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Stellaris

Expanded Stellaris Traditions
Private Feelings  [developer] 22 Jan, 2018 @ 2:18pm
Formatting, Spelling and Writings Feedback
- English is not my first language and I've surly made several errors while writing the texts. Have you found any such errors? Please report them here.
- If you think you have a better version of some of the texts then I would be happy to see examples. I am not writer and this mod contains over 200 small immersion texts. I would want to have the overall quality as high as possible and will take all help I can get.
- Found any inconsistencies in the formatting? The same thing written in different ways at different places? Please report here.

Finding and reading the localisation file
If anyone is interested in looking through the localisation files (the files containing all text to teh game), read this.

Find the mod folder: Steam/Steamapps/workshop/... Here you will find a set of numbered folders (one for every game with mods). Find the one for Stellaris (using trial and error. Here you will find a set of numbered folders (one for every mod in stellaris). Find the one for EST (using trial and error, you can sort them after when they latest were updated to make things easier).

When you open the mod folder open the localisation folder, then english. In there there are several text documents.

est_misc... contains a little bit of everything (edicts etc). est_modifiers... contains text for modifiers.

The main one is est_traditions which contains the info for all the traditions.
(the last ones are mostly repetitive stuff for a few traditions that require a lot of repeat localisation).

Each tradition have three entries like:
tr_est_academy_1:0 "Public Education"
tr_est_academy_1_desc:0 "§YEmpire Leader Pool Size§! increased by §Y3§!."
tr_est_academy_1_delayed:0 "Education is a right..."

The first is the name, the second is the description of what it actually does and finally the last is the "lore description".

Some extra info (that you do not really need, but might be nice to know when looking at the documents.
-Surrounding text with §Y ... §! colors that text (Y=yellow, G=green, R=red etc.)
-Starting with a £ lets be insert symbol. E.g. £food is the food symbol, £pop is a pop symbol.
(these two are not important when reading lore text)
-Writing $tr_est_academy_1$ copies in the text stored in that entry. In this case $tr_est_academy_1$ will copy in the text "Public Education". Used for a few repeat entries.

Finally every tradition tree have a starter entry like:
tradition_est_academy:0 "Academy"
tradition_est_academy_desc:0 "Academies, schools and ..."
tr_est_academy_adopt:0 "Academy Traditions"
tr_est_academy_adopt_desc:0 "$tradition_est_academy_desc$\n\n$tr_est_academy_adopt_effect$\n\n$tr_est_academy_finish_effect$"
tr_est_academy_adopt_effect:0 "§E$TRADITIONS_ADOPT$:§!\n§YEmpire Leader Capacity§! increased by §Y2§!."

Here the first one is the display name of the tradition tree, the second a lore description, the third you do not need to are about (just ties stuff together). The fourth is the effect of adopting that tradition.

A few traditions have more then 3 entries, e.g:

tr_est_cybernetics_1:0 "Deep Neural Networks"
tr_est_cybernetics_1_desc:0 "£energy §YEnergy Credit§! output from §YJobs§! is increased by §G+10%§!."
tr_est_cybernetics_1_robots_desc:0 "£energy §YEnergy Credit§! output from §YRobots§! is increased by §G+15%§!."
tr_est_cybernetics_1_delayed:0 "Advanced neural network technologies have allowed machines to perform tasks previously only sentients could manage."

Here there is a swap for empires with robots. The swapped tradition in this case is called "tr_est_cybernetics_1_robots" and have a separate description entry (sometimes the swap have 3 separate texts, sometimes they inherit a few texts from the original and have less).
Last edited by Private Feelings; 5 Jan, 2019 @ 12:57am
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hvaleksd 10 Nov, 2018 @ 10:08am 
I'm a native English speaker and I'd love to help you out!

Under "Academy" in the traditions screen:

In English, non-proper nouns (like school or university) are not capitalized unless they are the first word in the sentence or part of a title.

Should say "Academies, schools, and universities are spread across our empire. Those that wish to reach the top must do so through their intricate hierarchies."

Under "Public Education"

It reads "We ensures..." but should say "We can ensure" and I recommend just having it say "We can ensure a basic level of education of all citizens" at the end.

Under "Mandatory Public Education"

It reads "all our citizen" and should say "all our citizens".
It reads "is executed" but should say "are executed".

Under "Military Schools"

It reads "a throughout..." and should say "a thorough..." (thorough and those th words are some of the hardest words in English and a lot of native speakers get confused on those too).

It reads "navies an armies" and should say "navies and armies".

Under "Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn"

It reads "We value learning, not only for the knowledge but for the process itself"
It should say "We value learning, not only for the knowledge, but for the process itself"

It reads: "it makes our leader...". It should say "it makes our leaders".



Under "Administratum"

If this is a clever reference to the joke element that M.I.T "discovered", please leave it in!
If this isn't a clever reference, it should say "Administration".

It reads: "They are those that oversee..." you can shorten that to just "They oversee"


Under "Streamlined Recruitment Process"

It reads "Due to the vast number of recruits that are needed for our empire we cannot retain our old recruitment process".
It should say "Due to the vast number of recruits needed for our empire, we cannot retain our old recruitment process".

Under "Efficient Bureaucracy ":

It reads "The expanding bureaucracy threatens slowing down the efficiency of our administration"
It should say "The expanding bureaucracy threatens to slow down the efficiency of our administration"

Under "standardized Planetary Administration"

It reads "We control a large number of planets and as our empire grows their administrations are at risk of diverging"
It should say "As we control more planets, our administrations are at risk of diverging"

Under "Meritocratic Promotion Policies"
I suggest having it say "Politics, intrigue, and petty quells used to affect who gets promoted"

Bureau of Oversight:

it says "its" and should say "it's" (the Bureau possesses employees)


Under "Aesthetics"
I suggest "Beauty can be perceived but no explained. Without beauty, our existence in the galaxy would be hollow"


Under works of literature:

"enlighten billion" should be "enlighten billions".

I suggest: "Once a piece is finished, it will last an eternity, it will make the galaxy a better place everyday"

Under guilds of Artists:

I suggest "...collects the most skilled in the empire, they lend themselves to the greater good"

Private Feelings  [developer] 10 Nov, 2018 @ 2:03pm 
Travelling right now, but when I get back in a few days time I will start implementing this. Thanks for the help and keep it coming :)
Private Feelings  [developer] 18 Nov, 2018 @ 8:41am 
Thanks for the help, have implemented the changes now.
hvaleksd 18 Nov, 2018 @ 8:44am 
Girion, I apologize but is there a way I can read the test in a file rather than in-game?
Private Feelings  [developer] 18 Nov, 2018 @ 8:58am 
Yes. If you go to you mod folder (I think it is under steam, steamapps, workshop, then you have to go through a few numbered files until you find the one with this (pretty much trial and error).

When you open the mod folder open the localisation folder, then english. In there there are several text documents.

est_misc... contains a little bit of everything (edicts etc). est_modifiers... contains text for modifiers.

The main one is est_traditions which contains the info for all the traditions.
(the last three is mostly repetitive stuff for a few traditions that require a lot of localisation).

Each tradition have three entries like:
tr_est_academy_1:0 "Public Education"
tr_est_academy_1_desc:0 "§YEmpire Leader Pool Size§! increased by §Y3§!."
tr_est_academy_1_delayed:0 "Education is a right..."

The first is the name, the second is the description of what it actually does and finally the last is the "lore description".

Some extra info (that you do not really need, but might be nice to know when looking at the documents.
-Surrounding text with §Y ... §! colours that text (Y=yellow, G=green, R=red etc.)
-Starting with a £ lets be insert symbol. E.g. £food is the food symbol, £pop is a pop symbol.
(these two are not important when reading lore text)
-Writing $tr_est_academy_1$ copies in the text stored in that entry. In this case $tr_est_academy_1$ will copy in the text "Public Education". Used for a few repeat entries.

Finally every tradition tree have a starter entry like:
tradition_est_academy:0 "Academy"
tradition_est_academy_desc:0 "Academies, schools and ..."
tr_est_academy_adopt:0 "Academy Traditions"
tr_est_academy_adopt_desc:0 "$tradition_est_academy_desc$\n\n$tr_est_academy_adopt_effect$\n\n$tr_est_academy_finish_effect$"
tr_est_academy_adopt_effect:0 "§E$TRADITIONS_ADOPT$:§!\n§YEmpire Leader Capacity§! increased by §Y2§!."

Here the first one is the display name of the tradition tree, the second a lore description, the third you do not need to are about (just ties stuff together). The fourth is the effect of adopting that tradition.
K0rruptedYouth 21 Nov, 2018 @ 7:25am 
Is it possible to change the defense army provided by the militarism tradition to just be "milita?" instead of "a militia army?" A milita army is redudant since a militia is an army. I figure having it be randomly generated (IE 21st militia) isn't possible, so this will make for a good halfway point.
GoblinEngineer 22 Dec, 2018 @ 6:29pm 
Noticed that under the Finnisher effect for Purposefulness it reads, "Adoptinting all Purposfullness traditions increases by 1." I'm sure there's supposed to be a word between 'increases' and 'by' but it's simply not there. I'm unsure if that's a new error with the changes made in 2.2 or if it's been there for a while.
Rokhmal 30 Dec, 2018 @ 1:41pm 
I'm a huge fan of this mod (and the ascension perks counterpart), and decided I wanted to give back. I'm a native English speaker and would love to help with the localization text.

I thought it might be easier for you, as a dev, to have the original YAML file with suggested edits already in the right place rather than coming here and transposing them out of comments, so
I created a github repo with the est_traditions_l_english.yml file in it. I'm slowly going through making edits to the text for both grammar and flavor. Of course, I'm not modifying any values or mechanics of the traditions.

So far I've done Academy, Shroudborn, and Hacking. I hope you find my suggestions helpful, but if you don't that's ok too :) I'm easy-going.

https://github.com/Rokhmal-Stellaris/Expanded_Stellaris_Traditions
Private Feelings  [developer] 30 Dec, 2018 @ 10:06pm 
That is awesome, thanks.
Luna 5 Jan, 2019 @ 4:15pm 
In-game tool tip says "3" instead of "1" for "(5.1) The Nature of Existence: +1 Spawning Drone Job per planet."
Last edited by Luna; 5 Jan, 2019 @ 4:15pm
SteelCrow 19 Jan, 2019 @ 6:30pm 
@Rokhmal
Is that something anyone with a Github account can edit? I have a few suggestions/corrections to make.
therealbill 28 Jan, 2019 @ 10:41am 
Originally posted by SteelCrow:
@Rokhmal
Is that something anyone with a Github account can edit? I have a few suggestions/corrections to make.

You should be able to fork it and use the pull request method.
Nebula 27 Jun, 2021 @ 1:51am 
I'm fixing all the errors, did the first files in about twenty minutes, working on the 2000 line file now, I'll put the finished ones on github with a link here when I'm done.
Nebula 27 Jun, 2021 @ 3:33am 
Alright, all of them are done, I might have missed a few errors, but I got around 99% at the very least. Here's the files for ya.

https://github.com/Seris02/Expanded-Traditions-Fix
Private Feelings  [developer] 4 Jul, 2021 @ 2:18am 
Thanks, will try get this in into the next update (and if I forget, please remind med :) ).
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