Maybe it's about damn time I introduce myself. I'm a 40 year old father of an 18 year old. I've been a gamer all of my life (I was 5 when they released the NES) but never really got into modding until quite recently as I was diagnosed with depression and told to find something I enjoyed to do creatively. At that point I was already well known in the Sim Settlement community (a large Fallout 4 mod) as I had been giving ideas and working with modders so I decided to give it a go. I'm still working on it (my plan to do newspapers meant I have to write 200+ fake articles so... it's not an instant thing).
My son got into D&D and is a Dungeon Master who loves to create new worlds. One day he told me about his difficulties having a backstory to his words. He wanted to create his own but he always ended up stealing someone else pre-made concept. As a Civ player since the original I immediately thought of using it as a tool for him. My original idea was as simple as: let's use Civs that are kinda close to the races/countries you want to create and he can have his friends roleplay with him a game of Civ like that. It was not great but it was an idea. Then I remembered that mods exist and that kinda brought me here instantly.
I'm barely starting to work on this project. I'm going to work in stages and I'll see what stage I can reach before we all just say "fudge it, we play it like this". The first step will simply be mix and matching existing unique everything and create our own races (since I work better by doing as I'm reading tutorials, I've started working on a pirate Civ but it will include all manners of Elfs, Dwarves, Orcs or whatever else he creates).
But I have also asked and received permission to use assets from some modders here, people who made units, one of them made a TON of units available so if I can find a way to easily and efficiently transfer some assets to the game I might try to redo the unit list entirely. What I mean by that is that I'd stop using any unit post... let's say Industrial Era. Make those the late game units and then add units throughtout the tech tree so that there are more choices of archers, warriors etc. That obviously would be a huge undertaking so it's far from guaranteed.
Because I have a group of creative kids who can draw, I might try to look into how to make new buildings completely and just cheat it and use existing buildings (and entire districts) and simply let the kids have fun with retexturing. My experience with Fallout 4 is that with good retexturing you can do quite a lot.
And that's pretty much it. This is who I am, why I am here and what I want to do. Hope this introduction was as pleasant to read as it was to write.