Request for improved strings.txt in future patches!?

[S2kde]

Hi, as I am currently trying to improve the german translation in strings.txt to make it more accurate or to read more naturally for the german player (and I think this would also apply to the other languages, at least partially), I wanted to ask the developers if they could be so kind to add some "extra" lines to this file in one of the following patches.

Now I want to explain you for what those extra lines would be needed, amongst others:

Example A)

If I want to request for Close Air Support, one of the parameters I have to specify is called "Mission". As far as I could saw there are 3 options to select from: Heavy, Medium and Light. In this case (CAS) all of the four mentioned terms should fit to it's meaning to be already quite ok (or maybe it could be a little improved by renaming the field "Mission" into something like "Ammo", "Heavy" to "Heavy Bombs", "Medium" to "Light Bombs" and "Light" into "Gun" or something similar).

However, when doing the same steps with Artillery Fire Support, again, we have to choose between Heavy, Medium or Light for parameter "Mission". But since there is a completely different meaning behind those buttons in this situation compared to CAS, there should be additional lines added to the stringtable to match it more accurate and independently. So in this case "Mission" could be named to "Precision" or "Rate of Fire" for example. Heavy into "Unprecise" or "Fast", Medium into "Normal", Light into "Precise" or "Slow" etc.

Example

Everytime I give an order to an infantry to get into their vehicle (let's say a Stryker for this example), the entries in "group" list on the lower left screen does change from:

Squadleader

Teamleader

Soldier

Soldier

Antitank

Teamleader

Soldier

Soldier

Sniper

to:

Squadleader*

2x Gunner

6x Soldier

... I would find it very great to have an additional line added to the strings.txt, so the Squadleader could maybe take the role of the "Commander" as soon as he gets "part" of the vehicle... for the opposite direction, I think, the crew members of vehicles should here be reffered as to "normal" soldiers from the moment they are deployed from their vehicles (at least as long as individuals of them are not CO's or XO's). Remember, you can still identify them by their special ability icons if you need to know. And so on...

Example C)

It's not that important as the both mentioned above, but maybe you can add a special line for the A-10 Thunderbolt II too, because it's (afaik) neither classified as a Fighter Aircraft nor as a true Fighter-Bomber. I would like to classify all of the in-game aircraft types seperately, but since both the F-15 and the A-10 are sharing the same line it's not possible to do

In conclusion, it would be generally a good idea if every text-containing "element" would get it's completely own place in the string table instead of sharing it with others, I think.

Once again, I want to apologise myself for my very limited abilities in speaking english. However, I think my concerns are basically understandable for the majority of you, thanks!

[ January 17, 2008, 09:36 PM: Message edited by: S2kde ]