What is a good/fun MOD to play for a noob?

[HarryHotspur]

First of all, I just want to say Hello

I have started playing Colonization again after a long time away from the game, and recently discovered this site. I see that there has been made alot of mods for the game. I have already tried one of them, the Custom House, which was cool, but unfortunately for me, it keeps crashing on me...

Anyway, I wont let that stop me, so I'm looking for other mods that might be fun to play. There seems to be too many to choose from, so I have no idea which one to go for. Any suggestions? I have played the vanilla version many times, but it's become a little boring now, so I'd love to try some new twists to the game

 

[Commander Bello]

I would recommend TAC, a mod which is available in its final version. It is quite well documented, so most questions can be answered by just having a short look into the Colopedia.

There are other mods, of course, but some of them are still under development or even bigger than TAC which may make it a bit more difficult to get into these.

 

[HarryHotspur]

Cool. I'll give it a try

 

[Nightinggale]

I would recommend RaR instead. It use TAC as a base, but it adds a whole lot of new features. Development of new features has stopped (final version?), but bugs are still fixed when found anyway. It is possibly the mod with fewest bugs (fewer than the otherwise stable TAC). Both TAC and RaR works in multiplayer network games (unlike most/all other mods).

The only real downside I can see is that the huge amount of content makes it more demanding for the computer it is played on. This shouldn't be a problem unless you try to play a huge map on an old computer.

However I wouldn't say "this is the best mod". The themes are quite different and it depends on what you want and I recommend trying several mods.