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[DarthCloakedDwarf]

I was wondering why we have a lisp tag (that's not even a true lisp, more of a hiss) which is so inflexible as to only permit one speech variation. It seemed odd to permit hissssssing snakemen to speak as they do, but not purrrrrrring felines.

Thus, I was thinking of a new tag, [liSP:X], to replace the current [liSP], where X is the letter to be lengthened (hopefully, it will not actually be the letter x, as that would be dumb and... well... dumb). This would permit hissssing snakemen and purrrrring felines, as well as open up many other possibilities (wolfmen hooooooooowling?).

[silhouette]

i see you split the topics up...

I share my support here aswell.

[3]

I had a more involved idea for this sort of thing, and I can't remember why I didn't post it when I had it all written out. Basically, the idea was that the game would apply some sort of "filter" to any and all instances of a certain string spoken by a creature. Example:

[ACCENT_SPEECH:s:MULTIPLY:5:10]

Replaces any instance of "s" that the creature speaks with 5 to 10 "s"s.

"Speak" becomes anything between "Ssssspeak" and "Sssssssssspeak"

[ACCENT_SPEECH:s:REPLACE:a]

Replaces any and all instances of "s" that the creature speaks with "a"s.

"Speak" becomes "Apeak". Not a great example, but I'm sure you can see how this could be used (to create proper lisps, for example).

In this way, you'd be able to create entire dialects for certain creatures:

[ACCENT_SPEECH:city:REPLACE:fortress]

Bingo, the creature now calls cities fortresses.

There isn't much use for this sort of detail at the moment, but there will be in the future. There were probably a couple of things I thought of before which I didn't remember, but I'll have to do without those.

[SirHoneyBadger]

I'll add that frogmen could croak or chirp, with males having deep booming voices, or maybe females would simply be mute?

Antmen might chitter, with maybe repetitive "chchch" or "kakaka" sounds showing up in their speach.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Wow, I like your ideas, people.

[silhouette]

[ACCENT_SPEECH:s:REPLACE:a]

Replaces any and all instances of "s" that the creature speaks with "a"s.

"Speak" becomes "Apeak". Not a great example, but I'm sure you can see how this could be used (to create proper lisps, for example).

In this way, you'd be able to create entire dialects for certain creatures:

Hehe...
ill probably create a race that instead of the [utternce] tags(how you cant speak to them, you really should be able to but just not understand what the heck theyre saying) speak in codes.. so basically every letter is another.

[SirHoneyBadger]

Now I want to create a species of squidmen who replace hours with "ahrns", minutes with "microns", and seconds with "missapfiffi".

[Niveras]

I had a more involved idea for this sort of thing, and I can't remember why I didn't post it when I had it all written out. Basically, the idea was that the game would apply some sort of "filter" to any and all instances of a certain string spoken by a creature. Example:

[ACCENT_SPEECH:s:MULTIPLY:5:10]

Replaces any instance of "s" that the creature speaks with 5 to 10 "s"s.

"Speak" becomes anything between "Ssssspeak" and "Sssssssssspeak"

Though you probably won't want every instance of 'S' multiplied in that way. Certain sounds, already quite sibilant, would just be absurdly long. Successful could become Sssssuccessssssssssssssssssssful, for instance (the 'ss' replaced with 20 characters, 10 for each instance of 's'). I'd guess either you can allow it, trusting modders to keep it from being excessive (which they can manage no matter how you work it) or you can set up some kind of priority system. Initial definitions take precedence, so you'd have one with ss:multiple:5:10, and any instances that don't match that criteria are tested for the broader s:multiple:5:10.