Unit (and Building) Names in EB 0.8

[Batahr]

I would pay good money if some fan wants to take the time to remove the English descriptions from the names to preserve immersion as an EB mini-mod. Anyone up for a commission? :)

Here you are, now where's that good money? :)

I also removed the extra spaces/tabs Oleo noticed a few posts up. I didn't do this by hand, but did a few find/replaces (I love regular expressions), so I'm not guaranteeing everything is 100% correct.

And BTW, my thanks to the entire EB team for their fantastic work! It's great seeing all the pieces (units, buildings, music, speech, GUI, descriptions, traits, etc) previewed before come together and truly form one whole. It gives the game precisely the right atmosphere, something that is quite hard to achieve.

[khelvan]

You guys rock - you might want to use our minimod forum up above so that this gets visibility.

[Obelics]

thanks thanks thanks bathar! the first think i will upgrade on my 0.8

pheraphs im not that good to express my whole excitement in playing the 0.8 build, so i give a thanks again to people who did it, but i had just a small think:

minimods are great, but i think that the "no english names" think should be provided as a in build feature, just like the think of the naked/dressed gesatae.
for example at the start of the installation you should choose between a "english name subtitle" and a "non english subs", i think that's could be great and preserve the old spirit better.

that's not to complain minimods, but i think that the matter of "no english subtitles" is one of the hardcore thinks from EB most appreciated, so some fans that liked them could find that EB isn't changed!

I'll be sincere, playing the 0.8 my eyes are starting to fall more often on the english name than on the translated name, and this is going to diminish somethink in my opinion. You know the human-brain thend to focus on the easiest think. And i recall when at start i wasn't able to digest the strange names, but after a while, for example, my cataphract, were not anymore just "cataphract", but i started to think (internally) as "armoured heroes" zadhra pahlavans. This "process was slow, but it was amazing and addicting.

So in the end: im very happy there is a "3th party" minimod to have back the "no english" names, but i'd like that this matter is in the EB "main party" yet. So why do not make an istaller option like that of naked/dressed gauls?

Im sure that if this is possible, you will take that in consideration.
If it is impossible we will have to go to 3th party minimods, but im sure that the human-brain is so lazy, that after a while the eye will fall only on the english name and the minimod will be forgot (or at last it will survive only for the most hardcore ones there outside).

Instead, having an installer option (i repeat on the kind of the naked/unnaked gesate) will make it more a temptation to install the "no english names" version.

Here's an example:

imagine that the EB gesatae weren't naked, they were just dressed. Now imagine that there is a guy who make a minimod to have them naked. I think that minimod could have some success, but it was not in the EB official line.

So i say whay do not have an installer option to have back the old think?

Thanks guys, and you have made a masterpiece with 0.8 (cant even imagine the further upgrades)

[blacksnail]

You know, that's a good idea. I'll check on the possibility of this - it'll involve a lot of deletion, but a "Subtitles" vs "Full Immersion option" should be easy enough to create if we were smart about it. I'll see if we can get something like this ready for our next major update (not the forthcoming bugfix update, mind you).

[Obelics]

thanks for the interest on this point im really looking forward to this feature.
It could be even completely avoided the problem, keeping the "no subtitle" version as the standard installation, and have an option to install a sort of "downgrade", that use "only" the english names. Since as i sayd i think with the time the eyes will tend to fall on the english names, so there is no point to have 2 names in the same version in my opinion.
People who like the english names could select that installation option to downgrade the EB to the english names and that's finished.
So there also is no problem anymore of that messed-up battle result tabs. There are only old-way names XOR english names (both exclusives)

Cant understand why the old-way must be downgraded to a minimod... (should have been the perfect opposite in my opinion, there should have been a minimod for the english subs, or at last an installation option like that)

anyway thanks a lot for your work (that is even "gratis")

salut!