Help finding mod/fixing the 2 things I hate with Civ 5

[Lazaroth]

Hi,

There are 2 things that has been nagging me for a while, so I thought I'd ask for help finding mods fixing this (pref. for G&K) or how I can modify the game to work as I would prefer. Feel free to move the thread if it's under the wrong category.

1. Number of civilizations on a map size.
I don't know when this changed, but earlier when you chose e.g. a small map and added more civilizations, it did what you'd expect; stay on small size but adding more civilization. But nowadays, if I add more civilizations in the advanced setup, it automatically resizes the map to fit the number of civs I added. I hate this, since I find it to be way too much space. I want to be able to build a maximum perhaps 2 cities before running out of space and having to use the environment to my advantage in order to outplay my opponents.

2. Adding a round map to a flat world
Some maps don't have a circular world, i.e. if you go right, you eventually are going to end up where you started. Highland is an example of such a map and it's that map in particular I'd like to play as a circular world. I really love highlands+ridgelines, but I've never enjoyed that the map ends top/bottom/left/right.

Thank you folks in advance!

 

[whoward69]

Easiest way to do 2 is to hack one of the core game LUA files (yeah, yeah, I know you should write a mod to do this, but it's such a trivial thing to do again when the file gets overwritten)

Locate the file "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\sid meier's civilization v\assets\Maps\Highlands.lua". open it with Notepad, change the line "WrapX = false" to "WrapX = true" (it's around line 82), save file and start a new game.

HTH

W

 

[Lazaroth]

Thanks! I've been digging around in the LUA and fixing some other issues I had as well, including that first issue...
Not a very hard language to learn.