Despite the above, I see no indication of access to the resource and I can't figure out what improvement I might need to build (if any) to get it. So, how do I harvest this strategic resource and more broadly, how does this system work in Civ6. In civ5, this all seemed automatic. It makes me wonder if there is a bug or something. Civilization 6 Gathering Storm is a few weeks away and developer Firaxis has new civilizations to show off. The civilizations coming with the expansion are a mix of new and ones from previous.

• Civ 5 Settling On Resource
• Civ 6 Settling Cities
• Civ 6 Settling On A Resource Map

SEE ALSO:Long-time fans will feel at home quickly, despite some major changes. Those who have always toyed with the idea of experimenting with the long-running strategy franchise will find a fantastic introduction in this installment. But in case you need a helping hand, we’ve got you covered with a set of tips to guide you through your first game. Understand the four victory conditionsIn every new Civilization game, Firaxis tweaks the ways you’ll conquer the world. There are four core victory conditions in Civilization VI: domination, science, culture, and religious. There is also a quiet fifth option based on score that only kicks in if you reach the year 2050 (500 turns) without a victor.Domination victory relies on military might.

Once you control every other nation’s capital as well as your own, the game is yours. Image: Firaxis GamesA science win requires you to research a number of late-game technologies, launch a satellite into space, put a man on the moon, and establish a colony on Mars. Each of these requires special construction projects, with the final step demanding three components that can only be built in cities with a spaceport.Cultural victories rely on building tourism cache and welcoming foreign tourists. This is generated with open border treaties, archaeological finds, great works of art, holy sites, unique wonders and national parks. The longer the game goes on, the harder this is to accomplish since you need to have more visitors than all of the domestic tourists combined in each of the other civs.Finally, Civilization VI adds a religious victory for the first time. Your path to victory is through the use of holy sites and religious agents like apostles, missionaries, and inquisitors. You need to convert at least half of every other civilization’s cities to your faith, in order to score this kind of win.

Founding a religion in Civilization VI is great fun, because you can call it anything you want. Pick a leader that suits your play styleOnce you understand the different ways to win, it’s important to choose one of the 20 leaders that fits your play style.If you’re new to the Civilization series, we’d recommend a science victory to start with. Culture is tricky, religion will likely send you to war, and domination is harder than it sounds, because big armies need robust infrastructure.For that reason, you might consider Russia.

Peter I (sometimes known as Peter the Great) is a science and culture leech. Trade routes (more on them later) can bring in additional science from any culture that is more advanced than Russia. Just be careful that Peter’s rapid land grabs don’t raise the ire of your neighbors.Other good options for science victories are Arabia and Saladin (combining faith and technology) and Sumeria and Gilgamesh (whose ziggurats produce additional science along rivers).Science victories allow you to secure your borders with a modest military while focusing on technologies and district improvements that serve your end game. This is also a great way to experiment with the diplomacy system, as making friends with other leaders will help keep you safe. Using negotiations, you can trade for technologies you’d rather not waste turns researching yourself. Image: FIRAXIS GAMESYou’ll also want to make sure that your relationships with other civilizations give you access to crucial commodities you can’t harvest on your own.

If you need oil or steel, but them isn’t available within your borders, you’ll have to trade for them with other leaders.A science victory lets you get your feet wet. Next time out, you can be the bully on the block, preach the gospel to the rest of the world or welcome the world’s tourists with open arms.

Choose your first city location carefully (but don’t dawdle)Each Civilization game starts you off with a settler and a soldier. You’ll want to be near water when you put down roots, whether that’s a river or an ocean (definitely the latter if your leader and civ focus on sailing, like Norway and Harald Hadrada or Victoria and England).Don’t take too long to find the perfect place to found your empire. Get it done in the first two turns unless you’re dropped into a miserable wasteland.Settling near water is important for any civ to promote population growth. Each new citizen allows you to “work” one additional tile in your borders. You can choose to micromanage the tiles on which your city focuses or let the game deal with that (we recommend leaving that alone until you get comfortable).It’s important to have a healthy food supply nearby that you can cultivate into farms with builder units later. The best way to determine this is to turn the yield overlay on (and leave it on).The minimap on the lower left features four icons, choose the one second from the left and enable all three checkmarks (you might later wish to turn off resource icons and grid lines, but the yield icons remain helpful).Corn represents food, gears represent production and music notes represent culture. For now, focus on food and production, which helps you complete building assignments faster.

Know when to send settlers out into the wildEventually, you’re going to need more cities. Your population will hit a point at which growth stagnates.Before you hit that point, build a settler and send them out to found a new home. It’s time to start considering expansion when you hit four or five population, but don’t disrupt your build queue if your current project is almost done.Be sure to attach a military escort to your vulnerable settlers. You don’t want barbarians or an enemy civilization to capture or kill it. When looking for a good spot, try to nab valuable resources, and settle against rivers, hills or mountains.

Diversify your cities. Image: FIRAXIS GAMESYou don’t want carbon copy cities.

Each new metropolis should have a role to play in your growing empire.You can prioritize culture and trade in one and production in another. Your coastal cities can pump out naval units, while a well-fortified, centrally located city can be used to train up military and dispatch them to other areas of your territory.As you play more, you’ll get a natural feel for how to specialize cities. To start with, just know that some cities don’t need certain districts. If you’re generating gold, there’s no need to focus on production-boosting improvements, for instance.Don’t take the cookie cutter approach. Trying to do everything in every city is the quickest way to waste time and money.

It’s a distraction from pursuing your victory. Don’t ignore your armed forcesEven if you are the most passive leader the world has ever known, you can’t ignore military forces. Eventually, you’re going to find yourself in a situation that requires a sword or gun, and it might be through no direct fault of your own.Sometimes the AI will settle close to you and get huffy about your naturally expanding borders.

Civ 5 Settling On Resource

Other times, you’ll send an emissary to a city-state and draw the ire of a leader on the outs with that settlement. You don’t always know how leaders will react to your moves, and sometimes, they’ll surprise you with a declaration of war.You don’t need to biggest, baddest military to force your aggressor to sue for peace. You just need enough units to patrol the borders, rattle their sabers, and scare off anyone who thinks you might be a pushover.If you do run into a situation like this and navigate it well, you might find your coffers full with your opponent’s gold as they try to extricate from a losing conflict. City-states can be valuable alliesEarly on, the first non-barbarians you are likely to encounter are AI-driven city-states. You can be the neighborhood bully and take them by force. Or, if you are looking for a peaceful relationship, you can build trade routes, send emissaries, and foster a relationship.Every envoy you send contributes to city-state specific bonuses. This helps you target which are most important to your victory condition.More importantly, if you’ve got the most influence, you can temporarily command the city-state’s military forces.

If you find yourself in a bind, this can be a good way to discourage enemies from stepping over your border. Make the most of trade routes. Image: FIRAXIS GAMESTrade routes are your friends. This bears repeating. Trade routes. Friends.In previous Civilization games, players had to tediously task workers to build roads.

It wasn’t enjoyable, and it didn’t always work quite right. In Civ VI, roads between cities are automatically constructed along trade routes.These speed movement, negating terrain penalties and, in the case of war, getting vital military units to their destination before it’s too late.

Trade routes also deliver food, gold, production and culture, giving you a lifeline between your people and allies, or simply moving your domestic goods around the map more easily.Especially if you’re going for a cultural victory, you’re going to want to send your caravans to as many cities as possible. Make friends, because you’ll definitely make enemiesUnless you set out to rule the world with an iron fist, chances are you’re spending the early game laying the foundation for a game that’s more a race than a boxing match.

You might be able to go the whole game without a war, but it’s unlikely. You’re going to piss someone off, and have to rapidly put yourself on a war footing as a result.Your goal at that point is to make the situation untenable for your aggressor as fast as possible. The best way to do that? Make friends.Spend some time in the diplomacy menu. Try to negotiate open borders with leaders that aren’t predisposed to warmongering, strike trade agreements, and raise your rapport to the “friendship” level.Once you’ve done that, any AI that declares war on you is going to find themselves with a fight on two fronts.

If you do end up in a scrap at that point, chances are your combined might will give you a path to end the conflict in relatively short order. You don’t need every technologyEarlier, we recommended that you specialize your cities. Now, in our final tip, we’re suggesting you apply that same philosophy to your entire empire.Technologies take time to research. Every time you choose a tech that doesn’t unlock a building, district, or unit that serves the victory you’re pursuing, you’re burning valuable turns (sometimes 40 or 50 of them). Once you learn how to play, you can choose your next tech from a list that appears on the left side of the screen.When you are getting your Civ legs, open the tech tree every time.

Get a feel for what your options are and what they, in turn, make available for research. It’s not only ok to plan out your next three or four choices, but advisable. In fact, if you have a target in mind, you can select it on the tree and the game will research the prerequisites in order without interruption.Later on, you might find that you need an earlier tech to reach one you need. This is a perfect time for diplomacy.In addition to units, great works of art, gold and resources, you can request that other leaders impart their wisdom. Sometimes, this is the fastest way to convert your gold surplus into science. There’s no shame in paying for it.Civilization VI is out today, October 21, for PC.Topics:,.

HOVER FOR DETAILS! Today popped up and started some discussion about settling on top of resources. Most civilization players have heard of the tenet 'don't settle on resources', and sometimes you also hear 'always settle on the worst tile' being said. However, nobody seems to be exactly sure why either of these things are wise or not.First things to get out of the way: Settling on a resource will always get you the resource as if it was improved, provided you have the technology for that improvement. This includes being able to build Stone Works / Stable etc. If you settled on stone / horses etc.An often heard argument, as pointed out by in the thread, is that you miss out on the improvement that could be placed on that tile.

However, as correctly points out, settling on grassland costs you a farm just as settling on stone costs you a quarry. This means you simply trade off one for the other: and you could consider getting an extra fresh water farm (medieval +1 food) instead of a goldmine. (industrial +1 production)After doing some testing and reading around, the real reason appears to be city yields. A city tile will always yield at least 2 food and 1 production. This means that:. Any flatland city tile, regardless of biome, will yield 2 food 1 prod. Any hill city tile (exept snow) will yield 2 food 2 prod.This is where the 'always settle on the worst tile' tenet comes from: even a flat desert tile becomes 2 food 1 prod with a city.Looking at this minimum yield effect in combination with resources the source of the confusion becomes clear.

Civ 6 Settling Cities

While the minimum city yield effect will always improve regular tiles in some way, (+1 prod on grasslands, +1 food on plains, +2 food on hills, etc.) this is not always the case with resources. As an example look at grassland cattle:. Base yield: 3 food. With pasture: 3 food 1 prod. With pasture + stable: 3 food 2 prod. With city: 3 food 1 prod.

With city + stable: 3 food 1 prodBecause of the minimum 1 production for a city tile, the 1 production gained from a stable is lost. After running the numbers on all the combinations of resources / biomes / features I have come to the following conclusions regarding settling on resources. Note that these numbers assume you make use of buildings like the Stable / Mint etc. And aim at maximum city potential.

Settling on the worst tile still holds true. You cannot go wrong with making a 2/1 tile out of a useless desert. The importance of this is amplified when you intend to use all tiles available to the city.

Civ 6 Settling On A Resource Map

Even when settling on resources, the worst tile rule holds true and settling on a desert incense is better than settling on a plains incense. Settling on hills is almost always better for raw tile output, but is balanced by the unavailability of the windmill. Except for hills, desert, tundra and snow, a city tile will never outperform an improved tile. (Ignoring social policies etc.)Now for the important bits. Resources to absolutely avoid settling on:. Citrus and Bananas regardless of hills.

Leaving the jungle or not, a city tile on this will result in a loss of potential food/production. As mentioned before: Salt. Stay away from salt, mine it instead. Any production-yielding resource on flat grasslands, the reason being that the free +1 production from cities overlaps with the production from these resources. This includes stone, marble and all strategic resources. Deer with the exception of open tundra and grassland forest.

Plains wheat and grassland cattle for various reasons.If not mentioned in the above list, settling on a resource will not have any drawbacks in terms of raw tile yields. Note that this is assuming food, production and gold are equal. (Don't worry, you'll only ever give up gold for one of the other untill you get Fertilizer) Considering the balance of these yields for your city is up to you. Also remember pantheon bonuses. If you intend to get oral tradition, don't settle on that silk.Of course none of this will ever matter a whole not in the grand scheme of things.

But this might be useful if you enjoy minmaxing. I have settled on top of coal quite a few times shortly after hitting industrial. Sometimes on certain map types (archipelago, fractal, islands, etc) I will only get 3 out of my 4 Tradition cities founded by Medieval or Renaissance usually due to war, neighbors, or poor locations. If I notice I pop Industrialization and I have no coal in my borders I will scout for a suitable location where I can settle on the coal for immediate access or if I am far enough ahead in tech sometimes settle close by it if it improves the city location quite a bit.If the city is relatively close to another Civ I have also sold the city later on after I find another source from City States or trading partners to avoid provoking a war.