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English.str Modding

June 7, 2006 8:54:24 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
What are some possibilites when it comes to messing with the English.str file? I'm still very new to Modding but a very quick learner, and it looks like if you knew what you were doing this file could be a big help, is this true? If so, any ideas, and how could it be done?
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ignuss
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Reply #1 June 8, 2006 4:24:08 AM
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Ok, here is an example of modding English.str, fixing one of my pet peeves:

Open in notepad.

Search for 'Economic Bonus'

[GovBonuses0] Economic Bonus: 0%\nIndustrial Bonus: 0%\nResearch Bonus: 0%
[GovBonuses1] Economic Bonus: 25%\nIndustrial Bonus: 25%\nResearch Bonus: 25%
[GovBonuses2] Economic Bonus: 50%\nIndustrial Bonus: 50%\nResearch Bonus: 50%
[GovBonuses3] Economic Bonus: 75%\nIndustrial Bonus: 75%\nResearch Bonus: 75%

Remove everything after Economic Bonus: 0/25/50/75, so that it looks like:
[GovBonuses0] Economic Bonus: 0%
[GovBonuses1] Economic Bonus: 25%
[GovBonuses2] Economic Bonus: 50%
[GovBonuses3] Economic Bonus: 75%

Start a new game and take a look in the Civilization Manager to see that it works.



That example was also for any dev that comes by, since they either keep missing all the posts about the errors in the moddable files or are ignoring them completly. My example took me under two minutes to do and that includes testing so that it works. I can't help but wonder why the devs haven't fixed this in an official update ages ago.
Anyway, as my example shows, it's extremly simple to mod this file. You just need to find the text that you want to change which is easy enough, for example taking a text-string from the game and search for it in this file, or simply reading until you find it.
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Reply #2 June 8, 2006 5:30:58 AM
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Ignuss, what does that do? does that change the actual goverment bonuses or just the descriptions in the tech screen?
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Reply #3 June 8, 2006 6:08:08 AM
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It changes the government info in the Civilization Manager so that it matches the actual bonus since advanced governments only give an economic bonus at the moment. Developers have said that the they aren't meant to give the other two bonuses but they haven't bothered to change the information about bonuses.

English.str only effects text in the game, no bonuses, rules or anything else.
I don't think it's possible to mod the governments, I haven't found them anywhere in the data-folder.
If you want to change the technology descriptions, you need to mod TechTree.xml.
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