Modding minor race names

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Ok, I successfully modded the minor race names and descriptions in the english.str file, but the worst ones, the ones that make me grit my teeth with pain whenever I see them, are still there.

I'm talking about the game start minor races...you know "Alexians, Scottlingas, etc."

Where can I find those terrible things and change them to something else?

NOTE: Like the people, if I ever met them. Hate the fact that they feel like inserting their name everywhere.

M
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
What did you use to open the english.str file?
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I got it
Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Only the random minor races are in the English.str. The 'normal' minors are hardcoded in the EXE, as far as I can tell.

~SDC~
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
#4 by Veteran Arturus Magi - 4/7/2003 1:58:42 AM Only the random minor races are in the English.str. The 'normal' minors are hardcoded in the EXE, as far as I can tell.
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So there's no way to mod em out? Darn it!
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Nooo! There MUST be a way!
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I think the magi man is right, if you do a earch on the entire directory tree, the string can only be found in the exe.

If you're really desperate, you can probably change it with a hex editor to something of the same length, though that's not really worth it IMO. You'd have to change it any time a new update came out that changed the .exe