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German Dwarfs
« on: August 17, 2010, 07:36:21 am »
Hey Guys,

first let me point out that this game is awesome!

I found this game reading the article on Spiegel Online (http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/0,1518,709374-7,00.html). The first steps were hard, and the graphics caused me eye cancer. But I kept on digging. Every day I found something new in the gameplay, and still I do. I have played a lot of games, but it has been a long time since I found a game such addictive as this one!

Is there a german language package around? If not, which files are to be edited?

Keep on your great work, please do not stop making this game even better. Just now I like the architectural aspect of the game the most.
I really would like this game to have a static model, so that you get occasional cave-ins if you dig away that one essential column in the middle of your dining hall ^^
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Re: German Dwarfs
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2010, 07:49:27 am »
Hello.

Language isnt moddable at the moment and I dont know if its planned.
There have actually been arguments over realistic cave-ins, but Toady hasnt done anything yet. If you really want cave-ins, then you can play the old 2d version.
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Re: German Dwarfs
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2010, 08:23:16 am »
however there are a few files that acutally can be translated, like creatures and equipment, but it wont work for the whole game as many stuff is still hardcoded
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Re: German Dwarfs
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2010, 10:27:23 pm »
Wouldn't a german version also require dwarves to consume 3 times as much alcohol?
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Re: German Dwarfs
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2010, 02:01:34 am »
Good point. Especially the bavarian dwarves.
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Re: German Dwarfs
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2010, 06:43:47 am »
I'm trying to make a "german dwarves overengineer everything" joke, but its 6:43 AM. Laugh as if I came up with a good one-liner.
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Re: German Dwarfs
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2010, 06:46:07 am »
I wish we still did :(

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Re: German Dwarfs
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2010, 06:59:27 am »
You can actually open the EXE with a hex editor and replace a lot of english lines with german ones. You'd still end up with garbled grammar, and the seriously stupid restriction that each word's replacement has to be exactly as long as the old one, and of course your progress would be 100% devastated once a new version comes out, but doable? Yes.
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