

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.

However, the modder is working on implementing true starting locations further down the line, so Civs will start in their geographic birthplaces.

Probably don’t try Ludicrous if your PC doesn’t come close to that.Īs with anything like this, you mod at your own risk, but you can grab the file in this forum thread.Īt the moment, Civs are bundled together based on their ethnicity, so Europeans will begin in a cluster, etc. Here are their specs for reference:CPU: i7 4770K, RAM: 16GB, GPU: GTX 980 ti. This map size was tested on a 500-turns game in autoplay, with 32 civs and without a crash on the modder’s PC. It’s recommended that you lower the graphical settings if trying to play Ludicrous, as it used 6GB of VRAM on the creator’s GPU.
