You can disable steam collecting anonymous information about your system/software.
You can play Civ5 SinglePlayer/LAN offline without connecting to the steam server.
You can disable all push pop-up advertising in steam.
However, since Steam is un-avoidable I find it more productive to offer advice to mitigate the effect steam has on your enjoyment and on your system, for in fact many gripes people have with steam are optional and can be disabled. People have legitimate gripes about steam, and these questions come up regularly especially on 2K's official Civilization5 forum ( 2K Civ5 Forum) You can just check the boxes for the mods you want to use.As said by Brian Schkerke you cannot legally play Civilization5 without steam. Now, next time you launch the game, select the “additional content” menu off the start and your newly installed mods should be there. zip for the mod into that folder (4 files) zip or whatever) into that Mods folder.Įg: the first mod I installed was the “unit report screen” mod – so I made a subfolder of the Mods folder called “unit report screen” and put the contents of the. So, go back to your downloaded mod and unpack it (assuming it is a.
from there, there is a folder called “Mods”.
Then, within the “Application Support” folder find and select the “Sid Meier’s Civilization 6” folder (note: for Civ 5, I think some of the folder selection required going to the “Steam” folders – ignore those, just go to the SMC 6 folder).
that will now show you the previously hidden library folder under your user name….
in that window, type the following: “~/library/Application Support/” (without the quotation marks, obviously).
instead, click on the “go” menu and then select “go to folder”.