CABJ-arg
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4 years ago Hi man. I've been working in something like this for a while too. I decided that seeing the same generic names over and over again ruined part of my immersion into vic2 hpm so I decided to change all generic political party names into brand new ones, for my own personal enjoyment.
I'm only renaming GENERIC political party names (such as 'The Socialist Faction'; 'Liberaldem. Partei' or 'Partido Conservador'). I haven't touched their dates, numbers or policies either.
- ie: ASM_conservative 'Royal Faction' >>> 'Assamese Royalists'
I do some research into every party i'm renaming to see if there's an historic real-life party that can be put in its place, but most of the time this isn't the case. I also try to use as many historic elements as possible when doing this.
- ie: BAL_reactionary 'The Nationalist Faction' >>> 'Jelantik's Followers' Jelantik was some sort of balinese/indonesian hero that fought the Dutch around the 1830s-1840s. OFC it was not a real-life party, but Jelantik himself existed and he and his followeres were -reactionaries-, at least to the Dutch.
If it's an english speaking country, i get an english name for it. There aren't many english speaking countries that don't already have 'custom' political party names tho.
- ie: BLZ_fascist --- >>> 'Belizean Workers' National Party' Note that Belize doesn't actually have its own tags, and it uses JAM tags.
If it's a spanish speaking country, i get a spanish name for it
- ie: BOL_communist 'Partido Comunista' >>> 'PIR' Note that PIR (Partido de Izquierda Revolucionaria) did exist, but although the in-game and real-life dates don't match, i decided to add it anyways
If it's not an english speaking country, but its language can be translated, at least loosely, to english, i try to respect this language. Here the thing gets a bit tricky and subjetive. I decided to translate, and in some cases, transliterate, these names -using online tools- because i thought I PERSONALLY would enjoy it more that way. ALL changes, names and translations -and transliterations- that belong into this category, are ROUGH and UNCONFIRMED translations. I tried to get the most accurated translation i could for all of them, and i doublechecked them in multiple online translator whenever possible. Anyways, i get that some people won't like this, wether because do know one of this languages and therefore will spot any potential mistakes in the translation or because they simply like english names more. Also, note i didn't take random words from these languages, but got a 'custom' english name and translated it into that language
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ie: BRE_liberal_2 'Nationalliberale' >>> 'Zivile Bundespartei' This is a translation.
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ie: ARU_conservative --- >>> 'Hezb al-Emhafezyen' This is a -highly experimental- transliteration. Please note that ARU used ARA tags, which were also transliterations.
If it's not an english speaking country, and its language cannot be translated to english with online tools, i just stick to english names
- ie: ASY_socialist' --- >>> 'Popular Union of Assyria'
This still is a WIP and i'm about through 15% of it. I'll upload the changelog (open it in windows notepad) so you can see how it goes so far. Note that i had to make some other changes in the files when necessary, but it's all documented in the changelog.
Also, this is my first time "modding" (i don't think this is actually modding, but whatever) a videogame or posting in github. I've never done it before, so please forgive me if i made a mistake formating this or editing the files.
Added historical names to the political parties of Poland, Croatia, Dalmatia, Banat, Bukovina, Luxembourg, Austria, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Transylvania, Moldova, Crete, Armenia, New Zealand, Denmark, Galicia-Lodomeria, Ruthenia and Trieste.