[Vanilla] A few questions...

[AOE3IET]

Well, hi, I am kinda new in Civ4 (and to this forum). I bought Civ4 a few years ago, I played a few games, but, I completely forget about it (I was kinda busy and also played some other games). But I thought in playing it once again this summer...

Anyway, I just have the vanilla version, I got kinda bored of it, so I thought in downloading a mod (TR 2.0). I liked it, but, I still have a few questions about it...:

Where can I see the year I am playing at?
Is there any possible way to make a map even bigger than the "TR Earth map". No offense, but, IMO, its too little.
Any other non-official user-created content (compatible with 'nilla) you would recommend me?
Any other non-official user-created content (compatible with 'nilla and TR) you would recommend me?
Are the civ4 scenarios compatible with TR (the ones the game starts with)?


-Thanks

[Walter Hawkwood]

Originally Posted by AOE3IET

Well, hi, I am kinda new in Civ4 (and to this forum). I bought Civ4 a few years ago, I played a few games, but, I completely forget about it (I was kinda busy and also played some other games). But I thought in playing it once again this summer...

Anyway, I just have the vanilla version, I got kinda bored of it, so I thought in downloading a mod (TR 2.0). I liked it, but, I still have a few questions about it...:

Where can I see the year I am playing at?

You cannot in vanilla versions, it was implemented later. Anyway, TR has come a VERY long way since migration to Warlords, and I very much recommend you get Warlords and latest TR version.

Is there any possible way to make a map even bigger than the "TR Earth map". No offense, but, IMO, its too little.

TR is fully compatible with random maps. So you can get as big as you want.

Any other non-official user-created content (compatible with 'nilla) you would recommend me?
Any other non-official user-created content (compatible with 'nilla and TR) you would recommend me?

It has been a very long time I didn't play vanilla, so I can't remember anything.

Are the civ4 scenarios compatible with TR (the ones the game starts with)?


-Thanks

No, not as such. Again, I would very much recommend getting AT LEAST Warlords (then you can have the latest TR version, which is, like, 1000% better), or even BtS (there is no TR for BtS yet, but some other very nice mods are there).

[AOE3IET]

Well, thanks for the fast reply, but, I am kinda short on money, and I am not such a big fan of civ series; right now, I am not really interested in buying any expansion pack.

Also, yes, I do realize that TR is compatible with random maps, but, what I meant was, to make a map even bigger than the official TR earth map. Like, twice bigger than any normal "huge" map available in the game.

Oh well, for now, I will just continue playing TR 2.0 with what I have. Later, I'll see what can I do. Thanks anyway.

[Walter Hawkwood]

You can just define any map size you want in CIV4WorldInfo.xml.

[AOE3IET]

Oh, okay, thank you very much.