Sarica
Just my two cents on the Neo Terrors name change. I wholly agree, that it sounds more logical and frankly cooler to have them called Neo Terrans but one thing I find more important, is the game's coherence with its predecessors.
I'm fairly certain they are called Neo Terrors in all the previous games and DLC and if thats what they are literally translated into, I think you should keep that name, how stupid it may sound. I find it more important for the game's storyline to be consistent than how a name sounds.
But if you stick to your decision, that is also totally okay. Its just a personal nitpick of mine that dosen't really matter. GL and thanks again for your work
Well, it's not what they're literally translated into. Not exactly. There are several possibilities for both factions.
This is how Neo Terrans/Terrors is written in Japanese:
ネオ・テラーズ (Romaji = Neo Terazu.)
The "ー" is usually used in katakana to make the vowel longer, so it's like "Neo Teraaazu". Now, you could translate that as "Neo Terrors", sure. However, in my opinion, that's always been a bad translation, as it doesn't make any sense. Honestly, I think people got "Neo Terrors" simply because they put it into Google Translate and that's the first result they got or something.
The most accurate translation of that would be "Neo Terras". That's what I think. The reason why I left it as "Neo Terrors" in the original release is exactly because that's how it was in the previous games, and I never gave it a second thought. However, after one user here pointed out, and after thinking about it more, I decided that "Neo Terrors" is not right.
If it was meant to be translated as "Neo Terrors", then I think it would've been written as something like:
ネオ・テロリス (Romaji = Neo Terorisu) or something similar to that.
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Look at the New Solar faction:
ニュー・ソラル (Romaji = Nyu soraru).
I've seen people translate this as both "New Soral" and "New Solal" on the internet. However, I'm sure you would agree that THAT also doesn't make any sense, and that "New Solar" is the intended meaning.
Haha, in any case, that's enough rambling. After the "Final Version" is fully complete, I'll add a patch for those who want them to be called "Neo Terrors".