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Old 04-20-2022, 12:52 PM   #10
Syd Thrift
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Originally Posted by Thundercrack View Post
Yes, let’s make things more difficult for the users of the game. Sometimes the devs common sense seems to be severely lacking. And it was never even brought up.
I'm sorry, man, but XML files are roughly the same level of difficulty - either way, you're going into Excel or Google Sheets and converting to that particular format - and there are a number of things that XML has going for it from an ease of work standpoint. Comma-separated files are notorious for getting line items messed up by missing a comma or not enclosing text that's supposed to have a comma in the right kind of quotes or whatever. And for all this talk of "ease of use", XML is *far* easier to look at and tell what the heck it's doing from an end user standpoint; you may not notice this because you're opening the file in Excel but this remains the case.

The true mark of the devs taking over is if they changed all these files to use JSON instead.

One thing I would love is something to edit the english.xml file. I have half a mind of working on one myself...
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