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MASSIVE "GREETINGS" CULL.

Submitted by Taerkalith on

I'm about to cut thousands of useless "greetings" lines. Specifically any non-unique, non-regional lines in order to not have as it currently sits 180 generic greetings per NPC plus their unique greetings (almost all are not implemented correctly currently). I don't expect this will conflict with anyones work but please speak now or hold your peace as this change will be irreversible once VA gets going. I will make sure variety is retained and that differing responses based on how much they like you will remain to some degree for future implementation. Tharrr be warned now.

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Last edited by thermador on 25 Apr 2015 - 12:58.

That shouldn't interfere with any of my people's work. That being said, we may need to eventually have a project where we write unique greetings for many of the NPCs who don't have any. Because without the default ones, a lot of the NPCs will have no opener to conversations.

In the meantime, you may want to save just one single generic line to use as a placeholder. Just a suggestion, though I clearly do not understand the intricacies of implementation as you do, so I could be totally off the mark.

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Hmm yeah maybe I wasn't concise, we still will have the default greetings for anyone that doesn't have them. I'm just going to cut it down to 1 favourable/1neutral/1dismissivehate greeting per race/gender x 6 (then diversified so that any NPC only has 1/6th of the lines using my dialogue faction system so each NPC ends up with three responses(good/neutral/negative) + any unique. Rather than 180+unique. No way we're writing more content after scripts go out except for specialty quests/events.

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