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Ravenblade posted 05-26-99 02:44 AM ET
I guess I'm not very bright....I am having a hard time making any factions...don't laugh...I can hear you there in the back! Can someone give me a hand making factions? The hardest part is getting the pictures to stick. The attributes and wording is fine, but I hate seeing Dierdre Skye in place of an Islamic Fundamentalist! Heeeelllppp. Oh,the datalinks say what my attributes are, but they don't show up on my social engineering screen.Any help would be greatly appreciated.
GaryD posted 05-26-99 11:13 AM ET
You should have started with Lal then
Rackam posted 05-27-99 06:58 AM ET
Look in alpha.txt and faction.txt also, in alpha.txt there is a section that looks like this
#FACTIONS
GAIANS, GAIANS
HIVE, HIVE
UNIV, UNIV
MORGAN, MORGAN
SPARTANS, SPARTANS
BELIEVE, BELIEVE
PEACE, PEACE
What you have to do is replace one of these with the name of your new faction, then make sure that the same name appears as the first readable line in the <newfaction>.txt file like this
#GAIANS
This does not include any lines starting with a ; (this is used exactly the same way as in config.sys, system.ini and like 'rem' for dos batch files), the program ignores everything after this on the line.
Then make sure you have files named like your new faction, eg. gaians.flc (you can simply copy this one from the faction your replacing, it seems to work.), gaians.pcx, gaians2.pcx, gaians3.pcx and gaians.txt
~Rackam
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Author	Topic: Hopeless
Ravenblade	posted 05-26-99 02:44 AM ET I guess I'm not very bright....I am having a hard time making any factions...don't laugh...I can hear you there in the back! Can someone give me a hand making factions? The hardest part is getting the pictures to stick. The attributes and wording is fine, but I hate seeing Dierdre Skye in place of an Islamic Fundamentalist! Heeeelllppp. Oh,the datalinks say what my attributes are, but they don't show up on my social engineering screen.Any help would be greatly appreciated.
GaryD	posted 05-26-99 11:13 AM ET You should have started with Lal then
Rackam	posted 05-27-99 06:58 AM ET Look in alpha.txt and faction.txt also, in alpha.txt there is a section that looks like this #FACTIONS GAIANS, GAIANS HIVE, HIVE UNIV, UNIV MORGAN, MORGAN SPARTANS, SPARTANS BELIEVE, BELIEVE PEACE, PEACE What you have to do is replace one of these with the name of your new faction, then make sure that the same name appears as the first readable line in the <newfaction>.txt file like this #GAIANS This does not include any lines starting with a ; (this is used exactly the same way as in config.sys, system.ini and like 'rem' for dos batch files), the program ignores everything after this on the line. Then make sure you have files named like your new faction, eg. gaians.flc (you can simply copy this one from the faction your replacing, it seems to work.), gaians.pcx, gaians2.pcx, gaians3.pcx and gaians.txt ~Rackam