"Translators" needed

[Partizanac]

I kept them out to preserve balance. Serbia is so powerfull it would have make the game unplayable.

Yeah I know what you mean! its better of this way

 

[Till]

I'm a native German speaker, but my knowledge of military units isn't too deep. I would probably be able to look them up and check for plausibility, though.

(off the top of my head: "Parachutiste" <> "Fallschirmjäger", "Piquier" <> "Pikenier", "Chevalier" <> "Ritter")

 

[jatibi]

I can help with German. Kein Problem, pas de problème.

 

[Steph]

Ok, what I will do then is finish a first pass on the units, and put on, the website screenshots of the German flavour units, so you could ahve a look at them for reference, and then post the Excel spreadsheet with the unit names, in German if possible, for review and control.

 

[jatibi]

could you send me a PM if you have all set up?

 

[Steph]

I've done the German navy and air force, which don't require much translation.
I plan to finish the ground forces during the week. Perhaps in 2 days

 

[Ares de Borg]

I'm German. What do you need?

Edit: Sorry jatibi, didn't see you.

 

[General_CFR]

I can help with Russian units

 

[Dann]

I can help with Chinese.

I think there's already a Chinese version of Civ 3 out there. I'll just lift off it for most regular stuff. Hope you didn't add too much to the tech tree and the unit parade Steph.

 

[Steph]

Its not a translation of the whole game, just the unit names, and not all of them. The tanks, ships and aircrafts use the name of the hardware most of the time.

 

[GenMarshall]

I am still a beginner in Japanese though and more than likely will have to give out Romanji (Romanization of Japanese text) text since not everyone has Japanese text installed.

 

[Steph]

Of course I'll use Romanji for Japanese. Not only because people don't have japanese text installed, but also because I want it to be readable.

Like the Knight is Knight (Britain), Chevalier (France), Ritter (Germany), and Samurai (Japanese). Everyone could read it (perhaps with a wrong pronunciation, but readable anyway).


Germans are almost done. I think tomorrow evening they will be ready for review.

 

[Dann]

There is no Chinese counterpart for Knight. The closest will be the &#38081;&#39569; (tie-qi, literally "iron horsemen") but those are more like Cataphracts - armored like nobody's business but without the Bushido or Chivalry fluff.

 

[Steph]

Each civilization has its own unit lines, so the Chinese will not have knight, don't worry

 

[Dann]

One of the features that I've always wanted Civ to have - completely different arsenals for different civs, at least before the Industrial Age.

How to balance them in-game could be tricky though...

 

[Steph]

1- Just give them roughly the same stats, but with different upgrade lines, graphics and names.

2- Don't really care about balance. The world IS unfair.

 

[Kyriakos]

If you post a list of the greek units, i could turn their names into greek.

 

[Steph]

I'll do Greece later

 

[Gelion]

Next I'll need a Russian speaker.

You got it. Tell me what you need.

 

[Dann]

2- Don't really care about balance. The world IS unfair.

Oh so it's perfectly fine with you if ancient Chinese and Indian civs get to grow at x2 speed and produce everything at half cost?

But to be realistic some trigger has to kick in around late Middle Ages to insanely boost European research...