Recently I have been making an easy mod that changes some in-game floating texts. And I found that some units share the same description. This makes creating a text mod difficult.
Take Pirate as an example. There are actually three types of Pirate (despite they look identical). The first Pirate is created in Tavern/Saloon, the second one is created in Monastery (which has a “Repentant” prefix), and the third one is treasure guardian.
And every unit has two types of floating text. When I hover the mouse over the unit on the screen, it shows the simple version of the text; when I hover the mouse over its icon, it shows the detailed text.
There are four strings for these Pirate in the stringtabley.xml: string _locid=“46128”, string _locid=“46129”, string _locid=“69579” and string _locid=“69580”. The normal Pirate uses 46128 for its simple text and 46129 for its detailed text; the Repentant Pirate uses 69579 for its simple text and 69580 for its detailed text; then the treasure guardian Pirate use 69580 for both simple and detailed text.
Now here is my problem: If I edit the 69580 for the Repentant Pirate, the treasure guardian Pirate will also be affected.
Is it possible to add a new string and let the treasure guardian Pirate use it, and the mod can still be used in ranked games? How do I do this?
There are many other units that also share the same description text: Musketeer and Giant Grenadier; Hussar and Heli; Organ Gun and Leather Cannon… I want to add new strings for them if possible.
