Rhye’s of Civilization - the fastest loading mod is a modpack that attempts to make a realistic and historically correct Civilization III game based on an Earth map, without pre-placed cities.
This is the second thread dedicated to the mod. The first one is the biggest in CivFanatics' Forums and was closed after growing up to 300 pages in only one year.
The "basic" Rhye’s of Civilization 2.0 was released in February 2004, and was developed until that summer by Rhye.
From September to December 2004 its Expansion Pack was made. A whole team worked on it.
In brief, it features:
- A 170x170 world map (A separate biq for the random map is included)
- Special rules for speed improvement: loading times are reduced up to 95%
- New terrain graphics and new team colours
- A new resource system that makes the game develop like real history (Earth map only)
- Three new civilizations : Austria, Ethiopia and Israel
- A revised rule system, that corrects any inaccuracy of the original game
- Religions*
- 158 new units (including cultural-based animations and a 2nd unique unit for each civ)*
- 25 new wonders*
- A totally redesigned tech tree*
- Complete civilopedia entries*
You can find more info in the official site
This mod needs the English/US version of Conquests, patched to 1.22.
Download here the 160MB installer:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=176
This installer contains the "expanded" version.
You can check the old thread if you prefer to download the basic mod or the expansion pack, in smaller zips:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=1574344&postcount=4
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Now, let me show you why this is called "The fastest loading mod":
In green - percentages of time saved between Rhye's of Civilization results and the other columns results.
Tests were done with Monarch level with a Pentium IV 1700 MHz - 512MB RAM.
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First Reply! First Reply!
Woohoo! Woohoo!
Everyone, this mod is THE BEST!
PS: I feel like a little kid at Christmas! ;p
Thank you Santa Rhye! And yes, that was SPECTACULAR haha -
Reading through the chapters (which I am honoured to be mentioned in
): Post 42, Rhye: "I don't think I'll make any change to the mod, unless you all find some bad bug."
Edit: Noticed that THIS thread has a sticky - should it not have been the old one? -
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Oh, yes! I really liked the first one with the rather surprised, slightly disturbed look
I am trying to figure out when I started lurking. It most have been around page 68 - that is seriously a lot of reading! If only I had spent that much time on my thesis... Nope! It was worth it!
Edit: Just realised that you probably meant Napolean in your last post
- Yes, I liked that too
(I have eaten way too much sugar! (and I may also have drunk too much...) - Playing online H&D2:SS, shooting at everything that moves (including trees) - Annoying everyone I know on Messenger - While falling off chairs)
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Great mod! I d/led it a few months ago and it's the only thing I've played since. I especially like the additions of the expansion pack.
Has anyone done well with the Zulu? I played as them recently (emperor level) and had a hell of a time keeping up. They seem to have the worst food/shield producing terrain of any of the civs Since the jungles in the north make it hard to do any effective conquests, I had to settle for South American colonisation, building the SoL and winning a United Nations victory.
Anyway, great job on this mod. I hope we can see a version of RoC for Civ4. -
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And what's so spectacular in a thread that is completely incomprehensible, because most of the posts are littered with OT-chatter???
J/K
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Hi,
I have downloaded this mod for the first time yesterday (i will never forgive myself), and I wanted to post my feedback: THE greatest mod I have ever played, and the most faithfull to reality. I played my first game as the english on monarch level (should have made it emperor though). The first thing I absolutely loved is the slow expension phase, it makes a lot more sense and it makes early wars more significant.
I also love the way you adjusted the tech-tree, everything is well thought up and it stays similar enough to the original game so its not confusing. This is the reason why I didn't like DyP and RaR; too much stuff, and I thought most of it was more confusing then usefull to the game.
The other awesome thing is the balance between the different kind of units, and the AI seems to know how to use them . I think you did a wonderfull job on distributing unit costs and attributes, close to perfection!
And the fact that even smaller civs have a chance of improving later in the game.
Well, I'm not going to mention every nwe aspect of the game because I love them all.
All in all, I think that you did the best job integrating as many new aspects to the game without making it confusing and without making bugs or easy AI exploits. Its as if the game was meant to be this way. It must have took an incredible amount of testing and adjustment to get such results.
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I will probably post more comments as my game progresses, (I have just conquered northern France, was the first to get lancers, now heading to Dutchland). And thanx to you I will have a great computer game to play for the next couple of months at least. (I'm allready thinking about my next game with Japan)
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Rhye's of Civilization - the fastest loading mod Expanded - PART II
Discussion in 'Civ3 - Completed Modpacks' started by Rhye, Feb 12, 2005.
