x_dalamar_x
Chieftain
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Help!
I'm sorry if this sounds like an overly-simple dumb question to some, but I've been trying to dig up my own answer ever since I purchased Civ4 and then more recently Civ4 Beyond the Sword and I simply can't find my answer.
What I Want:
All I want to do is to be able to open a new game in a Huge sized Earth map. I want to be able to choose from ANY of the civilizations, with all of the in-game civs starting in their appropriate historical starting location.
I want to be able to select the number of civs I am playing against and either select those civs + leaders myself or let them be selected randomly. I want to be able to do this in both the standard Civ4 game AND in Civ4 BtS.
This used to be very simple in earlier versions of Civilization. It was this ability to play a civilization from the dawn of time in our familiar world map that made me fall in love with the game in the early '90's.
I *LOVE* Civ 4. But I've been disappointed that I could only find 1 mod that has a preset choice of civs + leaders (I think it's someone's huge realistic earth map with 17 civilizations). But in that scenario Egypt invariably always becomes the dominant opponent while others really have no chance, and I don't know how to go into a map and add new civs or adjust leaders. I've been really excited to play BtS with its new challenges on a normal world map, but I just don't like playing any of the historical mods that I have found (ie- jumping into the game at 1000AD or jumping from 1 civ to another as time passes or playing WWII, etc). I know that I can go into the world builder, but I can't possibly build my own huge earth map from scratch, I don't know how to add/remove civilizations from existing scenarios, I don't know how to load just load an existing map without beginning a game and then being bound to the guidelines set by that scenario. I miss the separate world map builder program that existed with an earlier version of civ. I don't know how to code, I'm a simple end-user.
I am certain that it must be my own ignorance that has made this so difficult. Can someone please help me?
I'm sorry if this sounds like an overly-simple dumb question to some, but I've been trying to dig up my own answer ever since I purchased Civ4 and then more recently Civ4 Beyond the Sword and I simply can't find my answer.
What I Want:
All I want to do is to be able to open a new game in a Huge sized Earth map. I want to be able to choose from ANY of the civilizations, with all of the in-game civs starting in their appropriate historical starting location.
I want to be able to select the number of civs I am playing against and either select those civs + leaders myself or let them be selected randomly. I want to be able to do this in both the standard Civ4 game AND in Civ4 BtS.
This used to be very simple in earlier versions of Civilization. It was this ability to play a civilization from the dawn of time in our familiar world map that made me fall in love with the game in the early '90's.
I *LOVE* Civ 4. But I've been disappointed that I could only find 1 mod that has a preset choice of civs + leaders (I think it's someone's huge realistic earth map with 17 civilizations). But in that scenario Egypt invariably always becomes the dominant opponent while others really have no chance, and I don't know how to go into a map and add new civs or adjust leaders. I've been really excited to play BtS with its new challenges on a normal world map, but I just don't like playing any of the historical mods that I have found (ie- jumping into the game at 1000AD or jumping from 1 civ to another as time passes or playing WWII, etc). I know that I can go into the world builder, but I can't possibly build my own huge earth map from scratch, I don't know how to add/remove civilizations from existing scenarios, I don't know how to load just load an existing map without beginning a game and then being bound to the guidelines set by that scenario. I miss the separate world map builder program that existed with an earlier version of civ. I don't know how to code, I'm a simple end-user.
I am certain that it must be my own ignorance that has made this so difficult. Can someone please help me?
