How to remove 'Nice Shooting!' messages from ships?

[RPC]

I can't figure it out

[george moromisato]

You can't do it globally, but you can do it for a specific sovereign. Look at svFriendlyAuton in StdSovereigns.xml:

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	<Sovereign UNID="&svFriendlyAuton;"
			name="auton"
			alignment="constructive chaos"
			>
		<Language>
			<Text id="WatchYourTargets">""</Text>
			<Text id="NiceShooting">""</Text>
		</Language>
	</Sovereign>

It puts an empty string for the "NiceShooting" message.

[RPC]

Thanks George!

[LordSutekh]

Sorry to necro this thread, but are some of those messages hard-coded? The only thing in the xml with the actual message "Nice Shooting!" that I could find was in RPGWingmen. I tried changing changing it and everyone (except presumably wingmen) was still saying "Nice Shooting!" I have a mod that uses an OnFireWeapon event to create a mine spacecraft. It works great except when I shoot a ship and a bunch of mines congratulate me on my shooting.

[RPC]

I think in your case you can make a new sovereign and make the "Nice Shooting!" messages nil, then set your mines to that new sovereign. It might work.

[LordSutekh]

I thought about that, but the problem is that the way I have it coded now, the mines use the sovereign of the space object that fires the weapon. That way, I can use the same weapon on an AI ship and it will work correctly. And the player can salvage that same weapon and use it correctly as well. I'd hate to have to code three or four different versions using different sovereigns, and then use some sort of OnDestroy event to switch it out so that the player can salvage it and use it, all because of the "Nice Shooting!" message. But if it's hard-coded, then I guess I'd have to.

[RPC]

For the player's mines(if the player uses your weapon?), you can override svPlayer so the messages are gone, and probably override all other sovereigns that use the mine weapon. It's a very clunky approach though :S
I think you can also TypCreate the sovereign so that if other mods override sovereigns your override will stay, but not sure about that :/

[LordSutekh]

you can override svPlayer so the messages are gone

That's what I thought, but I can't find where that is (the message, not svPlayer). The only place I could find that has the "Nice Shooting!" message was in RPGWingmen. I tried changing that, but it didn't seem to work. That's why I was wondering if some of that is hard-coded.

[RPC]

Try

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	<Sovereign UNID="&svPlayer;"
		name="independent"
		alignment="constructive chaos"
		>
		<Language>
			 <Text id="WatchYourTargets">""</Text>
			 <Text id="NiceShooting">""</Text>
		</Language>
	</Sovereign>

?

[EditorRUS]

A virtual sovereign with no messages, but with a data field: parent.

[LordSutekh]

That seems to work. And it doesn't interfere with the other Commonwealth ships messages, so I'm pleased with that. Thank you both.

[RPC]

No problem, good luck with your mod