Aurora 4x
VB6 Aurora => Aurora Suggestions => Topic started by: jonw on January 14, 2017, 01:55:38 PM
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Hi - so I prefer to RP as a united earth and have tried to use secondary naming themes to generate commanders with names which reflect the diverse backgrounds on our fair planet. *cough. * However, only having 4 possible options always seens a bit limiting - english/russian/chinese but then what about the astronauts from the japanese space agency, or multiple european nations, or the huge spanish-speaking population?
Additionally, the UI always seems to glitch out with two themes reflecting 50% and the other two reflecting -20%. I'm not sure how this affects the game but it would be really cool if we could define more secondary themes for our characters and have a more responsive or informative UI. It's a small thing but does build immersion. Thanks!
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Just rotate your themes periodically; that's really the only current workaround.
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Also, the US provides a varied name set.
When I want varied names, Every time there is a auto-rotation of assignments I change one of the subsets to keep it varied.
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Literally never thought of that - good idea!
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The USA naming theme needs an overhaul, it has a bunch of typos and really weird names in it.
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The USA naming theme needs an overhaul, it has a bunch of typos and really weird names in it.
The US naming theme is actually the US Census data :)
I just took the top 2000 first names and top 50,000 family names.
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Once you get past the first 100 names you're just going to find rare foreign names, or more frequently, unusual spellings of the popular names from higher in the list.
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I would think that thats still a perfectly reasonable way to harvest names people actually use.
Though, I guess ideally it would do weighted randomization based off of how many people have what name.
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I'd like to see a name list for every continent, and a way to load new ones in.
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A "United Nations" commander theme would be nice to have. The US theme provides some variety, but Chinese, Indian, African, and South/Pacific Asian names are underrepresented there for the purpose of reflecting a world government. The theme-switching suggested previously doesn't seem like it would quite shuffle the deck enough to get a consistent mix rather than small gluts of similar names.