Sicilian Name Fix?

[caravel]

lol bamff.

Caravel hmm, funny I never really noticed. In my defense I rarely play as the Novs or Sicialians. How to fix it is a little beyond me, could it be another pointing problem?

It occurs when one of those factions proposes marriage to you, sending one of their princesses. At the bottom of the message you get something like "The King of Golden Khanate" or "The King of Papal States". It appears to be the only case where faction "country" names are used in the game and they are probably out of sync (a pointing error as you suggested). Usually it's a case of e.g. "The Egyptian Sultan" and not "The Sultan of Egypt", the marriage proposals differ in this way.

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I won't bump this thread in case it's seen as necro posting and can't find another thread which refers to this specific issue. The fix for marriage proposal wording is as follows:

Edit the file: C:\..\..\Medieval - Total War\Loc\Eng\DEFAULT_REGION_SPECIFIC.TXT

Find the @["of_Clan_Districts"] section and change it as follows:

@["of_Clan_Districts"]
@{" of the rebels"}
@{" of Almohad Caliphate"}
@{" of Byzantium"}
@{" of The Kingdom of Denmark"}  		
@{" of Egypt"}
@{" of England"}
@{" of France"}
@{" of The Holy Roman Empire"}
@{" of Italy"}  		
@{" of Poland"}   		
@{" of Russia"}
@{" of Spain"}
@{" of Turkey"}
@{" of Aragon"}
@{" of Burgundy"}
@{" of Golden Khanate"}
@{" of Hungary"}
@{" of Novgorod"}
@{" of The Papal States"}
@{" of Sicily"}
@{" of Switzerland"}

(edits for grammatical errors are in possible, though there is probably a maximum string length after which point - truncation (the text was supposed to be translated but wasn't))

You will see that in the vanilla file the order is somewhat jumbled after Aragon. So changing the order here (to match the declaration order in the startpos EARLY/HIGH/LATE .txt file (alphabetical major factions followed by minor factions ascending) if you're interested) resolves the problem.

(the duplicate @["of_Clan_Districts"] section in Loc\Eng\names.text is not used)

This looks like a bug (probably some old files which someone forgot to change), as the wording does not match the rest of the game's localisation translation format - i.e. "King <whoever> of The Swiss" (@["of_Clan_Names"] section in names.txt).

An alternative version of the same section (more in keeping with other localisation strings):

@["of_Clan_Districts"]
@{" of the rebels"}
@{" of the Almohads"}
@{" of the Byzantines"}
@{" of the Danes"}   		
@{" of the Egyptians"}
@{" of the English"}
@{" of the French"}
@{" of the Germans"}
@{" of the Italians"}  		
@{" of the Polish"}   		
@{" of the Russians"}
@{" of the Spanish"}
@{" of the Turkish"}
@{" of the Aragonese"}
@{" of the Burgundians"}
@{" of the Golden Horde"}
@{" of the Hungarians"}
@{" of the men of Novgorod"}
@{" of the Papacy"}
@{" of the Sicilians"}
@{" of the Swiss"}