The Random name Generator in WoM is the worst of all time in video game history. Not sure if you could have created a lazier, more generic name generator if that was your exact task. Okay, now with the hyperbole insults out of the way, let me explain my hatred.
The names that are produced are nonsense and unpronounceable.
The random name generator is the same for every nation. Making the nations feel even more bland and generic.
The random name generator for city names, male champs and female champs are the same. It would be like saying "Ralph Johnson". Is "Ralph Johnson" My name? My Wife's name? Or is "Ralph" the city I live in, in the nation of "Johnson"? Either way, its fucking lame and stupid.
When you have a system like this, it just emphasises, both how many things in this game were made half-ass, and two, how bland and generic the nations are.
Each nation should have a default list of city names. In games like Civ or FFH2, each Nation has a list of city names that are reflective of the nations culture or history. FFH2 was great at this. I became emotionally attached to cities, just because their names had meaning. The most irritating thing about this, is that the nations DO have cannon names for their capitals at least!!! At least when a Sov creates a Kingdom/Empire's first city, it should have that name as default.
The random name generator for boys and girls should be different. We should be able to recognize that a name is feminine and masculine. Even if they are fantasy names that have no relevance in real cultures, having a difference in names due to both culture and masculinity/femininity would do wonders to make the world feel alive, like a real place.
Yes please.
...that's it. Just please fix it.
Not yet been able to try it out.Does sound interesting though; I never played Dwarf Fortress but I have heard a lot of good things about it, especially when it comes to procedural generation of ingame elements.
It's not as good as the namegen in DF, of course. It's just based on it.
Dude, the random name generator is for the lazy. I always name my cities and heroes with names from whatever book series I happen to be reading. Right now it's all wheel of time, (which, by the way, has an alarmingly low number of memorable male characters).
Yes, but do you go around renaming all the other players Cities and heroes too? What a pain in the ass.
Woot!
preach it brother.
Just put 100 pronounceable, sensible sounding world names in text a file and freaking keep count and loop once you have used them all. That would be a signifigant improvement over the current approach and would be quickly implemented. It would also be something that we could easily edit and would allow us to customize our game.
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