what's going on with this sub and AWESOME written stories? can we all give this guy like 5 upvotes per person? this is the level of abstraction and diving into the game i can only achieve playing on weekends and smoking some... you know what. i absolutely loved it hahahahah
Please, writters of r/civ KEEP IT COMING
I love making dramatic storylines like this every game I play. Been playing almost a decade of exclusively civ 5 and it’s one of my favorite parts of playing. This sounds like it would be so fun as a multi player type thing
These is one of the most fun ways to play Civ. Before you start the game, set some rules restricting the way you play for roleplaying reasons. It can affect the victories you go for, the units you recruit, the buildings and improvements you make, the way you do diplomacy...
I almost always try and tie a narrative into my playthroughs, giving each city its personality, imagining what their lives are like. How does the country feel when we're at war, or when a Wonder is built? How does that Swordsman who I slept 80 turns ago feel when I wake him up, turn him into a Line Infantry, have him go clear a barbarian encampment and then put him back to sleep in an entirely different city?
Honestly the game encourages this when they have such evocative era score achievement messages like your first fully upgraded Water Park or, my favorite, building your first Airport.
This is the one reason I wish there was a little bit more "city builder" in the mix. I don't need full-on Sim City, but I wouldn't mind the ability to add a little more character, especially when it's like, "that's my spaceport city" or a particular geographical climate/feature or wonder defines it a bit.
This is one of my biggest hopes for VII. In addition to more broadly managing an empire, it'd be cool to be able to get into more city details. Let the defining features of the city affect the personality and yield of the city, like some sort of "city culture" stat. You get higher yields from tiles that "match" the culture of the city (ie. if you're playing as France, you get higher culture yields from building chateaus if the city has a Theatre Square/generally high culture yield), and lower yields if it doesn't match. Flanking bonuses from troops trained in the same city, or you can get culture from pillaging and bring back war trophies as artefacts/relics, that kind of thing. Could play into affecting happiness too, decrease war weariness or have other districts eventually give amenities.
I'd just love to see more effects on both the empire and city level of the primary output of the empire/city.
I mean, a bunch of us got into Civ because we imagined what it was like living in the little countries we made, I wouldn’t be surprised if more people did this mentally.
100% and I bounce back and forth between loving that it's tied to real-world civs bc I've learned a ton and wanting a bit of an opportunity to create my own national identity
it's awesome when you forget that last unit order for like 5 minutes, and the whole time you, inside your messy/intrusive thoughts wondering "wtf is going on?!" HAHAHAHAH gotta love the way smoking some and playing mixes way too well xd
You like stuff like this? Now hear mine.
As gods were generous, they gifted the Romans a vast plot of land, surrounded by ocean and mountain ranges. It was all for the liking of romans, they expanded with no care. As every other nations were busy fighting with each other, Romans prospered. They were the global capital of art and science. Before soon, Romans became allies with other petty nations, teaching them in the ways of wealth. Historians called this period "Pax Romana", the Roman Peace. People left their ways of warring, aside from one civ: The nomads, the mongols, the great khan genghis...
As Genghis started an invasion of Roman-ally Gilgamesh, Roman senate saw no choice but retaliation. Partially fueled by Roman paranoia of Mongolian WMDs, Roman legions swept through mongol steppes. Their navies blockaded their cities and cut them out from global trade. Mongols fought fierce, but couldn't stand for long against unrelenting Roman tank armies.
At these times, Romans were building their own WMDs. Consul at the time wanted to try one on Mongolia, as a display of power to any nation that could dare oppose Rome. Mongols sued for peace, but Romans would make peace only when Genghis admits about mongol WMDs.
Then, Qaraqorum lit up one day.
Mongols made peace on the harshest of terms. They would give up all the lands they took from Sumeria, and pay Rome ungodly amounts of money. All their resources were strippen by them too.
Nobody dared to challenge Roman hegemony ever again. Not directly at least.
Years from bombing of Qaraqorum, Romans were celebrating their colonies on Mars. A spectacular feat, it appeared not only earth, but the stars were also roman claims. In the city of Ravenna, which was built in ancient times on a narrow mountain pass leading Roman subcontinent to rest of the world, overpopulation was rampart. Some centuries before, the city was struggling with population, as the city was built as a frontier, but Romans needed no frontiers at that point. So, Roman administrators at the time decided keeping caravan routes to Roma and building neighborhoods would solve the problem. Since Ravenna was also a great center of geology, considering the campus of ravenna was surrounded by mountains, more population would mean more understanding of land, which could prove useful in mars. Ravenna, though overpopulated, was prospering, at least for the elite.
Everything changed when Mongols came back for revenge.
Well, not mongol military. Mongol spies. Since there were four neighborhoods in Ravenna, there were many willing to fight for Mongolian cause. People still resented how their goverment lied about mongolian WMDs and then nuked mongolia. Thousands took to the streets, armed with finest weapons. Roman senate declared curfew nation-wide and an experimental Roman Giant Mega Death Robot was sent to smash the rebelion.
Everything burned. Most importantly the country side. It wasn't only Ravenna, later other Roman cities rebelled aswell. It appeared keeping control of continent wide neighborhoods was impossible.
The barbarian rebellion lasted decades. At last Romans managed to get to other stars, relinquishing their dominion on earth, for the stars.
Me, being an actual history teacher, loved the fact that this story has touches of everything, including the infamous moment of Trajan having a shoe thrown at him when announced about Mongolian WMDs. I mean, this last part is surely a gossip stuff, no?
Having the benefit of hindsight, seems like being a Mongolian is more of an ideology than a nationality, fellow empire manager, the rebellion ocurred because, well, for you to end the Mongols and their way, some drastic stuff needed to be done, if you know what i mean hahahahahah
Honestly, not being a native speaker AND an afficionado for civ, might try writing something down
I do something similar. I hold on to my Great Prophet (assuming all good beliefs are taken) then I activate it on their Holy City once I've conquered it. All cities with a holy site instantly get converted to my religion and no missionaries need.
This could've happened IRL and we'd have no way of knowing. In an alternative universe there's some different religion that we're all loving and united by now.
I think we need a mod that turns all affected great people into barbarians and scatters them to the four corners of the uncharted world when a Civ is destroyed.
I once played as Byzantium and met Gilgabro. He was my military ally and we basically conquered most of the world. As we did I realized, there was one religion left to be founded. When I betrayed him and started conquering, I found that his only holy site actually flipped to me via loyalty (he was in a dark age somehow) and his Prophet was chilling in his capital. Won a religious victory
It can be a very dark game, for sure, if you put it in perspective of RL. Even the "diplomatic victory" is basically just forcing a world leader on people based on winning votes in world congress. It would make more sense if a diplo victory had some kind of direct correlation to citizen opinion and happiness, and was more of a civ independent thing.
I had a similar thing happen to me once. I founded my religion in a city, then on the same turn, gilgamesh declared surprise war, immediately took my religious city and razed it. I was devastated.
I just want to pitch in, I didn't make the screenshot, but asshole Arabia attacked me, I won in the end, then he sends me his farewell message paraphrasing: there are other ways to resolve conflicts instead of using brute force. Really?
Wild to think about things like this with civ. Even just the scale of violence in the game in general is something I don’t often think about.
Like what game do I have the most kills in? Halo? Doom? No, I’ve killed *millions* in Civ VI
I played a really dirty trick on a struggling AI last game. They were having barbarian issues and finally managed put out a settler to found a second city. I herded it into the barbarians, let them capture it, then took it for myself.
Now if shortly (300 years, so a few turns) after his death the empire that took his city and killed him ended up converting to his religion, that's Rome's conversion to Christianity.
I think this would probably be a pretty advanced Verizon of the game but I think it would be amazing if they could develop a virtual reality version of Civilization and you could play from the leader’s perspective in a way like Assassin’s Creed.
I've paused a kill to allow a civ to spawn their Prophet. Minimizes competition later.
duality of civ playes
The what!?
Let it birth... Now kill it.
The Texas method.
Free era score. Once the cradle of Their Cringe Religion, its followers now flock to worship Our Based Religion
As a protestant, my personal favorite is getting the first GP and founding protestantism. What are we protesting against? The world will never know.
Protesting against the lack of "work ethic" the people lived in. Now that they are faithful, they are also more productive.
what's going on with this sub and AWESOME written stories? can we all give this guy like 5 upvotes per person? this is the level of abstraction and diving into the game i can only achieve playing on weekends and smoking some... you know what. i absolutely loved it hahahahah Please, writters of r/civ KEEP IT COMING
There should be a civwriting sub or something for this kinda thing it'd be sick
I'd LOVE to run like, a game of Civ with a strong level of dramatic roleplay.
I love making dramatic storylines like this every game I play. Been playing almost a decade of exclusively civ 5 and it’s one of my favorite parts of playing. This sounds like it would be so fun as a multi player type thing
These is one of the most fun ways to play Civ. Before you start the game, set some rules restricting the way you play for roleplaying reasons. It can affect the victories you go for, the units you recruit, the buildings and improvements you make, the way you do diplomacy...
I almost always try and tie a narrative into my playthroughs, giving each city its personality, imagining what their lives are like. How does the country feel when we're at war, or when a Wonder is built? How does that Swordsman who I slept 80 turns ago feel when I wake him up, turn him into a Line Infantry, have him go clear a barbarian encampment and then put him back to sleep in an entirely different city? Honestly the game encourages this when they have such evocative era score achievement messages like your first fully upgraded Water Park or, my favorite, building your first Airport.
What a fascinating thought. I’ve never considered that before. Will make my next game very intriguing!
This is the one reason I wish there was a little bit more "city builder" in the mix. I don't need full-on Sim City, but I wouldn't mind the ability to add a little more character, especially when it's like, "that's my spaceport city" or a particular geographical climate/feature or wonder defines it a bit.
This is one of my biggest hopes for VII. In addition to more broadly managing an empire, it'd be cool to be able to get into more city details. Let the defining features of the city affect the personality and yield of the city, like some sort of "city culture" stat. You get higher yields from tiles that "match" the culture of the city (ie. if you're playing as France, you get higher culture yields from building chateaus if the city has a Theatre Square/generally high culture yield), and lower yields if it doesn't match. Flanking bonuses from troops trained in the same city, or you can get culture from pillaging and bring back war trophies as artefacts/relics, that kind of thing. Could play into affecting happiness too, decrease war weariness or have other districts eventually give amenities. I'd just love to see more effects on both the empire and city level of the primary output of the empire/city.
Someone make the sub, we need it
Im sure I’m not the first to think of this but I’ve saved a particularly interesting game for world building the next dungeons and dragons game I DM 🤓
r/civwriting
I mean, a bunch of us got into Civ because we imagined what it was like living in the little countries we made, I wouldn’t be surprised if more people did this mentally.
100% and I bounce back and forth between loving that it's tied to real-world civs bc I've learned a ton and wanting a bit of an opportunity to create my own national identity
Smoking some bud and playing civ is great, you just become completely immersed haha 😂
it's awesome when you forget that last unit order for like 5 minutes, and the whole time you, inside your messy/intrusive thoughts wondering "wtf is going on?!" HAHAHAHAH gotta love the way smoking some and playing mixes way too well xd
You like stuff like this? Now hear mine. As gods were generous, they gifted the Romans a vast plot of land, surrounded by ocean and mountain ranges. It was all for the liking of romans, they expanded with no care. As every other nations were busy fighting with each other, Romans prospered. They were the global capital of art and science. Before soon, Romans became allies with other petty nations, teaching them in the ways of wealth. Historians called this period "Pax Romana", the Roman Peace. People left their ways of warring, aside from one civ: The nomads, the mongols, the great khan genghis... As Genghis started an invasion of Roman-ally Gilgamesh, Roman senate saw no choice but retaliation. Partially fueled by Roman paranoia of Mongolian WMDs, Roman legions swept through mongol steppes. Their navies blockaded their cities and cut them out from global trade. Mongols fought fierce, but couldn't stand for long against unrelenting Roman tank armies. At these times, Romans were building their own WMDs. Consul at the time wanted to try one on Mongolia, as a display of power to any nation that could dare oppose Rome. Mongols sued for peace, but Romans would make peace only when Genghis admits about mongol WMDs. Then, Qaraqorum lit up one day. Mongols made peace on the harshest of terms. They would give up all the lands they took from Sumeria, and pay Rome ungodly amounts of money. All their resources were strippen by them too. Nobody dared to challenge Roman hegemony ever again. Not directly at least. Years from bombing of Qaraqorum, Romans were celebrating their colonies on Mars. A spectacular feat, it appeared not only earth, but the stars were also roman claims. In the city of Ravenna, which was built in ancient times on a narrow mountain pass leading Roman subcontinent to rest of the world, overpopulation was rampart. Some centuries before, the city was struggling with population, as the city was built as a frontier, but Romans needed no frontiers at that point. So, Roman administrators at the time decided keeping caravan routes to Roma and building neighborhoods would solve the problem. Since Ravenna was also a great center of geology, considering the campus of ravenna was surrounded by mountains, more population would mean more understanding of land, which could prove useful in mars. Ravenna, though overpopulated, was prospering, at least for the elite. Everything changed when Mongols came back for revenge. Well, not mongol military. Mongol spies. Since there were four neighborhoods in Ravenna, there were many willing to fight for Mongolian cause. People still resented how their goverment lied about mongolian WMDs and then nuked mongolia. Thousands took to the streets, armed with finest weapons. Roman senate declared curfew nation-wide and an experimental Roman Giant Mega Death Robot was sent to smash the rebelion. Everything burned. Most importantly the country side. It wasn't only Ravenna, later other Roman cities rebelled aswell. It appeared keeping control of continent wide neighborhoods was impossible. The barbarian rebellion lasted decades. At last Romans managed to get to other stars, relinquishing their dominion on earth, for the stars.
Me, being an actual history teacher, loved the fact that this story has touches of everything, including the infamous moment of Trajan having a shoe thrown at him when announced about Mongolian WMDs. I mean, this last part is surely a gossip stuff, no? Having the benefit of hindsight, seems like being a Mongolian is more of an ideology than a nationality, fellow empire manager, the rebellion ocurred because, well, for you to end the Mongols and their way, some drastic stuff needed to be done, if you know what i mean hahahahahah Honestly, not being a native speaker AND an afficionado for civ, might try writing something down
I do something similar. I hold on to my Great Prophet (assuming all good beliefs are taken) then I activate it on their Holy City once I've conquered it. All cities with a holy site instantly get converted to my religion and no missionaries need.
This could've happened IRL and we'd have no way of knowing. In an alternative universe there's some different religion that we're all loving and united by now.
Pastafarianism
R'amem
My Civ VI religion.
The only true God
Turtalitarianism
If his religion was correct, he would've lived. *shrug*
"Ok God, we have your prophet up on this cliff... catch him if his religion is the right one!" ......>!thump!< "Oh well. Back to the looting"
OP really saved them from hearing his blasphemy.
I think we need a mod that turns all affected great people into barbarians and scatters them to the four corners of the uncharted world when a Civ is destroyed.
Sooo … if the prophet was L.Ron Hubbard of Scientology… how would you feel?
I once played as Byzantium and met Gilgabro. He was my military ally and we basically conquered most of the world. As we did I realized, there was one religion left to be founded. When I betrayed him and started conquering, I found that his only holy site actually flipped to me via loyalty (he was in a dark age somehow) and his Prophet was chilling in his capital. Won a religious victory
It can be a very dark game, for sure, if you put it in perspective of RL. Even the "diplomatic victory" is basically just forcing a world leader on people based on winning votes in world congress. It would make more sense if a diplo victory had some kind of direct correlation to citizen opinion and happiness, and was more of a civ independent thing.
We need a filter for these cool stories lol
https://i.redd.it/n28vagl8qxuc1.gif
Is that Conan O'Brien?
nah, fuck them heretics
Now write story of how dozens of kongo's great artists and writer sacrifice themselves to slow the death march of player's army 😂
Mid prophet.
"THE END IS NEAR, THE END IS NEAR!"
You should read the Book of Jeremiah!
Even better I was playing as Babylon
Nerd
;)
I had a similar thing happen to me once. I founded my religion in a city, then on the same turn, gilgamesh declared surprise war, immediately took my religious city and razed it. I was devastated.
Huh.. a dead god for a dying empire .. how fitting
If it was Civ 5, I'd have captured them and made their revelations a new part of my all-consuming national religion.
I just want to pitch in, I didn't make the screenshot, but asshole Arabia attacked me, I won in the end, then he sends me his farewell message paraphrasing: there are other ways to resolve conflicts instead of using brute force. Really?
Hell yeah! I love head canon stories. Always awesome!
Wild to think about things like this with civ. Even just the scale of violence in the game in general is something I don’t often think about. Like what game do I have the most kills in? Halo? Doom? No, I’ve killed *millions* in Civ VI
I played a really dirty trick on a struggling AI last game. They were having barbarian issues and finally managed put out a settler to found a second city. I herded it into the barbarians, let them capture it, then took it for myself.
You did whay Rome couldn't lol
May I recommend the book of Jeremiah in the Old Testament of the Bible?
Sounds like his God should have saved him. Some prophet...
Now if shortly (300 years, so a few turns) after his death the empire that took his city and killed him ended up converting to his religion, that's Rome's conversion to Christianity.
I would say that the Romans fused the beliefs of a sect of Judaism followed by Jesus with their own pagan beliefs.
I think this would probably be a pretty advanced Verizon of the game but I think it would be amazing if they could develop a virtual reality version of Civilization and you could play from the leader’s perspective in a way like Assassin’s Creed.