Hey guys i just downloaded and started playing and i want to know 2 things please.
1. Is there anyway to start in modern times and not play all the way through ancient etc. ?
2. I went to world builder and gave myself techs just so i could see units availble in modern times and i never could get my cities to build the USMC for United States i just wondered if the "firearms" resource was removed from map because of bugs or if there is another map that i need to play with that.
Thanks,
Wild
1) Yes, in Custom Game you can choose a starting era. But you will have some difficulty starting in later eras (from Renaissance onwards), not in the least since:
2) The mod assumes you have a certain level of development as you enter the eras. This means a number of cities, resources conncted, and, for later eras,
industrial infrastructure. Firearms, just like many other resources, don't spawn on the map. You have to
manufacture them in your factories, by processing iron ore and coal to make steel in a steel mill, and then by processing that steel in a weapon factory - which, by the time you reach modern era "the natural way", you should already be doing anyway. Also, if you start the game in industrial/modern, your cities will be
very unhappy from the start, since the demand for luxury rises with era advancement in TR - once again assuming that you have had time to find, collect and/or manufacture lots of luxuries by then.
If you want to quickly see everything the mod has to offer, you better select a quicker game speed and start somewhere in classical/medieval.