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In Civ VI you just ICS and build the same basic districts in every city and maybe an additional district based on your win condition plus one military district (if you haven't already conquered one) and an airport district late game. Enjoyed it for about a week until i had got to grips with all the interesting new mechanics and realised it was still a simplified, boring repetitive mess, uninstalled it and returned to VP. I was persuaded to try Civ VI again recently and picked up the main expansions in a sale. I bought Civ VI on day 1, played it a bit and once i got to grips with it i realised it was shaping up to be another Civ IV where once you get past the shiny updated graphics it was a pretty hollow game so returned to Civ V. The expansions to Civ V greatly improved the game and ironed out a lot of the kinks and then obviously the addition of what has become VP have given Civ V a very high bar to sit on. I spent most of Civ IV's original lifespan mostly playing Civ III still while occasionally trying to learn to like Civ IV as the graphics were better and there were many interesting features that i liked as well as QoL additions but every time i tried to play it i would just end up missing the more interesting, polished and engaging gameplay of Civ III.Īs soon as CiV V was released with the 1UPT system and hexagonal tiles i simply could never go back to the old SoD and square tiles as this was the big change i had always wished for and got rid of my main gripe with the series which there really wasn't any real strategic or tactical warfare and that (as well as various mods) more than made up for various failings in the vanilla game.
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In general i found Civ IV and Civ VI to have very similar issues in that they tried to expand on the good bits of the previous games but only really ended up making the graphics look 'prettier' and adding some QoL features but making the game over simplified, boring and forgettable mechanically. I effectively skipped Civ IV much like i am effectively skipping Civ VI.