War Name Variety (3.0)
An update for ArcaneData’s War Name Variety mod.
You probably already know what this mod does if you’re here.
If you don’t, War Name Variety adds many new possible random – but context-appropriate – names for wars in Stellaris. A flavourful addition many enjoyed and which was unfortunately no longer available after changes were made to how the game handles random name generation.
Now, however, you may add that little spice to your games once more!
This updated version has also added a few more name formats – for Plunder wars, as well as wars named after the attacking empire’s leader for militarists.
This mod only changes the file "00_war_names", and should be broadly safe to add along with almost any other mod.
It is unfortunately not achievement-friendly, as it does change the checksum.
At time of writing, the mod is updated to version 3.11.3 of Stellaris. In all likelihood, it’ll remain quite functional even without any future updates, as I find it unlikely Paradox will be adding many new war types to the game.
Between that and lesser personal interest in this project, I will likely not be updating this mod beyond some bug fixes.
At present, there are three issues I’ve noticed in my testing:
- Wars named after leaders have a space between the character’s name and the apostrophe – this is a result of how I’ve made them work, and I’m not entirely sure how else to implement them. Given that this is a fairly minor issue, I’ll probably leave it be;
- (!) After further testing, it seems like having a custom adjective in empire creation causes the double-naming for any war name that includes it. I do not know why this is the case, but it can be (probably) be avoided by randomizing the empire name and then not changing the suggested adjective. I am at a loss about what I could even do in this case, unfortunately.
- Wars against federations appear to add the first word in a federations name to the end of the war name. I currently don’t know why this happens.
Beyond those, please refer to the bug reports discussion should you find anything else.
I have updated a different random name mod, as well – Better Empire Names: Revengeance
NB: Localisations to other languages do not seem to work, currently. I do not understand why.
卡尔文迪斯梅特 has included a simplified chinese in their mod: MC驻群星汉化
