And holy fuck the technology and civic quotes are insufferable. It's either some smarmy lib saying something Marvel movie-esque or it's some fucking genocider war criminal saying something that might be considered profound in 3rd grade.
Or the worse of both worlds is when they have a fucking war criminal being smarmy. It also seems like Churchill is in like half of them, the fucker had a lot to say apparentely, wish he took a long walk off a short pier and talked to the fish more.
Can't believe they wasted Sean Bean on this :sadness: Anyway, play Civ 4, it's good and has quotes from better people.
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realism Invictus is good as civ 4 vanilla +. caveman to cosmos is insane in it's sheer scale. if c 2 c is too crazy i'd say go with new dawn, which like c2c is basically a modular total conversion mod. it might take some time but you can tune it exactly how you want, turning on or off specific features and add-ons. often i play where the game starts with only a few civs but they tend to break apart and have civil wars etc as well as new ones pop up in the unexplored areas for a really dynamic game. plus it actually lets you do a communism without the brainworms.
Seconding this, C2C is really fun. Back in the day, the game would glitch out for me since it was so feature heavy on larger maps around the Renaissance. Newer computers with the memory patch will probably laugh off everything I'd imagine. I remember reading books between turns it took so long, even on smaller maps.
I tried playing C2C recently, but kept getting frustrated with the AI's failure to expand or do much. Is there any setting combo that can make the AI an actual threat?
be on the highest difficulty is pretty much the only thing. Also, disable barbarians.
Just seconding this. Also weaken yourself to give the illusion of stronger AI, for example the less resources option.
Rev DCM. It adds barbarians becoming civs, revolutions and some other stuff.
It makes the game much more dynamic.
Fall From Heaven 2 is a mandatory mod to try. It could be a standalone. I'll second A New Dawn.