thothkins Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Not Iceland! My Prize! I should get a second go methinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jsleezy Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Hi, I like that you at least used one spanish speaking country. You could try Adding perhaps Argentina. Here is an example of a "war" they were fighting around the time Xenonauts takes place: "The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas or Guerra del Atlántico Sur), also known as the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was a 1982 war between Argentina and the United Kingdom. The conflict resulted from the long-standing dispute over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, which lie in the South Atlantic, east of Argentina." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheftonUTD Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Is there a version of this for the current game? I tried both, they both work but a lot of my other text gets altered to #####. It happens on things like 'Alien Turn' in battles, fuel/ammo readings for intercept missions, and a few other things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted September 12, 2013 Author Share Posted September 12, 2013 You'll have to update it yourself using regiments.xml and experience.xml which are the slices of strings.xml that the mod updates. Open up the latest version of strings.xml and find the parts of the file that have experience and regiments. Then overwrite those sections with the contents of the two files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Pinetree: Is there any more news about your excellent mod being included in the actual Xenonauts release when it comes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted September 12, 2013 Author Share Posted September 12, 2013 Chris has already started adding the mod to the game. In what form it will be, I'm not sure, but he has copies of my files to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 excellent. thanks for the update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromitek Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Experience:Workers' Rebellion - 1970 Pacification of striking workers in coastal cities I do not want to have a soldiers with such experience. Could you change it for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia or something elese? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted December 7, 2013 Author Share Posted December 7, 2013 *blows dust of the thread* Haven't been in here for a while I've found some time this weekend to update to V20 standards. I've added Nigeria and Kenya and I've also made sure that all names, regiment names, and experiences fit into the new UI. Thothkins will be happy to know that Iceland is still in I've sent Chris a message to see if he wants to directly port it into the game otherwise I'll just release it here. stay tuned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted December 8, 2013 Author Share Posted December 8, 2013 Argentina and Chile are now in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted December 8, 2013 Author Share Posted December 8, 2013 Chris is happy with what they've got so I'm going to release it here soon. I may as well add some more nations so I'll add Austria, Yugoslavia and Switzerland next. I'm thinking I might also add Mexico, Indonesia, Malaysia, and maybe another couple of African nations as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Austria, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Malaysia and Indonesia are now in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted December 15, 2013 Author Share Posted December 15, 2013 New update is here: Xtended Soldiers_20.zip Should be ok for the V19 stable, if anyone runs into issues, please let me know. I've added a few new nations since the last update, here's a list of the new ones: Nigeria Kenya Morocco Philippines Indonesia Mexico Thailand Chile Argentina Austria Switzerland Yugoslavia Malaysia Enjoy!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Good work as always Pinetree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llunak Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 (edited) I wonder, how do you collect the names for this? I've had a look at the nationality for me, and I see a number of issues there: - various mistakes in names, some misspelled, some being in an incorrect form (female surnames are irregular enough to be hard for anybody who doesn't speak the language, several of the male surnames listed are not in their nominative form) - a couple of the names are more or less foreign, some are clearly wrong, some are possible but atypical (e.g. as if a US soldier was named Dubois) - some of the names are diminutive or very rare/obsolete (e.g. Silvestr is nowadays seen by most people simply as the name of the last day of the year) - some of the names are duplicated, I assume that's to make them appear more often You can find a patch adjusting these at http://pastebin.ca/2504389 (I fixed the mistakes, adjusted the duplicates and removed atypical ones /only the ones I find very atypical/). I suggest to try to use most-used-names sites for this, preferably in the actual language (Google Translate should be your friend there). Edited December 15, 2013 by llunak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted December 15, 2013 Author Share Posted December 15, 2013 (edited) Thanks a lot for the corrections, they'll be in the next update. It's great getting native speakers to check over their own countries as I'm never too sure if I've got it right. IIRC, as it was over a year ago I did the Czechs, I got the Czech surnames from here: http://tekeli.li/onomastikon/ (which I corrected for gender) wikipedia, and a couple of others. I merged them using a spreadsheet, which is why there are duplicates, but kept them for the reason you surmised. I then used some replacement algorithms in calc to convert the names to female gender so I'm not surprised if there are errors in there. I get most first names from baby name sites. There a lot of atypical names in there, esp. in the nations with a high chance of being generated, but my feeling is having all common names makes the soldiers seem very generic. This mod is all about flavour. I don't have that many atypical names in the nations which are a low chance. Edited December 15, 2013 by Pinetree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted December 15, 2013 Author Share Posted December 15, 2013 Also, If you want Slovaks in there, feel free to send me a list of names and I'll add them in as another Czechoslovakian nation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llunak Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 (edited) IIRC, as it was over a year ago I did the Czechs, I got the Czech surnames from here: http://tekeli.li/onomastikon/ (which I corrected for gender) wikipedia, and a couple of others. That names site is odd. Some of the names listed there I've never even heard of. I think people would consider those to be actually foreign (some other Slavic country) or historical (which is probably the case, given the site says it's for role-playing). I can't imagine ever meeting or even hearing of somebody with some of the names, the few names that I removed from your list in the patch seem perfectly normal compared to these (and I really did remove only few that seemed too far). Also, If you want Slovaks in there, feel free to send me a list of names and I'll add them in as another Czechoslovakian nation. Oh, so it's possible to have two nationalities[*] with the same name, so that there's grouping? I had a problem that could be fixed by this already when I was fixing the oficial name list[**], but this wasn't mentioned to me. I'll give it a shot somewhen. [*] I guess that should be technically called citizenship (Czechoslovakia), nationality being actually either Czech or Slovak. [**] If I just fix your list, will that also make it in the oficial game? Edited December 16, 2013 by llunak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted December 16, 2013 Author Share Posted December 16, 2013 Oh, so it's possible to have two nationalities[*] with the same name, so that there's grouping? Yes, I've used it in the mod to differentiate between english Canadians and french Canadians,english South Africans and Afrikaners, Russians and Ukranians, and the three main Swiss ethnic groupings. [**] If I just fix your list, will that also make it in the oficial game? possibly, but you could also let him know as well. He's very receptive when it comes to errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted December 21, 2013 Author Share Posted December 21, 2013 I've just updated the mod to stable release candidate 3 standards as it has added to strings.xml. I've also incorporated llunak's changes to the Czech names. This will be the last update this year so Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! http://www.mediafire.com/download/1c1lce1w09h7j0d/Xtended%20Soldiers_20_stable_rc3.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentelin Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Is there easy way of finding names of an nation or i have to do everything the old fashion way.I would like to check Yugoslavia names and correct them if there are any mistakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogaburan Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Is there a way to get the Gurkha represented? Those fearless warriors deserve have a soldier or two defending earth an alien invasion! Perhaps as a new Asian nation "British Allies", together with some Indian representatives? I did some research: 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) - Malayan Emergency 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles - Malayan Emergency - Suez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 I am hoping to add soldiers from the sub-continent as it is about the only part I haven't represented. Unfortunately there are no portraits of the right ethnicity yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llunak Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Ok, if you're interested, at http://ge.tt/3Oe2Q3E1/v/0 there's an archive with the two soldier xml files modified for Czechoslovakia (just copy out the two czechoslovakia sections from each of the files). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 Thanks for that.I'll add it to the next update.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.