[Dynamic Dialogue Settings]

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; In this section you can specify wether mercs talk to each other
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; if DYNAMIC_OPINIONS is TRUE, mercs will comment on each other.
; This can happen whenever something influences their relationship
; Mercs will accuse each other of doing something - or compliment them. Other mercs can then react and choose answers 
; depending on their relations and personality
; If an IMP interejcts, the player has a short time to select the kin of response he wants to give.
DYNAMIC_DIALOGUE = FALSE

; the dialogue boxes will stay on for x milliseconds
DYNAMIC_DIALOGUE_TIME_OFFSET = 3000

• This feature is OFF by default,as it might be a bit irritating.
• Dialogue will play in tactical and strategic (but not if the sector inventory is open).
• An IMP can decide to say nothing, side with one of the two argument sides, or decide to stop the talk with a reasonable or an aggressive approach. The last two are somewhat Mass Effect-inspired.
• What kind of statement a merc gives is influenced by his opinion on other people in this dialogue and his personality.
• If you load a savegame before a chain of dialogue events is finished, the dialogue will start anew. Stopping the game or disabling saving/loading would break game flow to much. As a sideeffect, you cannot avoid dialogue by smart saving.
• At the moment the dialogue is hardcoded. It might be moved to xml, but I'm not looking forward to it - this already requires A LOT of text. Merc-specific text would require metric fucktons of dialogue. :heavy:
• The dialogue boxes are independent of the usual dialogue boxes. The current system does not handle multiple boxes well, an is simply inadequate to my needs here.
• Known issues: In strategic, the lower messagebox flickers. in tactical, the screen flickers when moving while dialogue plays. Both are related to the constant screen refreshing this requires, and I haven't found a fix yet.
• No sound, because how the frell would I do that? :/
• As of r7298, pressing 'ESC' in tactical fast forwards the dialogue boxes (just like it fast forwards the normal dialogue). This is helpful if you just want the stuff to be over with
• I expect that the community might have quite a few suggestions for this, so changes might be more than usual. This can be expanded a lot, I think, but let' see some feedback first.

• victim complains about other cause, beginning the dialogue
• cause denies accusations
• cause admits to accusation
• interjector dialogue selection (IMP-only)
• interjector agrees with victim
• interjector disagrees with victim
• interjector agrees with cause
• interjector disagrees with cause
• interjector appeals to reason
• interjector agressively shuns both parties
• victim agrees with interjector
• victim disagrees with interjector
• cause agrees with interjector
• cause disagrees with interjector
• someone else dies with victim
• someone else dies with cause

One of the problem is that meaningful dialogue requires the lines to work with each other. If one just wants to use generic lines, then this won't look like a conversation.

@flugente: cool new feature.
btw, I just added the new missing texts from the english cpp file to the other languages cpp files. I will commit soon.

EDIT: committed

Flugente,

Do you take donations? JA2 1.13 is the only game I cannot stop playing and you keep making it better and better! I dread the day you stop developing new features but until then THANK YOU!

PS: Seriously, do you take donations?

Eh? What did you install? Data-1.13\Ja2Options.INI is one of the most important files ever, and is always present in any SCI.

The dynamic dialogue settings are likely not in the ini editor though. I stopped updating that years ago after nobody seemingly bothered with the thing and never read the descriptions I added.

Eh. Did you perhaps apply the sci on the wrong folder?

Yeah, I get the strong impression you are confusing the ini editor application with the ini files which will default to opening with notepad since they are plaintext files with a different extension (which you probably hide anyway).