One of the updates today totally nerfed Custom Civ Leader/citizen names (and some pictures too) -
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/a3c5sr91utl1cwj3chfod/Supernova-Insider-2.1.501311.3006.GC4Sav?rlkey=pcsawb0zuqyc8zivsibsy6zm3&dl=0
Seen this also.
There should be a way to rename leaders/citizens. There should also be a file we could replace for custom civs with a selection of names to be used with our custom Leaders/citizens.
I'll take a look.
BTW is this happening in the official 2.1 update?
Switched over to official 2.1 and it's doing the same thing.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/k2ic8cuu7b1wvlsor70dv/Supernova-official-2.1.501311.1001.GC4Sav?rlkey=g2s1zcw7drtel0bxtk45l94g4&dl=0
Yes on both. It appears to just be using the image file name as the leader name.
Sigh. Ok. This is my bug. I literally made the change that did this. I have this fixed here.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuBwidOf1nOukqUf0ZhvPuw078UzPg?e=1E0Nlm
Unzip this into your English directory.
I was trying to get rid of the human sounding names for the aliens but I didn't misunderstood how it picked names.
Thanks for the advance heads up. Anything you do to make Custom Civs more realistic is a big plus. Please think about having someone work on adding features in my Reply #2.
You have to start a new game, but this did work. I still got one of those background only pics. None of my Citizen pics have that background so I don't know where it's coming from.
Just to be clear for anyone else trying to use this fix until the game is updated, you need to do a little more than just placing the file in the English folder.
Location: C: (or what ever drive you have Steam pointed to - mine is G:) //Program Files(x86)/Steam/Steam Apps/Common/Galactic Civ IV/Data/English/Text
Delete or rename the current UnitNames Text file
copy and paste the new unzipped UnitNames Text file
I wish I could figure out how to add names for my custom civ to the UnitNames Text file. I tried adding a Faction by copying the Krynn format, but that didn't work.
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