It's less of an issue that you might mis-type something, the issue is you have no idea how the game will process the changes you made. Your goal "enable Conventional Industry" might cause the AI to do any number of weird things. There might be some part of the code which looks for this flag to determine conventional vs TN empire and prevent NPRs from forming correctly.
So to reiterate, don't report bugs if you have modified the DB, and don't complain if your 50000 hour game breaks. The only exception is that it might be useful to tell Steve about what happened if you have some reason to think it could occur in the base game.
Yes, of course.
To address the original question I think the program I've seen people mention was called something like DB Editor for SQL.
And here is the fun part, for I have found the
holy grail...Ladies and gentlemen! And all you wannabe modders!The secrets we all were seeking, are at these internet coordinates:
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=12695.0It is our fellow forumite, xenoscepter, that made the thread "How to mod the DB? Any free programs to do it?" in #C Mechanics category. The name, was not very helpful using search function (though this may be my lack of... intuition).
Regardless, it has been found, and all of you, now may know what the key is -
It is SQLite. And a few others, mentioned in the thread coordinates.
May your crusade to fulfill your dreams of modding you take you wherever you please...
Again, keep in mind, this may cause bugs and other unexpected NPR behavior, which CANNOT be normal bug reports.
Only as, perhaps, an experience on how Your modding went.So yeah. Anyone want to post "tales of modding" thread or similar? Sharing stories on how Your DB modding went...