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Player Names Database
DIR By: saposcat
Date: September 11, 2018, 1:44 am
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Hi everyone
Not sure if this warrants a new thread, but thought I'd mention
that I'm working on a first and last names database that we
could add to the existing list of names.
If anyone has already done some work on this, please let me
know!
I began work on this some years ago in one of my previous PC2011
saves and have just managed to dig it up on my old PC. I'll
continue to add to the list the coming weeks and months.
Hopefully can come up with a pretty exhaustive list.
Just had a quick question when drafting the lists. Maybe
Grenville or someone else might be able to answer.
- Are the first and last names paired randomly from the notepad
lists to generate a new player name?
- If so, would it be a matter of having more common first and
last names appear more than once on the lists, so as it generate
more "common sounding" names? i.e. having "Tom" or "Johnson"
appear 50+ times?
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Re: Player Names Database
DIR By: SJL93
Date: September 11, 2018, 2:04 am
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I did a version of that on 1 of my old PC games not that long
ago, thinking the notepad file was for players, turned out to be
coaches. Anyway, I would be a good idea to separate "first
names" & "Last names" into separate files to avoid someone
called "Johnson Johnson".
As for doubling up. In mine I used draftee names from coming
seasons & didn't double up but the name generator turned out
okay a few funny combos "Mabior Dalgleish" was a bit funny. They
should be okay otherwise as long as you don't have too many of
the same name in each file. Putting "Tom" in first names 50
times would be a mistake, 3-6 should be enough.
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Re: Player Names Database
DIR By: saposcat
Date: September 11, 2018, 8:04 am
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Haha yep, definitely had some weird ones too SJL.
Separate "First Name" and "Last Name" files for sure.
My plan is to have 2000 or so names per letter for last names
(including duplicates), and obviously fewer per letter for first
names. I'll look into some statistics for actual Australian
surnames and first names to get a good idea of percentages for
the more common ones. Given the large sample size, I thought
duplicate names might need to be multiplied. 50 is a tad high,
I'll admit haha.
Would love to add your list to it as well (or anyone else's
contribution!) if you're happy to send it through
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Re: Player Names Database
DIR By: Skip
Date: September 11, 2018, 4:15 pm
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The most common first name is about 10x the 100th most common,
and about 1000x a unique name.
50 lots of Matt/Matthew/Mathew/etc is not that unrealistic at
all.
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Re: Player Names Database
DIR By: Grenville
Date: September 11, 2018, 7:15 pm
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Thanks mate, good thread and appreciate you jumping on it. Can
confirm the game has 2x text files, one for first names, and one
for last names. It picks from them completely at random for any
generated person (staff/player etc)
I could support a weighting and make firstnames.txt a .csv so
that you can easily boost names without having to copy/paste
many lines. EG:
Andrew,5
Boris,1
Chris,3
David,5
Edmund,1
etc etc
No spaces, one name/weighting pair on each line. When i read the
file in It'll build out an in memory collection with 5x Andrews
and randomly pick from that. Lets be a little conservative with
it so we dont end up with millions of records in there.
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Re: Player Names Database
DIR By: netslave
Date: September 26, 2018, 6:16 am
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I've updated the Names lists for my personal games, you can grab
them at:
HTML https://www.dropbox.com/s/k9zkmftz5x8ho4i/Names.zip?dl=0
I basically just used the existing ones and added extra names to
them.
You will need some sort of weighting for the names, I also ran
into the problem of having names that were a firstname with
australian heritage and a lastname that was indian etc. and
combination of names that just really didnt make sense.
I also wanted to get more indigenous names in there as well.
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