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View Poll Results: Should there be a SMAC-style Faction Editor for CivIII
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Yes
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July 1, 2002, 21:31
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King
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Faction Editor for CivIII
During the little chat last night with Dan and Soren, the topic of SMAC-style faction editor for CivIII came up. Obviously, it's be much easier to type diplomatic responses into a box and let the program do the hard work of editing a string txt file for you. It seems that a diplo-txt editor was on the cards at one point, but was dumped before it was finished, and probably never will be.
My question is this? Should there be a faction editor for CivIII, allowing you to add civs easily, rather than the current malarkey we have to go through now. How hard can it be to come up with a program that automatically edits a text file? Well, Dan Magha was actually surprised no-one had come up with one yet, since the source code was apparently made available.
Any takers? Is it do-able?
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July 2, 2002, 09:58
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King
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Anyone have any comments?
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July 2, 2002, 11:46
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Emperor
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i never tinkered with making my own civ, but it it's just editing a text file, it shouldnt be hard at all to code a stupid litte visual basic or c program to modify it.
i'm definately going to make my own civ for MP (well, at least i'll be changing the leaderheads and names)
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July 2, 2002, 12:35
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Princess
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If adding a civ just means editing a text file, that should be fairly easy to do. But isn't there more involved in that?
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July 2, 2002, 12:38
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Princess
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And, btw. I voted for yes, because having things configurable is always a good thing. Having a tool for it is even better.
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July 2, 2002, 12:42
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King
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It's not quite as simple as editing a few words. CivIII uses string txt - which is a ***** to edit. Just check out the topped thread in the Creation forum. I think that there should be some tool that does that work for you.
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July 3, 2002, 14:44
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King
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To the people who don't want a civilization editor, can I ask what is the objection?
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