PBEM25 Mapmaking and Lurking

[Krill]

Part of me thinks that is still too much balancing.

Was it ever

Civ 6 has lots of different ways to play and win. The more we try to cut down the routes to victory, the more we take civs off the table, the more we unbalance the game because some of the remaining routes to victory no longer have to contend with those removed options.

I managed to win PBEM23 due to sound strategic vision from a fucking box, on a random map. If TAD had Caesar on that start he wouldn't have won via a rush, and Khmer on this start probably wouldn't have been able to win a T120 religious victory.

Ergo my belief that playing with a limited ruleset on random maps is better than a group of players varying in skill somewhere from trash to bad on handcrafted maps, because as a group, we don't have a fucking clue what we are doing most of the time with Civ 6.

[pindicator]

Yeah. My opinion is we either adopt the ruleset/ balance mods of an established community, or we do as limited a ruleset as possible on random maps and embrace civ 6 for what it is.

[TheArchduke]

Yeah. My opinion is we either adopt the ruleset/ balance mods of an established community, or we do as limited a ruleset as possible on random maps and embrace civ 6 for what it is.

100%

We did not play CIV VI enough to do our own balance.

BBG by Civplayers League or just vanilla and whoever builds the Venetian Arsenal rules the seas.

[yuris125]

I'm very interested in a BBG game starting in a month or so

[Chevalier Mal Fet]

I feel more comfortable with the mapmaker, though I can't guarantee the players will be entirely satisfied with my efforts.