7:29 "I think rain forests are still worth chopping, even if you playing Brazil." As a Brazilian, it felt like a reality-loaded punch in the stomach...

I've always been too afraid to move my settlers since Civ 5 when my starting settler was taken by a barbarian on the second turn.

Another advantage to settling on a luxury is that you can't remove luxury resources so they block potential district placements

My brain rebels at settling on luxuries and bonuses, but you're definitely right about it.

“If I don’t make my capitol they can’t take my capitol”-Brazil

Couldn't understand your reasoning for wanting to set up districts so early then DING DING DING! You mentioned that just starting the district locked in the price. Now I've got a whole lotta things I need to try. 00:00 Location 1 Dutch Fresh Water & Plains Hill 06:39 Location 2 Brazil Fresh Water, Plains Hill & Luxury 13:50 Location 3 Poor location, too much flatland, too much desert (Re-roll?) 17:46 Location 4 Little flat, several choppables, Tea Resource 20:45 Location 5 Tundra but Faith Luxury 22:52 Location 6 Plains Hill, 2 luxuries, lotta choppables 24:27 Location 7 Settle on Citrus (plantation)

Awesome analysis. I'm not that good of player (mostly stick at prince level). Will take your hints at heart on my next game!

Honestly my OCD is half the reason I'm so bad at this game: I see unimproved resources and I immediately get builders, wether I need them or not, and always have all the buildings in each district, diverting production from more nesessary stuff. I also hate having to chop.

Love the video, very helpful. You should consider doing more tutorials :)

lol, I have never had a starting location like that...informative video btw, always good to hear new ways to game the ai on deity. in 300+hours playing, I never realized you don't loose the lux by settling on it. mind blown! game changer! you might wish to consider doing a video on some of these 'lesser' known 'tricks.' they may seem obvious to you, but not to everyone. i've played civ for decades and probably got stuck in a rut as to my play-style.

This is the first comment I’ve made on a KZfaq video in literally years, but I wanted to thank you. I picked up Civ 6 about a week ago and have been watching videos on here in my spare time to try and understand it better (there’s a lot to learn) - This is easily the best one I’ve come across so far. I really love that you explained your thought process rather than just showing us what you do, I feel like I’m going to make way better decisions to set up my game now! Subbed!

Wow, learned more in 20 mins, than I have by playing Civ for years! Nice level of detail, and really like how you explain the why, as well as the how. Good job! More please!

Australia's strange bonuses flip some of these axioms on their heads. All of a sudden, coasts are more valuable than Freshwater alone, and mines are more awkward since they mess around with the Appeal bonus of your districts.

So glad I watched this video because I only just recently started playing after watching someone's let's play of the game and I had no idea about settling on top of resources! So many maps I avoided because the soldiers being slowed down by hills and forests! lol Thank you. :)

Playing Civ since it launched and this video taught me a whole different way to think about city placement. Thank you. Your strategies and the thought processes behind them are fascinating. Please consider doing some more like this.

It’s interesting watching this a year later and seeing the changes made to harvesting. Magnus isn’t quite as OP anymore. Also, it might b a good disclaimer that some of these strats aren’t quite as strong against players or online play bc of smarter combat, and harvesting too many bonus resources (which are now worth dramatically less) can stifle late game strength against a player who’s built a far more reliable economy and didn’t succumb to your early pressure Edit: also districts now scale by number in the empire too rather than just price, making rushing them beyond the first couple cities rather futile

As somebody who's just started playing on PS4, very useful, a few things I've never considered or misunderstood!

Amazing, learned so much about a game that I have 900 hours in...starting up a new one with this knowledge. Thanks

As something of a newcomer to the Civ scene and a bit of a novice, this video has helped me up my early game substantially. Now I'm actually (hopefully) a bit more savvy on initial city placement and citizen allocation, helping me to optomise early-game production, and other relevant yields. So, thanks for the tips, which I've managed to find useful even though I don't currently have Rise & Fall.

Omfg I’ve been looking for a guide like this forever. Thank you for helping me to be merely mediocre at this game instead of flaming garbage.

This is so helpful! I love how even after years of playing Civilization, there are endlessly diverse strategies that players have. I never even considered harvesting resources as viable, but now you make me curious. Basically if it's in the game, it shouldn't be disregarded.

Extremely good information. I feel like my game will totally improve.

This is so helpful. I've recently started playing Civ VI (experienced Civ IV player, but skipped V) and it's baffling just how much has changed. There are so many things I hadn't realised you could do, which would have been good before launching myself into my first game and immediately moaning about the lack of production!

"Let's quickly talk about how we're going to settle in Civ 6"... 30 minutes later...

Recently got back into Civi 5 and most 6. I never realised about settling on a luxuries, you get that luxury immediately. Really Appreciate this mate!

I always wondered about city settling strategy. I learned so much!

Wow this is great. Found you through the recommended videos and this taught me a ton of stuff I didn't know about Civ 6. Only recently started playing.

I put this on in the background while getting some work done. I actually stopped working and sat myself in front of the screen. Good stuff!

Very interesting video, thank you. I suspect rolling Russia would have made the distinction between 2nd and 3rd ring tiles much less important.

Subbed, great explanations! Looking forward to part 2! You're the first youtuber I've seen that consider harvesting so heavily, interesting! Would be interested in more tutorial videos also, please?

Thank you so much for this awesome video! I settled on turn 8 when playing with an experienced chew and they had such a laugh. Needless to say, I got crushed. No one explained all this to me and I am so glad I found your video. Those guys are in for it next time we game! :)

I'm new to CivVI (even with no Google search history recorded, amazing how it starts suggesting CivVI videos within a day of me playing - fancy that!). Thank you for this video. So clearly and calmy explained - very informative. Thank you!

Really well explained. I look forward to more of these vids. 🤗

Bravo! Clear and simple, this video helped me to achieve my first victory on Emperor. Looking forward to playing on a higher difficulty, all thanks to you :)

I’ve only recently stumbled upon your channel while looking for some R&F explanation. It’s pure gold bro, very informative and viewer friendly, keep it up

Very good tips. Your reasoning behind them sounds solid and I intend to implement them, I have avoided harvesting certain resources in my games, mostly because of previous versions of Civilization rules. Been playing Civilization game series since Christmas of '95. Thoroughly enjoyed your video, please do more.

Awesome video! Lots of counter-intuitive things pointed out that i'd probably never have thought of. Looking forward to more tutorial type videos!

Just getting into this game now, great tips and easy to understand, thanks so much!

Very helpful format. You trying to answer a seemingly simple question, gave great insight in how deeper mechanics in the game work. Thanks for teaching a few things to us beginners.

Not even gonna try to hide it Potato, I'm watching this to study up for my own lets play. I'm no expert so the tutorial's you've done recently are really helpful plus you've started to explain strategies and concepts more in your lets plays which is great! Thanks for the content... keep it up!

Great Analysis. I thought I was doing a good job picking my starting location, but you make some strong points. I also thought that settling on a luxury ruined it.

Ah, CIV VI: the game that tells you that all CO2 emissions stay in the atmosphere FOREVER and a global flood apocalypse is inevitable. Also CIV VI: chop chop all the rain forests, IT WILL BE FINE.

This is great, i thought I had my start location analysis pretty down pat, but I didn’t realise the impact of selling luxuries so early on!

I never knew that about founding a city on plains hills. Thanks!

Learned so much, this is going to help me finally beat the ai on diety

Incredibly insightful, I loved your thought process and level of explanation. Very easy to understand and you took your time, amazing.

Such a fantastic guide! Youre a treat to listen too also, your personality is calm, intelligent and sincere.

I would be interested to see your take on finding a good starting location specifically for the Maori once Gathering Storm is released

"I think rain forests are still worth chopping, even if you playing Brazil." :'( Balsonaro agrees

This video in particular really got me into Civ VI after the new expansion. Thank you!

I haven't played since Civ 4....I just picked up Civ 6 and jumped in thinking I knew how it all worked. Didn't take long to figure out how wrong I was. Your videos really help me figure out and understand what the heck I'm doing. Appreciate it. Subscribed.

I always start with Peter as it gives me two adjacent tiles to begin with 🙌

good explanation, potato! two thumbs up! =)

I only recently picked this game up but I really enjoy your very thorough explanation of what the benefits of such and such are, thank you !

thanks for teaching me how to be at least decent at civ with your tutorials potato. I moved from when I started playing information-settler games, to ancient-prince games and didn’t die instantly. your a legend man. keep making great content

Wow, you rolled some awesome starting positions there, I'm rarely so lucky 🤔

Just downloaded Civ 6 (first time playing any Civ game) and this guide really helped a lot in helping me understand the game! Thanks a lot and great work on the video!

Shiny! Most excellent, indeed. Double plus good - good content and a good, long dive into the topic. PS: Settling on plains hills is even better when later you discover you plopped your city on coal or aluminum, uranium even.

I always have "show crop yields" on, helps you make different decisions when placing a new city, selecting where to place districts, and know what you want that city to excel at (like production, science, culture, etc.)

Good video, hope you get well soon!

For the Truffles... if you didn’t settle on it, you could still get The yields for the rest of the game. You could also improve the tile at turn 10... and get so much more gold lol

glad i found this video. you go through stuff in good detail and youre really easy to listen to.

Thanks for the video, really insightful. Please go over what you consider when resource chopping for wonders or rush builds in the next videos!

When you mentioned the amount of money an AI player pays for luxury resources, I am still waiting to see those values. I suspect that the trade deal routines have been nerfed sometime since this was posted.

My starting strategy had been so much different and apparently wrong lol. I've always settled near stone & food, which I see production & population growth. Luxuries are always secondary. I thought a lot of hill would greatly limit your population growth due to the lack of population growth.

Great video, more concept tutorials like this one would be awesome! City planning / layout or combat tactics could be cool

I've been looking for someone who explains things about civ clearly and concisely. You are who I have been searching for. Thank you sir.

Thanks a lot for this video : a lot of thinking ! I just discovered a lot of things I didn't take into account. Great !

We need a gathering storm edition now

I'm a big Civ 6 fan, and this has been an incredible good video. I'm subscribing right now!

I love this guy cause i just imagine Dara O'Brien playing Civ6

very interesting video - thanks for posting.

Thank you, impressive information density. Very informative and high quality production.

Great vid man. Got 1000s hours in the civ series, but never really considered my starting position. Usually just plonked down wherever. Looking forward to my next playthrough.

good stuff, thanks :) now i want to restart all my games lol

I just need a few hills, fresh water, a few chops and I'm good

You're easily my favorite Civ player on KZfaq (now the only one I ever watch.) Thanks for this video. Incredibly useful.

great video. i never really got my head around this civ, but now i see its actually quite similar to 4

Potato, when you consider the best spot for first city you have to include the future spot for second city and sometimes, when you're lucky to born in a spot mostly plain like in the play at 17:55 (so you have an initial big sight of the first tiles) the third city spot. I don't like cities too close to each other, cities must "breathe", the third ring of tiles in common at most, if you don't reach for example a resource too far to west, build the city further east and the second to the west.For the rest you're awesome, i discovered many things in your videos.P.S. sorry for terrible english.

A little lengthy, but pretty informative. Very nice my man...

Man i am so grateful for your videos..thank you...Loving your thought procession

man, i love you. this was the most helpful and clear video. thanks for showing examples

Next time please also include "scout with your unit before settling" :)

As interesting as it is to think about getting things right, I find that over-optimization kind of kills my fun, which is why I still try to get things MOSTLY right, and just play on king or emperor so you don't have to overoptimize and micromanage quite as much.

This is awesome! Been looking for a guide like this.

Thanks for the tips. I played the crap out of Revolution and loved it. I know it was dumbed down and this is more in depth as far as options. I still consider myself a beginner with this game and now I feel I have a more comfortable grasp on it. Cheers 🍻

also worth checking: if u moved ur settler, you wasted a round, but if you go in the special camera for settling, if there are other civs or citystates near you, you may discover them early without meeting them

Wrote all of these tips down in my notebook under Civ6 Settling: McWhiskeyisms. This was invaluable and will definitely help fine tune my gameplay even further. Still playing on Prince, but this video really helped me see some things that I was ignoring or not fully understanding; which will ultimately help me continue to increase that difficulty slider. As always, thanks for taking the time to make these videos. Can’t wait for the next one. Keep up the amazing hard work sir!! Your assistance is absolutely appreciated!!

Did you, during the making if this video, ever get a starting location that made you want to abandon the video, and play for the next 5 hours?

Great video! Couldn't find any more guide/strategy Civ6 videos on your channel but I'm looking forward to the next one.

I've played a little over a 100 hours of Civ 6 (this is my first Civ game), and this video was very helpful. Thank you!

Rule one: Scout before you plant.

Great video. I'm so picky about my start location and have spent hours reloading the game to get a good start. Question on the settling of the luxury or any resource. Do you still get it if you settle on it?

this video and the way you explain things is very helpful, good work man! thanks!

Fantastic lesson. The practice through repetition is so good.

Who came back after it passed 1mil views ❤️

I always go for domination victory. That's actually the only victory I've ever had. Seems easiest. I dominated the places on my continent. I sail to the next landmass and those empires have skyscrapers and looks advanced af. All I had was farms/mines and encampments and harbors. But had so many units that I squashed everyone. Takes a while tho because u have to manage so many units but it's fun

Thanks for the tips! I’ll consider settling on a luxury in my next game.

I know this video is old- but I have to share. My first game of Civ I had no clue what I was doing and thought the game just hated me. It was taking forever to get anywhere or make anything. I somehow made it through the ancient era into a dark age before quitting. I reloaded that save recently after winning a game on Emperor and laughed my ass off. I had spawned at the bottom of the map with no chops, my capital that I likely settled in place had no fresh water, there were no luxuries anywhere around me, to the north of me was a mountain with two lakes on either side of it, and ALL of the tiles going north were tundra hills 😭 I looked for a video to help me and came across this channel and started feeling way better about the beginning of my games- I almost reset my most recent win but stuck with it because there was enough potential to make things work!

Are you Ed Beach?