File that decides Maxis "townies"' names
Ayrell:
I'm glad a way to do this has been found, but I'm sorry that it's so annoying and hard. It sounds like that even to me, and I don't know about coding. Thanks everyone for looking into this.
I just don't know why did EA Games decide to make this game so hard to modify, seeing that as someone else said before in this thread, this franchise is so popular mainly because of the easy customization. Who knows what's on their minds...
The Spanish names are just ridiculous as well. "Hildegarda" is one I saw just yesterday, and in TS2 Vidcund and Pascal Curious were "Gumersindo" and "Pascualín"...
gamb:
Thanks for telling us where in the STBL they are, jordi.
Is there any particular reason there are two copies of every name? I have two instances of Aaron, Abbott, Austin, etc.
ShortyBoo:
Since I play with Story Progression off, I've avoided townie names for the most part. If I want a family to have a baby, I play through the pregnancy and name the baby before switching to another family. The only time I missed a baby being born, it was a girl and she was named Latisha. I've only ever known 2 people named Latisha in real life and both were black. This baby was half white and half asian. I just changed her name at City Hall. Of course, now I can't rename sims at City Hall anymore for whatever reason, so I'm more careful about making sure not to let the game name the babies. The only way I can change their names is through editsim. For whatever reason, when a sim who has kids from a previous marriage gets remarried, the kids in the family end up taking their step-dad's last name, which doesn't make sense to me. So I've had to change a lot of names, but now that City Hall doesn't have the rename option, I have to do it through editsim.
CheritaChen:
Quote from: jordi on 2009 July 13, 17:50:41
Last names: 6254 in random order from 22757 (Aaron) to 29010 (Fortier)
/snip/
Male names: 1037 in random order from 30021 (Aaron) to 31057 (Vince)
I wonder how many hours I'd have to run the game before it spat out Aaron Aaron? I think I'll keep an eye out for that one.
chann:
I've definitely seen Precious in my game, as well as Cristian (for a girl). And Guillermo Nguyen...for a black guy?!
I think EA sourced their names from California birth records. THAT would explain the weirdness, right?
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