Playing on Earth

[grailchaser]

I've just started playing Civ 5 again and I've finally started to figure out just how to play to win. But this brings me back to the old problem that partly turned me off playing Civ 5 in the first place - the Earth Map.

I enjoy playing on the odd random map and often as not, I like playing on Earth too. But there still doesn't seem to be a way to play on Earth in each Civilization's original starting location (ie. England starts around London, Germany starts around Berlin, France starts around Paris, Aztecs start around Tenochitlan etc). In previous games of Civilization it was a bit of a no-brainer, but Civ 5 just seems to have missed out this option. Sure, I've found a few mods that allow you to play in original starting locations, but all the ones I've so far vetted last only 100 turns! What's the point of this?

Does anyone know how I can play a regular game, set on Earth, with civilizations in their starting locations?

 

[Tokira]

Acttually there are two ways of doing this in Civ 5.

1) You can use the worldbuilder and create the desired map yourself.

2) You can search for the desired map here:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=9811814&postcount=2

Personally I was looking for these about a month ago and I downloaded this Legendary Earth Mod by DarkJedi06. It worked like a charm though it was a bit laggy to play since my computer doesn't handle large maps in end game very well (at least with 22 civs). There are versions which don't require DLCs too if you don't have them. With that one I was able to play until I reached a scientific victory on turn ~300 so it definitely didn't end on turn 100.

To be honest I think that the world maps should come up with a fixed starting location version in the firt place.. With the option to disable the fixed locations of course.

 

[Stealth Bumbler]

I went through a phase where I really liked earth maps too, and there are a few mods out there that give TSL's (true starting locations.)

If you download and play one, I would recommend that you be careful and manually select your opponents. Europe is too small to support more than 1 or 2 civs (which explains that whole "imperialism" thing,) Africa and the Americas are so big that any civs that start there isolated have a good chance of getting really huge before you can do anything about it, and you wind up with a whole lot of empty space if you don't put in Russia and China.

 

[Flaxton]

Shame there isn't a TSL in the core game so you could still earn achievements.

What would be good is a true world scenario where the civ's start with their technologies at a given time, like 1750 and play from there.

Whilst we are at it can anybody recommend a good global WW2 scenario/mod?

 

[grailchaser]

Thanks for that info!

I've not actually tried to use the worldbuilder for Civ5 (it wasn't really on my radar). I suppose it can't be too hard.

Acttually there are two ways of doing this in Civ 5.

1) You can use the worldbuilder and create the desired map yourself.

2) You can search for the desired map here:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=9811814&postcount=2

Personally I was looking for these about a month ago and I downloaded this Legendary Earth Mod by DarkJedi06. It worked like a charm though it was a bit laggy to play since my computer doesn't handle large maps in end game very well (at least with 22 civs). There are versions which don't require DLCs too if you don't have them. With that one I was able to play until I reached a scientific victory on turn ~300 so it definitely didn't end on turn 100.

To be honest I think that the world maps should come up with a fixed starting location version in the firt place.. With the option to disable the fixed locations of course.

 

[grailchaser]

And now I know why its not on my radar.

Damn thing requires a separate installation via Steam.