Mod installation for Mac OS

[JokerNole]

Hello to everybody
After 1k hours of playing in all dlc civilization V i wanted to diversify it. I have found a good mod that i do need (map) but have encountered many problems while installing it on Mac OS 10.9.5

The instruction is below :
For MAC users you will need to download the .zip file below and extract the folder inside and copy the whole folder to:

/Users/[Your username]/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization V/Contents/Home/Assets/Maps

Firstly, i coped to find library folder(because Apple has hidden it) . Then Application support-steam-steamapps-common-civilization v- but in the last folder i have not found neither contents nor smith else but the game ICON itself .
Well, i finally found MAP folder ( documents-aspyr-c.m.civilization- maps)


After i have found the required map, i have downloaded the ZIP file, then double click and as i understood it has unzipped,because the icon became as with the usual folder.not zip folder

Then i have copied the whole folder(new,unzipped) to the maps folder. Afterwards i opened civilization - set up game-advanced setup but have found NOTHING of mod maps.

Please, help me those who has installed mods on mac OS .

 

[Browd]

Moderator Action: Moved to Mac subforum.

 

[AlanH]

Hi, welcome. Please tell us which map you have tried to install, and I'll see if it works for me.

 

[JokerNole]

Hey Alanh, i don't know if i am allowed to name the scripts -but ok.let is be so. It's NQ version 9 map script
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16N_wB43A8WI363EFRLfHGIufXQsNqcifcHATuWEB7oU/edit?pli=1#

please,try it

 

[AlanH]

I tried putting it in several different MAPS folders my system, The one that worked was the one listed in the instructions, and which you quoted above:

/Users/[Your username]/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization V/Contents/Home/Assets/Maps

You have already discovered how to get to the ~/Library folder. If you then navigate to Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilisation V, you will indeed see the CIV5 icon. If you right click that you will have a Finder option to "Show Package Contents". Choose that option and it will take you inside the application package, where you can go on to find Contents/Home/Assets/Maps. Drop the complete NQ Map folder in there and start Civ5. Select Single Player -> Setup Game ->Map Type ->Additional Maps. You should find NQ Pangaea with Small Islands V9 in the list.

The ~/Documents/Aspyr/ ... /Maps folder seems to work OK of simple xxxx.Civ5Map files, but the NQ Map is a LUA scripted set of files, and it looks as if it has to be put in the game's data directory, which is not very clever!

I'm running El Capitan, but I think the above should work for older Mac OS versions if you haven't upgraded yet.

 

[JokerNole]

Thank you Alan, it has worked out!
And,what about nq mod on institutes and so on , version 8? in the official intersection written that no mod for Mac os. Is there any chance to get that mod on mac?

 

[AlanH]

What is "Institutes and so on"? I don't see any mention of this in the references I have read. Perhaps I'm looking at the wrong mod - I have downloaded NoQuitterMod_v8.0 (v.8)

If I have the correct NQ mod, I think it's specifically for multi-player, and it's DLC, not a simple loadable mod. These factors may be enough to make it incompatible with the Mac, but the real killer is that it includes a file called CvGameCore_Expansion2.dll. This looks like a custom dll extension to Civ5, which is definitely not supported by the Mac version.

You can install it in ~/Documents/Aspyr/Sid Meier's Civilisation 5/Mods/, and it will appear in your Mods menu. But if you enable it and try to proceed, you can only start a Single User game, so I'm pretty sure it's not working. I'm not sure what you want to achieve.

 

[JokerNole]

Yes, Alan, you have answered right to my question ! Thank you , i just know that this mod affects such aspects of the game as social institutes , no venice and so on.
But here is a tremendous problem - i have downloaded NQ map. Played several single-player games. Than i united my friends, who have the same version of map NQ. I create a room, invite them and they see a map with red like map info not found. Ok we go ,play everything is ok. When we want to go RE- i create room, everything repeats, but the game simply does not start. I have checked it with 2(!) players.I don't know, but the problem seems to be in me
Any ideas ?

 

[AlanH]

Sorry. I've never tried multiplayer, so you'll need someone else to help you.