Is it possible to change the name of a faction yet?

**Aloicias** · April 10, 2009, 06:15 PM

I've looked around alittle in the packs and though I be a noob it seems the place that I would suspect it to be are not assessible yet. I also looked around the forum to see if this has been covered yet, and I havent seen this specifically addressed. If this is somewere around here in the forum I apologize.

I am trying to change the names of a couple of factions.

**Iaius Statius Laurentius** · April 10, 2009, 09:29 PM

patch_en (or patch_XX, with XX being your language's abbreviation)

You want text\localisation.loc

**19990116** · April 11, 2009, 02:04 AM

sorry no~- -

**Aloicias** · April 15, 2009, 07:19 PM

Ive found all the enteries in location.loc. It appears that they are adjectives of what appears onscreen. I have also found some files that give me an error message saying that these files are not accessable yet. They are in the main pack I believe, so I guess I may just have to wait.

**Bladerunner** · April 17, 2009, 08:42 AM

there are faction-adjectives and faction-names in the Localisation.loc. To change the On-Screen-Name you need to change the faction names (they sure are in this file, as i already did such changes....)

**Aloicias** · April 17, 2009, 12:10 PM

Yea I found them in the factions file. Ive changed them I just need to test.

**Kopijeger** · April 18, 2009, 03:07 AM

I was wondering about this too, I have tried to change some faction names, but cannot seem to get it to work.

Here is what I did:
- Exported the text directory containing localisation.loc and ui.loc from local_en.pack using Pack manager.
- Imported the files into a new pack containing nothing but text/localisation.loc and text/ui.loc and saved the pack as a mod pack.
- Tried launching through Mod manager: no in-game change; confirmed that the user-script file was properly set up. I could detect no errors, nor are there any error messages. Faction names remain unchanged in both campaign and custom battles.

Any help would be appreciated.

**Iaius Statius Laurentius** · April 18, 2009, 03:29 PM

The mod functionality doesn't seem to work with .loc files. You'll have to modify patch_en.pack directly, I'm afraid--that's what I had to do in order to get name changes to work.