[SOLDIERS] Celebrate Diversity: more nationalities and names

[Solarius Scorch]

WHAT DOES THIS MOD DO?
This mod adds new soldier nationalities: Argentinian, Brasilian, Canadian, Iranian, Israeli, Mongolian and Ukrainian. It also contains some new names for vanilla nations and some spelling corrections (this one is kinda experimental - I added some national characters to some names, so we'll see how it behaves on various machines).
Also, if you are using the OXCE+ version of OpenXCom, national flags will be placed next to the name:



WHY WAS IT MADE?
To expand upon the existing database of names. The vanilla selection is a bit random, since many important countries were missing, while some small countries were in. This mod aims to fill the gaps.

HOW DO I INSTALL THIS MOD?
- Open your "user" folder (normally Documents/MyGames/Openxcom, though it can be set up differently),
- Copy the entire Celebrate_Diversity folder to the "/mods" folder,
- Enable the mod from the Game Options menu.

ANY FUTURE PLANS?
I'll probably keep expanding the lists.

CHANGELOG:
1:3: Changed Democratic Republic of Congo flag to the appropriate one for the time period (by Arvidus).
1:2: Fixed sorting issues (by Meridian).
1.1b: Fixed transparency on the Belgian flag.
1.1: Now with flags for OXCE+.
1.0: Initial release.

[Kjotleik]

A nice touch to improve the details of the game.   

I appreciate your efforts!
Keep it up.


Sincerely
Kjotleik

[Meridian]

And if people are interested, I can make a version compatible with OXCE+ fork - it would also have national flags placed next to the name.

No need for 2 separate mods.
If you add flags, it will still work on vanilla, it won't crash or anything.

[Solarius Scorch]

No need for 2 separate mods.
If you add flags, it will still work on vanilla, it won't crash or anything.

OK, I added the flags and updated the first post.

[Slaughter]

Did you add this on latest X-COM Files?

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[Solarius Scorch]

Did you add this on latest X-COM Files?

Yes, I made it for X-Com Files initially, this is basically a rip from the mod to make it standalone.

[firsttefl1]

Is this mod compatible with Final Mod Pack and\or Area 51?

[Solarius Scorch]

Is this mod compatible with Final Mod Pack and\or Area 51?

Yes, it should be compatible with pretty much anything. However, if a mod contains soldiers.rul (or the same data under some other file name), it will be overwritten by Celebrate Diversity (which is vanilla settings, only with more names, nationalities and flage).

Final Mod Pack already includes this mod, so it's unnecessary.

[firsttefl1]

Final Mod Pack already includes this mod, so it's unnecessary.

Thanks for your answer.
And your mod also seems to be included in "The X-Com Files" (this one is supposed to be based on Final Mod Pack).

[Solarius Scorch]

And your mod also seems to be included in "The X-Com Files" (this one is supposed to be based on Final Mod Pack).

Ummm... Yes, I know.

Seriously though, X-Com Files is where the mod started; the rest is just adaptation.

[The Reaver of Darkness]

I want to see a more realistic ratio in names, with the more populous nationalities showing up more, as well as the more militaristic nations being more likely to give soldiers to X-Com. There should be lots of Chinese, Indian, and American soldiers, but very few Afghani, Georgian, or Somalian soldiers, for instance.

[Solarius Scorch]

I want to see a more realistic ratio in names, with the more populous nationalities showing up more, as well as the more militaristic nations being more likely to give soldiers to X-Com. There should be lots of Chinese, Indian, and American soldiers, but very few Afghani, Georgian, or Somalian soldiers, for instance.

I was wondering about this too, but then Meridian strongly opposed it because it would mean far less variation in nationalities and I agreed with him.

The rationale is that countries participate in X-Com equally, so they provide roughly the same number of candidates.

[The Reaver of Darkness]

I agree that truly accurate numbers would be boring, because you'd get something like 40% Chinese. But I was thinking slightly more accurate ratios, still plenty of people from small countries, but such that it doesn't look like those countries are larger than they are.

[Meridian]

You can duplicate the name files several times to achieve any ratio you want.

E.g.

American.nam
American2.nam
Russian.nam

will result in 66% of Americans and 33% of Russians.

[FastForward]

I've noticed soldier with swedish flag and spanish names or japanese flags and italian names.
Somewhere the ruleset is off by 1, I've looked at it but was unable to find any error.

Not a big problem, since I can change the flag by clicking on it.