Starting in a later era was a nice way to spice up Civ 6 for me. It was a great way to play with the modern stuff a bit more like aircraft as you had not already made powerful land armies that made investing in aircraft not worth the cost.

Plus it would be really nice not to see the same city names all the time. I'm a bit fed up with seeing Assur, Kerma, Harrapa etc. be the main seats of power every game. Starting in Industrial you might actually see London or Paris!

MasterofMobius wrote:

Starting in a later era was a nice way to spice up Civ 6 for me. It was a great way to play with the modern stuff a bit more like aircraft as you had not already made powerful land armies that made investing in aircraft not worth the cost.

Plus it would be really nice not to see the same city names all the time. I'm a bit fed up with seeing Assur, Kerma, Harrapa etc. be the main seats of power every game. Starting in Industrial you might actually see London or Paris!

Thanks for the feedback. Starting on a later era I agree that it would be nice, but there are certain unknown questions as the game plays around the evolving the city (some districts) so there are questions are, should you start on Industrial as the Neolithic, should you have already 1 full city etc? But we are aware that this have been on the community for a whil. Also, I mentioned that perhaps it will be easier to have "Ending Era" like starting one, but no promises.

For the city names, if not mistaken the first city the name is like the "capital" name, but the rest are randomize from the pull of the names. In any case I will mention it to the team

Daarkarrow wrote:
For the city names, if not mistaken the first city the name is like the "capital" name, but the rest are randomize from the pull of the names. In any case I will mention it to the team

I've found that all city names are in order, so the second Harappan city is always Mohenjo-Daro after Harappa; the second Phoenecian city is always Sidon after Byblos, etc...  I'd love for it to be more randomized, and for the first city of later empires to not be their capital.  i.e., the first city I found after becoming the French will be chosen randomly instead of always being Paris.  We may only found 1-2 cities per era, so we keep getting the same city names.

Ideas for starting in a later era:

• Give us a Settler Unit (or Construction Team)
• Give us Colony Model/Plan/Blueprint/etc. already active for the era we're starting in (for example, "Colony Plan" is the Era IV technology, so have us begin with this when we begin an "Era IV Start" game).
• Clear the fog of war from the territory we begin in and adjacent territories.
• Maybe have us play a little "collection game" like in the Neolithic era before we're allowed to choose our cultures, since there needs to be a way to select cultures in order.
  • Alternately, a totally new system could be made, like a "bidding system" where we trade fame/FIMSI for first rights to choose a culture.