Earth 2018
A scenario of earth at the present time. Take command of a modern nation and lead it to glory, or destruction. Will you awe the globe with your culture, indulge your bloodlust and conquer an empire, or leave it all behind as you colonize other worlds? Or will you sit idly by as others leave you in the dust? Find out how you stack up against the major players of today.
Mod Features
Modern scenario in two sizes (Standard and Huge maps)
25 custom leaders and appropriate civilizations
New techs, civics, and policies
New buildings, resources, and units
Various tweaks to existing items
Civilization List
America, China, Russia, India, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Indonesia, Turkey, Argentina, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa, Nigeria, Italy, South Korea, North Korea*, Israel*
*these two are only present on the huge map
Free Play
A "Free Play" mode has been added for players who want to customize the active victory conditions and game speed. To access, navigate to Single Player>Create Game>Advanced Setup, and then change the active ruleset to either "Earth 2018 (Huge – Free Play)" or "Earth 2018 (Standard – Free Play)" depending on which map size you’d prefer. You can entirely disable victory conditions if you’d prefer to play at your own pace.
Compatibility
No DLC are required
This mod does not work in a normal game; only play the scenarios when this mod is active
This mod should be compatible with other mods that only make UI or AI changes. It probably won’t work with most other types of mods.
Multiplayer
To play this mod in multiplayer, you will also need the mod YnAMP – Remove Multi Player Limit
This mod has been successfully tested in Hot Seat mode. It has not been tested in online mode, so I can make no guarantees if/how well it will work.
Language
This mod is English only at this time.
Important Notes
Ruin/Shipwreck Crash: If your game crashes when you excavate a ruin/shipwreck, please let me know where and on what map. I originally had the game place these resources on the map, but later learned that preplaced ruins crash the game when excavated, so I attempted to remove them. I may have missed one or two, so if you run into this issue please let me know and I will resolve it.
Nukes: It is not possible to add starting nukes directly either through the Worldbuilder or scripts. To compensate for this, I have updated the mod so that the nuclear nations will be able to 1-turn build the Manhattan Project and a certain number of nukes. The numbers are as follows: USA-10, Russia-10, UK-3, France-3, China-3, India-2, Pakistan-2, Israel-2, North Korea-1. Additional nukes will be built normally.
Loading/Turn Times: This game takes a while to load, since there is so much on the maps. The turn times are not bad, however, so if you are experiencing long turn times try reducing your settings or playing on the smaller of the two maps.
Balance: This game is not balanced. My intent was to make the strengths of the civs reflect the strengths of their real world counterparts. Therefor, the easiest civs to play as and get a win will be America, Russia, and China. It becomes progressively more difficult to play as a smaller or less well developed nation.
Other Notes
Unique Units: Right now there is only one UU, but I plan to add more in the future. For the Civ4 and Civ5 versions of this mod I was able to add a lot of custom units that other people had made, but not as many custom modern era units have been made for Civ6 yet. When more become available, I will add them in.
Game Length: The scenario takes approximately 100 turns to win a peaceful victory, and it has a turn limit of 240. I am open to rebalancing the length of the game based on feedback I receive from players.
Credits
Huge map based on the earth map by Makc
Leopard 2 unit model by wolfdog
Direct Download
Download from Dropbox[www.dropbox.com]
