Oh that simple you can find all documentation about how locs for numbers work in localisation/english/name_system_l_english.yml
But basically if you want ordinal numbers you use $ORD$ if you want sequential you use $C$ Roman numerals $R$ and so on
Secondly, thats a really cool idea for a mod I see if I can come up with something

Originally posted by Felalot:

Oh that simple you can find all documentation about how locs for numbers work in localisation/english/name_system_l_english.yml
But basically if you want ordinal numbers you use $ORD$ if you want sequential you use $C$ Roman numerals $R$ and so on
Secondly, thats a really cool idea for a mod I see if I can come up with something

Awesome thank you! If I want to edit the names for example: HUMAN1_BIOENGINEEREDSQUADRON:0 "$ORD$ Bio-Engineered Squadron" do I have to edit both names in the text? What about the name file in the common folder? Sorry to pester you but I am an absolute modding noob.

So if you are creating a mod
Only the second. The first string (HUMAN1_BIOENGINEEREDSQUADRON) is localisation id refered in the files if you change it will not appear (because you basically creating a new loc id without any mention in game files).
Example: HUMAN1_BIOENGINEEREDSQUADRON:0 "$R$ Fishy Squadron"
If you do it like that you dont need to change the one in the common folder (also its better cause changes in localisation folder dont affect checksum, but if you do changes in the common it will)

Like you can change all appearances of the loc id in both localisation and common folder and it will work but thats just unnecessary, creates more problems really