Hi,
I'm new to R2R and C2C mods but I was playing RoM/AND for about 4 years, so I'm kinda experienced player. Maybe I'm now a hardcore one, deity AI crusher, I was playing mostly on monarch/emperor level and I've never played these mods on multiplayer. But I know the mechanics for sure.
My first attempt to play C2C was in May and I was somehow crushed by the complexity of it. I've only managed to play through prehistoric era, which is awesome, and I've quit it at the beginning of ancient. There were just too many buildings, small factors, too many everything! Now after playing Civ V BNW, I've came back to play R2R, which I believe is almost that, what a C2C should be, in my thoughts of course. But there are few problems I'm occurring now, again at the beginning of the ancient era.
Firstly, I'm playing on GEM R2R version, included in mod. Monarch difficulty, marathon speed, Iroquois civ. My aim was to play one of pre-Columbian civs, to surprise Europeans when they come to discover the New World
I like to play religious, high cultured civ and as tech leader. Since I'm playing without "Usable Mountains" the Mayan and Inca starting positions are just terrible, so I have to play one of the North Americans.
I've gone through prehistoric quite nicely, I think I'm tech leader now, I've wiped out the Native Americans, got 4 cities: my capital's got 7 population, most buildings done, producing wonders, army and settlers (I'm going to expand to 6/6 cities that despotism allows to manage with), second one is the old Native's capital: 8 population, good food production, many resources. Other 2 cities got 2-3 pop, they are placed on coast and slowly developing.
My biggest problem is religion. I've got Divine Prophets and Limited Religions on, I've discovered druidism and shamanism as a first one, got Great Prophet, and he can't found a new religion. There isn't a button to found/spread religion at all. In the religion tab, there aren't any information whether there are any already founded or not. Just nothing under a religions names. Is it possible that one of the civs that I've not met yet have founded a religion and there is no info about that?
Second is slow tech progression since I've advanced to the ancient era. It is now 2300 BC, and I'm still at the very beginning of it. I was first to discover Sedentary lifestyle, but now it is going terribly slow, it takes me about 11-14 turns to discover anything! Where in prehistoric it was 2-4 turns. I know, that I should go slower, but I don't have any prospect to change that. Is that because lack of religion? In AND I'd be now at the end of ancient or beginning of classical
Other 3 civs on my continent, that are: Aztecs, Maya and Inca are behind me for sure, but they all are in terrible starting possitions, now they got 2-3 small cities. The Native Americans were kinda good before I've wiped them off, just a few tech behind me, competitive in cities size and number, just had got smaller army.
But at the end I'd like to say, that this is a great mod without any doubts. You all did a great job
PS. Sorry for my english as it is not my native