I’m thinking of picking up GDT modding, but I’ve got a question concerning it’s functionalities.
Is it possible to remove certain things from the original game? For instance if I don’t want topic Cowboys to be a possibility, can I remove it out somehow through the modapi?
Same goes for everything really. How to remove platforms, or even… how to rename certain existing things.
What kind of features would you remove exactly? Just topics? Or gameplay features? Or events? Or platforms? Can you run through every item in the mod you wish to remove.
You could probably remove topics by removing them from the Topics.topics array, though I haven’t tried that. Platforms will definitely work if removed from Platforms.allPlatforms. You can rename a Topic by finding it in Topics.topics and adjusting it’s name value.
However, removing things will have a risk of side effects if other mods expect them to be there. For example, if you remove a platform, and a user switches from a randomised save to a non-randomised save with my mod, then depending on load order my mod might end up restoring the removed platform.
Thanks for the replies.
I was thinking in the line of a total conversion mini-mod where you are not a broad game dev tycoon, but a niche game dev like “can only make space games on pc”, so I’d need to remove a ton of things.
I’m just toying with the idea but thanks for the info.