by vetmin on Mon Jan 24, 2022 6:05 pm
IIRC, in the offseason, one of the possible league rule changes is switching All-Star back to East v. West, which I've never done, but I imagine it switches the wording back. That of course doesn't help you for your league's first year, but I think that's probably the only way to do it. The relevant text string is gonna be somewhere in english.iff's TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA (see my mod thread for more info on editing that), but it would be in there as something like "TEAM {VARIABLE}", and personally I've always avoided touching variables in the game text (feels like asking for trouble). Even if you were to replace the variable with EAST/WEST space space space space, etc., and it worked without crashes anywhere, the extra spaces might screw up how it's displayed. Bottom line, it's probably too much effort to try to mod this way, so better just to endure one year of the present-day All-Star style and just change it in the offseason. Once looyh's Debug options Hook plugin is fixed for the latest patch then you may also look around with that and see if there's anywhere you can toggle the All-Star style.