Question about roman names

[Atilius]

My number one suggestion would be Marcus Atilius Regulus, who was consul in 267 and 256, won victories in Calabria, Sicily, and Africa, and became a Roman martyr when he was captured and supposedly murdered by the Carthies in 250 after losing the Battle of Tunis. This was a pretty important family in the 3rd century also... his father Marcus was consul in 294, his son Marcus was consul in 227 and 217, and his other son Gaius was consul in 225. I think there was a brother or uncle also named Gaius who was consul in 257 and 250. Not too shabby of a resume if you ask me (not that you did). Maybe he could replace the seemingly less important Blasio (not that I know anything about Blasio)?

Fun fact from our internal notes:

Caius Atilius Regulus (consul in 225) commanded at Telamon. He was killed and his head presented to the Gallic king.

The Atilius issue is clearly a very important to our players. We should adopt this suggestion immediately. ;)

[M Porcius Cato]

Love the EB mod, but I'd like to limit the number of nomina and cognomina that show up in the game. For example, if I detest the Julii and only want to see Cornelii, Fabii, Aemilii, Junii, Valerii, etc, what files to do I have to fix?

[Cheexsta]

Love the EB mod, but I'd like to limit the number of nomina and cognomina that show up in the game. For example, if I detest the Julii and only want to see Cornelii, Fabii, Aemilii, Junii, Valerii, etc, what files to do I have to fix?

RTW\EB\Data\descr_names.txt

RTW\EB\Data\text\names.txt

Make sure any names you have changed or removed are not used by any starting characters in RTW\EB\Data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\descr_strat.txt (remember to delete map.rwm) or you WILL get an error-less CTD on campaign start.

For my own Roman campaign I made an adaptation of the RTR Cognomen mod just to get rid of the wrong naming convention currently in EB. Took only about half an hour of work, maybe a little more. The biggest problem with this system is the addition of epthets through traits, such as Africanus, Gallicus and so on as they would replace both the gens and the cognomen.

In theory, one could completely regulate character names (including first names, if you want to get technical enough) through traits, though that would require an unbelievable amount of work.

I'll be interested to see what kind of solution the EB team will be using for their next release...

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Those guys have been hard at work, underneath the hood. I don't know what they did, but they did something crazy to it. Probably sacrificed some chickens or something if I know them. I don't think that problem exists anymore, but I haven't tested out a Roman game in the newer builds either.

[Ozymandias]

Originally posted by Sheep: I thought that the cognomen was separate so that when you got one of the special cognomina for doing something in the game (ie, Africanus), it would only replace the existing cognomen, not the nomen as well.

What you're describing is the agnomen, which was added onto a name due to achievments but wasn't necessarily passed down and it didn't replace the cognomen. The cognomen usually described a physical attribute e.g. Caesar-hairy, Cicero-chickpea (what an ancestor's nose looked like) and were passed down.