How It Works?

When we play Vox populi on non-english installations a lot from new data is not showing correctly because language issues, this happens mainly for 2 problems: Missing strings on your language database or outdated data on your language database.

If we check our game db and compare the english view with our language, we can see that there are a lot of differences between them.

You can see this on the file Localization-Merged.db on your cache folder.

In my case (spanish install) I can see that there are 6106 strings on the english DB that are missing on spanish DB, a huge number of outdated strings

Missing strings

In game mostly content of these strings will be displayed as something like "TXT_KEY_WHATEVER", some of these strings will display the english data, but that depends too much on how the mod which is requiring that string is developed. Vox populi is a combination of a lot of mods so this will work different depending what we are doing in game.

Outdated strings

This is the most common problem we see when we play vox populi on localizated installs. We start a new game but all Leader Abilities are just the same than the core game without mods. And the same happens with policies, beliefs, and more. The game will work fine, but you won't see the real information.

For example: If you adopt the pantheon belief "Stone Circles" (+2 Faith for quarries), you will see see that actually, your quarries are giving just +1 Faith plus +1 production. This happens because that belief was changed for Vox Populi, now is called "God of Craftsmen" (+1 faith and production from qaurries and stone works, +1 culture, science and +2 faith from palace). You will get that bonus but in the moment of choosing a belief you can't see the real data.

So how Localization Fix for Vox Populi helps to solve these problems?

What this mod does

• update the strings that needs an update. Ex: Policies, beliefs, Leader traits, etc. So that information is showing properly.
• insert 2824 missing strings on V.3 (close to 50% of what is missing)
• delete some unused content (like cargoship mod, and other stuff that still in vox populi but is not being used anymore, this optimize a bit the resources required to run the game)
• Optimize a lot of the database work
• Provides a framework for translators, mostly files have been reordered to make easier for translators.

What this mods doesn't do

• Don't change anything on how works the game or vox populi mods, changes are only for data displaying. AI will be the same and all systems in game will be the same.
• Doesn't translate the game, will show texts in english for vox populi data and core data in your language. Excepting for the package "Spanish translation" which have translations ready.