More than 18 Civs in one game?

[Chicagophil]

Greetings, I just picked up BTS xpac and can't wait to play.

I was just curious is there any way to play with ALL of the Civs in one game and not just the 18 max you get?

Thanks

[Boracks]

I don't know what would happen if you granted independence to a small group of your far flung cities. If it lets you, that would get you another civ.

[Chicagophil]

How do you grant indepence to cities? I'm not sure if I went far enough into a game or not, but the only option I saw was to Liberate a city to another active Civ.

[rah]

YOu need to have two cities on a different land mass, and then, you can grant them independence. Not sure what happens if there are already 18 civs though.

[jkp1187]

AFAIK, Game will not permit you to grant independence to cities if the number of civs in the game is 18 -- regardless of whether you started out with 18, or you started out with a lesser number and the total number of civs increased due to granting of independence to other colonies.

[The Rusty Gamer]

Chicagophi, there is a mod that allows you to use all 34 civs.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=234779

[Chicagophil]

Sweet, has anyone on here tried this out yet?

[The Rusty Gamer]

Theres' also:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=233848

This ONLY changes to allow for 34 civs and nothing else.