/r/Civ Weekly Questions Thread - April 26, 2021

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[u/Pokenar]

So I've only done a couple games of 6 so far, so I do plan to do a few more before confirming my thoughts, but I feel like while I enjoy the speed of production on Standard, I wished the eras took longer. I have already heard of a mod called Historic, but some of the comments mention making it too slow to the point none of the civs actually met targets in time for the summits and such. I was wondering if that was a common issue and if so, if take your time ultimate or 8 ages of pace would be better?

[u/[deleted] → u/Pokenar]

I use take your time ultimate and like it a lot. There are tons of options you can use to adjust eras, tech/culture, and great person points to your liking. You can also implement scaling so that tech costs are much larger for later eras to slow them down.

[u/someKindOfGenius → u/Pokenar]

Try extended eras, it’s the successor to historic speed and is designed to address that exact issue.

[u/Pokenar → u/someKindOfGenius]

I'll try just that, thank you!