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German version - starting ship names

Sun, 25 February 2007 11:25

alric

Crewman 1st Class

Messages: 38
Registered: September 2003

Hi all,

I just started a new game and it seems to have been created with the German version of Stars!

To try and level the playing field, can someone match up the starting ships with both their German and English names please.

To start off:

Raumstation = Starbase (is this correct?)

Thanks

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Re: German version - starting ship names

Sun, 25 February 2007 12:24

m.a@stars

Commander

Messages: 2765
Registered: October 2004
Location: Third star to the left

Hi,

You can try perusing the "English-to-German Translation of Stars! Terminology" Appendix of the SSG, which can be found, among other places, at: http://anrokima.de/Strategie_Handbuch/ssg/ssge.htm

Good luck! Twisted Evil

So many Stars, so few Missiles!

In space no one can hear you scheme! Deal

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Re: German version - starting ship names

Sun, 25 February 2007 13:29

PaulCr

Chief Warrant Officer 3
Stars! V.I.P

Messages: 187
Registered: February 2007
Location: An Island that kinda look...

I'm in the same game and I noticed the same thing, you can rename the existing ships to something more meaningful. You can't however rename the existing designs but you can copy them and give them your own name so you know what they are. All you need to do then is delete the initial designs once the starting ships have been scrapped/destroyed.
I can't see a way of renaming the starbases however if you copy the design without changing anything but the name you can rebuild it for free which has the same effect and then delete the old design.

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Re: German version - starting ship names

Sun, 25 February 2007 19:40

Dolphin

Crewman 1st Class

Messages: 21
Registered: February 2005
Location: Germany

Hi,
being German (and in Fledgling Admirals II like you Smile

), I can confirm that a "Raumstation" is German for a space station.

Dirk

[Updated on: Fri, 02 March 2007 03:18]

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Re: German version - starting ship names

Mon, 26 February 2007 01:07

Altruist

Commander

Messages: 1068
Registered: August 2005
Location: Berlin

alric wrote on Sun, 25 February 2007 17:25

Oh damn! Is that true? I've never given it a thought.

Nevertheless everything should be quite obvious... well, and I better generate the next game with an English version. (Except I get tempted to spread German a bit this way. After all it's a great language: not really of much use for singing but since it is a very correct and defining language good for philosophy and... war.)

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Re: German version - starting ship names

Mon, 26 February 2007 13:04

Deuce

Senior Chief Petty Officer

Messages: 94
Registered: June 2003

I started this game with a Voyeur. Mad

I liked the "Smaugarian Peeping Tom" Sad

Do the "Swashbuckler" and "Stalwart Defender," etc, match up too? Let's see... then there's the superstealth and warmonger shadow sleuth and armed probe. Potato Bug?

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Re: German version - starting ship names

Mon, 26 February 2007 16:26

wizard

Officer Cadet 3rd Year

Messages: 279
Registered: January 2004
Location: Aachen, Germany

Deuce wrote on Mon, 26 February 2007 19:04

Do the "Swashbuckler" and "Stalwart Defender," etc, match up too? Let's see... then there's the superstealth and warmonger shadow sleuth and armed probe. Potato Bug?

Ouch. When I play the English version, I never think about those names. But when I try to translate those names into German, it just sounds ridiculous - "Kartoffelk�fer" instead of Potato Bug?

I don't have a German version, so I can't test it... But I remember some really odd names.

Andreas / wizard

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