Can you turn off the player scores in multiplayer?

[Civic713]

Just to be clear, I don't want to turn off score as a victory condition. What I mean is, can I turn off the sidebar that shows everybody's scores in a multiplayer game? There are several reasons for this:
--It's kinda lame that you know all the civs in the game before you make your first turn, including who your buddies are. You shouldn't know. If I know for example that my buddy is Egypt, I know he's going to wonder rush. I shouldn't know this! If I know he's the Celts, I know he's probably going to go after religion before me. I shouldn't know this either!
--It's very lame that when somebody builds a wonder who haven't met, you know exactly who did by their score! You should have to meet somebody to see their score, and should have to have seen their city to know if they built a wonder, just like in a single player game!
--It's also lame when I can see by scores that two people I haven't met are at war, and one is kicking the others butt and taking their cities. Again, I shouldn't know this about 2 civs I've never met!

Lots can be inferred by seeing the civs and scores of people you haven't met in a multiplayer game. Strategies can be planned on turn 0, based upon the civs of people you haven't even met, and strategies can be changed in game based upon changes you see in score, again, based on civs you haven't met!! Seeing score takes away from the fun!

 

[Civic713]

Nothing huh? Nobody has any idea how to do this?

 

[Reg Pither]

I've just started playing this game after a 2 year break and that was the first thing on the screen that I wanted to get rid of. Can anyone give a definitive answer either way?

 

[LostKnight]

Short answer: No.

It can be modded out, but you cannot remove it during normal gameplay.

 

[Reg Pither]

Dammit. Looks like another two year wait for me until they fix that, then

 

[LostKnight]

You know, you can still use duct tape to mask this part of the screen, tough the tentations of looking might be too strong

 

[Rioking]

Hello everybody,

We are trying to create a tournament between friends who play Civ5 a lot.
We need to hide the scoretable during the game as Civ4 allowed.

Has someone developed a script to allow a choice in the game's characteristics?
If not, we will try to develop something asap...

Thanks a lot

 

[Gort]

Hello everybody,

We are trying to create a tournament between friends who play Civ5 a lot.
We need to hide the scoretable during the game as Civ4 allowed.

Has someone developed a script to allow a choice in the game's characteristics?
If not, we will try to develop something asap...

Thanks a lot

You can't mod this game because the devs made a stupid design decision, so you'll need to come up with an alternative asap.