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Originally Posted by battists
Without disagreeing that there is room for improvement, I'm kind of shocked that after all of the complaining we've heard about this, that no one has created a "vanilla" PbP file. One of the great aspects of this year's product is that anyone with a text editor can change the text. Tired of hearing DaED's name in the PbP? It just takes three steps that even the most technophobic gamer can accomplish:
1. Open up English.xml with Notepad.
2. Search for Dale and Eli's Dad and replace it with something else.
3. Save the file.
You could have done that in the time it took you to post in this thread. Creating a wholly vanilla file would take a little more effort, but as BigCity pointed out, after 6.5, the whole board was filled with people begging for more colorful play-by-play.
I'm not trying be all "It's fine the way it is" about it. I agree that there's still room for improvement, particularly regarding some of the strange combinations of plays. But, at least there's the possibility of taking things into your own hands here, and if there are enough people around who want a more plain version, put your heads together and create one!
Steve
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I actually wanted to do that, but the XML editor thingie won't run on my computer. I started to edit the file by hand, but there's a LOT of text.
Question: Can Text objects be deleted? Or must they contain text?
By the way, I wouldn't mind the PbP being more descriptive, if the description wasn't so ridiculous....
Charlie575's post is spot on....