custom factions

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how do you delete or edit a custom faction once you've created it? I'm annoyed by the custom faction I've created having a box that just says "faction backstory goes here" I would like to edit it and add the backstory, or just recreate the faction.  I tried deleting the game entirely and re downloading it from steam and my custom factions didnt go away.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

There isn't an in-game way to do this, but if you have Steam Cloudsync disabled you can go to the My Games/LegendaryHeroes/Race folder, find the faction you want to delete or edit (it will be the XML file called "Faction_YourFactionName"), and do what you want to it. If you want to be rid of it, be advised that it used to be that as long as Steam Cloudsync was enabled you couldn't be rid of the faction because it would be restored whenever the game synced to the cloud; since I disabled that for this game a while ago I couldn't tell you if that were still the case. If you want to edit the file, you'll need a text editor like NotePad, WordPad, or NotePad++, and you might want to have a reference XML document (say, the Altar faction XML file) in case you delete tags you needed while manually editing the file.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

If you have cloud-sync still enabled, you can also alt-tab out of the game and manually delete the XML files, and Steam will assume the game did it and delete its cloud copy once it re-syncs.  Have to do it while the game is actually running, though.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Apologize if the answer is obvious, did you try deleting the custom faction clicking with the right mouse button over the portrait?

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

"Deleting" it in that fashion will leave the XML behind, but it will change the "IsSovereign" flag in the XML so it doesn't show up as an available Sov. 

As an alternative to deleting the Sov/Faction, you could also edit the backstory in the XML file, if that's all that's bothering you.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

That deletes Sovereigns, not custom factions. Custom Factions are entirely new Factions/Races created with he Faction Editor, using one of the base Races as a template.