Best Strategy For Full Custom Dialogue?

[cosmo007]

I have been working on a mod that uses a lot of custom dialogue. I am at the point now where I need to prevent generic dialogue from breaking the illusion of my NPCs. I have read up on keeping that from happening, but I have found multiple strategies and I would like to get suggestions for the best option.

> Custom Race that is not "playable"

I suppose this would be easy, but a quest condition that limits it only to the custom race would be necessary?

> Custom Faction and add an exception to every generic dialog quest excluding that faction

This seems really awful. I would be editing vanilla content instead of adding new content.

> Add in my own topics with higher priority for every generic dialog that I want to remove

I read that this causes errors and such

all of these strategies I found here: http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Talk:Removing_default_dialog_tutorial

Anyway, I want to do this right, what are your thoughts?

Edited May 14, 2011 by cosmo007

[Khettienna]

I've always gone with option #1. Easy & clean.

[DarkRider]

Yep agree with Khettienna

[cosmo007]

Okay thanks!

[syscrusher]

Thanks for this thread. I am facing exactly the same issue, and read exactly the same background documentation, and was wrestling with exactly the same question. The custom race solution will work nicely for my principal NPCs who need full custom dialog.