GER and ITA colony names

[VictorVVV]

Some countries have their new_colony set to GER or ITA in countries.txt (for example BAY and TOS in vanilla) but I couldn't find colony names set for these two tags in colonynames.txt.

Where are the missing colony names ?

 

[Basileios II]

That entry is not related to the colonynames.csv but to the prefix of generic names those countries will give to new colonies, e.g. Neu Brandenburg or Nuova Marche. This can lead to odd names like Nuova The Canary Islands.:rofl:

 

[VictorVVV]

Those new colony names are chosen by colonynames.txt, if I'm not mistaken. My problem is this : (validator)

--- Error 1 of 62 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At <mod>\db\countries.txt [VER\new_colony] (6908, 2):
"ITA" is not a valid ColonyNameTag.
--- Error 2 of 62 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At <mod>\db\countries.txt [TYR\new_colony] (6836, 2):
"GER" is not a valid ColonyNameTag.
--- Error 3 of 62 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At <mod>\db\countries.txt [SWA\new_colony] (6692, 2):
"GER" is not a valid ColonyNameTag.
--- Error 4 of 62 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At <mod>\db\countries.txt [STT\new_colony] (6668, 2):
"GER" is not a valid ColonyNameTag.
--- Error 5 of 62 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At <mod>\db\countries.txt [SEI\new_colony] (6644, 2):
"GER" is not a valid ColonyNameTag.
--- Error 6 of 62 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At <mod>\db\countries.txt [SIL\new_colony] (6548, 2):
"GER" is not a valid ColonyNameTag.
--- Error 7 of 62 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At <mod>\db\countries.txt [ROM\new_colony] (6476, 2):
"ITA" is not a valid ColonyNameTag.
--- Error 8 of 62 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At <mod>\db\countries.txt [PAM\new_colony] (6308, 2):
"ITA" is not a valid ColonyNameTag.
--- Error 9 of 62 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At <mod>\db\countries.txt [LIV\new_colony] (6092, 2):
"GER" is not a valid ColonyNameTag.
--- Error 10 of 62 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At <mod>\db\countries.txt [KRN\new_colony] (5996, 2):
"GER" is not a valid ColonyNameTag.
--- Error 11 of 62 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At <mod>\db\countries.txt [KUS\new_colony] (5972, 2):
"GER" is not a valid ColonyNameTag.
--- Error 12 of 62 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At <mod>\db\countries.txt [IST\new_colony] (5876, 2):
"ITA" is not a valid ColonyNameTag.

(...)

If I add a GER tag in colonynames.txt, the problem disappears. The presence in vanilla of many countries with "new_colony = GER" or "new_colony = ITA" implies that such tags had an associated list of colony names in colonynames.txt, which isn't there now.

 

[Therion]

Those are matched to entries inside countries_special.txt instead of colonynames.txt. The validator does not recognize this.

 

[Nikolai II]

But the actual game still manages to handle it?

 

[Therion]

Yes. countries_special.txt does just what Basileios said.

The validator gives a lot of false positives as it doesn't take into account changes made in the patches so it should be used with caution until someone updates it.

 

[VictorVVV]

Those are matched to entries inside countries_special.txt instead of colonynames.txt. The validator does not recognize this.

Thank you.