New version with support for RAS v15 uploaded.
If Civ Groups tab is not visible please try clearing cache.

RAS v15 released - support please

I just updated this mod to support RAS v14.

@roberto tomás: For reason unknown description of this mod dissapeared. I restored it and I hope that now it will be more clear to understand what it does :-)

So what exactly does this mod do? It looks like it might do something I just recently did for myself — I counted all the civs in BNW and assigned locations to each. Then I found the average count by location, and added civ mods from appropriate locations to bring them all up to average (and in europe's case I disabled several to bring it down to the same as the rest of the world).

For all those who cant see the button "civ groups" in the realy advanced setup: You need 2 install Realy advanced setup BEFORE you install civ grups to see that thing. Try reinstall civ groups

Just wanted to thank you for the update. This fixed all of the problems I was having with it. Definitely one of my favorite add-on mods. An absolute 'must have' if you're playing with lots of modded civs. I usually play with 150+ civs, and this mod--combined with the really advanced setup mod--makes it so you can play without seeing 'duplicate civs' (i.e. two french civs, three british civs, etc.) in game, which adds to the 'realism'. Thanks again! Couldn't play Civ V without it.

Version 2 was just released.
Changes:
- Group name max length changed from 15 to 25.
- Corrected bug which was breaking mod when modded civs were no longer enabled during mod selection

Unfortunatelly I still have no idea why sometimes CivGroups tab is not showing. Even if some error occurred during mod loading than (at least empty) tab still should be created...
Did anybody try cleaning cache? If somebody tried and it is still not showing, could you please provide Lua.log?

Just wanted to add that I have a similar/same problem. The mod has worked fine in the past--I've had no issues with using modded civs before until recently. The civ list on the groups tab is just empty now, for some reason.

@Damsteri: Thank you for your feedback and awesome hints :-) I will correct this and release new version in a week.

I agree with ⺈ĐꚆѓøčĶ῭Ǭج৴. that group name length could be longer. I tested, and there is enough room in the UI for about 25 to 30 character long groupnames (depending on what the name is). I changed the MaxLength value at line 21 in GTAS_SetCivGroupName.xml.

I was able to get groups working without any modded civs and divided all normal civs to groups. Then I added two modded civs (Leugi's Tropico and the Buccaneers) which resulted that groups addon was broken, half of the groups were missing and civilizations list was empty.

I had logging enabled and there was a clear error in Lua.log: C:\Users\Damsteri\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS\Really Advanced Setup - Civilization Groups Addon (v 1)\DataManager\GTAS_MapManager.lua:110: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value) .

I interpret that so "GameInfo.Civilizations[civType]" is nil at line 110. I encircled the line 110 with nil-check and it made groups addon to work again. All 43 normal civs and both mod civs were present in civilizations list and all of my groups were back. My fix just circumwents the real problem, you need to find why there is a nil value to really fix the bug.

I don't know yet if this is the same bug which prevents the Groups tab to show.

Same problem, I can't get Groups tab visible. I have Really Advanced Setup version 13 and both mods are direct download versions from civfanatics.

yeah, I activated The Really Advenced Setup to, I have all the settings but not the group one

Did you activate mod Really Advanced Setup?

I actived the mod, but I don't have the group tab too

I activated the mod, but still I don't have the "group" tab in my advanced setup... :-(

@⺈ĐꚆѓøčĶ῭Ǭج৴. : Yes, I know about the bug when you remove civ mod :/ I will try to correct this in next version.
I'm planning also to add group renaming feature.
I'm not sure what do you mean by: "number of slots" and "number of characters for their names". Would you care to elaborate? Currently you can change max number of civs in group if that's is what you mean.

@WERNERvsNEO: Thanks for your feedback and don't worry - I don't see your posts as request for fixing, I just wanted to help you by pointing you where you can find more help :-)

@mscibor: Ty for your reaction. I not have the intention to run those mods (civs) together so np. If it was possible then fine, if not be ok too. :)

However I just wanted to give you some input on your project (and I leave it in the middle if it be usefull or not). So don't see it as if I wanted you to fix things. :)

@WERNERvsNEO: It seems that USSR from "Days of Sadat" is the issue then. I'm afraid I cannot help here and I think you should contact creator of that civ :-( I guess that maybe it was created basing on some of JFD's civs and type names are conflicting.

Aw, darn. Thank you.

I just did a test with 3 Russia civ's from JFD and all was ok like you say mscibor!
But then I found out what was the problem.
I had too USSR active from "Days Of Sadat" and this makes that only this one appears and one of JFD and not civ 5 standard Russia.

A pity because I find the "Days Of Sadat" a very nice collection too.
Or maybe I still do some wrong. idk.

But this not take away that your mod is awsome and opens a new way to play extra civ's much more easy!

Thanx very much mscibor!

@WERNERvsNEO: Actually AFAIK JFD is not disabling any default civilizations - I can see all three Russias in setup screen. It is very strange that you don't see default (Catherine) Russia at all.
Civilization Groups (and Really Advanced Setup) are not affecting visibility of any civilization in setup screen.
Does this happen only with JFD's Russias or with any other civs as well (which one)?
Do you see all Russias in standard setup screen (not advanced setup screen)?

@Lord_Daemonar: By "TSL maps" do you mean Earth map pack by Gedemon? I'm afraid there is no way to make current Civilization Groups mod to work with TSL maps - TSL maps are using completly different setup screen and threrefore they are ignoring Really Advanced Setup mod...

Right! And I guess it be for sure the last Russian Leader I selected.
Which makes sence not?
Because these JFD civs are customs which disables the original civs.
As far as I understand JFD have civs which add and civs which are custom, right?

@WERNERvsNEO: this mod was created specially for JFD's custom replacement civs so it should work fine with them :-)
I'm not sure if I understand the issue: do you mean that when you have all JFD's Russia mods enabled then you can see only one Russia in Civilization Groups?

Is there any way to make this work with TSL maps? That's all I really want this mod for.

Btw I used your mod on a 2560x1440 resolution and it looked fine :)

Be it right that this mod not work with custom civilizations which disable the original?
e.g. JFD's different Russia's which when all activated only leave 1 russia left.

Or do I miss something which enable all these russia's to make a group of them?

For the rest very nice mod!

Yeah, I know that editing number of civs for already created groups is not quite intuitive :-) I will try to make it more easy to discover in next version.

Sorry, didn't notice that I could. Ignore my previous comment.

Could you add the ability to edit the number of civs allowed in a group after creating one in the next release?

for those of you having issues downloading mods, just open the mods menu and leave it sitting for a bit. It should auto-download the subscribed mods after a small amount of time idle.

....was wondering when this would be published on the workshop after seeing it mentioned on civfanatics. this is totally going to make switching between vanilla and mod civs much less of a hassle between games.

Thanyou. I will try again.

Unfortunately Steam Workshop is not very reliable when it comes to actually download subscribed mods :-( This issue is quite common for many users and I cannot directly do anything about this.
You can always download manually this mod from forum (link to forum is provided in mods description).

I suscribed however it does not show on the mod list and does not show on the advanced setup display.

Very nice mod

Great mod, thanks for much for making this!

Actually JFD's great civs were the main reason for creating this mod :D

Now I can play all of JFD's Civs without cringing over having the possibility of having two or three Russias in a game.

Well done!