Custom Factions

Being able to Edit/Delete them!

from Elemental Forums

Ok. So I created a faction, forgot to put in the backstory I had, tried to edit. Couldn't.  So I made a new one, forgot to change the icon. Can't Edit, so I had to make another.

Finally got everything else right. Problem is... I have 3 factions which have the same fucking name and only slight differences!!!!

I delete the faction information from my computer, but Steam synch saves it. I can only get around this by disabling the bloody synch from steam...


HOW ABOUT GIVING US AN ABILITY TO EDIT/DELETE factions... Good lord this is a basic function.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Go into your /mygames folder.

 

Look for Race and Unit folders.

 

They will be there. Just look for description, and cut-paste your description over the default one.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Also, if you make a new faction and give it the same name as the old one, it will save over the old one.  Did this several times to tweak little details.

 

Edit: Guess I just scanned your post the first time and didn't see you had three factions with the same name.  That's weird...mine definitely saved over the old version.  But then I've had a few buggy problems with the synching...

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

It is really sucky that there's no simple way to do basic edits to custom Factions aside from manhandling XML code after the fact

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

I honestly don't get it why such a basic feature isn't in the game. How could they add so much costomization to the game but choose not to add something as simple and important as a "edit faction" button.

The custom units suffer largely from the same problem, in that you can't actually edit a custom unit but only create a completely new one that shares the same name. Then you have to manually retire the old verison.

I thought this was extremely stupid when I first tried out FE, and I can't believe that this problem hasn't been addressed in LH.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

This has been brought up time and again and should really be a feature that the devs should implement if its such a huge deal.

To me it really does not matter.

I like having so many factions. :w00t:

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

What's irksome is ofttimes you just want to do simple edits, like changing the factions colors because you forgot to assign them a color beyond the default.  Or change the colors because the one you wanted to use looks horrible on the world map.