch.
Thanks so much for these videos! I've played civ games for nearly a decade, and I've always been terrible at them and kept myself playing on difficulties 1 and 2 because I always struggled to learn how the systems worked from the in-game tutorials. I've improved more spending a few hours with your videos than in couple hundred hours I had played on my own. I have plenty to learn still, but I'm feeling way more confident going into level 3 and 4 games :)
For beginers: The Godess of the river pantheon is quite good if you have troube managing your cities and keeping them loyal and happy - when I was starting to play Civ 6 it always helped me to keepp my cites loyal beacouse I had a lot of problems with getting ameneties.
I know this video is almost a year old, but if you're making a video for newcomers or people wanting to learn the game better you should probably tell us some of the more basic hotkeys. 3:10 You say to activate tile yealds but how are we supposed to know how to do that?
You are an amazing potato, thank you for this guide. Just picked the game up after having been away from any Civ games for several years. Very helpful!
Thank you! I bought the game a few weeks ago but I've more or less been in the dark and trying to learn on my own. This def helps out as a newer player. :)
As a console player I definitely agree with the recommendation of small to standard map sizes. Not just with slowing down the system but navigating the map with your cursor is also a bit more tedious on console since you can’t just point and click. I don’t think he mentions it in this video but turning off battle and movement animations really speeds things up too. Love the channel and this tutorial series! Really helped me learn what to look for and then teach myself through the game rather than just “here’s how to build an op civilization”.
If there would be an "oscar award" for best civ6 beginner playthrough culture victory, this would be the winner. Every single year. Great content, sir!
I have won the game on Deity difficulty multiple times and I'm still sitting here through a nearly hour long video for beginners and still getting value out of it because Potato's content is quality.
I discovered your channel 3 days ago. I have a friend starting the game and it made me want to play the game and your channel helped me a lot on getting better at the game (I started a Khmer game using some of your advices (mainly on how to develop my cities: chopping, farm triangles, building mine) and I've never had a better start).
I have played Civ games in the past but have never really gotten into them before. They seems very intimidating with all the information. Thanks for doing this video. I just started playing again and your tutorials really help me understand the game to become a better, more relaxed player. I'm really enjoying this game now. Please do more of this type of video.
Grew up on Civ 1 and 2. Played as far as Civ 3. I just decide to download 6 and I’m watching this video as it’s downloading to my Xbox. I’m excited to learn Civ all over again
I remember starting my first Civ6 game, having played a truckload of Civ3 thinking I'm good jumping right into Immortal difficulty. Needless to say, I got my lower back handed to me... But it was good fun, and I'm always down to watch a potato playing my old favorites again
Threre is one thing about urban planning and god king: urban planning scales with the number of cities you own, god king does not. So if you get your hands on a second city very early (Barbarossa e.g.) urban planning gets more valuable.
It doesnt matter how many Overexplained's you do Potato, or how Long I've been a sub they're always the uploads that excite me the most. 'Dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good' is a Core Philosophy of my *entire* life
I always think of amenities as happiness. Essentially the more amenities you have in a city the more productive and the higher growth rate of population. At 34:40 that was I think a forward settle. When AI does that they usually are preparing for war with you especially on Deity. He was talking smack like "leave the exploring to me" lol
I just started playing this game today (for the first time ever). I bought it long time ago. It wouldn't run on my old PC. I eventually forgot that I bought CIV6. I'm finally experiencing my first Sid Myers Civilization game. I'm lucky people like you still carry the torch Edit: My laptop tried to cook itself on turn 10. Soooo, I guess I'll have to wait even longer
@@tykes115 - I only have vanilla Civ6. I figured out how to make it run. I had to disable all the mods that were recommended by Potato McWhiskey. I most play with strategy view because my laptop runs smoother.
One of my first PC games was Civ 3 Complete Edition. I've got over 1k hours in Civ 6. I still watched this whole video XD. Great content. I'm certainly not the intended audience, but I learned a few things.
Damn, I picked up Civ6 a couple of weeks ago and have already played 2 single player and 2 multi player games. But there is so much in this video I had no idea about. Take my subscription.
I want another map that is a god tier start to be shared with the spuddies. Set up "episode 1" and let us submit our games to show how the game can diverge. Let us have the map number, civ, settings, and return the deity game at turn 100. Then feature a patreon for each win condition. Then do your playthrough?
Any noobs here, notice at the end he placed his Government Plaza in the capital. This was actually not usually the best play, and IMO not the best play in this playthrough given the situation. Sometimes it is all you can do, and if that's the case, then do it. What you'll find is that while Magnus is great at getting settlers chopped out from the capital early on without losing population, that population would benefit you more if you had Pingala in the city with Connoisseur and/or Researcher title/s. So early on, it's fine to lose some population or have settlers come out from there with Magnus there, great in the case of Rome here, but ideally after a couple of settlers are chopped out, you should put you Government Plaza in your 2nd or 3rd city (on a tile that is not adjacent to any lake, coast, oasis, geothermal fissure, natural wonder, volcano or mountain - and preferably not your city either), where there are a lot of forests, stone and/or rainforests to chop (these are among the things your 2nd or 3rd city should be settled near) and then put Magnus in there and Pingala in the capital. That achieves 2 things. 1 is that the capital, as the (usually) most populous city, will generate the most benefit from Pingala, because Pingala generates significant science and culture from population (the higher the population, the more that governor generates, and therefore if your capital's pop is only 3 or 4, this is not an issue, whereas with 7 population it is). 2nd, Magnus in the same city as the Government Plaza will allow that city to not lose population and chop out settlers extremely quickly if you elect to place the Ancestral Hall government building in the Plaza. That's because the Hall gives a 50% bonus to production towards settlers. This combined with Magnus' 50% extra yield chops and the Colonization policy will likely give you instant settlers for each chop you do. For Rome in particular, the Hall is an extremely strong choice if there is room to expand a lot. There are definitely games where the Hall isn't the one to go for, and they are when you do not have the room to expand with settlers without razing enemy cities or sailing across oceans to vacant land, either because your land mass is too small or the AI civs are very close to you. If that is the case, then it doesn't matter nearly as much where your Plaza goes because your capital will not focus on settlers. The Hall is the best government building, mainly because a free builder in every settled city is an extremely strong benefit. But when you think that's going to have a low output because you can't settle many cities due to constraints, choose Warlord's Throne if you are going to invade nearby civs, and choose Audience Chamber when your constraint is only the size of your land mass and inability to reach new landmasses on water (for this, minimum, you'd need the Shipbuilding technology). Anyway, bottom line, if you're keeping Magnus in your capital so you don't lose population from building settlers and trying to benefit from an Ancestral Hall, you're costing yourself a lot of science and culture from Pingala. By all means, claim the land early on using Magnus with Provision to speed up settler production in the capital, but switch him out for Pingala around the time you've got your Plaza down in one of your expands. This is all general advice, and remember, the right thing to do in this game relates heavily to the situation at hand based on the information you have available (much like poker), so be ready to react and change your plans as the situation changes rather than rigidly sticking to one plan no matter what. I will say in this playthrough, PMW may not be planning on Ancestral Hall, even though he wants it, because now he's got his 3 cities down, he doesn't see much room to expand with Norway and Sweden, those mountains and that city state blocking him, which makes the Plaza in the capital less of an issue, but it is definitely an issue that Magnus hasn't been moved yet for Pingala, although perhaps one that can't be fixed without more governor titles. For more governor titles, he needs the Plaza built, and my bet is once that's done, we'll see Pingala in the capital, Warlord's Throne will be built for another governor title, and by that point he'll have got the Defensive Tactics civic for another one, so he'll then be ready to have Pingala giving him that huge output of science and culture in the capital, where he will remain for the rest of the game.
Hey PotatoMcWhiskey, I played a full day and lost before I made it out of the medieval era. I was tempted to just play again because I thought I did good, but when I saw that I had the lowest score I was kinda upset. So now I'm gonna spend a full day watching you dominate Civ 6.😁 This really is helping me, thanks.👍
For the governor you might want to always swap pingala woth magnus early game. He has the promotion to prevent settlers from sucking up population, which makes them really cheap and powerfull. No matter the victory you chose, pumping out at least about 10 cities early gives you way more resources
Me too! Every time I get all fired up and get a new save file started, and then I get trashed by barbarians because I didn't listen and did not build enough military units. So then I start the video again and pass out somewhere in the middle.
The Tier 1 Classical Republic government has the downside for beginners that it lacks a Red Military policy card slot. You end up having to use your valuable Wildcard slot if you want/need to use any Military cards (to fight barbs, to build units, to upgrade units, to plug in Veterancy for Harbours and Encampments, to plug in Conscription to fund early wars). The Autocracy government is more beginner friendly IMO. While the perks are more meh, having one of each colour of Policy slot allows better balance and flexibility, making it as easy as picking the best card at any given time from each colour category.
This was incredibly useful. I've played Civ 6 on and off for ages but really muddled my way through so hearing the sorts of things you're thinking about and learning tips (like the slinger -> archer thing) was excellent. Off to create a new game now!
Thanks for the video. As a new player to the game I start in single player and straight into the game without setting.. it’s kinda ruined my experience cause Donno how the game work and lose the game without knowing what happening. It’s frustrating. Your tutorial help 👍🏻
The video needs a disclaimer "make sure you have 72 hours blocked off to play" lol. I jest, sorta. I enjoy your channel and somehow missed these videos. Thanks for them.
I think you had one of these overexplained videos like 5 years ago that first drew me to your channel. These are such high quality even for people with thousands of hours, but I learned so much from that first series. Love your videos!
I just started playing (started a save COMPLETELY wrong put 3 hrs into it) watched this vid and now I see what did I wrong so far, basically everythnig lol. It is a helpful video man thanks
Thanks to many of your videos I finally won a Deity game after many close games. Biosphere Hamurrabi tourisme with a Delicate Arch start and lots of rivers for the Lady of the Reeds and Marshes, ended up quite a fun game.
I can't quite tell if I'm getting my arse kicked or not, so I keep restarting trying to get one up on the AI, and then settling worse and worse cities.
This video was so awesome, you've earned yourself my Subscribe and Like. I was regretting buying Civ 6, it seemed so complicated (and it is still) but your simple, direct and useful tips are making this a lot more understandable and fun.
Mr. McWhiskey, I would love a deep dive on the government plaza district. In my play, I recognize that it is valuable, and often try to build it, but I struggle with the timing of when to build it, how to maximize the usefulness of its adjacency bonuses, and other such things.
Guilty for early comment but i would actually recommend early slinger build over early warrior build because ranged attacks means u aren't bartering hp with ur enemy, ur just hurting them for free
Watching Potato over explain things brought me from getting regularly beat by the ai on immortal, to basically curb stomping them at sub 225 wins on Deity. I’m at the point now where I try funny meme plays on deity just to give myself the extra challenge. Thanks Potato!
I'm only 2 minutes in but I'm really happy this video is happening. I've been playing a lot recently and gotten ok at the game, but there are still fundamentals that I feel elude me. Plus, rome is my favorite civ by far BECAUSE of it's simplicity and potential to go for any type of victory.
Halfway through : The wat potato explains the game in this video makes it SO much fun. A really great entry point for beginners and just makes me enjoy the game even more.
I have been playing Civ since the original, so Civ 6 has been the most difficult for me to comprehend. I have considered it as not being suitable for geriatrics, however, this new guide of yours can be the turning point to change my mind, thanks.
Thank you for saying what my thoughts were thinking. Original Civilization player here, nearing my 71st year on the planet (Earth, for clarification purposes) and I love the Civ Series, until CIV6 - and my advancing years - discovered each other in the fog. PotatoMcWhiskey is always my Go To Civ Potato.
The first 2 eras of the game are the most fun imo. After that it's much more micromanaging what you've already done. Not entirely, I still enjoy it all the way through
Might be something you mention in a later video in this series, but it took me forever to understand district limits, how population affects them, and how the housing hard pop limit works. I only really properly figured it all out when I sat down and decided to try to get the District 12 achievement.
I've played hundreds of hours of civ, watched tons of potato vids, I know all this, this video is not for me... And yet I love watching stuff like this
I just started playing and understanding the game by myself and after so many turns I was still at Renaissance era and my opponents were already at Modern Era 😂 so here I am and thank you so much for this guide
Potatoe: I have 50 million power in the ancient area because I chose Rome and have Trajan as my leader Poland is my fav for civ 6, love the commercial zones and just extra benefits to defensive and religious stuff
@@corphish8 I'll play deity with a couple of cheat mods giving me 5000 gold, extra builders, scouts and settlers but i don't like it as much as playing non cheated games at a lower level. It's all about enjoying it, after all.
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Rome may not have been built in a day, but it was settled in a turn.
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Nice. "The best time to plant a tree is today".
Lol love this
after 2 times rerolling because its location was deemed too good
@@DerZocker2000000in the days where Italy could afford a handicap 😂
Civ 6: came out 7 years ago.
Potato: here is how you start a new game.
Appreciate the continuing love on this game tho!
It sounded like someone requested this series! It's always nice to have things like this, all the talk of a new Civilization game coming(don't know if they have confirmed it is Civ 7 or will be more of an offshoot like Beyond Earth) will make people interested in checking out the current game.
Its also somewhat due to the expansions isn't it?
I've played this game for 6 years now. Never knew about the bonus resource on city settlement. 😂 Does it apply to luxury resources as well?
@@NoorAnomaly Yes and you get this luxury even you dont have required tech .
It's perfect for me. I started playing this two weeks ago!
Game: Settle across this floodable river!
New Player: Ok! (Moves Settler over river and ends turn)
*1000 year flood*
*You have been defeated*
164 likes and no comments let me fix that
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That awkward moment when the game notifies you that a player has been defeated on turn 2
Hahaa I think I will rage if that Happens to me 😂
@@DaRealLunarVoid the DLC version was on sale for me :)
Potato; "People reroll to get really good starting areas"
Proceed to reroll for a crappier starting area
Me : Rerolling until I get spawned in an actually fun island that isn't that great
I never get one that scratches the itch- often times when I get smth decent Turns out I settled in a way that only allows for one city instead of two- which is so annoying.
I rerolli till I get to the junction of three continents(so I get access to twelve luxury resources, or more if I'm lucky with what's on the coast) I always warmonger early game and try to get twelve luxury resources before medieval age, and this is a lot easier to do on deity difficulty.
To be fair this is an instructional video. It can be difficult to instruct if you are dealt an auto-win hand.
@@winoodlesnoodles1984True, but he didn't need to let us know he was rerolling ... rubs in a newbie's bad luck a little 😢
@@slwrabbits Believe me, I understand. However, one of the funniest things I have seen is Potato roll an insanely good start on a live stream and then watch 2 hours of people begging for the map seed.
I introduced this game to my wife. She is interested so we are playing a chill game to get used to it, and immediately she said: Gotta catch them all. (Referring to wonders)
You lucky, lucky human! Cheers!
@@Moose00019 and here in the world there is one more player on China)
😂😂😂
22:18
You should mention that barbarians cant destroy your capital city, but they can attack new settlements successfully.
I still feel the pain..
Oh, how I hate Barbarians! Thanks for the reminder on their bad behavior. ...
I just discovered that they can capture unescorted settlers. *sob*
Oh man thats good . I was finally having something good going until a barbarian galley showed up and got my capital to 13 health but then i killed him with my slinger which was a bit far away
in my disaster 4 game and with barbarian clan turned on, they just straight up destroyed my second coastal city (I can do almost nothing because archer attack is weak on naval unit and my capital is inland)
They destroy your districts as well. I played first game and started war with England. Then all my cities were being attacked by barbarians at once making builds extend to rediculous lengths
Amazing how despite playing this game for 7 years Potato still manages to teach me stuff I didn’t know.
I'm so happy to see CIV overexplained again! This is how I learned how to play Civ, and since I'm getting my friends to play too, this is a great video for me to send to them. Thank you so much potato, and I'm very grateful for this! Keep doing you!
For sure! I am starting the game after a long break of playing Rome and love these videos to learn new ideas great content
Even as a veteran player I love watching beginner guide videos like this. it'd be really fun to watch you progressively move up in difficulty and introduce more advanced concepts
@@abdulbasith6842 no because then the politicians will try to spam out settlers and build all the mines everywhere
i agree so much. also i swear i learn something new about civ everytime i watch potato
Playing Maya helped me understand how close should citys be, and how to play with strengths of a leader in mind, so I think Maya helps a lot with learning civ6
Yeah, i think thats a good point. You see that in his recent series aswell.
but the housing thing is totally different
Maya, like Australia, Arabia, Maori, Kongo, Canada, Inca, and Portugal all have such unique rules it can build bad habits. There are some fundamental, nearly universal strategies that should be learned before you get into the more exceptional civs.
Civs that just give boosts to something are better for beginners. Rome, England, Greece, China, Zulu, America, Japan, etc.
I feel like Scotland is a great civ is a great leader for learning this! You learn how important amenities and happiness are while having a leader that benefits more from it
maya are a gimmick civ and too focused on the tall playstyle, id say if you want to learn science victory, just play korea
Doesn't matter how long I've been playing this game. These are always my favorite. Always a good touch up on basic stuff that may have slipped my mind or learn something new
Big props and respect to potato for always preaching fun when playing games!! Too many people take games way to seriously nowadays
I remember playing Civ III about 20 years ago, knowing nothing about global strategy games, just enjoying to watch the little camels of the caravans moving across the map. I started playing Civ VI after almost 2 decades of not gaming strategy games around christmas last year and I got hooked again, but also pretty frustrated, because the game became so much more complex. I watched your series and many of your others vids and I’m really happy that you do this series. Yesterday I gave myself the “permission” to play Rome in Settler mode and I enjoyed having a really easy game where I achieved a science victory for the first time. Was it a bit too easy? maybe, but hearing you say in 22:10 that we play because it’s FUN really resonated with my experience. I don’t have to rush myself to higher modes when I’m not ready for them prove that I’m a “real” Civ gamer or that I do it “right”. By starting the game I AM all of these things and the fun should be the main thing. So thank you not only for your explanations but also for “life advice”, just wanted to let you know that you have a positive impact in more than just one way with these vids ☺️
I just gave myself permission to do the same thing. Fun is fun is fun!
Civ 6 has a really satisfying learning curve and the mechanics are really neat - it’s a great game to come back into the genre!
The only thing I don’t like (and miss from the old civs) is the gamification of it. The old civs had the advisors, it was more … “political”. I thought more about influence spheres and boarders and how a decision affects different diplomatic relations; also the graphics added a more serious element to it. When you had your advisors talking, it really felt like you’re the president in a briefing room. That needs to come back! Now it’s more “gimmicks and adjacency planning - the game”.
Potato's the one that got me confident enough to win my first games at a difficulty greater than Chieftain. For that, I'll always recommend his tutorials!
I've had this game for like a couple years but never played. I suddenly started playing it last week and already racked up a hundred hours. Game is VERY addicting. discovered your channel around the same time I started playing and this video helps a lot to get the more basic functions.
Shoutout to the Empire screen for showing the yield of districts. 19:24 This is really handy to help newer players understand just how powerful well placed districts really are.
potato gets salty when AI steals his colluseum,... starts a prince game with the plan to build wonders for fun ;D Great video and well explained
Honestly this is one of the major reasons I never play on higher difficulty than Prince, despite having ~2700h in the game.
The game, to me, is at it's most fun in the beginning - why take away all of that just to have the AI cheat more?
I can absolutely beat the Deity AI but I don't play the game to win, indeed - I very rarely play past the Renaissance Era. And why destroy the fun of early expansion, snagging the 'right' wonders or religion by playing on Deity?
I have many thousands of hours into the Civ franchise. I still don't consider myself an expert in any way, shape, or form. That depth is why we love this game, and I love these vids because the back to basics information is still good to hear, even for us old heads.
@@rickb6694 have you beaten diety?
To be precise on city center yields: first it removes features such as woods or rainforest (not terrain or resources like hills or rice). Mind that the 1 production or food from a forest or rainforest *will* be lost on founding. All resource and terrain yields will stay.
Second, it brings the food up so that the tile produces at least 2 food (it will never bring it down from 3 or more)
Third, it likewise brings production up to at least 1 on the tile (it will never bring it down)
Where possible, settle on tiles where you can take advantage of raising food/production to 2/1 and/or tiles that you always want to be working.
Perhaps the most common example is plains hills tiles, where a city center will bring it from 1/2 to 2/2 (since founding does not bring terrain yields down). That extra production in the early game is very useful.
Thank you, that helped clarify things for me a lot.
I’ve been watching your videos for about a year and playing for a few years. Still learning every video from you. Thanks for the great content
In terms of scouting I usually have them follow rivers, to reveal the ideal areas to settle, it also can give tactical defensive advantage from barbs.
The best beginners guide out there. Trying to learn the game since it has been released on mobile. The game has been super fun to learn, enjoying every step of it!
The fact potato is willing to make updated explanation videos is legit. He could easily just say “I’ve made those and refer back” good on you buddy.
Potato: "If you're a young kid, and you're relatively new to 4x games, I would even go as far as to play as Chieftain."
Me, a 30 y/o who plays on Settler: "Ouch. My pride."
😅 I am right there with you, and I have the benefit of having played a lot of Civilization: Call to Power once upon a time. I was actually pretty good at that game, but now I'm in my 40s and refusing to try anything but Settler in Civ6. Holy heck, they ramped up the difficulty in the intervening years!
I’m 57 and I started on chieftain 😂
Ah. I’ve found my people 😂 I played the original civilization on a computer years ago because my uncle let me play it and I saw that it was for sale on ps4 and couldn’t help but buy it. I suck so bad but I’ve spent hooooouuuuuurrrrssssss and I’ve only had it for a few days 😂😂
Well, as a beginner to the genre, this feels quite advanced! I will need to re-watch this a few times, while at the same time just play and experiment. I have played a few games by now, all quite random and sometimes frantic, so this will hope fully help me get a more stable start. Looking forward to learning more!
I can’t even imagine how much work a video like this is. And it’s so excellent! I have 3000 hours in civ and I’m still gonna watch the series anyway because I always learn new mechanics from Potato
I've been watching your videos forever and have been looking for a series like this that wasn't made 3+ years ago. You can't believe how happy this makes me!
Opening with “Over explained” as a title to the video is very correct. The super fast talking and explaining every random little thing tickles my adhd brain
Fantastic. I really got into Civ6 a few years ago with your Arabia overexplained series, and I always find them to be some of the most enjoyable to watch.
I’ve played since CIV1 and have thousands of CIV hours. I’ll still watch this.
Thanks so much for these videos! I've played civ games for nearly a decade, and I've always been terrible at them and kept myself playing on difficulties 1 and 2 because I always struggled to learn how the systems worked from the in-game tutorials. I've improved more spending a few hours with your videos than in couple hundred hours I had played on my own. I have plenty to learn still, but I'm feeling way more confident going into level 3 and 4 games :)
For beginers:
The Godess of the river pantheon is quite good if you have troube managing your cities and keeping them loyal and happy - when I was starting to play Civ 6 it always helped me to keepp my cites loyal beacouse I had a lot of problems with getting ameneties.
Having a problem with amenities now too lol I am very lucky that I grabbed the one u said by accident early on lol
It took me a while to realize this doesn't work for me because I forget to build holy sites - whoops?
I tend to go the religion route and then get stuppas to get that +1
I know this video is almost a year old, but if you're making a video for newcomers or people wanting to learn the game better you should probably tell us some of the more basic hotkeys. 3:10 You say to activate tile yealds but how are we supposed to know how to do that?
@@CDL_Gaming thank you I'm already lost lol
It's fucking "Y" I had to necro a reddit post, because Google is dumfuck.
You are an amazing potato, thank you for this guide. Just picked the game up after having been away from any Civ games for several years. Very helpful!
Thank you! I bought the game a few weeks ago but I've more or less been in the dark and trying to learn on my own. This def helps out as a newer player. :)
As a console player I definitely agree with the recommendation of small to standard map sizes. Not just with slowing down the system but navigating the map with your cursor is also a bit more tedious on console since you can’t just point and click. I don’t think he mentions it in this video but turning off battle and movement animations really speeds things up too. Love the channel and this tutorial series! Really helped me learn what to look for and then teach myself through the game rather than just “here’s how to build an op civilization”.
If there would be an "oscar award" for best civ6 beginner playthrough culture victory, this would be the winner. Every single year. Great content, sir!
I have won the game on Deity difficulty multiple times and I'm still sitting here through a nearly hour long video for beginners and still getting value out of it because Potato's content is quality.
I discovered your channel 3 days ago. I have a friend starting the game and it made me want to play the game and your channel helped me a lot on getting better at the game (I started a Khmer game using some of your advices (mainly on how to develop my cities: chopping, farm triangles, building mine) and I've never had a better start).
+ where to settle, better judgement of what is around me
I have played Civ games in the past but have never really gotten into them before. They seems very intimidating with all the information. Thanks for doing this video. I just started playing again and your tutorials really help me understand the game to become a better, more relaxed player. I'm really enjoying this game now. Please do more of this type of video.
Grew up on Civ 1 and 2. Played as far as Civ 3. I just decide to download 6 and I’m watching this video as it’s downloading to my Xbox. I’m excited to learn Civ all over again
Gotta love that each time a new Potato video comes out my desire to pick up Civ VI again rises tremendously!
I have over 1600 hours in this game and I still love watching potato’s tutorials. There’s still so much to learn about this game
I remember starting my first Civ6 game, having played a truckload of Civ3 thinking I'm good jumping right into Immortal difficulty. Needless to say, I got my lower back handed to me... But it was good fun, and I'm always down to watch a potato playing my old favorites again
Threre is one thing about urban planning and god king: urban planning scales with the number of cities you own, god king does not. So if you get your hands on a second city very early (Barbarossa e.g.) urban planning gets more valuable.
I love how often you just say "its not the because its good, but because its fun". Love this guide, looking forward to see more of it
Just got back to playing civ 6 and have been getting wrecked, needed a big refresher after all of these dlcs and updates. Very helpful, thank you.
I tend to do slinger, worker, settler. And my first tech is always mining. The more production the faster your stuff is built.
Funny, I’ve played Rome almost exclusively since release. Your suggestion was like sudden enlightenment why that’s the case.
It doesnt matter how many Overexplained's you do Potato, or how Long I've been a sub they're always the uploads that excite me the most. 'Dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good' is a Core Philosophy of my *entire* life
I always think of amenities as happiness. Essentially the more amenities you have in a city the more productive and the higher growth rate of population. At 34:40 that was I think a forward settle. When AI does that they usually are preparing for war with you especially on Deity. He was talking smack like "leave the exploring to me" lol
I just started playing this game today (for the first time ever). I bought it long time ago. It wouldn't run on my old PC. I eventually forgot that I bought CIV6. I'm finally experiencing my first Sid Myers Civilization game. I'm lucky people like you still carry the torch
Edit: My laptop tried to cook itself on turn 10. Soooo, I guess I'll have to wait even longer
u gotta get a pc homie laptops suck
@@tykes115 - I only have vanilla Civ6. I figured out how to make it run. I had to disable all the mods that were recommended by Potato McWhiskey. I most play with strategy view because my laptop runs smoother.
One of my first PC games was Civ 3 Complete Edition. I've got over 1k hours in Civ 6. I still watched this whole video XD. Great content. I'm certainly not the intended audience, but I learned a few things.
An excellent tutorial, thank you! I love the approach of "this is how to think about doing stuff" instead of "you should do these things".
Honestly I don't care how the channel changes I will always love how Potato plays, play everything, it will all be enjoyable
Oh hot damn, I was just rewatching the old one! What a time to have this drop
Damn, I picked up Civ6 a couple of weeks ago and have already played 2 single player and 2 multi player games. But there is so much in this video I had no idea about. Take my subscription.
I want another map that is a god tier start to be shared with the spuddies. Set up "episode 1" and let us submit our games to show how the game can diverge. Let us have the map number, civ, settings, and return the deity game at turn 100. Then feature a patreon for each win condition.
Then do your playthrough?
Any noobs here, notice at the end he placed his Government Plaza in the capital. This was actually not usually the best play, and IMO not the best play in this playthrough given the situation. Sometimes it is all you can do, and if that's the case, then do it.
What you'll find is that while Magnus is great at getting settlers chopped out from the capital early on without losing population, that population would benefit you more if you had Pingala in the city with Connoisseur and/or Researcher title/s. So early on, it's fine to lose some population or have settlers come out from there with Magnus there, great in the case of Rome here, but ideally after a couple of settlers are chopped out, you should put you Government Plaza in your 2nd or 3rd city (on a tile that is not adjacent to any lake, coast, oasis, geothermal fissure, natural wonder, volcano or mountain - and preferably not your city either), where there are a lot of forests, stone and/or rainforests to chop (these are among the things your 2nd or 3rd city should be settled near) and then put Magnus in there and Pingala in the capital.
That achieves 2 things. 1 is that the capital, as the (usually) most populous city, will generate the most benefit from Pingala, because Pingala generates significant science and culture from population (the higher the population, the more that governor generates, and therefore if your capital's pop is only 3 or 4, this is not an issue, whereas with 7 population it is). 2nd, Magnus in the same city as the Government Plaza will allow that city to not lose population and chop out settlers extremely quickly if you elect to place the Ancestral Hall government building in the Plaza. That's because the Hall gives a 50% bonus to production towards settlers. This combined with Magnus' 50% extra yield chops and the Colonization policy will likely give you instant settlers for each chop you do. For Rome in particular, the Hall is an extremely strong choice if there is room to expand a lot.
There are definitely games where the Hall isn't the one to go for, and they are when you do not have the room to expand with settlers without razing enemy cities or sailing across oceans to vacant land, either because your land mass is too small or the AI civs are very close to you. If that is the case, then it doesn't matter nearly as much where your Plaza goes because your capital will not focus on settlers. The Hall is the best government building, mainly because a free builder in every settled city is an extremely strong benefit. But when you think that's going to have a low output because you can't settle many cities due to constraints, choose Warlord's Throne if you are going to invade nearby civs, and choose Audience Chamber when your constraint is only the size of your land mass and inability to reach new landmasses on water (for this, minimum, you'd need the Shipbuilding technology).
Anyway, bottom line, if you're keeping Magnus in your capital so you don't lose population from building settlers and trying to benefit from an Ancestral Hall, you're costing yourself a lot of science and culture from Pingala. By all means, claim the land early on using Magnus with Provision to speed up settler production in the capital, but switch him out for Pingala around the time you've got your Plaza down in one of your expands.
This is all general advice, and remember, the right thing to do in this game relates heavily to the situation at hand based on the information you have available (much like poker), so be ready to react and change your plans as the situation changes rather than rigidly sticking to one plan no matter what. I will say in this playthrough, PMW may not be planning on Ancestral Hall, even though he wants it, because now he's got his 3 cities down, he doesn't see much room to expand with Norway and Sweden, those mountains and that city state blocking him, which makes the Plaza in the capital less of an issue, but it is definitely an issue that Magnus hasn't been moved yet for Pingala, although perhaps one that can't be fixed without more governor titles. For more governor titles, he needs the Plaza built, and my bet is once that's done, we'll see Pingala in the capital, Warlord's Throne will be built for another governor title, and by that point he'll have got the Defensive Tactics civic for another one, so he'll then be ready to have Pingala giving him that huge output of science and culture in the capital, where he will remain for the rest of the game.
I greatly appreciate the explanation! But by the way ... what does everyone mean by chop?
Hey PotatoMcWhiskey, I played a full day and lost before I made it out of the medieval era. I was tempted to just play again because I thought I did good, but when I saw that I had the lowest score I was kinda upset. So now I'm gonna spend a full day watching you dominate Civ 6.😁 This really is helping me, thanks.👍
For the governor you might want to always swap pingala woth magnus early game. He has the promotion to prevent settlers from sucking up population, which makes them really cheap and powerfull.
No matter the victory you chose, pumping out at least about 10 cities early gives you way more resources
I've watched a few tutorial videos but this was by far the most helpful. You're a gentleman and a scholar
I kept falling asleep in front of this video, rewatching it for the third time haha. Giving you watch time 👍
Me too! Every time I get all fired up and get a new save file started, and then I get trashed by barbarians because I didn't listen and did not build enough military units. So then I start the video again and pass out somewhere in the middle.
Yes. Thank you. Just started playing again after years away. Nice refresher to get me in the right headspace.
The Tier 1 Classical Republic government has the downside for beginners that it lacks a Red Military policy card slot.
You end up having to use your valuable Wildcard slot if you want/need to use any Military cards (to fight barbs, to build units, to upgrade units, to plug in Veterancy for Harbours and Encampments, to plug in Conscription to fund early wars).
The Autocracy government is more beginner friendly IMO.
While the perks are more meh, having one of each colour of Policy slot allows better balance and flexibility, making it as easy as picking the best card at any given time from each colour category.
This was incredibly useful. I've played Civ 6 on and off for ages but really muddled my way through so hearing the sorts of things you're thinking about and learning tips (like the slinger -> archer thing) was excellent. Off to create a new game now!
I started with Civ Revolution, so I love the explanation to the complicatedness of Civ 6
Thanks for the video. As a new player to the game I start in single player and straight into the game without setting.. it’s kinda ruined my experience cause Donno how the game work and lose the game without knowing what happening. It’s frustrating. Your tutorial help 👍🏻
Having not played a Civ game since Civ II this is super helpful. Thank you!
i love your overexplained series - been playing for years and still learn things everytime... Thx!
The video needs a disclaimer "make sure you have 72 hours blocked off to play" lol. I jest, sorta. I enjoy your channel and somehow missed these videos. Thanks for them.
I think you had one of these overexplained videos like 5 years ago that first drew me to your channel. These are such high quality even for people with thousands of hours, but I learned so much from that first series. Love your videos!
Even as an experienced Civ player, I am always looking to improve my game. Love the videos!
I just started playing (started a save COMPLETELY wrong put 3 hrs into it) watched this vid and now I see what did I wrong so far, basically everythnig lol. It is a helpful video man thanks
Thanks to many of your videos I finally won a Deity game after many close games. Biosphere Hamurrabi tourisme with a Delicate Arch start and lots of rivers for the Lady of the Reeds and Marshes, ended up quite a fun game.
This video inspired me to play Civ 6 again after a few years. Your content is always solid.
Love this video. I’ve only finished a couple games on lowest difficulty. There are a lot of systems to maintain.
I can't quite tell if I'm getting my arse kicked or not, so I keep restarting trying to get one up on the AI, and then settling worse and worse cities.
This video was so awesome, you've earned yourself my Subscribe and Like. I was regretting buying Civ 6, it seemed so complicated (and it is still) but your simple, direct and useful tips are making this a lot more understandable and fun.
There was so much great information in this video that it should be considered a must watch upon purchasing Civ 6. Thank you.
I began my journey in civ 4.
Just found this on console last week.
I'm excited
How's it going so far?
"If you're a young kid" (lower the difficulty)
Potato not afraid to call it how it is! Having fun is more important than being the best!
Was never a tbs gamer. Civ 6 was on sale. Bought it and now im in love with it
Mr. McWhiskey, I would love a deep dive on the government plaza district. In my play, I recognize that it is valuable, and often try to build it, but I struggle with the timing of when to build it, how to maximize the usefulness of its adjacency bonuses, and other such things.
This, hands down, is the guide I have needed. I am actually taking notes. Thank you!!
Guilty for early comment but i would actually recommend early slinger build over early warrior build because ranged attacks means u aren't bartering hp with ur enemy, ur just hurting them for free
Watching Potato over explain things brought me from getting regularly beat by the ai on immortal, to basically curb stomping them at sub 225 wins on Deity. I’m at the point now where I try funny meme plays on deity just to give myself the extra challenge. Thanks Potato!
Love the guides, thanks!
I'm 40yo man and your vids are like ASMR for me. I often play them when I go to sleep ❤
I'm only 2 minutes in but I'm really happy this video is happening. I've been playing a lot recently and gotten ok at the game, but there are still fundamentals that I feel elude me. Plus, rome is my favorite civ by far BECAUSE of it's simplicity and potential to go for any type of victory.
Halfway through :
The wat potato explains the game in this video makes it SO much fun. A really great entry point for beginners and just makes me enjoy the game even more.
I'm very new to the game and the last video sounded like kermit the frog yelling, this is so much easier on the ears, thank you 🙂
I have been playing Civ since the original, so Civ 6 has been the most difficult for me to comprehend. I have considered it as not being suitable for geriatrics, however, this new guide of yours can be the turning point to change my mind, thanks.
Thank you for saying what my thoughts were thinking. Original Civilization player here, nearing my 71st year on the planet (Earth, for clarification purposes) and I love the Civ Series, until CIV6 - and my advancing years - discovered each other in the fog. PotatoMcWhiskey is always my Go To Civ Potato.
The first 2 eras of the game are the most fun imo. After that it's much more micromanaging what you've already done. Not entirely, I still enjoy it all the way through
I have never said this before, this was the best video ever made.
Explains so much - thanks 🙏😍
Might be something you mention in a later video in this series, but it took me forever to understand district limits, how population affects them, and how the housing hard pop limit works. I only really properly figured it all out when I sat down and decided to try to get the District 12 achievement.
I've played hundreds of hours of civ, watched tons of potato vids, I know all this, this video is not for me... And yet I love watching stuff like this
I just started playing and understanding the game by myself and after so many turns I was still at Renaissance era and my opponents were already at Modern Era 😂 so here I am and thank you so much for this guide
I love these indepth videos so much. Thanks dude. Never stop. I am learning so much from you.
Potatoe: I have 50 million power in the ancient area because I chose Rome and have Trajan as my leader
Poland is my fav for civ 6, love the commercial zones and just extra benefits to defensive and religious stuff
Even though I am a veteran player, there is always something to relearn when you cover the basics...great video
I've been playing civ 6 for years but still found this really helpful. Ive been playing civ since civ2
P.s. I'm shit at civ
800 hours logged and I dont play past King...
@@corphish8 I'll play deity with a couple of cheat mods giving me 5000 gold, extra builders, scouts and settlers but i don't like it as much as playing non cheated games at a lower level. It's all about enjoying it, after all.