Recent content by Xwarq

Dumbing down means making it simpler, not making it easier--though it can become easier by becoming simpler. Regular Civ IV is already a really simple game after you've played Rise of Mankind--with Civ V's takeaway of some features, well...

Oh yeah--and no map trading.

The main problems I have with Civ V 1) Waaaaaaaaay slower than Civ IV. No, I'm not talking about framerate, nor turn calculation speed. It's just slower-paced and less eventful. It also seems more repetitive. 2) City-States should help you more than just send resources or units. They should...

Is it possible to make the script avoid making land cross the y-axis sides of the map? AKA, have the y-axis borders of the map be all-water?

I don't know how city-states or added or how difficult they are to add, so this may be a bit much, but might I suggest: Qart-Hadasht (Maritime) Barcelona (Maritime) Naples (Cultured) Ciudad de México (Cultured) Samarqand (Militaristic) Apache (Militaristic) Cusco (Cultured) Jerusalem...

That confused me too. You have to actually put it inside the Beyond The Sword folder, inside the civ iv beyond the sword folder.

Civilization: The Maurya Starting Technologies: Agriculture, Hunting Unique Unit: Maurya Battle-Elephant - Replaces War Elephant (stronger) Unique Building: Pillar of Ashoka - Replaces Monument (gives more culture) Leaders: Chandragupta - Aggressive, Imperialistic Ashoka - Organized, Spiritual

India being treated as one civilization throughout history is grossly inappropriate. Splitting it into a Maurya civ, Gupta civ, Mughal civ, Maratha civ, and an India civ would be more appropriate. Or, since those were just temporary empires, maybe a Indo-Aryan, Dardic, Dravidian, etc...

The Byzantine Empire is the Roman Empire

Having button art be ethnically different for each civ would be illogical. Diverse buttons are a waste of time when they could be working on the rest of the game. Plus, many of the civilizations had multiple races within them... There were Greeks and Nubians in Egypt. There were and are many...

brianshapiro said what I was trying to say. Also, the reason I said the Mongols were arguably barbarians, is because I thought, if I left that part out, then someone would point out that they destroyed everything in their path. Not all barbarians were destructive.

It depends on age, influence, and the relation between the entity and its surroundings. Rome is a civilization, because it conquered the entire Mediterranean world and brought civilization to Europe. They also had huge linguistic impact. Greece is a civilization because they spread their...

Eurocentrism is not the problem, the problem is that many of the civilizations are not even civilizations. America... it fits more as a civilization than most of the European civs do, since it repopularized democracy (well, France did, but they probably wouldn't have if the United States...

It's impossible to play CIV IV without this mod now.

Best map of Europe for Civ IV. However, here's a few suggestions, all relating to the terrain itself, and could be solved simply: The Lisbon area could be improved a bit. A few tiles of water could represent the bay of Lisbon, and a few of land need to stick out more than currently. The...