[MOD] SilenceYouAll - Skip chatter!

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

If anyone misses the refusal speech from NPCs let me know. I was not sure if those should be kept or not.
I mean the cases where the NPC cannot be hired, or they dont like you enough to provide guidance.
In these cases the UI just closes, but i was thinking someone might miss some feedback from the game. The disabled speech iirc is something like 'No!', or 'Im not an information store' and things like that.
I keep them disabled in case i get no feedback.

Playing vanilla at the moment so maybe it is a bit outside of scope but when looking for SmallTalking NPCs to hire as Trade Agents, if a hirable NPC speaks first, I use the reply of "No!" to tell me that the NPC can be a Trade Agent.

It's not a critical issue since if playing modded, there are mods to make small-talking and Trade Agent acquisition easier. Just mentioning for info really.

[pref]

Thanks for the info!
So you mean the No! answer could be useful?

As far as i saw in each context the only possible outcome where the UI closes automatically are these refuse cases. So the UI autoclosing even without speech can only mean one thing in each situation - does this hold?
So for ex - if i did not miss anything - when the manager finishes the conversation, it means that he/she is not for hire without doubt.

Even if it is so, im not sure if the player might need a stronger message from the game, not just closing the window/selection menu.

I use some mods, and rarely ever smalltalk so there might be cases i missed.

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

Thanks for the info!
So you mean the No! answer could be useful?

Yes, but only in the specific case of hunting for Trade Agents AFAIK.

As far as i saw in each context the only possible outcome where the UI closes automatically are these refuse cases. So the UI autoclosing even without speech can only mean one thing in each situation - does this hold?

I'm not sure. In the general case of a randomly-spawned NPC saying "No!" to the hiring question, I think that yes, the UI will always close. However, IIRC, some specific mission-related NPCs can also have a convo UI that flashes open briefly and closed. Or maybe I am remembering wrong and it never opens (sorry, I can't be more specific from memory).

So for ex - if i did not miss anything - when the manager finishes the conversation, it means that he/she is not for hire without doubt.

I think that could be a bit ambiguous so I would say:

- If a SmallTalking Manager/DO/etc will open the crew hiring menu when asked, they will not offer to be a Trade Agent.
- If a SmallTalking Manager/DO/etc says "No!" when asked about being hired as crew, they can be a Trade Agent.

Even if it is so, im not sure if the player might need a stronger message from the game, not just closing the window/selection menu.

It could be stronger, yeah. The only thing about the vanilla scenario is that I think I am not using the UI as intended. I don't think Egosoft meant "No!" to mean that they could be Trade Agents, but that is just a guess.

[pref]

More or less what i was thinking, and i think we have a different pov regarding the game so that just makes it stronger.. probably a candidate for next update.

I think the No! answer means that they are not for hire, it is just a coincidence that in that case they can be trade agents.

Thanks for your thoughts!

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And i figured a modding question too - is there a way to influence load order?
Probably mine should be run before anything that adds content, not sure if there is a way to achieve this?

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

You're welcome!

And i figured a modding question too - is there a way to influence load order?
Probably mine should be run before anything that adds content, not sure if there is a way to achieve this?

not something I am familiar with, but Rebirth v3.53 has the following change log item:

• Improved extension handling so that loading order of mods now follows defined dependencies.

[pref]

Aww that means the 'big' mods should be dependent on mine, not something that could ever happen.
Thanks anyway.

[pref]

Enabled that line, plus the one where rep is too low to start the conversation.

[pref]

Updated to beta 3.

[w.evans]

And i figured a modding question too - is there a way to influence load order?
Probably mine should be run before anything that adds content, not sure if there is a way to achieve this?

Not absolutely sure, but I remember when was trying to figure this out several months back: if no dependencies specified, mod load order was by alphabetical folder name, loose files first. That was before 3.0, though, so things might have changed since then.

[UniTrader]

Also there are optional dependencies since 4.0 - this dependency is not required but if present it will be loaded before this mod.
defining top-priority mods is AFAIK not possible and also not necessary imo. This Mod is unlikely to be broken by other mods anyway (except they make major changes to the conversations) and if it were the game itself wouldn't break

[pref]

Thanks guys!

I saw now there is a silent flag to supress no match errors too - probably thats the way to go, as my mod wont influence anything much.

[pref]

Enabled some NPC comms when being attacked/protected by player.

Let me know if its too much

[pref]

It seems under 3.61 the HUD Detail Monitor option has to be turned On, otherwise the skill and build related windows will not open without the associated voiceovers being played back.

[Baridor]

Funtioniert nicht nach 4.0 Releas

[pref]

Baridor, you could try to elaborate on this to get closer to any kind of solution.

But before that make sure that 'Menus' under game settings is set to HUD, or the mod will not work properly.

[pref]

Disabled money transfer related messages, replaced them with a single text message on the detail monitor.
Also removed the ready to take on wares/deal struck here nonsense that got introduced since i last checked. Where do these things keep coming from...o,O

Game should be much more SETA friendly now.

Since i had to rework parts of the money transfer code, i also added the station name to the log message. It's likely that SYA cancels out any similar features of other mods.

[Ezarkal]

Many thanks. I was wondering why some of these messages kept popping out even with the mod.

[Boeng01]

Don't know if anyone is still supporting this mod, but i'm trying to use it in the VR Edition and get the following behaviour:

trying to open com with an NPC which should show you the slideout screen in flight isn't possible. At the point where you make your decission what you want to see - as an example the skills or the buy/sell screen - the slideout Screen just wouldnt slide out. It stops at the point where normally the voice should be played, which of course is not played with this mod.

Seems as if there is a connection between 'end of blabla of npc' and 'open slideout menu', which isn't triggerd because of the soundfile thats not playing.

Anyone who can help with this?

[Boeng01]

No one of the modcreators here who could take a view on this? This constantly repeating chats are quite annoying in my oppinion and on top it's absolutely slowing down gameflow, since a lot commands are just executed after the blabla has ended. If even the command execution would be triggered when the voice starts - that would be a start

[Ezarkal]

Until this gets looked at, there are a few other mods that reduce chatter that you could try. They are not as complete as this one, but it might be of some help.

Check the steam workshop and the mod list. Shut up Ren and Radio Silence are good place to start. I hope they don't share the same glitch.