mods

[Otium]

any essential? recommendations?

[bamdorf]

I suggest you check out The Authentic Civilization (TAC2.03 final ----http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=440319)

or the huge mod Religion and Revolution (ver 1.9, still active ---http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=473251). It is based on TAC.

Also, you might want to look at Age of Discovery 2 ---http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=292143.

These are big overhauls of the game that not only correct bugs and add a lot of stuff to the game, but make fundamental changes that correct balance problems, etc. in the original. Personally, I haven't decided which is the best yet, but they are all worth a look. You can easily add all three mods and choose which one on starting a game. Course, you can't swap game saves between mods, but whatever.

Clearly, Civ Fanatics has a lot more stuff if you are interested about these mods and others.

[yale3d]

I'm using TAC - highly recommended!
The vanilla game looks dumb after you installed TAC or AOD2.

[bamdorf]

TAC seems close to what the Colonization remake was supposed to be --- imo --- the original game with, primarily, a big facelift for the graphics, and with the game balanced so, for example, you weren't being punished in effect for expanding your colony, etc. At the moment I am having trouble deciding between TAC and RaR, which is a HUGE expansion of the game (RaR based on TAC, but goes much further). I mean, RaR has Krakens in the ocean! Beware. I am going back and forth; doing TAC at the moment.

[James_the_1st]

Thanks for the TAC reconmendation. It's really good, the game is actually pretty good now with that mod.

[General Chaøs™]

+1 for people who want to get into colonization a underrated Civ IV expansion

[Gentoo]

Are the rest of you able to install these today or has something changed since this thread was last active?

[Gentoo]

Feeling really stupid here. Where is the "mod folder" to install into? The auto-install program for TAC failed. The R&R one is just data they say to put in the "mod folder".

[Otium]

Found mine at:

~\Documents\My Games\Civilization IV Colonization\MODS

[bastien_guerard]

whatever one could give me the files for mod 1492: Global Colonization download site is dead.