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When it comes to developing cities inCivilization 7, one of the most important aspects of gameplay is yields. As your civilization’s urban centers sprawl outward across the map, you’ll end up managing a handful of different yields that can make or break your campaign and even make the difference between victory and defeat.
But how do yields work in Civilization 7? Whether this is your first foray into Civilization as a franchise, or you’re a veteran player returning to the series for just one more turn, here’s everything you need to know to get bigger yields from your civilization’s cities.
What Are Yields?
As your civilization grows from the dawn of man to a near-futuristic society, you’ll earn yields, which areresources that contribute to the welfare of your civ, from your research endeavors to your citizens' happiness.
All in all, there areseven basic types of yieldsin Civilization that you’ll want to keep track of.
How To Get Yield
Gold
This isthe amount of money your civilization earnsper turn and is displayed in the top left corner of your screen.
Production
Individualcities generate their own productionand gain production from nearby towns.
Production is used to develop new buildings, units, and moreacross your civilization.
Food
Each individual city has its own food yield.As your city gains food, its population will grow, and borders will expand.
Science
Displayed at the top left of your screen, this number representsthe amount of scientific advancement your civ is generatingacross every tile and helps contribute to your Tech Tree research.
Culture
Displayed at the top left of your screen, this number representsthe amount of cultural advancement your civ is generatingacross every tile and helps contribute to your Civic Tree research.
Happiness
Happiness is an underrated but important resource.If you have a positive happiness yield, your civilization’s yields can be boosted,and your production will stay high.
However,if your civ is unhappy, productivity will gradually decreaseover time, or your population can revolt.
Influence
Influence is adiplomacy-based currencyused to bargain and deal with other civilizations in the game.
It’s largely good for making trade agreements, negating war weariness, or contributing to endeavors.
How To Add Yields
There are a few specific ways to generate each yieldin Civilization 7, with various results depending on your method and leader.
Any of the above can boost your yieldacross your empire simplyby adding them to your city or town. Here are some examples ofways to add to certain yields.
How To Improve Your Yields
Once you’ve constructed buildings, implemented social policies, or generated a yield through other means,there are additional methods you can use to improve your base yields.
Maximizing your yields is imperativefor achieving victory. As you run out of turns,having high development times for buildings or research can prove costly.
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Town Focus
Though Town Focuses help boost yields in towns only, theycan also help your cities by increasing production.
Excess production is converted into gold, which can be used for other units and features.
Use Adjacency Bonuses
Certain buildings and improvements have adjacency bonusesfor being near Wonders or other structures.
By stacking and maximizing adjacency bonuses (found in the settlement’s menu),you can often double or triple your yieldfrom that specific tile.
Add Specialists
Specialists can be added to urban tiles toboost that tile’s yield.
Each tile has a maximum of two specialists, which can be earned through population growth.
Unique Quarters
Quarters are formedwhen youconstruct two civ-specific buildings on the same tile.
Though this is a more niche way to earn yield improvements, it is possible depending on your civ and what buildings are available for you to construct.
Stacking Social Policies
Certainsocial policies increase your yieldsby percentage points.
When you unlock new policy slots, check to see if there are any available that can improve a certain yield across your civ.
Overbuilding
As the ages progress,certain buildings lose their adjacency bonuses or yield effect.
Overbuilding allows you to gain those bonuses and effects back, which you can do on previously improved tiles each time you gain a population in your city.
Though a more roundabout way to improve yields, certain social policies or other effects might increase your civ’s happiness, culture, or even science if yougain access to certain luxury resources via trading.
For example,the policy Trade Winds earns you gold and happiness for every imported resource.
