Overview
A simple guide showing you how to reduce the number of city states in ur game. As well as increase the minimum distance from players.
How to have less or even no city states.
Note: The patch changed the file listed in this guide. If you made these changes prior to the patch, you will need to make them again.
For those that want less, or absolutely no city states.
go to your steam folder (Usually found under C: program files(x86)) followed by – steam apps – common – sid meier’s civilization vi – base – assets – maps – utility – and find the file named
” AssignStartingPlots”
First: Back up the file. If you break it, it’s not my fault. Always back up files before you change them.
After the file is backed up, right click on the original and hit edit: Find the line that says:
” self.iNumMinorCivs = PlayerManager.GetAliveMinorsCount(); ” and change it to
” self.iNumMinorCivs = 0; ”
This will set the number of city states to 0. If you want a few but less, change ” 0 ” to the number you want. Example: I have mine set at 8 on a huge map. Keeps them in-game but mostly out of the way This should let you set the number of city states to anything you want, assuming the number is less than normal. I have not tried setting it to more than default.
NOTE: Make sure it’s the line that says “MinorCivs” not “MajorCivs”. Minor is the second one listed.
FYI: Default city states is 1.5 times the default number of players. (On huge, default is 18 city states and 12 civs)
Make sure you have the ; at the end of the line.
In addition, if you would like a higher minimum distance between city states and major civs, do the following:
Go to your steam folder – steam apps – common – sid meier’s civilization vi – base – assets – gameplay – data. Find and backup the file “global parameters” then edit the original. search for the line:
<Row Name=”START_DISTANCE_MINOR_CIVILIZATION” Value=”5″ />
Simply set the number to something higher and city-states should be at least that many tiles away from players. For reference, the min distance between major civs is 9 tiles in civ 6. For additional reference, the minimum distance between civs in civ 5 is 10 tiles, including city states i believe.
Edit/Note: Setting the minimum distance too high will lower the number of city states further. For example, if set to 15 and the map generator is unable to place a city state 15 tiles or more away from every other civ and city state, it will simply not place that city state at all. I recommend no higher than 10 as the minimum distance.
Hope this helps.