Metaliturtle plays Civilization 7

[Metaliturtle]

Turn 26: I meet Friedrich... neutral greeting, wary of wasting influence points. Decide not to pursue any treaties at this time.
Ben wants to start a research collab, I can support for 6 science at the cost of 60 influence, accept for no influence and 2 sci/turn, or Reject his buttface... I choose to support as it seems the research collab will continue indefinitely and the 6 science will outweigh the influence spend.
I get a "Celebration" because I'm an oligarchy I get +20% food and +30% building construction bonus for options, I go with the food.
I earn another gov'ment policy, this time I go Charismatic Leader for the +2 culture per turn.
WAR Hoplite 1 attacks the Izirtu slinger for 56 damage.

Turn 27: I get another social policy, Survey +1 gives range to my scout.
I attack Izirtu's slinger and defeat it with Hoplite 1.

Turn 28: Xerxes' scout is following Hoplite 1 for safety.  Hoplite 1 is very wounded.
Military commander and Hoplite 3 are fully healed, walking towards Hoplite one to make a larger army.
Scout puts up a new tower at the end of the NE peninsula... spots another coast but no other details.

Turn 29: Get a warning for too low of a culture score.
Set scout to auto-explore as I've got the basics of the map down.
Commander lands on Hoplite 1. Can't pull them into the army until next turn.

Turn 30: Korinthos has grown and can now spend gold for improvements. I expand towards a gold resource.
I set the army to heal itself.

[Metaliturtle]

Well Gang, I'm probably not going to play this particular game all the way to the end, not enough enjoyment after 30 turns to want to stay on it.  I might try a smaller map with fewer civs and see if that makes it more fun, but I really feel like it's lacking the magic.  I still get sucked into games of CivII and CivIII, maybe it's nostalgia, but it's not fun in its current state.

[Buster's Uncle]

...We could have a three folder, if there was demand; wilkes is a III-head, and I'd like to suck him in active in the community...

[Geo]

Well Gang, I'm probably not going to play this particular game all the way to the end, not enough enjoyment after 30 turns to want to stay on it.  I might try a smaller map with fewer civs and see if that makes it more fun, but I really feel like it's lacking the magic.  I still get sucked into games of CivII and CivIII, maybe it's nostalgia, but it's not fun in its current state.

Personally, I even prefer Beyond Earth over CiVI to this day.
Though I do like the Districts part on CiVI better.

[Rusty Edge]

Thanks for sharing. Does your version of the game have Alexander the Great or not?

[Metaliturtle]

Thanks for sharing. Does your version of the game have Alexander the Great or not?

I didn't see him... Kind of annoyed that the old classics are mostly absent.  Feels like a pre-planned DLC cash grab.

[Buster's Uncle]

[ctrl]F5 y'all.  I been busy.

[Metaliturtle]

That's some fancy poop.