Civilization VI: Tips and Tricks for Beginners

Keep Your Population High, But Manage Happiness Levels

Keeping your population high will increase the productivity of your civilization, meaning you can research and develop units and other facilities quicker. However, you also need to make sure that you keep your people happy, or they’ll start bumming around, pulling down your efficiency. To keep them happy, you can build luxury buildings and entertainment facilities to keep them occupied, or use your Builders to scavenge some luxury resources like coffee.

Be aware that founding new cities will contribute to your civilization’s unhappiness as well, so always keep the people in mind before you spend more resources and gold on expansion.