Would anyone that uses this map/mod be interested in a 37 Civilization mod I've been working on based upon this?
So far, I've replaced a few Civilizations, such as America(USA) and Australia with older civilizations that make more sense in the Ancient Era. I have also removed horses from the Americas(will probably script them to be added after a certain year.) The Netherlands and Scandinavia are no longer joined on the map and a few instances of map artifacts have been fixed(ie: I got rid of a few tiles of forest in shore tiles.) The Aboriginal Australians are still in the scenario and will be a formidable foe if you try try to take Australia by force anytime in the pre-gunpowder game.
The ultimate goal with this mod is going to be several different versions of the map for different starting eras with mostly-appropriate civilizations in each era. Religions will also diffuse to their true-to-life Holy Cities, or at least close enough to them near their inception date along with certain strategic resources diffusing to different geological locations, such as American horses and European tobacco.
I'm doing most, if not all, of the work solo, though. I've just been wanting a collection of scenarios that are mostly vanilla as far as civilizations and units are concerned, but still BIG and TRULY EXPANSIVE.
The attached picture is the current Player/Civilization list along with the leaders. After playing around testing the map for a few weeks, this set of leaders seems to be the best for keeping gameplay active enough to stay challenging, with or without raging barbarians. I chose the colors to adhere to either predominant colors of that nations flag(s) or colors that are important to that culture. Some had to take precedence over others, though. For example, even though Mao Zedong is the leader of China, I choose Dark Pink for the color of China since Japan's Red is right next door, so-to-speak, and it just gets a bit confusing after things heat up in Asia.
Civilization and leader names will also be changed to closer-match their true-to-life counterparts. Let me know if anyone would be interested in testing this out and I'll gladly start a thread and take suggestions and maybe even get help if some of you would be so inclined.
Edit: Fixed a typo and made a few things more clear.
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