Name List Suggestion

[Whitek3t]

Giving modding support for city lists would be nice. This would be good for those who would want to build their Republics in a Cuba / Vietnam / Africa setting where Slavic names for cities would be out of place.

In extension, name list for comrades imported from the Third World should be customisable too. Comrades imported from the Third World should not bear Slavic names. This would help in diversity too.

[Thomas]

Nothing stops your from renaming cities. Nobody cares about dudes names. Those dudes only live for 3 game years anyway.

[Undertaker]

A good idea. I'd also like to have names sorted to create "Soviet", "Polish", "Hungarian" etc. namesets for representing various Eastern European areas, and made people actually share one surname when in one family, and have that surname inherited.

Originally posted by Thomas:

Nobody cares about dudes names

And who would you be to make such statements? Did I miss something, have we elected a person with right to speak for every and each WRSR player now?

[Whitek3t]

Originally posted by Thomas:

Nothing stops your from renaming cities. Nobody cares about dudes names. Those dudes only live for 3 game years anyway.

And there's nothing bad from suggesting a QoL improvement. For a game that somehow prides itself in getting realistic machinery, there's also nothing bad in getting people and place names realistic in-game. Not that I would rename each and every one of them manually.

[Thomas]

Originally posted by Undertaker:

A good idea. I'd also like to have names sorted to create "Soviet", "Polish", "Hungarian" etc. namesets for representing various Eastern European areas, and made people actually share one surname when in one family, and have that surname inherited.

Originally posted by Thomas:

Nobody cares about dudes names

And who would you be to make such statements? Did I miss something, have we elected a person with right to speak for every and each WRSR player now?

And who would you be to make opposite statement? So far I see only 2 people care for it.Any let's play video proves my point.When one hundred of trains, thousands of vehicles and hundreds of thousands of dudes running around, last thing players do are checking a name of citizen.And that citizen lasts only few years in the game. You will have hard time to find that dude second time on your map.

[Undertaker]

Originally posted by Thomas:

And who would you be to make opposite statement? So far I see only 2 people care for it.Any let's play video proves my point.

Did I make an opposite statement? Last time I checked, I did not. And man, I just love how some people seriously think "let's play" cancer proves anything.

Originally posted by Thomas:

last thing players do are checking a name of citizen

You're speaking for all players, again. Are you a medium who can magically touch all players' minds and tell what do they think or what?

But let's put this aside for instance. Have you ever heard of such thing called flavor? Pretty sure you did. And these namesets, they contribute to flavor of the game. The devil is always in petty things, as they say where I'm from, and that's the case here. And if you couldn't care less about flavor, well, that does not automatically mean everyone else does the same.

[Kalani]

Yeah I care about flavor and also about modding. Is it still not possible to mod the name lists?

[Pfirsich1966]

If no one cares, the logical conclusion is that it doesn't matter if the possibility is given to create cultural named lists.
So from me there is a +1!

[Whitek3t]

Good job resurrecting a 1 year+ thread. Yeah, my suggestion still stands.

[4X-Fan]

I support this request as well, as the names contribute to flavor a lot for my taste. No need for the devs to make longer or alternative lists, but modders should have the tool for doing so.

[SiberianDev]

I don't see a point in this IMO.

[jockeril]

I support this as well - I think there should be a way for MODders to add the the game in any way possible and that should include naming conventions.

May I refer you to one of the most successful games (only this once) in the history of gaming - Minecraft - once modders found the way to modify it they are able to change every aspect of the game and I think it's been that game's number one reason for its popularity - I hope scripting comes soon and brings with it does capabilities,

[SiberianDev]

Theoretically it's possible, but it's probably very tricky - I can't even open the .bin files in a savegame, PowerISO and MagicISO give an error as if they were corrupted.

[Whitek3t]

Originally posted by Build The Builder:

I don't see a point in this IMO.

It might not make sense with you, since I believe you are a Slav, but believe me, for us non-Slavs wanting to role-play Third World socialist Republics, this would be a big QoL improvement for us. I hope the planned scripting support will also be enabled to handle this one.

[MrKrabs]

I´m not sure atm. Don´t we have such a thing in the game already?

Anyway. On one of my last safes I gave the towns, or better say areas names according what they were for. The town with the shipyard I called Murmansk, the Oilfield I called Baku,
and so forth.

I personaly don´t realy care for the names given automatically.
I cange them to my gusto anyway.
I rather would like to be able to paint my area.
Or at least merge two areas together.

[Whitek3t]

Again, it is a QoL improvement suggestion. We can rename anytime, but I'd rather have it loaded right from the start (from script mod or custom list, I don't care how would it be implemented).