re: Civ 6

It has come to my attention that your army is quite puny!

I used to play 4 on my very old mbp, and was able to run 5 on our iMac if I booted into Windows. My advice would be to to bootcamp it to Win 7.

Games like Civ and Cities:Skylines are CPU dependent, not GPU, so the game doesnt look all that different on low settings vs high. To get a smoother experience you can turn off combat and movement animations, but the leader screens and wonder movies will still suffer. If you are running less than the recommended CPU I wouldnt start a campaign with anything but the standard map size and AI count. Otherwise you'll be in for some really long turn rotations.

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Games like Civ and Cities:Skylines are CPU dependent, not GPU

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Yeah that's why I was depending on that extra bit of CPU to help, but Aspyr shot that down. I've been perusing the steam forums though, and their definition of "minimum" seems to be running smoothly on default in late game (when all the shite is hitting the fan). That's reassuring as the lag in late game is unavoidable to a degree, and doesn't really bother me.

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If you are running less than the recommended CPU I wouldnt start a campaign with anything but the standard map size and AI count.

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Im not sure I've ever played with more than standard, as my preference is a smaller game, so that won't be an issue.

Thanks for the advice! Given Steam's pretty liberal refund policy, I'll be trying it out regardless of what happens. Here's to hoping Aspyr's "minimum" standards are as high as they say and the game will run...

I'll post my benchmarks for reference once this baby finally drops. They're saying latest it'll be out by next Tuesday for Mac, but potentially could release tonight.

The pillage button is on the far left of the unit action toolbar. It's a torch icon.

Um, for encampments, you have to go into them. Once your unit stands over the encampment, it disappears and gives you gold or whatever else.

I might wait a little while for more mods to come out. I got Civ 5 with all the xpacs for like 50 on Steam some time back, and with certain mods it is awesome. Maybe the best game I've ever played.

I played Civ Revelations ( yes I know its not a REAL Civ game) and Civ 5.

Civ 6 looks like its worth the play through. Im definitely planning on buying. The art style isnt that bad, but it does come off as a cartoon like (kind of like Civ Rev....hmm)

This game is cutting into my battlefield 1 playing time!