Translating Seraphim units
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Hi, I am a 32-years-old En/Ru translator (you may call me a linguist). I am thinking of giving Seraphim units proper, pronounceable names. Will the FAF administration accept my work? Because I am not starting the project until at least the idea gets approved (I don't want to waste hours for nothing). I would scan every unit in the game and make sure there are no collisions, I would also take into account most or all major mods. The theme would be apocalyptic/hellish (well, they did come to end the Earth): Examples: Yolona Oss -> Armageddon; Ahwassa -> Apocalypse; Selen -> Imp; Ilshavoh -> Incubus.
What do you think? It would make it more user-friendly.
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Nothing is stopping you from making a mod to change the name of their units if you want to, but I highly doubt it will be officially integrated into FAF if that's what you were asking for.
Personally, I don't think there's much of a point in giving them human-readable names, it's part of the faction alien flavor.
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Yeah, agree. While it's a cool idea for a mod I doubt it would ever get approved and be integrated into FAF directly.
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Zhuee - floaty terror
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@melanol Albeit yes, Sera units are unpronounceable, I enjoy keeping their alien names because they are the alien faction.
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I think this can be done with a UI mod - that would allow you (and others) to use it individually. I am against integrating this as people are used to the current names: if a casters says 'Ilshavoh' then we all know what the caster means.
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The hellhound is sniping the radar guys!
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Seraphim names are pronounceable just fine and already have a pattern and logic behind their language.
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Most of the Seraphim unit names can be pronounced, it’s just that a few share rather similar names
People just say stuff like “ASF” instead of “Corona” or ”Wasp” or ”Battleship” instead of ”Summit” or ”Galaxy” anyways
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Seraphim Translations
Upper case first letter implys use at the start of words/names
Iya/iya - Creator (Generorator/Fabricator/Engineer/Factory)
Uya/uyal - Power
Hyal/yal - Mass
Vish - Storage of
atoh - Extractor (Hydro/Mass)Heth - Land unit
Ia - Air unit
Uos - Above water naval
Sou/sou - Below water navalIoz - Missile
Ythis - Anti
Atha/atha/Athan (Atha when at the end of a word otherwise Athan) - defence (Shields/defence weapons) -
genuinely curious on the ilshie -> incubus logic
