Unfortunately, not all city-states are created equal. With the new city-state system, Suzerain bonuses are important to factor in when choosing where to throw our envoys. Somnath: Your Trade Routes to any city-state provide +2 Faith for every specialty district in the origin city. Samarkand: Provides +1 Amenity in cities with a Commercial Hub district. Palembang: Provides +1 Amenity in cities with a Commercial Hub district. Honk Kong up of 2 tiers for domination victory (can be used in a rush general recruitment) Yerevan up to tier A in culture victory for the relic rus Your Trade Routes to any city-state provide +2 Faith for every specialty district in the origin city. Toronto up of one tier for cultural victory. smartcanuck1988, Every commercial CS not under Tier B (except lisbon which bonus is very situational) Armagh up to tier A for religious victory. The latter because it takes some of the headache away of counting tiles to decide where to place my factories and also because I live there. The former because I seem to be hated by RNG and never get any Iron or Horses. This civilization guarantees quick command over the enemies 276.

Suzerainship is much like much like being the ally of a city state in civ v but it is not entirely the same. In some cases when a new civ is added into the game and one of the existing city states is a city historically belong to that civ then the city state will be placed by another city state in order to avoid a city name duplication and maintain the total number of city states the same.

Civ 5 civ tier list