I plan on going through the default diplomacy and eliminating all Vanilla Leaders and thus their diplomacy. I've done this for 4 other mods so it isn't that hard anymore. The generic stuff will still be around for a while.

My question is: Does anyone want to volunteer to add some of the faction specific text? I'm going to do the XML work and set up the Text XML file, but the text for peace, war, first contact, ect will all need to be written. This is about as low a priority as you can get, but if there's any quote you love or there is a faction you feel you'd like to "speak" for then please do. I'll post tomorrow with the exact types of text needed so put on your SMAC talk cap!

It may be low priority, but its quick and easy enough to do, I'd think. I don't mind running through and putting some quotes in; I'll take a look at the diplo xml for civ and the diplo text in SMAC to compare/contrast.

I'll check and give advice in that department.

Here is a listing of the Civ4 diplomacy tags that have civ specific text:

First Contact
Refuse to Talk
No Peace
Greeting Friendly
Greeting Furious
Tribute weaker, equal, and stronger

Not a huge listing.

Now here are some more that in the past I've enabled civ specific text for and plan on doing so again.

Declare War
Peace
Trading
Accept
Offer Peace
Thanks
Try this deal

These are all forms of diplomacy that I feel add to the game.

Here's a last partial list of more possibilities that I normally don't muck around with. All have Friendly, Pleased, Cautious, Annoyed, and Furious options:

Glad
Reject
Sorry
No Deal
Offer Deal
Cancel Deal
ect, ect, ect.

These are all generic in game and I've never seen anyone bother with them. Cosmetic, purely.

So anyone who comes up with text for the first two listing can post it here and I'll c/p it into the Text file I'm going to create.

So everyone has two choices on how to add in this faction specific text:

1 - put it here and I'll put it into XML. Not a big deal.
2 - D/l the latest version and find the Civ4GameTextInfos_Diplo XML in the Text folder and make the additions yourself.

To do this find the appropriate tag, for example Lal declaring war:

<TEXT>
<Tag>AI_DIPLO_DECLARE_WAR_LEADER_PRAVIN_LAL_1</Tag>
<English>need pedia</English>
</TEXT>

and replace the "need pedia" with your Lal declaration. Easy as pie.

Sorry to teach this at a 2nd grade level, but not everyone has done Text modifications.

Alright, I've updated the diplomacy text, although the generic messages definitely need rewriting as well. I may look into that.

Super. Feel free. It's mind numbing c/p after a while. I can't believe Firaxis only uses about 20% of the capabilities of this file.