C2C as an Neanderthal Civ

[SkaarSmashKikou]

Hi, as many Civ4 players, here, I play with the C2C mod.

Actually I am just curious: How many of us (like me) actively play with the Neanderthal Civilization?

[WimpyTheWarrior]

C2C = yes for me, for years. But I've never tried the Neanderthal Civ.

Fo the experienced C2C players, what can you advise/comment/recommend about the Neanderthal Civ?

I play with developing leaders, no negative traits, and no pure traits (no negative effects to positive traits.) All the Wimpy settings, of course. For me, would it be any different? Am I allowed to develop a Creative/Scientific/Financial Civ with a Neanderthal leader?

[SkaarSmashKikou]

Originally posted by WimpyTheWarrior:

C2C = yes for me, for years. But I've never tried the Neanderthal Civ.

Fo the experienced C2C players, what can you advise/comment/recommend about the Neanderthal Civ?

I play with developing leaders, no negative traits, and no pure traits (no negative effects to positive traits.) All the Wimpy settings, of course. For me, would it be any different? Am I allowed to develop a Creative/Scientific/Financial Civ with a Neanderthal leader?

It was pretty much the same things as fotr the others Civs, in fact. The only true differences reside in the facts, that you don't have native cultural zone, meaning that for building cultures, you need to conquer cities from others Civs (I may have an good idea for that point, but I still have to communicate my idea, with the team behind the project). The other difference reside in the fact that you have negative point for the others leaders (which may (or may not) be tied as you play as an Neanderthal civilization).

As you can't build cultures by yourself (except the Neanderthal one), hunting should become an good part of your gameplay (for all these animal myths) by this way, you still are able to have boost in cultures.....before trying to take some cities, and then are able to build cultures.

Except that, you could play «normally» as for any others Civ.

We play pretty much with the somes options, except that I keep the negative traits for the good ones. And with Neandertahl cities on (Badly, I don't have the luck to view them spawning in my most recent game, but I still wish to view them one day).

Trust me, as you play with this Civ, you fully fell that you altering History (especially if you domesticate prehistoric animals, and thus, making them survive the end of the prehistoric age).

[stormageddon1958]

Neanderthal is stronger in the start, I found. (too bad there's no cromag). Like the visual of them pounding the pointy heads.
I hadn't noticed that it makes a lot of difference to the later game, though I hadn't taken them to spaceflight. I don't remember if it gives your captured neanderthals the protection against attack by other civs or not. I don't think so.

Restarted the game many times til I found a few things out.
1. Too many cities crashes the game on a regular basis in the late game
2. You need to load it with maps containing space maps to use a lot of the features dealing with space flight. (haven't gotten there with current map yet)
3. At a point, barbarians no longer try to build cities. They just appear as larger groups of raiders that take a turn to group up before trying to trash things on you.
4. Any difficulty under prince mode is way too easy. (am running in prince atm to ride the game out for a while and it's felt like Civ4 in the easier levels. Will definitely up it a level or two for next marathon.)
5. The biggest maps can't be fully populated.

One question, do the devs ever update the files for this game on steam?