What if I want to build my Pyramids in a tundra or on an offshore island? Being able to do that is what's kinda cool about Civilization, right?īut, yeah, it was always kinda cheap (on my part) to jam the Seven Wonders of the World into one town. I'm like, Civilization exists so that you can break away from those ideas. At first, I didn't like the sound of that. The Pyramids, for example, must be built on a floodplain or in a desert. Wonders now require their own tiles, and may have specific requirements of where they can be placed. This option obviously existed in previous Civilization games, but that was typically for pure resources like from mining, etc.Īlso, you can't be like me and just have some super-massive, super-produdctive city that pumps out all the Wonders on the home tile.

Instead of-to continue with the example-having your science buildings tucked away behind your home tile's walls, a savvy attacker could cherrypick targets around your city's extended tiles. This also changes how a city can be sieged. There are adjacency bonuses if you build those tiles next to relevant resources. Where you place that tile also makes a difference. In the first-look video below, they use the example of starting with a library in your science tile, then adding a university in a later age, and then upgrading that science tile further with a research lab in the modern era.

And as you go through the ages, you'll add more science structures to that extraneous tile. You'll still have a home tile in Civ VI, but, for example, science structures will spread out to another tile.

You used to have a home tile for a city, and the surrounding tiles would be devoted to resource managment, more or less. What Civ V did for combat, Civ VI does for city building. City management ain't what it used to be.

Civ 5 capture city