Would it be possible to make tooltips be an external, loadable file? That way Steve wouldn’t have to spend time maintaining them, and the community could do it to our heart’s content. Further, people could change their personal copy of the tool tip text file if they had flavor reasons for doing so.
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That doesn’t really apply here (I don’t think). I’m not asking if we can change game mechanics, repurpose the game for some other use or profit off it. I’m looking for something like the way medals and ground unit templates are handled as loadable files, just for the tool tips. It’s something only the individual user would see.
In this case I’m suggesting something that would let users crowdsource work (updating tooltips) that would otherwise be done by Steve (if he wanted to bother) or not done if it didn’t excite him, which it won’t because he as the author knows how it all works anyway. Win win for Steve (stops people bugging him about outdated or “insufficient” tooltips) and for the players, particularly newer players.
And I’m not demanding or expecting that Steve implement it, just asking if it’s something he’d consider.
One reason to do this would be to allow tooltips in multiple languages but I do not know how hard it would be to code or the overhead to run. This is definitely a cool idea.
Yes, it is possible. The game assigns a text string as a tooltip, so it could be replaced by loading that text from an external file. It’s a good idea in principle and relatively easy to implement the import. The downside is that I would to write an XML file with a line of code for every control, plus the import code, so its a long and tedious task.
Also, I would have to ensure all controls have meaningful names, so players know which controls need which tooltip.
It is probably worth posting this in the suggestions thread and linking this topic, so I don’t forget about it. At the moment, I am completely addicted to playing Grey Zone Warfare with my son 
so I am not working on Aurora, but I am sure I am will be back to it soon.
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Thanks, I’ll post it there. Enjoy game time with your son!