Looking for a big extensive mod? Try Cavemen 2 Cosmos.

[Yordoros]

Cavemen2Cosmos is the most extensive mod for any game I have ever played or seen.

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/caveman-2-cosmos.288570/

Some aspects:

1) Greatly extended timeline. You start in prehistoric times before agriculture (where you start in vanilla) and reach to the far future and you get to actually travel to and terraform mars.

2) Traits are completely redone. Each leader has 3, two positives and a negative. And they are not ‘pure’ (positive traits have a few negative bonuses and your negative trait comes with a few positives). Negative traits and negative bonuses can be disabled if you don’t like them.

3) There are fictional tech eras ('punk'-themes) you can be researched such as clockpunk, cyberpunk, atompunk, etc.

More info if you want to read more: http://themadmodder.com/civilization-iv/caveman-2-cosmos/

It is a very big and interesting mod in general and I just wanted to share.

[Azeroo]

I am playing it right now! Still in Prehistoric, but i am eager to finish it. In like a month or two!

[Wilberforce]

Looking solid.. Thanks will give it a tryout. ;)

[Azeroo]

Originally posted by Wilberforce:

Looking solid.. Thanks will give it a tryout. ;)

It is realy big so dont expect to finish a game in a week lol

[WimpyTheWarrior]

++1 vote for C2C. I have 1,000's of hours on C2C outside of Steam. I have enjoyed the mod immensely.

One comment for newcomers is to note the settings selected when reading strategies or watching Let's Play videos. There are so many options and settings in C2C, and while I may think I have a beautiful opening strategy, it is likely dependent on my preferred settings. Read, watch, experiment, but if a strategy does not work for you it may be because of the settings.

Also, slower game speeds allow for more turns of unit movement between tech and building advances. The human player will generally have higher skills with units and get more value from unit activity compared to the AI. In the prehistoric era, hunting animals will improve food, hammer and science growth. Human players should be better than the AI at hunting. On many occassions I have encounted an AI Great Hunter crawling across the map carrying a load of subdued animals, which a human would have taken back to a city for butchering or turning into myth buildings for science.

One of the best mods, and best gaming experiences, for me.

[Thoth]

There was many new awsome thing. As you said with hunting also when you kill someone with hunter you can get greate hunter and when you kill with warrior - genral. When I was playing for 1st time i didn't know how ai gets greate hunters and looking at all wonders for that.

2nd best thing is to slowly grow up at begining. You have to do few techs until your city start to be healthy and get any food.

[Azeroo]

Originally posted by Thoth:

There was many new awsome thing. As you said with hunting also when you kill someone with hunter you can get greate hunter and when you kill with warrior - genral. When I was playing for 1st time i didn't know how ai gets greate hunters and looking at all wonders for that.

2nd best thing is to slowly grow up at begining. You have to do few techs until your city start to be healthy and get any food.

I just made it to ancient era and i have been playing this match for 2 weeks!

[JymyDan]

They say that there are some pretty serious problems with the AI currently. Hopefully the will fix those problems in the near future.

After saying that I must agree that the mod is first rate. Lots of care and time has been put into it.
For me real fun starts when you can start capturing loads of slaves and use them to superboost your capital.

[Azeroo]

Originally posted by JymyDan:

They say that there are some pretty serious problems with the AI currently. Hopefully the will fix those problems in the near future.

After saying that I must agree that the mod is first rate. Lots of care and time has been put into it.
For me real fun starts when you can start capturing loads of slaves and use the to superboost your capital.

Indeed

[Keisaritintti 💫]

Meme mod. Play A New Dawn instead

[Duke Flapjack]

Egads. I haven't gotten out of classical yet. This mod is hands-down amazing.

Has anyone here actually FINISHED a game? You know, actually going caveman to cosmos?

[Azeroo]

Originally posted by captainradish:

Egads. I haven't gotten out of classical yet. This mod is hands-down amazing.

Has anyone here actually FINISHED a game? You know, actually going caveman to cosmos?

Not yet lol. I stopped playing cause i got bored.

[Jirki88]

Originally posted by captainradish:

Egads. I haven't gotten out of classical yet. This mod is hands-down amazing.

Has anyone here actually FINISHED a game? You know, actually going caveman to cosmos?

Nah, I made the mistake of trying the Gigantic map. Run out of memory crash too much in the modern era. :p

[Ellye]

Personally, my favorite mod is Realism Invictus: http://www.realism-invictus.com/

It's also a very large and extensive mod, but it's more balanced with the intention of actually being playable start to finish.

Caveman2Cosmos is a good mod for a "sandbox" experience, but it doesn't work very well as a traditional civ-style game, in my opnion.

[thelimper49]

Sorry, done with that one. Tried many times to install and no luck. It needs to be easier to instal. But what do you expect for free!!
I am done wasting time on this.

[Yordoros]

Originally posted by thelimper49:

Sorry, done with that one. Tried many times to install and no luck. It needs to be easier to instal. But what do you expect for free!!
I am done wasting time on this.

Are you sure you're installing in the correct folder? When I first tried installing CIV4 mods it took me forever to figure out that they go in the mod under documents, not the mod folder in the game folder, which does nothing for the Steam version IIRC.