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The AI is far more likely to get along with you if you share affinities, and be wary of you when your beliefs diverge. You can track everyone’s affinity progression on the diplomacy menu at the lower right corner of the screen.

Upgrades to your basic units come from affinity levels, rather than specific technologies as in previous Civilization games, so keeping pace with your contemporaries is important if you don’t want to become vulnerable.Ĭonversely, if one of your neighbors has fallen behind on their highest affinity level, it can indicate an easy target if you’re hungry for more territory. What do you stand for?Ĭhoosing your affinity early is an important consideration when structuring your progress through the tech web. As it stands all unit, building, and Wonder icons are white, and the semicircle around Wonders can be difficult to distinguish from the semi-octagon around standard buildings.Ĭolorful Tech Web, from Steam user Glidergun, remedies this by color-coding Wonders, buildings, units, and satellites for easier at-a-glance distinction. The latest version also adds little affinity icons to buildings and units that have level requirements. You can also shift-click on techs to set up your own queue.Īnother brilliant solution to sorting through the chaos has come not from the developers, but from the early modding community. Just like in Civ V you can target a technology that is not immediately available to you and the game automatically takes the shortest path of research to get there. Is the health of your colony suffering? Just filter for health-related buildings and find the nearest solution. These let you look at only the technologies that are relevant to a particular resource or affinity.

More interesting is the drop-down menu of filters right next to the search bar. This lets you quickly find any technology, building, or unit that you need, saving precious minutes of scrolling around the web. In the top left corner of the tech screen is an easy-to-miss search bar. Related: Free from history’s baggage, the latest Civilization game finds freedom Beyond Earth (review)

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