Star Wars Conquest is a Mount&Blade; module which transforms a medieval world into the far, far away galaxy... with the same premises than the original game, this module offers an open sandbox where the player can do anything he wants. Based on a Galactic map and hundreds of planets.

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Aug 23 2010 Anchor

Okay so I've been tasked with sorting out the dialogue but there's been some issues regarding corrections to make it feel less medieval. Some issues that I've struggled to solve have been regarding mentions of God and lords.

The only change for "God" I could think of would be the Force. Does anyone have any better ideas?

EDIT: Decided to take out any mentions of God and insert some different dialogue :)

As for Lords, well there's lots of options, could keep Lords but a lot of the characters aren't Lords. Other options include:
Warlords: This makes me think too much of independent bodies so probably doesn't work
Rulers: Would work but I've been changing any mention of "King" to ruler so this may cause some confusion
Commander / Captain / Officer: Would definitely work for the Imperials but not for the other 2 factions and we can't discriminate so I'm not sure about this
Master
Controller / Owner: Bit boring and sounds a bit odd when talking about "owners / controllers" joining you
Commandant: Variation of Commander that could fit all factions
Overseer
Executive: Too business-y
Administrator: Already been used for "Planet Administrators" but that could be changed and Administrator seems quite fitting

That's probably enough for people to choose from at the moment, any help much appreciated :)

Edited by: Panda6666

RevanShan
RevanShan Scene Maker
Aug 24 2010 Anchor

Lord - Ruler
King - Leader

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Gizka
Gizka Gizka
Aug 25 2010 Anchor

Lord - General, Moff, Grand Moff
King - Leader, Orderer, (Rulers maybe anyhow, anyway?)

Aug 25 2010 Anchor

General's okay but does it fit all the factions? Moff and Grand Moff can't be done because the title has to be usable by all Lords for every faction and only applies to Imperials. Decided to use Revan's suggestions coz he'll get mad otherwise ;)

Gizka
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Aug 26 2010 Anchor

Never mind, that's OK.;)

RevanShan
RevanShan Scene Maker
Aug 27 2010 Anchor

You need to use general names, cause for example there are no moffs on the rebel side, and Luke isn't a general. So lords should be rulers/governors, and kings simply leaders.

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Gizka
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Aug 27 2010 Anchor

You are right. Imperial Moffs traced their origins to the Old Republic, which used Moffs as de jure governors of Allied Regions. I started with this position, but as game action occurs during an episode 5 you are absolutely right.
The other theme:
Quest: "Deliver # units of wine to PLANET NAME"
On screen: "Planet administrator of PLANET NAME asked you to deliver # units of wine to the tavern in PLANET NAME in # days"
The word TAVERN is still exist and must be changed to CANTINA.

Aug 27 2010 Anchor

sure thing, I'm literally gonna change that in about 30 seconds :). Any other small changes like that would be much appreciated ^^
[These were 2 separate posts but oh well xD]
Edit: Okay I'm basically done with the dialogue. Obviously when the next version comes out I want everyone to give their opinion and highlight any errors that still remain. There're no noticeable additions, so no new dialogue, just changes to what's already there to make it more Star Wars-ey. I've tried to liven up some of the more boring elements of dialogue but there's so much to go through I couldn't change everything so sorry.

Another suggestion (because for some reason I can't access the main forum anyway and it's only small) would be to change the name of Caravans to "Convoys". I've changed it in the dialogue and it sounds better and more Star Wars-esque :).

Edit: Change caravan masters to convoy masters :)

Edited by: Panda6666

Gizka
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Aug 30 2010 Anchor

Good for you, Panda, "Convoys" sounds much better. Here some dialogs I think must be changed:
1)There is no dialogue of B-2HO droid about Corellia.
2)Training militia at the planet: The bandits have been spotted on the horizon, riding hard for PLANET NAME... The bandits have been spotted on the orbit, driving down\landing(or else) for PLANET NAME...
Next step screen: ...The villagers have little left in the way of wealth... VILLAGERS to another word? What do you think?
3)Dialogue when you ask the lord about a site of other lord: LORDNAME is in wilderness and he should be close to PLANETNAME at the moment. WILDERNESS to SPACE maybe?
4)An offer of vassalage: FACTIONLEADER of FACTION has sent a royal herald to bring you an invitation in his own hand... A ROYAL HERALD to HOLOGRAM? (a royal herald of Hutts and Rebs looks a little silly)
5)Farmer in cantina looking for help:
Farmer: A band of brigands have taken refuge in our village... To ON OUR PLANET
Player: Why don’t you go to the lord of your village... The same thing.
6)Character screen: Jabba the Hutt. She is the lady of Tatooine... And that is a question! Which gender Jabba is? The hutts were female only during pregnancy. So is it correct to add Jabba like a female? Maybe RevanShan knows how to add him\her?
By the way RevanShan thank you for your link!

RevanShan
RevanShan Scene Maker
Aug 30 2010 Anchor

Jabba? Him, for sure. Jabba being a 'she' is a mistake.

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Aug 30 2010 Anchor

Jabba is not the only one. I believe that all alien leaders are referred to as that.(Chewy, Bossk, almost of of the Hutt leaders, etc.)

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Aug 30 2010 Anchor

I'm not sure what I can do about the whole she thing, maybe I could try and have a look and change it to "they" where appropriate or something similar.
I'll look through all the cases of villagers and change it to "Settlers" or something similar. I've changed a lot of "riding" and "running" etc to flying and lots of waiting to in orbit and that kind of thing. There's lots of mentions to letters which have been changed to more appropriate things but some of the examples you've given haven't been dealt with so I'll promptly have a look now. Knowing nothing about code, however, I'm not sure I'm the man for the job regarding the gender of lords :P

Keep those corrections coming guys!

EDIT: Strangely none of the corrections you mentioned are in the dialogue files. Revan, do you have any idea what other document they could be in?

Edited by: Panda6666

RevanShan
RevanShan Scene Maker
Aug 31 2010 Anchor

Not settlers, locals is the way to go. Cause some planets might be barely innhabited, but other (lique Nar SHaddaa), though treted as villages, are even city-planets with no 'settlers' involved.

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Gizka
Gizka Gizka
Sep 1 2010 Anchor

Locals, yes. Sounds more StarWarsey.

Panda, I can help you with dialogs if you want to. Just send me PM.

And Revan, I've found more sounds for battles and cantina. If you need it just send PM.

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