This mod overhauls many of the character names lists to make them more historically accurate.
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Character Names Project Mod v 3.99 for Stainless Steel v5.0
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NOTE: These mod files are meant to be used only with Stainless Steel v5.0
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Updated 14 October 2007
The Character Names Project's goal is to overhaul all of MTW2's character names lists so that they are as historically correct as possible. A secondary goal is to increase the number of names in each list, therefore creating a more diverse character (specifically family) tree in a MTW2 campaign. This is being done to address the problem of vanilla MTW2 having names lists which contained errors of all varieties, and the problem that they contained too few names. For more information, please visit our forum here.
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What you will see:
1.) Authentic period names (with proper spellings and accents, etc.)
2.) More diversity amongst names (the modified lists are larger than the vanilla lists)
3.) All families will start the game with surnames/bynames
4.) Popes will have proper regnal names
5.) 24 factions with entirely new character names lists
6.) Factions titles, ie. King and Prince, in native languages and grammar
7.) Common regal names will appear more often for their factions
8.) Family trees reflect reality better
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New factions effected by this update:
Ireland [Plenty of names. Authors: finneys13]
Norway [~502 names. Authors: Vindahl]
Jerusalem [~250 names. Author: finneys13]
Lithuania [~200 names. Authors: Grand Duke Vytautas & LDKsoldier]
Teutonic Order [Plenty of names. Authors: otark and deRougemont]
Old factions:
Aragon [Plenty of names. Authors: Yuiis, atibius, otark and Almogaver]
Byzantium [~500 names. Author: Giorgos]
Egypt [~450 names. Author: Osiris1975]
Milan [237 names. Author: Odovacar]
Moors [~460 names. Authors: Osiris1975, Averroës, Captain Black Adder & Serious Samurai]
Poland [264 names. Authors: John217, Polak966 & Otark]
Novogrod [~300 names. Authors: ivan_the_terrible & Otark]
Kiev [~300 names. Authors: ivan_the_terrible & Otark]
Denmark [~480 names. Authors: Atterdag & Vindahl]
England [~490 names. Authors: Kingmaker & deRougemont]
France [~400 names. Authors: Kingmaker & Johan217]
The Holy Roman Empire [~480 names. Authors: deRougemont & Wurfspiess]
Hungary [~230 names. Authors: Odovacar]
Papal States [Only modified regnal names for Popes; ~60 names. Authors: deRougemont]
Portugal [~250 names. Authors: Manji]
Scotland [~180 names. Authors: finneys13]
Sicily [~370 names. Authors: SicilianVespers & Black Francis]
Spain [~350 names. Authors: Pelusa]
Turks [~430 names. Authors: chgo]
Venice [~320 names. Authors: deRougemont, Manji, & Re Berengario I]
This download is a RAR file containing the revised character names lists created at The Character Names Project forum. Included are five files:
1.) descr_names.txt
2.) names.txt and names.bin.strings.txt
3.) descr_strat.txt for both early and late eras, in seperate folders
4.) expanded.txt and expanded.txt.strings (optional but recommended - to give factions Royal Titles in their native language)
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Copy these files into the following directories, remember to back up first:
I.) Copy the descr_names.txt into your "C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\Stainless_Steel\data" folder.
II.) Copy names.txt and names.bin.strings.txt into the "C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\Stainless_Steel/data/text" folder. [NOTE: You will have to create the "text" folder inside your "data" folder and then copy the names.bin.strings.txt file into the "text" folder.]
III.) Copy expanded.txt and expanded.txt.strings into same the "C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\Stainless_Steel/data/text"
IV.) Copy the descr_strat.txt inside the 'Early Era' folder into your "C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\Stainless_Steel/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign" folder. [NOTE: make sure to create a backup of your original descr_strat.txt file!]
V.) Copy the descr_strat.txt inside the 'Late Era' folder into your "C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\Stainless_Steel\data\world\maps\campaign\custom\Late_Era_Campaign" folder. [NOTE: make sure to create a backup of your original descr_strat.txt file!]
V.) Run SS 5.0 as normal
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To uninstall, simply delete the three files you added, and rename your
backup of the descr_strat.txt to descr_strat.txt. Then delete the batch you created for this mod.
