I love how you won the noble peace prize, then immediately proceeded to launch the world into a World War

I’m not going to lie, if a civ did that to me, it would become a multi-city challenge

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I know you initially didn’t like your start, but settling between 3 mountains might’ve actually helped quite a bit, given all the war

The rabbit shenanigans in this were hilariously good fun

Since the question was asked in the video: The meta for one-city challenge (and tall play in general) is aggressive city-state suzerainty and a religion with either Cross-Cultural Dialogue or World Church. Because both provide a means to scale that doesn't depend on your own number of cities. It's usually good to also go for Divine Inspiration + Apadana, but that one depends on if your starting location RNG gives you enough room.

FYI - you can chop stone and other features and resources in the 4th & 5th rings and get the food and production from them. Seeing those unchopped stone tiles sit there all game was incredibly infuriating haha

If you could get Machu this would be a God tier city

12:27 those brief moments in life when you achieve perfect clarity “This is just my life now. Why do I have a rabbit?”

I'd love to see a preserve run as the Maori! The massive yields you get from the preserve in combination with their special building their forest bonus and earth Goddess. And being able to settle about wherever you want it's just. Perfection

My favourite part was when you remembered settlers have extra sight. I feel like you just added to the ultimate combo. Now itll be great general, bombard, balloon, AND settler.

I've noticed in my OCC endeavors that it helps a ton to chop features in the 4th/5th/etc ring. They still feed yields to your city and since they're not workable, they it's all profit. On the rare occasion that there's no aluminum and you can't get it from the AI, power generating improvements out in those rings count towards total power as well.

It's so satisfying to get 3 turtles in a one city game with monopolies and corporations mode

Honestly, I really love those kinds of games where you struggle all the way through to scrap a victory, it feels like every optimal play and strats you show us really show their importance, and the suspense is even more present :)

Isn’t it crazy how the guy who’s entire schtick is hating warmongering is a huge warmonger himself? I feel like he should share the same ability of Canada not being able to declare surprise wars.

I hope at some point you do do that Preserve run. That's one district I really don't get how to use.

Didn't you do a one city challenge with Ethiopia for the release of secret societies involving the Great Bath and the Voidsingers? Or am I missremembering?

Yay! More Civ6!

Using a settler as a support unit was so galaxy brain.

I suggest you just call him Judy. Yongle is the name of the period when he reigned, then it becomes a sort of title. His family name is Zhu, first name Di, which really sounds like Judy😂

Boesthius: hey potato how much time are you gonna steal my challenge videos Potato: yes

I've noticed the AI refusing to take peace or asking for absurd peace deals even when they're clearly losing. Don't know if this something that changed in an update. The AI always seems to get stuck at nanotechnology/Mars colony. I don't know why, but they take forever to get past this point and this makes it easy to catch up with science if you're behind.

I like how short a one city challenge is. So much quicker without all the micro 😂😂

Yongle's OCC is definitely a LOT of fun! Glad to see more OCC runs being tried with him.

Really liked how essential the political/diplo manoeuvring had to be. I haven't played much 1 city challenge, but cannot recommend a Portugal 1-city build enough: insanely OP and so much fun.

I will continue to advocate that civ 7 needs actual trains as a unit, a trader on railroads, maybe a wonder I don’t know l, and traders should be able to sail up rivers

This might be the only game I've ever seen Potato play where he didn't build the Masoleum

I love how Potato wins a one city challenge faster than I win playing regularly

This is the most fun use of diplomacy I have seen in any game ever. A whole other level.

Thanks to your videos I beat my second ever Emperor difficulty game on a shuffle map with a domination win! I could've tried for culture but that was my first, i came so close to losing to eleanor of England with her diplo victory too (19 out of 20 points!) Before your videos I never thought I'd get to higher than king

Potato, you know what else has 3 sight? Observation balloons :D That settler was definitely superfluous.

The picture for this video is really funny, potato. I love it

For me these videos where its close to losing are the best kind. Edge of my seat are we gonna win??? Compared to knowing 3 episodes in that its a win, love it

In addition to chopping in the 4th and 5th rings you can also plant forests for appeal and to reduce the the chance of tornados, add farms of mines for adjacency etc

I love 1 city challenges, because it feels like you're playing as a city-state 😁

One city challenges were more of a civ V thing for me than CIv vi. Being able to steal settlers encouraged my inner savage lol

Hai there! While not a frequent player (heck, I've only played 3 games thru, lol!), I have done OCC's twice. Heck, it's one of my favorite way to play! like you said, it means less maintenance, so you can devote more into what you wanna do. Both cases were done on water-dominant maps; while perhaps a bit cheap, it hampers most of your rivals... unless they're seafarers. In which case, makes diplomacy even more important. I like to pair my OCC's with the Owls of Minerva, which synergizes rly well with espionage. It also pairs pretty well with a coastal OCC, since the Gilded Vault gives you extra trade routes if you have a Harbour! Trade routes to City-States + Kilwa Kiwisani = Giga Yields for your city. Being a Prince enjoyer, I don't know how well my particular strategies would pan out in a Deity match. Either way, pursuing diplomatic ties, several suzerainties, and a small private army, are all plays that I'm sure you'll want to do regardless. I hope this proved insightful!

okay now we're talking something that's semi tough for potato

I remember reading that a leader will have different requirements for giving up on war depending on whether they started it or you did.

love the one-shot videos!

Great video! Thanks for yongling for us potato.

It’s been a hot minute since a one city challenge vid!

You mentioned a preserve based game. The new Cleopatra could be a good idea for it. You have the sphinx for appeal and then the new floodplain mechanic. I'm going to try it.

Ive never done a true one city challenge but I did do a loyalty only eleanor where you cannot build settlers or have your army leave your zone of control - btw loved your work for ages definetly made me a better civ player

19:46 I do OCC! The only optimizations I'd recommend at this point is using Magnus to locus everything before switching to Pingala and I question hanging gardens being the right play as a couple of farms accomplish the same thing and is less production without giving up a tile but I feel like that may just be my preference as I'm not a big fan of Hanging Gardens for tall builds. I personally love a religion with Work Ethic on a high adjacency holy site as Work Ethic is a low priority for the AI and means you can get a safe great prophet that doesn't cost a lot in working projects. Feed the World and Choral Music are powerful but very competitive beliefs that will eat up your early production us less you get stupid lucky. Jesuit Education can be good for tempo but it doesn't feel as impactful as other beliefs so I don't tend to get it. Finally Reliquaries is good for a culture victory if you have a way to spawn relics (Kandy is right beside you or Voidsingers). I could honestly talk for literal hours on strats and builds but one mechanic that I don't know how many people really know about for a culture victory is that you can utilize your 4-6th land rings for national parks all you need is to have one til on the national park within 3 tiles of your city to gain the full tourism benefits from it so you get this giant ring of woods around your empire full of nation parks. I really hope you'll try a OCC for a cultural victory soon! :D

I feel like if you could create states from 2 cities or something the population mini game would be a lot more in depth. Like I know the Cities are more like city-states but the idea would be if two cities that touch borders could become a state and the population from 1 city could work the tiles of another city. There’s a buff to the second city in it’s workable tiles but you first city would suffer since it’s own tiles would suffer and the pop in the 2nd city won’t work as efficiently. But you could help a new city grow fast in production and pump out some districts/buildings

Not news: potato plays tall Actually news: potato pays attention to the right hand notifications

Did you ever build your unique unit, or did you miss out on the heroic age because you forgot to build it? Also, couldn't you have chopped some of the resources your city grew to that were outside your 3 tile city border? I thought those tiles still gives you production/food if chopped?

I just noticed that the world congress logo is just the irl UN logo based on earth's continents. It would be cook if there was some way for the game to make the in-game continents into the world congress logo.

For when you bought the settler for the sight, doesn't the observation balloon have 3 sight as well? I have always been able to see and hit a city when I have a siege unit with an obs balloon 3 tiles away

Good thing is where you settled a mountain on 3 sides and surrounded by a river your capital is about as defensible as possible.

"its like he thinks i have some giant military ready to attack'-the guy with the second strongest millitary in the whole game

Hey Potato, love your vids! Any change on getting the Turn 1 Save for that?

If you want to do a preserve run you should do inca cause working mountain preserves is fun

There really should some mid to late game techs which make mountains useful in some ways. The fact that we can't ever mine mountains makes no sense to me. The fact we can't build mountain bunkers for our military units doesn't make sense. The best we can do is really ski resorts?

doing challenges is refreshing. Maybe again themed desert or all water maps (but this time with a non-trash civ for the given environment ).

I like it, I love it! I want more of it!

Love the videos so far but would you be able to post the seeds for the world's in the future so we can play along

i just realized what building tall vs wide means. Mr Potato, thank you for your speech therapy today. Also, very good video; keep it up!

Thank you for the content

16:55 I hope they take a look at Civilization: Colonization. I really like how population works in that game. Humankind has a similar thing going on with how military units subtract from population as well.

John Curtin; history's greatest monster

I've only done the One City Challenge with Korea, and improvised most of it honestly. I got the achievement for building the Spaceport next to the Seowon totally by accident!

you skipped in the video the stage that you place the Theatre Square on the wheat tile. I'm curious what you have done with it either chop it or just did you destroy it with the district? These small details are crucials for me as beginner to learn from your videos

Playing these one city challenges it always annoys me that you can't work a tile further than 3 tiles away while your borders do expand there.

i kinda like these type of videos once in a while.

I went for a one city Yongle build recently against two friends and Emperor difficulty AI. Half my city was mountains, but I managed to get over 250 science by the Industrial age. Then we had to restart because of desyncing and lost 100 turns of progress because the game didn’t save the game for some reason. Even the autosave a didn’t exist.

In your Cleopatra game you're going to be starting soon can you try putting 3 neighborhoods and 3 holy sites or theater squares around your diplomatic quarter, to maximize appeal and protect great works.

Preserve only Maori is a super fun run if you want to try to showcase Preserves! Boes did it in a video last year

I was passively listening towards the end until I heard "Incan Giant Death Robots"...I'll never get used to that.

also you got all bummed out about no Temple of Artemis, and then there was that elephant camp in the north that you could have used

Please do this again... I dont know why but its so entertaining

Would building ski resorts not have been a good idea for the amenities to provide a cushion against war weariness? One builder probably wouldn't have hurt your tempo.

I do love the feeling of being in a tense space race, where I'm rushing to launch my projects first! Sadly this normally turns to disappointment as the AI doesn't seem to give a damn - for some reason it always seems to have low priority on the late space projects and makes GDRs or some other useless garbage instead. :(

@PotatoMcWhiskey I’m doing exclusively one city challenges because my iphone will crash for any game that I have more than 3 cities ;) U did fine, typically the order of essential wonders is Great Library -> Mauseleum -> Kilwa -> Oxford Optional ones are oracle, ruhr, and any others with good general benefits To make ur game easier u could do on archipelago maps but careful that u have enough land tiles to fit all the necessary districts

100% those mountains saved him

Fun Fact: you can tell if the space race mission being launched is the moon landing by looking at the rocket. Its a model of the Apollo mission rockets.

Why after finding an ivory in range did you still go with Hanging Gardens over Temple of Artemis?

Question about the governor Reyna at 43:22...you promoted her, but she's unassigned to a city. How is she useful if she's unassigned?

Could you have chopped the stone and other features that were outside your workable tiles?

NGL when I tried one city challenged I cheesed it a little with a productivity from pop mod...lol watching someone do this with such a nice start is great though, I just can't seem to thrive XD with this challenge

no idea how a one city challenge would be optimized or metagamed on civ vi, but i remember trying them on civ v

How did you get that plus 5 faith in the first 20 turns? I assume u found a relic but I didn't see it in the vid...

So here I was, working away. Lord of the rings here on my side monitor and god damn it Potato I am programmed now! Boil em Mash em Put em in a Stew! And now I gotta watch civ6 videos. I love and hate you.

The Inca was just one click away from ending it all with that GDR

Alternate episode title: I would give anything for peace, but I won't give that.

i really like the federations dlc for stellaris, which added sort of a world congress to the game. well obviously its in space but the idea behind it is the same you vote on laws based on your ideology and playstyle, so do the ai and its meaningfull but on the same time its not bothersome. 1:04:45 for reference

Been binge wattching your content for 3 days now while playing TSL Huge Earth map trying to recrate the British Empire story. I will say I play your vids at 0.75 speed, I find the pace of your talking wayyyy too fast, but your content is great (When I don't miss what you're saying)

Ptolemaic Cleo could be a fun preserve game 👀

even though the mountains meant you lost some yields i really think they helped with all the wars

I had a theory that the new Persia building might work with preserves, but i haven't been able to make it work.

very tight and interesting game! what about one city challenge with religious victory?

I always find that once the ai get to the 2nd level of a science victory, they tend to stop for ages instead of streamlining for a science victory.

Have you ever tried a one city challenge doing a domination victory? Just burning all of the cities to the ground when you take them?

It wasn’t the war weariness that was screwing you up, it was the fact that Pingala was kicked out of your cap so you lost ll his benefits plus the housing and amenities.

I've had thousand year wars in Civ games.

I know this is super old now, but in response to you asking if people like to play one-city challenges: I LOVED doing them in Civ5, but haven't figured out how to make it work in this game yet.

Uau! Great game!

Observation balloon has high vision as well!

It's yonglin time