The AI can ' t really play Civ VI , and I think it ' s an expected result . Firaxis may have developed it for a couple of years , but they never had the advantage of hundreds of thousands players playing through the game over and over again . The Civilization franchise is not starting from 0 each time they create a new title they ' ve had 5 fully fleshed games to learn from . For instance , ICS being the dominant strategy is inexcusable , because they ' ve already made that mistake so many times and in Civ 5 , no less . As soon as somebody suggested 6 tileradius shared buffs , alarm bells should have been ringing . But no , another title ships where you cram as many cities as possible . I think your point about the districts was well made , but I ' m weary of the franchise repeating the same mistakes .