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Hands-on: Names
OK, let's work through a hands-on example of editing the names database. Let's say you decide that you want to create an all-Hobbit league, based in Finland. Unfortunately, Hobbit is not one of the 40 name sets that come with the game. Here's a quick example of how you could do this:
- Close OOTP, if it's open.
- Since OOTP has already used all 40 of the name sets, choose one to eliminate. Let's eliminate Vietnamese names (Name Set ID = 38)
- Back up the names.txt and firstnames.txt files in your OOTP directory.
- Create a list of Hobbit names in text format, in the required format (name, frequency, name set). Use the ID # you chose in Step 1 above for the name set in each row (in our example, 38). Create two separate files, one for first names and one for last names. So, your first name data might look like this:
Frodo,1,38
Samwise,1,38 - Open names.txt. Find and delete all the rows of data that end with 38. (These will be near the end, since the files are in order by name set.)
- Copy and paste your Hobbit last names into the names.txt file and save.
- Repeat Steps 5 and 6 for the first_names.txt file.
- Back up the nations.txt file in your OOTP directory.
- Open nations.txt and find the row for Finland.
- Go to the eighth field of information and change the values from '11,92' to '38,100'. This changes Finland from using 92% Finnish names to using 100% Hobbit names.
- Go to the tenth field of information and delete the values '12,8,'. This removes the 8% of Swedish names that Finland normally gets. Leave the commas, though. The line should look like this:
69,Finland,Finland,FIN,Finnish,3,2,38,100,,, - Save the file.
- Close all the open files, and open OOTP.
- Create a new game with a fictional league. Choose Finland for the League Nation, and set the Foreign Player Percentage to 0.
- Start the game, and go to League Menu | Transactions | Show All Players tab. You will see that all the players have Hobbit names. If you check a player's profile, you will see that his nationality is still Finland.