<GameInfo> vs. <GameData>

[kaspergm]

Is it just me, or is there some strange inconsistency in the way data is arranged in Civ6? It seems like database info is in <GameInfo> table, while text is in <GameData> table. This is contrary to Civ5, where everything was in <GameData> table. Even more confusing, when one uses the ModBuddy to create an XML file, it automatically makes the <GameData> tags, which you then have to change to <GameInfo> if you want to edit something that is not text.

 

[isau]

Stuff like this is the reason I avoid XML entirely and stick to SQL except in a very few places.

 

[LeeS]

(from an internet chat) direct from the guy at Firaxis who is making the ModBuddy utility and the modding interface, the game now treats <GameInfo> and <GameData> identically. It does not matter which you use. But modbuddy has been written to use <GameData> whenever on opener "tag" is needed.

<GameInfo> and <GameData> being treated differently in the cases you mention only occured before the latest patch, and may actually have been eliminated in the Winter Patch but if so no one noticed because they had all adhered to the habit you mentioned.