I tried a dozen different things. The Barbarian leader simply never loads no matter what you set it to. The game thinks you're never intended to engage in diplomacy so it doesn't bother to load the leader scene, defined or not.

The only time it does load is when you give them the leader of another civ that's already in-game... which obviously makes no sense.

Thanx, Charsi,
so I've been thinking, is there any way to disable the popup of Barbarians' Leader Scene when you click their city banner, which will make this mod more perfect?

For a while I explored making the Barbarians a city state (which would give the city state diplomacy popup). That didn't work.

I wouldn't know how to disable the popup. Perhaps there's some in-game event you can override, but nothing caught my attention at the time.

The most workable alternative is to actually put a Barbarian civilization in the game as a "major" civ and give them all the spoils.

This problem persists into version 3 if you aren't using the Barbarian Civilization. If you are, the problem is resolved.

I think this can be corrected by using the DLL. If you would cooperate with whoward (the author of the DLL - Various Mod Components), then maybe he would add support for this in dll. ...Community Patch already includes DLL - Various Mod Components.

I don't want to require a dll for this mod to function; otherwise i'd have just joined the community patch team.