i don't know if this is the appropriate place to post this but i played this mod today and i have a few thoughts on it. first, like i said, wow. i mean this rocks. ok, that said ... it rocks ok ... here are some other impressions. one is i don't know if it's the race i played (lizard folk) or what, but i couldn't trade with anybody for anything. it got to the point i tried to give furs, iron AND incense to one civ for 1 gold per turn, they wouldn't do it. if i offer it up and hit the what will you offer button, nothing. i don't know if it's just nobody likes doing business with lizards or what the trouble is. that's on monarch level. another observation is that i always fall a tech or two behind in the beginning of a civ game, i'm used to that, i just don't always trade aggressively enough. but these other AI civs on monarch level are just completely blowing me away with tech, i mean no matter what i do i just can't keep up at all. as a result the only wonder i've managed to build in all the games i started was .. what was it called, cursed pit i think, and the only reason i was able to build that one first was because it required a rare resource that only i had. or maybe lizards just aren't very good at building wonders, i don't know
i'm pretty sure this is all just my own game play since everyone else in these threads seems to get some wonders built. i'm seriously considering dropping back from monarch to warlord or whatever the next lower level is for a game just so i can actually experience more of the game and enjoy it instead of struggling to keep up.
and i tell you, the first time i dropped one of those fire bolt spells on somebody i about had a cow, that was the coolest civ thing i've seen since dropping a nuke on an AI's city lol. and i'm digging that fat slug lizard warlock, that thing is the bomb, i can't wait to get further along and see what else the mod has to offer. the whole mod is the bomb. anyway, that's my first impressions after messing around with it for a few hours. i really had to modify my game play a little because i was very unsuccessful in the beginning, i wasn't prepared for the strength of the spiders and skeletons against what i thought were my cool spearmen (as elf culture) lol. but after i got used to the strength of that i was able to get a good civ going with the lizards and go a little further.