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Some of the mods will not interest me no matter what, so the outright silly, the alien races, the cartoony Japanese anime, none of that is going to get a look from me. Less than that or too new to have any stars and I’m not going to take a chance on your mod.

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If other fans have rated your Civ Mod with four or five stars, you are a definite contender. The available mods are of course why you are reading this. Adding a mod is almost as simple as reading the description and hitting “subscribe” while on the Steam Workshop site, then checking the mod when you start a new game of Civ V (read the end of this paragraph for more detailed instructions). Browsing the Civ V Steam Workshop is one big toy store for Civ fans. Steam Workshop was a godsend for the mega-popular Skyrim universe, as well as the Left 4 Dead series, so I was hopeful that the addition of Steam Workshop to the Civ family might finally be the key to unlocking so many wonderful fan-generated mods. Steam has many distractors (I am not one), but the Steam Workshop is simple genius, making mods available to even the least tech-savvy among us. Yet faster than you can say “gift card to Victoria’s Secret”, Steam Workshop has reignited the passion between Civ and me. My love affair with Civ has, like any relationship, occasionally been tarred with sad, lonely moments. Inevitably it seemed that the more you tried to add, the greater the chance of it all falling apart. Many is the time when I have played around with adding Redcoats to the British, helicopters down the line, toyed with the look of various infantry units, added Dreadnaughts and Zeros, then went to load my new and improved Civ only to have it crash like the stock market of 1929. When I say “very moddable”, I say that with my fingers crossed….because while Civ has always been intended to be a fan friendly game, the results have sometimes been mixed.

Dreadnaughts, air ships, helicopters, nuclear carriers and subs, panzers, giant Mechs, Celtic kings, and Southern Generals, huge maps of the real world and detailed maps of fantasy kingdoms, most of these things have found their way into proper Civ games at one time or another, with many being initially created by fans to be inserted into a very moddable Civ universe. As thrilling as Civ has always been to me, the opportunity to add units and maps of my own preference to Civ is the icing on the cake. Every new Civ is an automatic best-seller, but the most telling thing about the game is perhaps the devotion of the fans who create mods, civilizations, maps, units and scenarios for the various Civs. Civilization II-III and Panzer General 2 were responsible for many pitiful explanations (by that I mean begging) to my wife as to exactly why I needed a new graphics card and more memory or the Holy Grail, a new machine!Ĭlearly, I’m not the only Civ junkie.

#P CIVILIZATION V UPGRADE#

Back in the days when a new top-of-the-line computer was obsolete within a year, two at most, occasionally a game came along which drove otherwise rational gamers to upgrade their computers so they could play the darn game. I’ve logged in over 500 hours on Civ V alone, and I’ve played every previous version at least as much. Without a doubt, no game has stolen more hours of my life away than Sid Meier’s Civilization series. Because really, of all the wonders that a computer can bring into your life, what’s better than computer gaming? Ummmm….well, keeping in mind that this IS a family website, anyway…. Like so many of you, I started gaming at an early age, pushing cardboard pieces around on colorful maps, shooing the family cat away, and rejoicing when the alien technology plucked out of the Roswell UFO crash resulted in a brand spanking new Commodore computer on my desk. Chris Mohon, 23 June 2013 Your Guide to Civ V Modding Madness!

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