How to Play 100% Solo (No AI Players)

If you play CIV, you're probably already sick of always having to deal with the annoying CIV's that pop up all the time to annoy you, and if you're not the competitive type, here's a guide for you to play alone, just with City-States and Barbarian Tribes (to have some challenge).

The first thing you should do is access the game directory. On Steam, go to your game list, right-click on CIV VI, and go to:

I recommend using a code editor like Visual Studio Code to access these directories, but you can use Notepad if you don't have one.

Next, go to:

Open the "AdvancedSetup.lua" file, press CTRL + F, and search for:
Then change it to:

This setting alone will allow you to limit the number of players from 2 to 1 in the Advanced Settings in-game, however, this will cause bugs in Barbarians and City-States, which will prevent them from spawning.

If you don't want them to appear, this is enough, but if you want to remove only the other CIV's, you'll need to make a few more adjustments.

After saving the file, go to:

Open the "GlobalParameters.xml" file and change the lines: To:

TIP: Only the line BARBARIAN_CAMP_FIRST_TURN_PERCENT_OF_TARGET_TO_ADD needs to be 100, to ensure that barbarians spawn even without other civilizations besides yours, the other two lines you can adjust to your personal taste.

Finally, go to:

Open the "BalanceMaps.xml" file and under MapSizes, look for MinPlayers="2", change all "2" to "1". Now, regardless of the map size you choose, there will be no conflict, as they all accept at least one player.

What we did in Step 1 was force the game to accept at least one player, but the maps don't support this, and Step 3 was created to fix this.

In Step 2, we forced the barbarians to spawn, as this would only occur if there were at least two players.

Since they are 100% guaranteed to spawn at the beginning, they will continue to spawn according to the odds you set in the "BARBARIAN_CAMP_ODDS_OF_NEW_CAMP_SPAWNING" parameter.

In the first turn you will get the victory, after all, there is only you in the game, so click on "Just one more turn" to continue playing.




My game is a little different from the original, because I'm using some mods, in case you're interested, this is the list https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3582067737