Ever felt bored by the “Citizens” in the big cities? Ever thought, that Starfield is a bit anglo-centric?
Not anymore. This addon to the Modular People System (Souls of the Cities mod) renames the citizens with thousands of possible names from all over the world.
Install “Souls of the Cities” mod and all of its prerequisites (SFSE, RTFP).
Install this mod (overwrite).
Have fun.
I felt a bit annoyed about the very heavy anglo-american character of the game. Not as inclusive, as I thought it would be (although some good ideas and possibilities already, although they even forgot or did not care about lipsync for any other language than English, sigh, but that’s another story…).
Let’s be real:
Why is the majority of the game characters still quite white and anglo-american? (OK, we know the answer, rhetorical question – it really tries to be including and politically correct, but in the end, it goes on a market, that is dominated by anglo-american media and is owned by a US company.)
I don’t really think that the lore explains this, right? I think that it was not even the intention to annoy people from anywhere outside the US, like, at all.
So I decided to do – something – about it. Let’s start with the names of the people in the cities. “Citizens”? Oh, no.
The game feels very different to me with RTFP and the Souls of the Cities mod already, in a good way, but I wanted to go one step further because it did not feel quite right still. So I made my own files for the names. And then thought, I should share them here. So have fun with it.
If you play the game in any other language, than English, you might appreciate this mod quite a bit!
THERE WAS SOME CONFUSION AND DISCUSSION ABOUT THE INTENTION OF THIS MOD,
SO HERE, AS A RESULT OF THE FIRST REACTIONS, MAYBE A MORE IN-DEPT EXPLANATION:
You walk through the cities, and they appear like it is actually a post-apocalyptic universe that appears more like the US were the only ones who could escape earth!
Whoever felt totally OK with Starfield’s universe: Nothing wrong with that. You
can see it, like it is a descended Fallout in space.
However, I saw that there are a lot of translations of Starfield mods, that are made for Russian and Chinese language. And most probably others will follow soon, when Starfield get’s full mod support.
I think everybody should have the Starfield that they feel comfortable with.
Personally, I feel a lot more comfortable, if I can immerse in a Starfield, where people from all nations tried to escape earth, and the ethnics and cultures melt together in a way, that the origin of the people on earth matter less and less. Names are a way to reflect this. Every combination of “visual origin” on Earth can have every type of name and surname, including those prevalent in South America, Africa. Eastern Europe and Asia.
At the moment I am working on updating the lists, so that more Asian names, especially Chinese and Indian names, appear, to reflect a possible world population at the time of the earth exodus in a more “realistic” way.
Let’s face it, probably all major nations and their neighbors might have had access to a working space travel technology.
YOUR OPINION ON THIS MAY BE DIFFERENT, AND THIS IS FINE, TOO!
Use only, what you feel comfortable with.
Credits:
itsmemyselfandi
Download mod
| File | File size |
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The People of the World-2-01
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137 KB |
