Oh Canada !---- or whats in a name ?

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Oh Canada !---- or whats in a name ?

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/s ... paign.html

Hmmm. Whats even funnier is that while looking to see if this was for real, i came accross a forum in which a poster claimed that a province in canada was almost named "bob".
Now that being as funny as funny can be, i just had to see if that also was true.
There was some discussion of changing the name of the Northwest Territories after the separation of Nunavut, possibly to a term from an Aboriginal language. One proposal was "Denendeh" ("our land" in Dene). The idea was advocated by former premier Stephen Kakfwi, among others. As well, a popular radio station began to promote changing the territory's name to "Bob".
Guess what ? Alright, youve presumably already read the qoute above, so no guess required.
It WAS true.
Ive read "Bob" came in second place in the polls.

Soooooo.......ummmm....... can we have a feature in sr2020 that lets us rename regions :P
Becuase after reading that, i feel i just HAVE TO rename Canada to "Bob".
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From my experience renaming at the .cvp is not enough. Can anyone help?
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A shameless necro.

Nevertheless, I would wholeheartedly support the renaming of any country, state or territory by the name "Bob". Along with the replacement of the Union Jack by:

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Please, can anyone help how to change a region's name?
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It's been a while since I've done any modding, but I believe you have to make any modifications you want, and then rename or move one of the base scenario files. The game will then take ages creating a new one for you.

Naturally, though, you've looked around on the modding subforum, and already know that.
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I know the modding technique, I search what exactly must I change in what file?
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Does changing "regionname" not work then? After it creates the new file for the scenario?
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No. Information to be displayed in menus is written in more than one files.
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So you've changed the regionname in that file in the maps folder, created a new cache and it doesn't work. Which other files have you changed?
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Since you've gone offline, the problem might be that you didn't change the appropriate localisation file. You should try that if you haven't done so already.
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Agree.. but what is the apropriate locale?
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Depends which language you use. The end of the folder name corresponds to the language:
(All of these are in the "localize" folder in the main game directory).

LOCALEN: English
LOCALDE: German
LOCALES: Spanish
LOCALEX: I'm not sure (but presumably one who speaks the language would know)
LOCALFR: French
LOCALIT: Italian

In the English localisation folder, the file you need to edit is LocalText-REGIONS. It should be fairly obvious what to change from there on - the current region name will obviously be there somewhere already, and you'll need to change it.

I'm unsure as to whether you'd have to build a new cache after this, but my guess is you wouldn't.
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Thank you VERY much!

I will build it because I have many other changes to save. I build a cache at least once a day with many changes every time.
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