- Make it more easy to beeline in the earlier tech tree, and make much longer to reach any of the Industrial or Modern era's. I'm sick of seeing Civ's with Tank's & Airports who've skipped half the industrial techs.
- Include Willowmounds "Actual Quotes" mod. It's a tiny file, & suprisingly makes the game much more fun to play for such a seemingly small change. Goes with the historical theme too.
- Include the new version of the "Ethnically diverse Cities" mod. It's been out for a long time, and has added dozens and dozens of new artworks since Rhye first included it. (The Russian & Southern European artworks are especially good) If you can include new leaderheads you can definitely include this.
- Byzantium has no reason to spawn for the 3000 BC map, and Greece
especially has no reason to spawn for the 600 AD map.
I don't see how the Byzantines were anything but a Christian continuation/revival of Greek civilisation. After all, they spoke Greek, were ethnically Greek, they were referred to as Greeks by their contemporaries, and Greece today considers the Byzantines as their own.
If Greece spawns on the 600 AD map, that basically leaves any surviving Byzantine Civ as city-state squashed between the Turks, Russians & Greeks. It also makes playing Byzantium literally impossible after the 1500's for a human player.
As for the 3000 AD map, either the Greeks have a scripted respawn if the Romans become unstable after conquering them and remove the Byzantines. Otherwise, the Byzantines only spawn if the Greeks are dead, and the Greeks only re-spawn if the Byzantines are dead. Does this make sense?
- Make the British Empire continental city goal a later date with more cities. Would makes it less of settler-spam rush & it would require more planning and strategy to have more cities later. Plus the British Empire had barely started by 1730.
- More numerous & earlier caucasian cities (for Armenia & Georgia) with an improvement of those tiles, probably making them grassland & a fish resource in the black or caspian sea. Maybe spawn a Muslim-Chechen with added raiding units city late in the game to give Russia a headache.
- Have the Mongol UB give a free "Morale" promotion to all units, so that conquest doesn't slow turn into a slog across asia for the human player, as well as helping out the AI.
- Have some strong independent cities representing Finland/Estonia/Lithunia to stop Vikings from settling Russia/Central-Asia so often (at least the last time I played this happened at least half my games). Though this might make them even more inland orientated, I'm not sure.
- Have all 3 Christian Holy Cities in Jerusalem, which could make an late-spawning Israel city-state civ viable. Would also give Arabia much need boosting, for both human & AI. Arabia has gone from easily the strongest Civ to play in Vanilla RAFC (the AI was just awful), to one of the hardest. Their AI is still a joke.
-Hardcode the Seljuks to attack Westwards, or have them spawn neutral to the Arabs, I don't know.
- Make Tibet much better defended.
- Oromo raiders for later centuries when Impi's become a joke & Bedouins become a minor annoyance. Have Numidian cavalry raiders instead of Bedouins in the earlier ages so keeping Carthage isn't impossible.
- Code the Greeks to attack Eastward, (or at least not the Ukraine) to soften up for the Arabs later.
- Ethnically diverse units mod. Would be practically the only reason I would want to play Ethiopia tbh. Ethiopia's colour is almost impossible to distinguish from Egypt on the map btw. Also Indonesia & Inca are nearly identical on minimap.
- I remember someone mentioned they scripted the game as to make dead civilisations names dissapear from the diplomacy list, it would be a no-brainer to add-in, as having a long list of moribund Civs clogging up the screen doesn't really add anything. Often it takes up half the screen, it might be a good idea to keep the short names for the screen
