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What game is improved the most by mods?
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Civ 4 had a great modded scene. The Colonization remake/spinoff in particular has a must-have mod in the way of The Authentic Colonization. The main game, though, had loads and loads of incredible mods. My personal favorite was the Ryse series of mods, which tried to more accurately model the rise and fall of civilizations via various mechanics. I have a lot of hours in the random map variant of it, Ryse Rand.
Modding as we know it today really started with Civ (Civ II, to be precise). There were several sites sharing different mods back then. I had one of the most popular ones for a while, to the point where MicroProse asked to post a link on the official site. The mods were ZIP files with instructions, and nobody had come up with a name for them. I started referring to them as "modpacks", and that stuck. Eventually that was shortened to just "mods". True story!
(FYI you can see here where MicroProse put links to other websites. Mine was listed in 1997, where the wayback machine doesn't have entries.)
Wait, you're saying you basically coined the term "mods?" That's epic!
As best as I can tell, yes!
I could see this being one of those words that's coined by multiple people in different places at once, since it's an intuitive shortening of modifications, but even if so, wow.
Entirely plausible. My perspective is naturally limited to just what I know.