Rush Age Change in Civilization VII (Civ 7) if you've completed Legacy Paths and established a strong civilization. See why you should rush Age Change and the reasons why you might not want to.

Should You Rush Age Change?

Rush Age Change if...

• Completed a Legacy Path
• Established a Good Civilization
• Close to Defeat
• Researched All Available Technology and Civics
• Ensured a Victory
• End Wars

Completed a Legacy Path

If you've completed a Legacy Path in the mid-to-late game of your civilization, it's best to rush Age Change to move on to the next one. This allows you to take on new challenges and claim your Golden Age rewards in the next age.

Legacy Paths Explained

Established a Good Civilization

If you feel like your civilization is ready to move on to the next age, feel free to rush to it, especially if there's nothing more to do in your current run.

Civ 7 List of All Civs (Civilizations)

Close to Defeat

If you're on the verge of defeat, rushing the current age can give you a fresh start in the next one. This is a good way to resolve any crisis, especially those causing settlements to become unhappy. Advancing to the next age will restore their happiness and automatically repair buildings that were damaged due to revolts.

Crisis Explained

Researched All Available Technology and Civics

If you’ve already researched all Technologies and Civics in your current age, you can rush to complete it. Like the Legacy Path, Technologies and Civics change with each age, so if there’s nothing left to research, feel free to rush to the next age.

Ensured a Victory

If you’ve set a clear path toward a specific victory in the Modern Age, you can go ahead and rush it. This also prevents other leaders from earning Legacy Points, helping you maintain your position among the top leaders in your playthrough.

Victory Conditions and Types

End Wars

If you're at war, especially in the late game, you can rush to the next age before any peace offerings happen. These often require giving up a settlement, so if you want to keep all your territories, advancing quickly is the best move.

Don't Rush Age Change if...

• Have Not Completed a Legacy Path
• In a War Mid-Game
• Spread Religion
• Leveling Up Leaders to Farm Mementos
• Have Enough Turns for Other Legacy Paths
• Build Ageless Buildings
• Wipe Out Rival Civilizations

Have Not Completed a Legacy Path

If you haven't completed a Legacy path in your current civ, you can use the remaining time to finish one. Failing to complete milestones in each path will trigger a Dark Age, so aim for at least one Golden Age in any Legacy path whenever possible.

What are Dark Age Legacies?

In a War Mid-Game

Rushing to the next age while at war may result in some of your settlements being captured by other leaders. To prevent this, try to fight back, offer peace, or improve your relationship with them to reduce the chances of triggering another war in the next age.

Leaders List and All Abilities

Spread Religion

If you want to spread a religion you founded, you can extend your current phase to give yourself more time to spread it around.

Spreading Religion is one of the objectives in the Culture Legacy Path, so if you're aiming for this victory, use your turns to do it rather than rushing.

Culture Victory Guide and How to Win

Leveling Up Leaders to Farm Mementos

Leveling up leaders also requires turns to gain experience. If you're aiming to collect mementos from leaders, don't rush an age to gain more experience.

List of Mementos

Have Enough Turns for Other Legacy Paths

If you have enough time to complete other legacy paths, use the remaining points to do so. This allows you to earn more Legacy Points, which you can use in the next age to unlock more legacies.

What to Do Before and After Age Change

Build Ageless Buildings

If you have enough time or turns, you can use them to grow your settlements by constructing more establishments, especially Ageless Buildings, since these will carry over to the next age.

Civ 7 Quarters and Unique Quarters

Wipe Out Rival Civilizations

Wiping out other civilizations is also beneficial before transitioning to the next age. This may take time, so if you still have several turns to do this, don't rush to the next age. Otherwise, if you don’t eliminate the other leaders, they will refresh in the next age as if no damage was done to their settlements.

Civ 7 List of All Civs (Civilizations)

What Happens During Age Change?

• Ends the Current Age
• Provides New Legacy Paths
• Unlocks New Buildings

Ends the Current Age

Age Change or Age Transition is the point of the game where your civilization enters a new era. This new feature serves as chapters, allowing you to witness growth and modernization as you play.

New Ages Explained

Provides New Legacy Paths

Each Age Change also refreshes the objectives of the Legacy Path to align with the new era. For example, the Economic path requires setting up trade routes in the Antiquity Age. This then changes to Treasure Fleets in the Exploration Age, and transitions to Factory Resources in the Modern Age later on.

Best Economic Leaders and Civs

Unlocks New Buildings

Age Change also upgrades certain buildings. For example, Altars can only be built in the Antiquity Age but can be improved into Temples in the Exploration Age.

Ageless Buildings, however, remain unchanged and cannot be upgraded or replaced with new buildings.

Overbuilding Explained

Civilization VII (Civ 7) Related Guides

Beginner Tips and Tricks

All Recommended Guides

Recommended Guides
How to Play Civ 7	Early Game Strategy Guide
The New Ages	Diplomacy Guide
Best Science Mementos	Best Military Mementos
Best Culture Mementos	Ground Combat Guide
Naval Exploration and Combat Guide	What Does Happiness Do
How to Win Wars	-
Leader and Civ Guides
Best Leaders and Civilizations Tier Lists	Best Science Leaders
Best Military Leaders	Best Culture Leaders
Best Economic Leaders and Civs	Best Science Civs
Best Culture Civs	Best Culture Civs
List Pages
List of Mementos	List of All Governments
List of Policies	List of Pantheons
All Unique Units	-

All Tips and Tricks

Gameplay Mechanics
Adjacency Bonuses	Army Commanders
Ageless Buildings	Building Roads
Celebrations	Codex (Codices)
Crisis	Dark Age Legacies
Districts	Factory Resources
Healing Units	Independent People
Legacy Paths	Migrants
Overbuilding	Persistent Buildings
Quarters	Repairing Buildings
Rural and Urban Districts	Settlement Cap
Specialists	Towns
Trade Range	Trade Routes and Merchants
Treasure Fleets	Treasure Resources
Upgrading Units	Warehouse Buildings and Bonuses
How to Navigate Rivers	How to Get More Railroad Tycoon Points
Other Tips and Tricks
Where to Settle	Where to Spend Gold
When to Build More Settlements	What to Do Before and After Age Change
Best Settings	Map Types Explained
Best Build Order	Morse Code Event
Should I Accept Alliance?	How to Change City Name
Should You Convert a Town Into a City?	Can You Capture Settlers?
Where to Spend Influence?	When to Incorporate City-States?
Can Scouts Auto Explore?	Best Pantheon
Should You Rush Age Change?	How to Incite Raid
How to Get Relics	How to Get Artifacts
Fresh Water Tiles	Why Can't You Build a Factory?
Distant Lands	Revolutions
How to Get More Resource Slots	Attribute Trees Guide
How to Get Tile Max Yield	How to Found Religion and List of Beliefs
What is X Per Age?	How to Defend and Conquer Cities
What is War Weariness and War Support?	Zone of Control
How to Change the Capital	Resource Map
Should You Melt or Construct Relic?	Game Speed
Floods	Natural Disasters
Best Map Seeds	How to Force End Turn
Papyrus Problems	Best Tech Research Order