The lots are on the LEX now. If you have installed any of plugins attached in this thread, please uninstall and delete them (install the released version).
I would like to thank once more Andreas, AcE-cOdEr, Ennedi, Rayden, sebes, BarbyW, ebina, dmscopio, vester, ExiLe, Marco Berzacola and ussagus for the translations they have carried out. Of course most credit goes to RippleJet for researching and organising all this. RTMT is one of the few packages translated to so many languages, and this thanks to the members on this site who have contributed!
I wish we see more plugins translated as well. I think creators would like to see their products better tailored to international players (though they all do speak English more or less).
I think the NAM and the BSC Essentials (queries, menus) should be the next candidates. As for the BSC essentials, I think there should be added some standard menu descriptions for most building types (RCI ploppables, parks/plazas, power, police etc) if there haven't alerady (and of course be translated as well). Landmarks, rewards and civic buildings are quite hard to standardise (most have custom descriptions).
Individual BATs and Lots are somewhat hard to have translations carried out (using the same procedure) as most of them contain just a few strings, and the overhead posed by the procedure would exceed the translation effort itself by far. These can instead be translated as groups, ie post "Translation Requests" for sets of BATs/Lots, rather then individually. It's good that we recently see RCI BATs and Lots released as "mega-packs".
Prop-packs unfortunately don't all use LTEXTs, some do, some others use the Item Name Property and the rest either do not display a prop description or are queried as the main bulding. There are even inconsistencies within the same prop-pack (as a result of developing each one individually and then merging them into mega-packs); this would require re-modding the prop-packs.
Anyways, there is much work to be done to make custom content more friendly to international players, but I think the work and the cooperation we experienced in this thread has opened the way!
