Suguba (Civ6)

Suguba
District of the Classical Era
Introduced in Gathering Storm
Unique to	Malian
Unique to	Malian
Replaces	Commercial Hub
Replaces	Commercial Hub
Unlocked by	Currency
Plunder	Gold
Cost
Production	27
Production	27
Yields
Great Person Points	+1 Great Merchant point per turn.
Adjacency Bonus	+2 Gold from each adjacent River and Holy Site. +1 Gold from every 2 adjacent Districts.
Citizen Yields (per citizen)	+4 Gold
Trade Yields	Domestic Destination: +1 Production International Destination: +3 Gold
Unlocks
Buildings	Market  Bank  Stock Exchange
Projects	Commercial Hub Investment

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The Suguba is a unique District of the Malian civilization in Civilization VI: Gathering Storm. It replaces the Commercial Hub.

• Effects:
  • Lower Production cost (27 vs. 54).
  • Major bonus (+2 Gold) for a nearby River or Holy Site.
  • Major bonus (+2 Gold) for each adjacent Pamukkale tile.
  • Minor bonus (+½ Gold) for each nearby District.
  • 20% discount on all Gold and Faith purchases in this city
  • +1 Great Merchant point per turn
  • Specialists add +4 Gold each

Buildings

The following buildings can be constructed in a Suguba:

• Market
• Bank
• Stock Exchange

Projects

• Commercial Hub Investment: Earns Gold equal to 30% of Production used and Great Merchant points

Strategy

This unique district is similar to the Hansa and can be placed in the same way. If you found your cities only 4 tiles apart, you can easily place each Suguba between two Holy Sites and receive a +5 Gold bonus (+2 from each Holy Site and +1 from having two adjacent districts). Place them on riverbanks for even better results. The guaranteed high adjacency bonus of the Suguba makes Mali one of the few civilizations that can truly make use of Free Inquiry dedication in Classical or Medieval Era, granting a huge amount of Science. Of course, this dedication should only be chosen if you are in a Heroic Age, since in almost every circumstance, Monumentality is the better choice in the early eras. The Suguba is the backbone of the Mali empire, as it is evident that the weakest point of Mali during the game is before Currency is unlocked. Aim for this technology as soon as possible and get up multiple Suguba so your purchasing strategy can finally begin.

It is important that you promote either Reyna or Moksha (preferably both) so that you can straight up buy districts using Gold and Faith as soon as possible, even though the -30% Production does not affect building districts. In new settlements, the Suguba should always be the first district to be put down, so that it starts applying the 20% purchasing discount immediately toward other items.

The best thing about the Suguba is undoubtedly its purchasing discount, but you can make it even better by combining it with other discounts. Remember, these discounts stack additively, not multiplicatively, so stacking 2 discounts will retain the efficiency of both (except for the last discount on this list). Below is the list of other percentage purchasing discounts in game:

• Suzerainty of Ngazargamu offers a 20% discount per Encampment building present in the city, meaning it can scale up to 60%. Despite the tooltips, Ngazargamu actually does affect Faith purchasing of land military units, making it an incredibly overpowered city-state when combined with the Suguba and the Grand Master's Chapel.
• The Democracy government offers a 15% discount on all Gold purchases. If combined with the Suguba and Ngazargamu, you can purchase land military units at a whopping 95% discount with Gold.
• Monumentality Golden Age dedication allows you to purchase Settlers, Builders and Traders with Faith at a 30% discount, rising up to 50% when combined with the Suguba. This is the reason why Mali can expand absurdly fast in an early Golden Age, and no matter how much Science you can get out of Free Inquiry, Monumentality is always the top priority.
• Holy Order Enhancer belief grants a 30% discount for Missionaries and Apostles.
• The Theocracy government grants 15% to all Faith purchases. When combined with the Suguba, Grand Master's Chapel and Ngazargamu, you can purchase land units at a 95% discount with Faith.
• Winning first prize in the Nobel Prize in Literature (a scored competition available through the World Congress whenever Sweden is in the game) grants 20% discount when purchasing Rock Bands.
• The least important, the Meenakshi Temple grants a 30% discount when purchasing Gurus.
• Mercenary Companies (World Congress Resolution) can grant 50% discount to either Faith or Gold purchases. Note that this discount is an anomaly, as it applies before every other discounts, so you will not reach 100% discount when purchasing. In other words, this discount stacks multiplicatively with other discounts.
  • For example, when you have this Resolution active to give you 50% discount on Faith purchases, the Suguba will raise the discount to 60% only (not 70%). If you have Theocracy and the Suguba, you can have a 67.5% discount.
  • Having this Resolution active (in either Faith or Gold discounts), the maximum effect from Ngazargamu, the Suguba, and the appropriate government (either Theocracy or Democracy) will raise the maximum level of discount in the game to 97.5% when you purchase a land unit using the supported currency.

Civilopedia entry

In the Mande language, Suguba means "big market," and as the Malian empire was built on trade, one would naturally expect a bustling and vibrant market. Most of the cities of Mali have large market districts, crowded with vendors and customers. In the past, Malian gold and salt would have purchased a variety of goods from across Africa and Europe, which would have found their way into Malian markets.

Should you visit a Malian Suguba, bring a shopping list and be prepared to negotiate your prices (bargaining is expected, and to fail to do so would be to commit a serious faux pas). In addition to more mundane goods like food and electronics, you should keep an eye out for Mali's famous fabrics: Bazin and bogolanfini. Bazin is a lustrous, colorful fabric made by the methodical hammering of cotton cloth, much prized by fashion designers around the world. Malians are said to be discriminating connoisseurs of bazin. Bogolanfini is a mud-dyed fabric of warm browns, deep blacks, and sharp whites, first worn by hunters, but now an important cultural symbol for Mali.

Gallery

Suguba (with Market and Bank) in game

Historic Moment for building the Suguba