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Mod Suggestion: Rewrite the dialogs?
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by Citizen ClockWise - 4/15/2003 7:10:28 PM

Is it possible to rewrite game dialogs? Like the technology descriptions and the event descriptions and so on.

It would be nice to go through and fix all the typos and bad sentences. Someone made a mod for "Morrowind" that did just that, and it made the game a whole lot more pleasant to play.

Help?

                      
#1  by Citizen ClockWise - 4/15/2003 7:36:51 PM

Oh! I've found everything I need! The event descriptions and the tech descriptions are easy enough to locate and change.

And everything else is buried inside of "English.str."

That's a big file.

Brad: would it be illegal of me to distribute a modified copy of "English.str"? Or any of the CORE files, for that matter?

                      
#2  by Citizen ClockWise - 4/15/2003 8:38:23 PM

Wait a second... will English.str be overwritten by official updates?

                      
#3  by Veteran CaptainBizarre - 4/15/2003 9:13:59 PM

Yes. Keep a copy of your version.

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#4  by Citizen ClockWise - 4/15/2003 9:40:05 PM

Argh! That means that if I go to reapply the changes I won't gain the full advantages of the patch. And that means that I can't distribute my masterwork, because no one will want to install it.

help...

But regardless, does anyone know the legality of the situation?

Oh, I discovered a political party that don't show up in the opening dialog. Keen!

                      
#5  by Citizen StarDevilThrull - 4/15/2003 11:17:25 PM

Some more of the mispellings are fixed in the new 1.02 patch (maybe all of them... not sure)

      
#6  by Citizen ClockWise - 4/16/2003 12:32:36 AM

I noticed at least one occurrence of "it's" in 1.02. And that godawful second-to-last sentence of the opening (before "Time will tell") was unchanged. And the tense was still frigged up in a sentence a couple of lines up.

I rewrote the opening bit and all of the party description. Not just the typos, but the general sense of the words. I think that they are a little more easy on the brain my way. If I find out that it is okay, I'll upload the modified files to my site.



                      
#7  by Citizen StarDevilThrull - 4/16/2003 6:03:55 PM

Wow ClockWise your even more anal... errr analytical then I am

Seriously though I would like to see your rewrites when you get them done.

      
#8  by Citizen ClockWise - 4/16/2003 6:38:46 PM

Thrull, I've got about 2.9 years (so far) worth of a degree in English Literature bouncing around in my head.

Since I've paid $15,000 (cheap!) to learn how to write nicely, I figure I should put my powers to good use. If anyone is willing to give me permission, I'll dump my DATA folder to my website. If not, I'll just cut and paste the appropriate parts into a .txt file and let everyone else do the cut and pasting for themselves.

                      
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