Character Name Ideas

[HolsteinCow]

And which three factions will take orders from the senate?

[blindfaithnogod]

the roman factions will change to the monks.

[justmeandthedog]

I'm 90% finished with the name text file generator tool (just need to find bugs now and fix the names like "of the North", "the Horrible", etc... right now it only picks up the first word).

For now.. I just sent it to hoggy for testing blue lotus and when I work out the kinks i'll make it public for the rest.

Does anyone know anything about all that junk at the end of /data/texts/names.txt? Do i need to keep that there? It can be done... but I want to know the point of it before I start cluttering these files.

Also I want to make sure everyone agrees here on how the "names" work in this game.

Current theory says that in order to have a name work, it must be in the descr_names.txt (obviously), and also it needs to be in descr_names_lookup.txt and /texts/names.txt. I was able to change names ONLY when i made appropriate changes to all 3 files.

Maybe anyone have a more elaborate theory on the relationship between these 3 files? It seems pretty pointless that way it's setup... which is what this tool is for (eliminates the need to retype and format the other 2 files).

[Sahran]

If it is not too late, I would like to provide a listing of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese names.

http://www.20000-names.com/male_indian_names.htm

http://www.20000-names.com/male_japanese_names.htm

[hoggy]

ah.. we've got them sorted now but thank you for the offer. Sykotic Rampage got them all together wityh help from the forums etc.

[HunkinElvis]

Here are some common Korean last names:

Kim
Lee (or Yi but both are pronounced as 'E')
Park (or Pak)*
Choi (pronounced as 'Chweh')
Hwang*
Ahn (or An)*
Han*
Suh (or So)
Byun
Ko
Chae
Cha*
Na*
Ra*
Ha*
Kwang*
Wang*
Kwok
Erl {(or Erlji).-> I don't know which one because it's a very rare last name. Only one general is known to have this name in history. His relatives are unknown. Some historians even think that the general might be a foreigner. There were Indian and Arab merchants and people from northern Manchuria in Korea over a thousand years ago.}

You could add these last names to the first names that Jay Tee provided. The last name comes before the first name.

*pronounce the 'a' like in 'chalk'.