Not that I disagree with the general sentiment, but what's the problem with DA vanilla?

Someone was asking you to play metaverse games?  That's a bit odd, since the metaverse's time as a high score list has come and gone.  As a social tool, it's also no longer relevant. 

On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with playing a game and having it checked against the limits and rules set forth by the developers.  That's pretty much the limit of the metaverse's usefulness in my opinion.

If you want to make your own rules, mods or use cheats, the metaverse wouldn't make sense.

For TOTA, I'd have to agree that it's pretty well broken without mods.  On the other hand, DA has some subtleties that you might not notice at first glance.  The buildings and techs are dependent on alignment and each race has unique abilites that add to their personality.  

The races don't share all of the techs and buildings unless you modify the game or severely limit which races are involved.

if you want to, you could try my TOtA economy tech fixes.

also, i have not had this problem.

The reason I play with modded tech trees is so that the AI plays better.  Less of the 'I must research Advanced Radioactive World Colonisation even though it will take 56 weeks' while they're in dire need of the most rudimentary form of military.

Of course it would be ideal if the AI prioritised things a bit better, but now that everyone's flapping their gums about GalCiv 3 I doubt there will be any fixes for GalCiv 2.

It's a leaderboard to which you can submit finished game scores.  But only if you clicked the Metaverse button to start a game.

I've been gone for a long time now  what is TotA and what fixes should I add to twilight of arnor games? I'm still on vanilla. If there are fixes I would love to implement them.

Personally, I continue to call it Twilight specifically as a big middle finger to those vampires. But to each their own.