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| Re: MercProfiles.XML Add-On Tweak[message #341724 is a reply to message #340960]
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Sun, 12 July 2015 23:02  
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| Flugente |
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I've recently gotten around to fiddling a bit with MercProfiles.xml. You've altered many buddy/hated relationships, but this can be problematic.
First of all, most of the buddy/hated dialogue refers to a specific merc - if you change that, this might lead to odd results. Dumb example: if you change's Raider's buddy from Raven to Bull, Raider will compliment Bull on what a good wife he is  . We also don't have any new dialogue here, so the new relations wouldn't be voiced.
This is merely a glitch though, nothing will crash here. However consider this small example:
Let's say Vicki no hates Lynx. We hire Lynx and drop him into Arulco. Now we want to hire Vicki. At this point, she will refuse working for us categorically - we employ her enemy, and none of er friends. But there is no dialogue, so nothing plays... the hiring screen simply closes instantly. The player has no idea, and will likely assume this to be a bug.
A solution is to use text only. The /MercEdt folder has files that contain the text that is displayed will a dialogue plays. Let's say Lynx is her hated merc #2 with a hated time of 10, that would mean QUOTE_HATE_MERC_2_ON_TEAM,// = 87, will be played. We add text, and then this happens:
This text will vanish relatively fast. Solution in this case would to add a completely silent soundfile as 004_087.wav that is long enough for the player to have time to read this. That or random gibberish.
Depending on how much work you are willing to do, you could fill all relations for all mercs this way, but the lack of sound will be somewhat unsatisfying I presume.
If you only want Mercs to like each other, editing MercOpinions.xml is the way to go.
[Updated on: Sun, 12 July 2015 23:04]
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