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Civilizations Expanded Lite

Is the original mod Civilizations Expanded too much for you?

Now introducing Civilizations Expanded: Lite Version, a much lighter rebalancing mod that preserves the spirit of most of the developers' original design elements, but still introduces buffs and interesting twists!

The goal is to preserve the general balance of the game while respecting simple but elegant Civ designs.

Please see the attached screenshots above for descriptions.

There are NO general gameplay changes that are unrelated to Civs.

In the original mod, all Civs could work mountain tiles, the Nobel Prize was decoupled from Sweden, etc. None of these changes are in this mod, in favor of allowing players to find use other smaller mods to customize their experience.

The following DLC are REQUIRED to use Civilizations Expanded:

• Australia
  
• Aztec
  
• Indonesia + Khmer
  
• Macedon + Persia
  
• Nubia
  
• Poland
  
• Rise & Fall
  
• Gathering Storm

The New Frontier DLC is optional but is fully supported.

This mod is FULLY compatible with:

• Steel and Thunder
  
• Warfare Expanded
  
• Sui Generis
  
• All modded civilizations and leaders. This mods civs are no longer extremely strong compared to most modded civs!
  
• All other mods (except those listed below)

A note regarding Steel & Thunder and Warfare Expanded:
If either mod is active, the conflicting unit changes from my mod will be blocked, ensuring full compatibility. However, the unique unit's text will still reflect my mod. This does NOT affect game play or compatibility, so don't worry.
This mod is NOT compatible with the original Civilizations Expanded.

The Civilizations Expanded mod collection contains other mods that I've designed specifically to work with Civilizations Expanded.

Current mods in this collection are:
Gold Deflation, a mod that makes Gold less abundant and therefore more relevant.
Extended Eras, a game pacing mod that slows the game down and improves the balance of research costs.

Special thanks to Amondin, ChimpanG, Chrisy15, DarthKyofu, Digihuman, DuskJockey, Firaxis, JFD, JanBoruta, SailorCat, SeelingCat, Sukritact, thecrazyscotsman, and View619 for help and support on the original Civilizations Expanded mod.

Some of my ideas were adapted and modified with permission from the excellent reworks of Sukritact (Sumer, Khmer) and Leugi (Aztec, Gran Colombia). For the Maya, I adopted ideas from Enigma and Relic's Mayan mod.

p0kiehl SQL, text
Leugi Libertador unit icon, many ideas
Lime Historical Moment art
Sukritact Khmer rework (Baray district model, icon, and Historical Moment art), many ideas
DarthStarkiller Maya unique project icon

PLEASE REPORT ALL SUSPECTED BUGS IN THE "BUG REPORTS" DISCUSSION BELOW, NOT IN THE GENERAL COMMENTS. IT WILL HELP ME KEEP TRACK OF THEM.