Special Editing tools?

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I belive that you should release editing tools so players are able to more mod GC2. i know that you are most likly working on this but i wish to reinforce it and, i belive that people who pre-order should get better quality (possibly somthing you The devps use or SDN issues...) that work better and are simpiler to use or somthing...
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

It's been stated (unfortunately) that there will be no mod tools released with the retail version of the game.  There's the possibility for tools to come out with an expansion, much like AP came with a basic map/campaign editor for GC1.


If I remember right, you were yelling pretty loudly telling people there would not be a map editor on previous threads on this subject.


However, with a little bit of inginuity and a good guide to XML nearby, you could probably figure out how to edit the files by hand.  And for the really industrious, if the XML is well documented, it would be a fairly easy matter to build a bare-bones app to generate new files and tweak values.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
GC1 was pretty heavily moddable, and GC2 will probably be more so. What level of moding are you interested in? Thanks to... darn, forgot which of their products they're using to do the UI... You can make major changes to the UI, not just skinning it. custom graphics for events were in GC1, and I'm sure other things in GC2 will be moddable. You won't get to mod the AI, however. That and the core rules are just about the only things I know you won't be able to mod.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I am sure some fan somewhere will make an application for editting their files. Who knows it might be ready for the commercial release.