Accurate characters names ?

Even if that's not a big issue, CA put a lot of stupid names for characters of most factions in the game. It reminds me the Pro Evolution Soccer games where they put silly names cause they dont have all licences for soccer players' names

I'll try to made some changes to improve this

http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/paris1423.html

Obviously CA used this file for french names in the game. Names in this list are exactly the same as in descr_names.txt. Unfortunately this is for late MA, only for Paris and most names were very uncommon (only 1 occurance in 2700 names !)

It's the same for the so called "german names". Some of them are danish, others are just crap. The english names seem to be slightly better, but the greeks are mixed between english and greek (sometimes "John", sometimes "Iohannes" instead), and in the spanish seems to be some misspelling.

Did you find an answer elswhere? Pleas inform me, if so.

I find it kind of stupid CA doesnt use good historians like you to make the games, so the game as all before it lack of historical acuracy

You could mod accurate names into system. But i do not know how to do it without spending like a month. If you know how to use spreadsheets and things like that it would be easy because the names look like this:

on one file to tell comp which faction uses which names:

bill
dave
mike
monkeyboy

then actual name data:

(bill) bill
(dave) dave
(mike) mike

So you cant just copy a list by have to somehow make it columned + paranthesis. if you knew it would be easy tho. (i think)

I did it last week (only for france) but I aborted after unsuccessful results. It's so long and boring ! Three files to mod (descr_names, descr_names_lookup and text/names) and it's not working so well cause it's very easy to make a mistake. But I've started again to add some names while maping, I'll do what I can but indeed this is too long to do it alone (I cant believe CA dare put "Karembeu" as a french medieval name ... )

First of all - thanks for the great Mod

back to question - look here post #96, 97 & 98 http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...t=73078&page=5

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