Editing follower dialog options

I looked through some of the past threads and didn't really see anything that applied to me... so here's my question. How would I go about editing the dialog options that come up when you click on one of your followers?

Examples:
Jormund has a "give orders" option, which I want to change to the something more natural like "Can you do something for me...?"
Sogg Mead Mugg has stuff like "Tell me about this place. [Tarant]." which I would like to change to "So, what do you know about Tarant, Sogg?"
etc...

Second question
This is probably a lot harder, but is it possible to add in questions you can ask your followers? Sogg is a great example because you can ask him about pretty much any city. I would like to expand this to other characters. Furthermore, I would like to add the line when you enter certain places. Maybe you could ask Sogg about your current location when you're in the Black Mountain Mines. "*HIC* There probably hasn't been any good mead here for a long time..."

Third question
This is completely unrelated to the other two but it bugs me. How can I go about editing the ages of NPCs? Geoffrey T-ashe, for example, has an age of 20 years old.

thanks

 

1) The lines like "Tell me about this place" are in the dlg files. These can be edited using the Dialog Editor from the Downloads section or even something like Notepad.

2) Using Sogg's dialog as an example, at line 90 you reach the questions about the locations. There is room to add a few more entries with him (lines 111 - 119), but it's possible that not all the followers will have this luxury. Troika tended to pack the dialog numbers a bit tight.

{94}{What do you know about this place? [Black Root.]}{}{5}{ia 3}{249}{}

{249}{[BURP!] Uh? Hey! This is Black Root! We need to find the Sour Barnacle, and fast! It's the best tavern on the [HIC!] whole eastern coast! Lot's a salty old sea dogs, and ale darker than a orc's front teeth! It's got to be around here somewhere!}{[BURP!] Uh? Hey! This is Black Root! We need to find the Sour Barnacle, and fast! It's the best tavern on the [HIC!] whole eastern coast! Lot's a salty old sea dogs, and ale darker than a orc's front teeth! It's got to be around here somewhere!}{}{}{}{}

In this example, the {ia3} listing in line 94 refers to the number in which Black Root is listed in the gamearea.mes.

{3}{70218,92096, 0, 0 /Black Root/A border town.}

Make sure you have right listing mentioned with your additions and you should be good.

3) Editing the ages requires going to the locations of each follower with WorldEd, finding them, then resetting the ages with the edit option.
The age setting is in the lower left corner.
Gamearea.mes will give you the WorldEd coordinates.

 

Thanks! I figured this would be a pretty cool little project to work on and enhance the game a bit. It sounds simple enough.