Recent content by Expansist

Dear Pawlak, Thank you very much for your kind helpful detailed response! Sorry for late reply, I catastrophically lack time, you are probably right that better to pitch this idea to an established modder or existing project - while this thread can already be used for this purpose, as I really...

Civ4 BTS is my favorite game. I loved the idea of "Rhyes and Fall of Civilizations" (RFC), putting all Civs into historical space-time context is the most interesting that can be in the game. But I totally hate the original map, I was pissed off how far from reality and how lieful it is, when I...

Khoisans live in the desert - they probably need to learn whole Permaculture to make viable agriculture there. There are still even today stone age civilization, bronze, iron, feudal, and all other stages from most primitive till modern - but that doesn't mean that today's stone age...

Late game high numbers of units are VERY historically CORRECT - USSR had about 11 million army after WW2! And read about West-81 USSR military training demonstration! Number of units is limited ONLY by their cost - how much weapons, bullets, food, etc. = money your economy can provide, you can...

Nomadic Civilizations were able to settle anywhere from very beginning. And also any nomadic civilization - Persians, Mongols, Scythians, Somalians, Turks, Kazakhs, Uyghurs, Iroques, Khoisan, etc. - settled down and became agricultural and building cities after some time. So, "Nomadic" should...

Great Zimbabwe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe ancient Civilization proposal representing ancient Gokomere + Mapungubwe + Great Zimbabwe + Mwenemutapa Empire + Butua Kingdom + Rozvi Empire Civilizations (like Schumeria and Babylonia or Holly Roman Empire and Germany or Rome and...

Do you mean more references to historical sources are needed?

A 100% must bu Civilization to balance is Maori, because Polynesia and huge number of pacific ocean small islands are empty. Maori were able to make such a fierce skillful and intelligent resistance against European colonization that Europeans suffered notable losses and gave Maori more rights...

Well, the first stage of brainstorming is just variants generation, collecting & listing all the ideas without judging, aiming for quantity. Then, after variants/time exhausted, viable ideas are selected and judged under certain criteria. Then, most prospective ideas are further developed. How...

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/earth-equatorial-islands-a-more-accurate-realistic-map-for-civ4-bts-rfc.679066/

1. Congo, later Patrice Lumumba; 2. Kilwa, later may be Tanzania with Julius Nyerere; 3. Indonesia, might be several Civs if possible: 3a. Indonesian - Javanese, Majapahit; 3b. Indonesian - Malays, Srivijaya, Melayu (Sumatra); 3c. Indonesian - Bruneian Sultanate; 3d. Sulavesi Sultanate; 4...

Very nice idea to make bigger map and more Civs, I like it! I have also made a new map for RFC with much more realistic continents and islands shapes, the Equator uplifted 4 tiles closer where is should be, but still not enough...

I have made a new much more realistic accurate and interesting map for RFC, attached. I am not afraid to call it a new map because it was changed so significantly, the shapes of the continents & islands changed to be more realistic, the Equator line moved 4 tiles up, I called it Earth Equatorial...

Civ4 BTS is my favorite game. I loved the idea of "Rhyes and Fall of Civilizations" (RFC), putting all Civs into historical space-time context is the most interesting that can be in the game. But I totally hate the original map, I was pissed off how far from reality and how lieful it is, when I...