Why does making ANY change to "conversation" break conversation?

[Asterra]

I've never really fully understood the hidden minutiae of the dialogue system. But this one is pretty baffling.

 

The simple act of duplicating, say, Veronica's "GOODBYE" topic (151A06) will cause said topic to stop appearing. No more "Goodbye." as an option.

 

All I'm doing is copying that form into a separate .esp. I'm not changing a thing. But that is, somehow, plenty excuse for the game to ignore the existence of that topic.

 

This doesn't feel like something that is open to intuition. Going to have to have somebody carefully explain why this is breaking things.

Edited October 13, 2020 by Asterra

[madmongo]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish and why are you copying the form?

 

Is your copied form part of any conversation quest?

[Radioactivelad]

GOODBYE, like GREETING or HELLO, is a special topic that automatically gets called in various situations.

 

I'm with Madmongo in wondering why you think you need to copy this topic or any of its responses in the first place.