Civilization – How to set up the map for the playing style

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I like to start on a large island of my own and not make contact until I am some way up the tech tree, preferably with an advantage.

In previous CIVs, I would generate the map, take a peek and discard until I found a good one.

I have done this 30+ times and there is always either an AI player on the same landmass, or is is too small. This despite only having 4 opponents on a huge map.

Does anyone else have similar playing style? How do yo choose your start options?

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Modding Option

If modding is your thing this could be a solution for you. There's a setting in the GlobalParameters.xml called START_DISTANCE_MAJOR_CIVILIZATION which is default set to 9. Meaning that civilizations cannot be closer than 9 tiles away from each other at the start of the game (maybe 8, I'm not sure if it's an inclusive/exclusive 9).

Existing Mod

There is a mod (here) that boosts the start distance between starting civilizations from 9 to 16.

Note that I am not the creator of this mod nor do I know the owner, I simply searched for it on the steam workshop.

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Civilization – What’s the formula for District production cost

This isn't documented anywhere as far as I could find. I experimented a bit myself, and I think I found the major factor for district costs:

the cost increases with the number of technologies and civics discovered
the increase is the cost of the technology or civic divided by 10
the first three technologies don't seem to count (pottery, animal husbandry and mining)
the craftsmanship and foreign trade civics increase district costs by 11 each, more than the 40 culture cost would indicate

There are still some cases where those rules don't explain the cost increase, so I haven't figured it out completely yet.

The following factors don't increase the cost as far as I could observe in my experiment:

turn number
number of cities
number of districts built

The cost of a district is locked once you started building it, it doesn't increase while you're building it.

Civilization – How to set a custom resolution in Civilization VI

The file in which you can change your resolution still exists, just under a different name.

Documents > My Games > Sid Meier's Civilization VI > AppOptions.txt

After opening that file in a text editor, scroll to the [Video] section, and find the RenderWidth and RenderHeight variables. That part of the file will look like this:

;Render width in pixels.
RenderWidth 1920

;Render height in pixels.
RenderHeight 1080

The numbers that come after RenderWidth and RenderHeight are what you want to change to your custom resolution. The example shown above is for a 1920x1080 resolution.

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