It's as simple as going out to the
forum view as normal - then instead of clicking the link to a thread, you click the number in the "Replies" column to the right. It's funny how it had never occurred to you before either. Amazing the things you can miss.
Never realised that the number was clickable. It's clearly visible through the line under the number, still I hadn't noticed it until now.
I'm impressed at your (almost) 1000 posts... nearly 1/3 of your total.
Sooo... what improvements/changes can be made to CIV:BTS? I've just found out that it's quite common to have more than the standard 7 civs in a game. Consider my mind blown. How do I do that? Are user-made civs of a decent quality? Does 50 make for a good game? etc etc. I've also just seen about the unofficial patches. Anyway, as you'll probably guess, I don't know much, so I'm wondering if there are any common alterations what I ought to implement.
Cheers
Many people use varying mods for this game. That's not unusual for games that have been available for a few years, but this game has many smaller mods and a few extensive mods. But even without mods, there are many options that can be chosen. Have you ever started a custom game? I notice that many starting players always choose the Play Now option and don't even realise that there are more options available with the custom game. Try it and add more civs or play with fewer civs or change some of the standard game rules. By the way, I prefer the standard number of civilisations for a map size.
There are mods that change the number of civilisations that can be chosen at the game setup. The normal maximum is 18. Note that playing with a mod that allows bigger than huge maps and more than 18 civilisations on a map is possible. But games tend to become pretty lengthy and if you don't have a monster computer, you'll get so called MAF errors (Memory Allocation Failure) at the end of the game.
Populair mods include but are not limited to:
-Fall from Heaven (total conversion mod for civ4 into a fantasy game)
-Rhye's and Fall of Civilization (big mod that mod civ4 into a game that follows the true history of earth, I'm not familiar with it)
-Unofficial civ4 patches (limited rule changes to the standard game which are considered to be BUGS according to the large majority of the Civ4 community)
-BTS Unaltered Gameplay (A mod that adds a huge number of changes to the user interface of civ4 and thereby makes the game more user friendly)
-Better AI (guess what this mod does?)
-Rise of Mankind (A mod that adds a huge number of elements to the game, some think it add too much.)
These mods can be found
here.
There can be found even more mods in the Creation and Customisation subforums.
Oh, and of course, welcome to civfanatics!


