Please. Give us the option to turn off Independent People, or at least the hostile variety. I cannot tell you how many games have been killed in the crib because I'm getting overrun by vibranium chariots before any actual civilizations on the map even have bronze working to fight them off. I know I could probably be preparing for this eventuality better and focus on building a military before getting too into my economy, but I'm just so sick of dealing with these cheating little vermin I just want the option to not have to deal with them at all. It really kills my enjoyment of the early game to get ~30-40 turns in and have to restart because the game just decides I don't get to have fun.

I apologize for the charged language but I am very frustrated with this system.

Try to post this in the ideas forum where it might have more visibility.

I'll give you a tip though: they can't spawn where you have visibility. So make sure you have plenty of scouts roaming about and able to quickly ransack any encampment early on. (Downside is curiosities don't spawn either!)

There's a mod that does this.

Even if the mod exists, it'd be a nice vanilla option.