I actually think the Crisis System is a fantastic mechanic. It challenges your strategy by putting stress on a mechanic you may have been relying on for winning and punishes putting all your eggs in one basket. But they never feel unreasonable, there's always counterplay. - ThreadSky

zastier.bsky.social • 10 days ago

I actually think the Crisis System is a fantastic mechanic. It challenges your strategy by putting stress on a mechanic you may have been relying on for winning and punishes putting all your eggs in one basket. But they never feel unreasonable, there's always counterplay.

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agent53.bsky.social•6 days ago

Eh, I had a crisis and literally every crisis policy was unhappiness in cities, straight up. Every single city was instantly on the verge of rebellion for no reason. What's the counterplay for "all 6 cities/towns hate you because reasons."

zastier.bsky.social•6 days ago

if a crisis does that, you don't have enough happiness in the first place. there's loads of ways to raise happiness, there's buildings to do it, cards that raise happiness in cities with a commander, resources etc.

agent53.bsky.social•6 days ago

When these are your crisis policy options in the ancient era and the UI won't even tell you what's causing unhappiness, yeah, not so easy to just fix.

All of my towns are like this, -13 happiness, and the one altar I can build won't save me. Everything was fine 10 turns ago.

zastier.bsky.social•6 days ago

What do you mean it tells you exactly what is causing unhappiness? You pick them based on what settlements you have, and you offset negatives either by fulfilling the policy card, or by building happiness buildings. You don't even have an altar like what are you doing?

agent53.bsky.social•6 days ago

That city is only affected by one of those policies, it's a town so that's -6. But the resource slot is filled, so the other one doesn't apply. The city has -13 unhappiness, so where is the other -7 coming from?

No idea, because the UI doesn't tell you that.

zastier.bsky.social•6 days ago

The crisis itself has an inherent negative effect, and policy cards which give you additional effects. The crisis you get is based on what you do in a game, you counter them by getting happiness buildings and resources. This is actually explained in the game.

conflictnerd.com•10 days ago

That's totally fair. It's possible I've not played enough to say for sure, but my first impression isn't a good one of that mechanic. I like the added challenge, but the *feel* I get from it is still, "You can do everything right, but F you here's a crisis." Time will tell I suppopse!

zastier.bsky.social•10 days ago

So I think the issue is that Civ 7 doesn't want you to fall into the "I'm doing everything right" mentality previous games had, where you get to a point and coast along. It wants for you to be constantly challenged and in that way it's very different from previous Civ games.

zastier.bsky.social•10 days ago

IMO it requires a completely different mindset to play and I can totally see why someone might not enjoy that. It has Civ in the name, but plays nothing like Civ ever did.

conflictnerd.com•10 days ago

This is the perfect way of putting it, yeah. It's a very different vibe to what I'm familiar with. Not exactly bad, but not something I personally love.

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