Player notes

[Callum]

It seems that player notes were one of the things that didn't transfer automatically between FG1 and FG2. But in db.xml, all the old notes are still there, inside <note> tags, followed by all the new notes inside <notes> tags! And the format looks identical. So will it cause any problems if I just delete the <note> tags and put all the old notes inside the new <notes> tags? I'd have to manually edit any identical IDs, I guess.

Has anyone tried this? Does anyone know of any reason why it wouldn't work? Or why the devs didn't include this as part of the switch between FG1 & FG2?

[NymTevlyn]

Seems like it should work. I'm just now starting to dig into the XML files. Dunno why something that simple would escape the devs in the conversion process.

[Griogre]

I have not tried it, but I heard it doesn't work. It certainly won't hurt to try, just make sure you make a copy of the FG2 xml before you try.

[Callum]

I have not tried it, but I heard it doesn't work.

Where did you hear it from, Griogre?

[Griogre]

Heard (read) it on these boards. Apparently the note xml structure or tags are not compatible (as a guess, probably the tags). I know people just cut and pasted the note sections out of the FG1 XML into a word doc. You can get all the notes that way - but for all characters in one doc. When we switched over to FG2, I asked if any over my players needed their notes and basically they did not except for like two things. With so few I just Loaded FG1 and they popped the note and screen shot it and I presume copyied it in by hand.

[Callum]

It seems that player notes were one of the things that didn't transfer automatically between FG1 and FG2. But in db.xml, all the old notes are still there, inside <note> tags, followed by all the new notes inside <notes> tags! And the format looks identical. So will it cause any problems if I just delete the <note> tags and put all the old notes inside the new <notes> tags? I'd have to manually edit any identical IDs, I guess.

Well, I tried this last session, and it seemed to work fine. The players could all see their old notes, and there didn't seem to be any problems.