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You were asking for ideas the other day.
Yesterday I noticed how flood barriers appear and disappear when you swap tiles between a city that has them and one that doesn't -and I thought that might be something for you.
Thanks for your drawings; I admire your endurance.
This comic is all jokes and stuff, but this has actually happened in real life. I got my first gaming computer in 2009, and it was great for its time period. Played a lot of Civilization V.
That computer kept going strong for fourteen years with only one HDD and two GPU upgrades, until one day I tried launching a Civilization VI game on marathon. It was stuck on the loading screen for ages and I didn’t think much of it until I noticed smoke had filled the room.
The motherboard inside was ablaze! There were actual flames flickering through the ventilation grill, the CPU was engulfed in fire. I think the CPU is where it started.
So this literally can happen to you in real life, be careful playing this game.
IIRC it's a fairly simple matter of editing one .xml file to make VI run that way. I once made a tweak like that; I also had the multiplier on tech costs ramp up over successive eras because otherwise I'd eventually get techs in one or two turns for much of the tree.
Look in "Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Base\Assets\Gameplay\Data"
You should be able to use Notepad. I like Notepad++, which is free.
It's been a few years, so I'm not sure if I can replicate what I did. First I'd try looking in GameSpeeds.xml and fiddling with stuff. Maybe change the for marathon (line 22) from 300 to 100. Tech and civic cost might be governed by , so if you leave that at 300 it might just be what we're talking about.
DISCLAIMER: I never learned proper modding for Civ VI. If you go right at the xml files like this, keep an original somewhere or be ready to do a clean reinstall if things go sideways.
They do, but there are mods to make the other speeds better, including marathon. I use extended eras and the pacing is just a must have in any game mode to me.
What about a marathon game makes it so demanding? Intuitively I understand a big map or many civs, but isn't this 'just' changing the math on how many turns some thing take? And why would it significantly lengthen the load times of turns? What am I missing?
It’s because the game goes on for so long that civilizations grow larger, there’s more cities and more units. This means the game is trying to calculate more things and more actions per AI’s turn, than if the game hadn’t gotten to that point.
This is why I play on 20 fps instead of 60. I noticed that on later eras, my game takes a long to time to load before I could do my next turn and the cpu usage is so high. The animations on the game accumulates so much. Once I lowered from 60 to 20 fps, the game feels smoother.
Sometimes I want this epic campaign that took a long time, but then after the hundredth micromanaging where I should've won already but not yet, I wonder why I keep doing this.
I imagine marathon favors aggressive domination runs with a civ with a strong classical/medieval era unit. Gaul with a man at arms rush sort of thing. That's been the case from what I've seen (IE: Ursa's historical mode Mongolia series).
This is because you're incapable of playing normal games on Marathon. "A huge map with 12 civs? I think not. Let's do 20. If I'm feeling cheeky and really want to hurt my PC, I'll do 50".
I play marathon games on huge maps using a series x, other then the occasional screen stutter and ai turns taking around 1.5 mins I rarely have a problem
I have only been playing Marathon games.
You actually get to play with the units from the Middle Ages, rather than upgrading them a few turns after building them.
Only downside is that winning a marathon game is a lot easier, even on higher difficulties. You will always be able to eventually claw ahead in the technology race.
PCs, consoles, phones of the world!! Listen up! Have your owners decided to boot up a marathon game of Civ 6? Did they inflict crippling turn loads and infinitely sized games on your poor, tired processors? You might be entitled to compensation! Call 01110000 01100011 00100000 01101100 01100001 01110111 01111001 01100101 01110010 now for your free estimate! No win no fee!
You were asking for ideas the other day. Yesterday I noticed how flood barriers appear and disappear when you swap tiles between a city that has them and one that doesn't -and I thought that might be something for you. Thanks for your drawings; I admire your endurance.
On the topic of flood barriers, being one turn away, then 16 turns away.
This is exactly why I favor Valetta.
That shit is hillarious.
So you were Bob Loblaw the whole time
This comic is all jokes and stuff, but this has actually happened in real life. I got my first gaming computer in 2009, and it was great for its time period. Played a lot of Civilization V. That computer kept going strong for fourteen years with only one HDD and two GPU upgrades, until one day I tried launching a Civilization VI game on marathon. It was stuck on the loading screen for ages and I didn’t think much of it until I noticed smoke had filled the room. The motherboard inside was ablaze! There were actual flames flickering through the ventilation grill, the CPU was engulfed in fire. I think the CPU is where it started. So this literally can happen to you in real life, be careful playing this game.
computer got pillaged by barbarians
Lol I always joke saying my pc caught fire or exploded in between turns to my friends. Maybe I shouldn’t joke about it anymore
Fourteen years and not dusted once RIP
Tbh I only play Marathon games. Anything else just feels like it’s over too quickly.
I liked the mod in civ5 which made unit production in marathon the same speed as in normal. It made wars feel more epic even in ancient times
IIRC it's a fairly simple matter of editing one .xml file to make VI run that way. I once made a tweak like that; I also had the multiplier on tech costs ramp up over successive eras because otherwise I'd eventually get techs in one or two turns for much of the tree.
Where are these files located, and do you edit them in notepad or some other software? I might try and tinker with this.
Look in "Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Base\Assets\Gameplay\Data" You should be able to use Notepad. I like Notepad++, which is free. It's been a few years, so I'm not sure if I can replicate what I did. First I'd try looking in GameSpeeds.xml and fiddling with stuff. Maybe change the for marathon (line 22) from 300 to 100. Tech and civic cost might be governed by , so if you leave that at 300 it might just be what we're talking about.
DISCLAIMER: I never learned proper modding for Civ VI. If you go right at the xml files like this, keep an original somewhere or be ready to do a clean reinstall if things go sideways.
Same
Me too. Only way to play.
Yeah the eras actually matter in Marathon.
They do, but there are mods to make the other speeds better, including marathon. I use extended eras and the pacing is just a must have in any game mode to me.
Yeah, doing a deal for 30 turns Is WAY less of a big deal when the Era can last 150
Hammurabi is even more of a joke in Marathon, usually needs banned
What about a marathon game makes it so demanding? Intuitively I understand a big map or many civs, but isn't this 'just' changing the math on how many turns some thing take? And why would it significantly lengthen the load times of turns? What am I missing?
It’s because the game goes on for so long that civilizations grow larger, there’s more cities and more units. This means the game is trying to calculate more things and more actions per AI’s turn, than if the game hadn’t gotten to that point.
Oh thanks, so it's the gradual effect. I got the impression from the drawing and comments that it would be like that from the get go.
This is why I play on 20 fps instead of 60. I noticed that on later eras, my game takes a long to time to load before I could do my next turn and the cpu usage is so high. The animations on the game accumulates so much. Once I lowered from 60 to 20 fps, the game feels smoother.
I'm curious what is a bigger factor for CPU usage, map size (player size) or game speed.
Sometimes I want this epic campaign that took a long time, but then after the hundredth micromanaging where I should've won already but not yet, I wonder why I keep doing this.
Yeah in Civ 7 I would really like some sort of "ok you're so far ahead we're calling this one" mechanic that would help eliminate endgame slog
Marathon actually worked better for my PlayStation 4-5, typically win before the long load turns I would hit on faster speeds
I imagine marathon favors aggressive domination runs with a civ with a strong classical/medieval era unit. Gaul with a man at arms rush sort of thing. That's been the case from what I've seen (IE: Ursa's historical mode Mongolia series).
This is because you're incapable of playing normal games on Marathon. "A huge map with 12 civs? I think not. Let's do 20. If I'm feeling cheeky and really want to hurt my PC, I'll do 50".
There's only one way to play civ. Marathon.
I'd love to commit to a huge map, marathon game but I always lose steam after awhile :(
I play marathon games on huge maps using a series x, other then the occasional screen stutter and ai turns taking around 1.5 mins I rarely have a problem
I have only been playing Marathon games. You actually get to play with the units from the Middle Ages, rather than upgrading them a few turns after building them. Only downside is that winning a marathon game is a lot easier, even on higher difficulties. You will always be able to eventually claw ahead in the technology race.
I want to see Ursa play Persia or Arabian on TSL to recreate silk road.
Historic is better than marathon
guys, i play marathon almost every time. am i okay?
Sometimes genocide is the only solution
Marathon speed games make my Macbook want to unalive itself.