There has been a mod that parodies Bush's presidency of America. There has been one that made him the leader of the Texan civilization. The "New American Leaders" mod included him as a additional American leader. And now there is "Another George W. Bush Mod".


What makes this one different. Bush's Civilopedia biography is different. Bush's AI personality is different. Bush's diplomacy dialogue is different. There are a few other various differences, ranging from the fact that some of the other Bush mods are overall more primitive in design than mine or the fact that some of the other Bush mods are not updated for BTS. I'm not trying to suggest that my mod is better in everyway but I do think that my mod provides a unique experiance.



This particular Bush mod is meant to be semi serious. Not entirely what I originally planned but its what I ended up with.



******Version Information*****

Previous versions: (1.0) (1.1) (1.2) (1.3) (1.4) (1.5)
Current version: (1.6)



Changes in version (1.6): Some spelling, grammar and technical errors in George W. Bush's diplomacy dialogue and in George W. Bush's autobiography are fixed. The diplomacy dialogue and autobiography should be in very good condition right now. George W. Bush's AI personality has recieved a small alteration that makes the length of his memory of bad things equal to the length of his memory of good things(There are some rare exceptions however.).



******End Of Version Information*****





(Note: This mod is only compatible with the "Beyond The Sword" version of Civilization 4. This mod should be compatible with all official BTS patches up to 3.17. This mod should also be compatible with version 0.19 of the unoffcial BTS 3.17 patch.)








*****Features Included In This Mod*****



1.) George W. Bush Animated Leaderhead.


2.) George W. Bush Button.


3.) George W. Bush Diplomacy Text Dialogue. (Based off of various comments the real life Bush has said. Some of the dialogue has been modified slightly. Only English version of text is included.)


4.) George W. Bush Civilopedia Autobiography. (Ghost written by Slobadog.)


5.) George W. Bush AI Personality: His AI personality loves money, espionage, the military, warfare against distant enemies, lumbermills, trade deals, defense packs, police state. He really hates talking to his enemies, being nuked, being voted against, refusal to help during wartime, warmongers, being spied on, razing other peoples cites or having his own cities razed. He sometimes remembers the bad things you did longer than he remembers the good things you did.



6.) Leader Traits. ("Aggressive" and "Protective".)


****End Of List****




*******People Who Made This Mod Possible*******



George W. Bush Animated Leaderhead: GarretSidzaka


George W. Bush Button: I got it from Grave's "History In The Making Mod". I'm not sure who specificly to give credit too.


George W. Bush Diplomacy Text Dialogue: Slobadog


George W. Bush Civilopedia Autobiography: Ghost written by Slobadog


George W. Bush AI Personality: Slobadog



*******End Of List*******




Feel free to comment on this mod or to add or change parts of it for your own purposes. If you do add any part of this mod to your own mod it would be nice if you gave credit to whoever deserves it.





******Installation Instructions******



Click "Download". Click "Save File". Extract file to: Program Files/Firaxis Games/Sid Meier's Civilization 4/Beyond The Sword/Mods



Then start your game as you would normally. Click "Advanced". Then click "Load A Mod". Then well the next step is obvious.




*****End Of Instructions*****






"Another George W. Bush Mod"

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=10078



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What files do you need to alter to get a custom leader dialoge? I know where you put the custom dialog text, but how to make the leader use that text I always have problems with!

Can you help?

What files do you need to alter to get a custom leader dialoge? I know where you put the custom dialog text, but how to make the leader use that text I always have problems with!

Can you help?

I don't think, you did anything wrong, I had the same problems. The reason why you never see the text you want is simple: Civ4 chooses randomly out of all allowed defined dialoges, including generic dialoges. So, if you have defined two dialogues for a specific leader, for example for friendly greeting, and there are additional 16 generic greetings Civ4 will choose out of 18 defined greetings. So, there is only a 1/9 chance that you will get one of the leader specific greetings. And the randomiser of Civ4 is really bad, so you might see them even less often.

You can do two things: Reduce the number of generic dialoges or define each leader specific dialoge multiple times, so they will be seen more often.

At least thats what I found out by trying. I found no documented different way, to make specific dialoges appear more often.

To add custom text go to Assets/XML/Text

To make a leader use the custom text go to Assets/XML/GameInfos/CIV4DiplomacyInfos




But as JustATourist said the leaders are programmed to randomly intermix generic dialogue with any added dialogue. The only exception I think is the greeting you get at first contact, but that is only because each leader only has one first contact greeting to choose from.

The only exception I think is the greeting you get at first contact, but that is only because each leader only has one first contact greeting to choose from.

I tried this too. There is no exception with first contact greetings. If there are generic first contact greetings they will be intermixed too. I removed generic first contact greetings completly, so that at least the first contact greeting is leader specific.

Oh you're probably right.

Sweeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!1

Hmm... good idea, but the grammar's really full of mistakes... I don't want to be a spelling cop, but I don't want to spend hours repairing all the errors.

The grammar errors are intended to make the autobiography article seem more authentic.


The diplomacy dialogue is all based on various statements Bush has himself said. So any errors in their spelling or grammer is not my fault.



As a result your problem is not with the mistakes but with the style. I have no interest in changing the diplomacy dialogue's style but I'll look into coming up with a alternative style for the biography.

I meant the spelling... it's all out of whack. Even Bush, who is the king of presidential gaffes, can't misspell anything that comes out of his mouth.

I misspelled? Seriously? Hmmmm..... I'll have to go check my text files. Maybe you accidently recieved a early draft of the biography.

It's not just the biography but the diplomacy text.

:thumbsup: Do you know how to adapt this for Vanilla?

Yeah! 1,000 posts [party] :beer: :food::culture::gp::commerce: :trophy::sheep:

sorry for the :offtopic: -ness..........This is truly an excellent mod.

Originally Posted By MadmanOfALeader: I meant the spelling... it's all out of whack. Even Bush, who is the king of presidential gaffes, can't misspell anything that comes out of his mouth.



Originally Posted By MadmanOfALeader: It's not just the biography but the diplomacy text.



I agree, Bush does not seem to misspell. Also you are correct about the errors in the autobiography and diplomacy text. This is now corrected.




This mod has been updated from version 1.0 to 1.1 and from 1.1 to 1.2.
Over the course of these updates Bush's autobiography and diplomacy dialogue has recieved spelling and grammar corrections. If you for some reason still find errors then please mention them. (Note: some grammar errors in the autobiography and diplomacy dialogue are intentional and are thus unaffected by this mod's updating. So if you find grammar errors that still exist and that you think are unintentional and thus overlooked then it would be helpful if you were very detailed in your description of the problem. Detail is important because it can be hard sometimes to tell the difference between a intended grammar error and a unintended one. On a different note: Bush's diplomacy dialogue was never intended so far to include a foreign language version. However a bunch of foreign language text has existed for Bush in version's 1.0 and 1.1. This text however was not intentional and is not a actual translation of Bush's English text. This unintended foreign text was just sections of other leader's foreign language text and represents a minor problem. This foreign text has been removed in version 1.2.

Warning!!!!!! The current version of this mod does not work. I am recieving an odd XML error message that i can't figure out. Very unusual.

perhaps it was hacked :( :cry:

I looked at it (while adding it to World 2008) and found that there's a comma where it shouldn't be.

<Type>ART_DEF_LEADER_GEORGE_W_BUSH</Type>
<Button>,Art/interface/LeaderHeads/Bush.dds</Button>
I've highlighted it in red. That should only be there if you're referencing an Atlas, which you aren't. I'm not sure if it'll fix your error, but it'll fix something. :lol:

Oh, wait, I found a more dangerous one in a text file, which is making the file choke.

<TEXT>
<Tag>AI_DIPLO_NO_PEACE_LEADER_GEORGE_W_BUSH_15</Tag>
<English>Let me be very clear about this. Steroids ought to be banned from baseball.</English>
<<French></French>

Originally Posted By NikNaks: I looked at it (while adding it to World 2008) and found that there's a comma where it shouldn't be.

Code:
<Type>ART_DEF_LEADER_GEORGE_W_BUSH</Type>
<Button>,Art/interface/LeaderHeads/Bush.dds</Button>




I've highlighted it in red. That should only be there if you're referencing an Atlas, which you aren't. I'm not sure if it'll fix your error, but it'll fix something.


I overlooked that but interestingly enough it never caused any problems.







Originally Posted By NikNaks: By Oh, wait, I found a more dangerous one in a text file, which is making the file choke.

Code:
<TEXT>
<Tag>AI_DIPLO_NO_PEACE_LEADER_GEORGE_W_BUSH_15</Tag>
<English>Let me be very clear about this. Steroids ought to be banned from baseball.</English>
<<French></French>





I fixed that problem easily awhile ago.



This below is the problem that I can't seem to even understand.


Failed loading XML file:


xml\text\civ4gametext_diplomacytext_bts.xml





Reason: End tag 'Civ4GameText' does not match the start tag 'TEXT'




Source: </Civ4GameText>






Here is the current broken version of the mod(If you feel like checking it out.):

There must be anywhere after that line, where a "</text>" is missing or misspelled. Perhaps you forgot a "<" or a "/".

Originally Posted By JustATourist: There must be anywhere after that line, where a "</text>" is missing or misspelled. Perhaps you forgot a "<" or a "/".



That is what I thought but I have not found any such mistake. Usually i can spot such things but whatever is wrong here seems to be very elusive.

Found it! On line 1685, you haven't closed the <TEXT> tag, so you need to insert a </TEXT> there. That should fix it :)

NikNaks: Found it! On line 1685, you haven't closed the <TEXT> tag, so you need to insert a </TEXT> there. That should fix it


I found another error just like that one. The mod is working again. I apologize for this recent string of problems. It seems that quick scans of text and code is ineffective at finding text and code mistakes. I will use the slow scan method in the future.


****Here is the full changelog for version (1.3)*****

1.) XML load error is fixed.


2.) The text spacing defect in Bush's autobiography and diplomacy dialogue is fixed.



****End Of Changelog****

Looking a the pedia in-game, I noticed that the apostrophes appeared as boxes. Can this be fixed, also?

Some more background info on Bush "Big Spender" jr.

"The government deficit for the next budget year, starting Octber 2009, is currently being estimated at $ 482,000,000,000, according to the Budget Bureau of the White House, which blamed the slumped econmy and tax cuts. President Bush started in office with a budget surplus."

(Quote from a financial news item published Tuesday, 29 July, 2008)

Note how the war in Iraq isn't mentioned as a factor in the deficit. Not sure how this would translate in Leader traits, though... (Aggressive, ???)

NikNaks: Looking a the pedia in-game, I noticed that the apostrophes appeared as boxes. Can this be fixed, also?



I just now fixed that and a few other minor errors. I'm still learning about things. Like how transfering text from notepad to Microsoft Office Word and then back to notepad can cause some unintended results.

Some more background info on Bush "Big Spender" jr.

"The government deficit for the next budget year, starting Octber 2009, is currently being estimated at $ 482,000,000,000, according to the Budget Bureau of the White House, which blamed the slumped econmy and tax cuts. President Bush started in office with a budget surplus."

(Quote from a financial news item published Tuesday, 29 July, 2008)
Every President since FDR has increased the deficit by leaps and bounds, this is hardly news. :rolleyes:

Every President since FDR has increased the deficit by leaps and bounds, this is hardly news. :rolleyes:

Not to me and not to any US news site, as I couldn't find any reference to it on that date. Anyway, I didn't mention it as news, I mentioned it as background info. Also, deficit spending in itself can boost the economy - but not with this president...;)

Not to me and not to any US news site, as I couldn't find any reference to it on that date. Anyway, I didn't mention it as news, I mentioned it as background info. Also, deficit spending in itself can boost the economy - but not with this president...;)
Funny, I didn't know he was the president of the Netherlands. Good to know Europeans care so much for US domestic politics.

Nice to see you've been reading up on my posts. FYI, the Netherlands are a constitutional monarchy, so we don't get to elect a president. You know, like the UK. Germany, a republic, also doesn't elect its president. Any more European info you need on this Bush thread, just ask.;)

*Bump* The Mod has been updated again.




Changes in version (1.5): A small amount of various text errors in Bush's diplomacy dialogue and in Bush's autobiography are now fixed. :)

*Bump*



"Another George W. Bush Mod" has been updated from version (1.5) to version (1.6). :)




Changes in version (1.6): Some spelling, grammar and technical errors in George W. Bush's diplomacy dialogue and in George W. Bush's autobiography are fixed. The diplomacy dialogue and autobiography should be in very good condition right now. George W. Bush's AI personality has recieved a small alteration that makes the length of his memory of bad things equal to the length of his memory of good things(There are some rare exceptions however.).

"Another George W. Bush Mod" has been updated from version (1.5) to version (1.6). :)

Excellent!! thanks Slobadog:):goodjob:

*Bump*



"Another George W. Bush Mod" has been updated from version (1.5) to version (1.6). :)




Changes in version (1.6): Some spelling, grammar and technical errors in George W. Bush's diplomacy dialogue and in George W. Bush's autobiography are fixed. The diplomacy dialogue and autobiography should be in very good condition right now. George W. Bush's AI personality has recieved a small alteration that makes the length of his memory of bad things equal to the length of his memory of good things(There are some rare exceptions however.).

Oh the irony ;)

Let me guess I made a spelling and/or grammar error when I posted "Some spelling, grammar and technical errors". I hate the english language.



Alright what did I mess up!? Microsoft Office Word 2007's spell/grammar checker isn't finding any problem in that statement.

No, I think he's just commenting that Bush is sometimes pretty ineloquent.

Oh, ok...........

There has been a tiny amount of demand for a version of this mod that does not require any expansion packs.



As a result if I have enough free time I'll work on a version of this mod that is compatible with the original version of Civilization 4. This new version of the mod will be released separately as an attachment.

Cool, you included 'Bushism' in his diplomacy text. :D