Greetings,
as the title already says, I am looking for a mod where the biggest aspect is the freedom of choice. Realism is not that important, but there shouldn't be any fantasy/alternative timeline modules. I started playing with "rise of mankind" and went over to caveman 2 cosmos. But I don't like their goal of having any possible thing from the real world in their mod, which also slows the game down by a huge amount.
Some things I really appreciate(with c2c as an example):
-founding new cultures with the appropriate ressources and landscape (in a result choosing a specific path how you further develop your civilization)
-many, many new civics and traits
-advanced espionage
-advanced combat
-more promotions
-revolutions
-more diversified religions
basically everything which helps the player making their own kind of strategy, apart from just having a "specialist economy" or "cottage economy".
Things I don't like are hyperrealism, where the fun falls by the wayside or content which just makes the game longer but don't really add something, for example (again c2c as an example):
-a prehistoric age (you focus on your capital, specific mechanics which forces you to start on a certain playstyle)
-capturing animals (a random factor, it enriches the atmosphere but the results are out of your control)
-too many new technologies (you have to research everything anyway, rather than widening your decisions you just lengthening the game)
-too many new buildings. This especially turns into a real hassle starting from the middle age, when building queues get +30 or more. and also don't add much decisionmaking, because mostly you can build the majority of them in a city anyway. (A good idea I came up while playing c2c would be reducing the number of buildings you can build in each era, because later you can so do much more in each turn, so you can still uphold your own strategy)
This shouldn't hinder complexity! I love complexity, but it should open more ways to play the game, not just having more variables.
I think you get the idea what I am looking for. I hope someone can help me out suggesting a good mod for me.
as the title already says, I am looking for a mod where the biggest aspect is the freedom of choice. Realism is not that important, but there shouldn't be any fantasy/alternative timeline modules. I started playing with "rise of mankind" and went over to caveman 2 cosmos. But I don't like their goal of having any possible thing from the real world in their mod, which also slows the game down by a huge amount.
Some things I really appreciate(with c2c as an example):
-founding new cultures with the appropriate ressources and landscape (in a result choosing a specific path how you further develop your civilization)
-many, many new civics and traits
-advanced espionage
-advanced combat
-more promotions
-revolutions
-more diversified religions
basically everything which helps the player making their own kind of strategy, apart from just having a "specialist economy" or "cottage economy".
Things I don't like are hyperrealism, where the fun falls by the wayside or content which just makes the game longer but don't really add something, for example (again c2c as an example):
-a prehistoric age (you focus on your capital, specific mechanics which forces you to start on a certain playstyle)
-capturing animals (a random factor, it enriches the atmosphere but the results are out of your control)
-too many new technologies (you have to research everything anyway, rather than widening your decisions you just lengthening the game)
-too many new buildings. This especially turns into a real hassle starting from the middle age, when building queues get +30 or more. and also don't add much decisionmaking, because mostly you can build the majority of them in a city anyway. (A good idea I came up while playing c2c would be reducing the number of buildings you can build in each era, because later you can so do much more in each turn, so you can still uphold your own strategy)
This shouldn't hinder complexity! I love complexity, but it should open more ways to play the game, not just having more variables.
I think you get the idea what I am looking for. I hope someone can help me out suggesting a good mod for me.
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