Modding the conversations

Can it be done?

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I know that the game have very funny one-liners but I was thinking:

Can you mod the conversation files to include even more funny one liners?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Modding the dialogue is quite easy - you'll need to use the GC2_Conversations xml file. I've never tried to write new dialogue, but there's a fair amount that doesn't appear in the game due to bugs that I've managed to mod back in. It's not hard.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting qrtxian, reply 1
Modding the dialogue is quite easy - you'll need to use the GC2_Conversations xml file. I've never tried to write new dialogue, but there's a fair amount that doesn't appear in the game due to bugs that I've managed to mod back in. It's not hard.
End of qrtxian's quote

Ohh, can you tell me what did you do to mod them back in?

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting dnzrx, reply 2
Ohh, can you tell me what did you do to mod them back in?
End of dnzrx's quote

Or better yet, release the change itself as a mod?

I'd love to see those conversations myself...

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Well, basically, the issue is that the priority system for choosing dialogue is screwed up.There's four types of dialogue - specific speaker to specific listener, generic speaker to specific listener, specific speaker to generic listener, and generic speaker to generic listener. The problem is with the last to - generic-to-generic gets prioritized over specific-to-generic, meaning that dialogue like this:

  <Speaker Name="Drengin">1</Speaker>
  <Listener Name="Generic">10</Listener>

 never shows up. As far as I can tell, the priority system is hardcoded, so the only way to fix things is to manually change each case of specific-to-generic dialogue to specific-to-specific for each race. The above, for instance, would become:

  <Speaker Name="Drengin">1</Speaker>
  <Listener Name="Human">0</Listener>

  <Speaker Name="Drengin">1</Speaker>
  <Listener Name="Altarian">2</Listener>

  <Speaker Name="Drengin">1</Speaker>
  <Listener Name="Arcean">3</Listener>

  and so forth.

  Obviously, this is a painstaking process, so I might upload what I've done somewhere.

  Is I-Mod still active?

  Edit: Seriously, what happened to the formatting?