A few questions related to changing characters names

[florin80]

I have changed all the characters names in my game(it was a massive job) and now, of course, it goes straight to desktop. I might have just typed something wrong , but it maybe very well be because of a rule/limitation I didn`t know of, so I thought to ask these:
1. are there factions that require their leader to have a surname or otherwise it CTD? If so, which ones? I`ve only kept the surnames for a couple of them. I remember reading something about this, but testing it with romans_brutii and macedon doesn`t seem to be a problem....
2. Is there a minimum number of names/surnames/women names required per faction?
3. Is there a problem if you use _ to separate two words names in descr_names? Example: Name_Name
4. Is there a problem if some names contain a - ?(in descr_names, descr_names_lookup and names) Example: Name-name

And most importantly... Is there a script able to generate the text files in the format they require based on a list of names?

Thank you!

[Teleklos Archelaou]

I use Excel - you can give commands that will turn out the types of entries you need I think.

I would advise staying away from anything weird at all in the 'internal variants' of the names. Just stick to letters. Condense if need be. You can have all sorts of things in the 'visible variants', just keep the internal ones very simple.

[florin80]

Thank you! I`ll start by removing those lines from the "internal variants" and merge the words. It`s the way you choose for the more then one word roman names from what I see. Might be better.
Do you happen to know if there is a minimum limit for names? Looking in EB`s files I saw you have a heck of a lot of names for each faction....

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Yeah, we have tens of thousands of names. I don't think there is a limit really.

The removing of all other characters from those internal variants may be playing it too safe, but when you've got as many as we have having late game ctd's that you have no idea where they came from is really really something we don't want to take any chance with at all.

Good luck with them!