Commanders with duplicate names?

[Kristoffer O]

Three people I know well goes by the name Johan. In order to reduce the confusion they have been renamed using the 'r' key. They now goes by the names JK, Korea and Gribbling.

The swedish name base is probably too small. In the next patch it might be remedied, depending on how the election goes. Göran Persson has not put the name pool on the agenda of the Swedish Social Democrats, but you never know.

[Demosthenes]

That's pretty funny.

[z0dd]

Keep in mind that the problem I described below has commander names changing in the middle of the game. They don't enter the game with the same name as an existing commander; their name changes to the name of one of my other commanders!!

This has to be a bug, and I'm surprised I'm the only one who has encountered this, as it's happened in many of my games, including a PBEM game.

[PvK]

Ok, well then that does sound like a new bug which you have been peculiarly cursed with for some reason. If you have the patience to do so, you might want to save your turn files each turn, so you can send evidence to Illwinter the next time it happens, so they can try to figure out why it happens and fix it.

As for duplicate names in real life, in my grade school we once had I think 5 Peter's in a class of about 50-60 kids. We used initials: Peter V, Peter M, Peter S, Peter G and ... Peter G... when we got two Peter G's, we had to use their full Last names. Hence my suggestion for adding second names to avoid duplicates. Epithets would also be fun. Already got a Pons? Your next Pons gets to be "Pons the Bloodthirsty" etc.

PvK

[gladestrider]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
The swedish name base is probably too small. In the next patch it might be remedied, depending on how the election goes. Göran Persson has not put the name pool on the agenda of the Swedish Social Democrats, but you never know.

How about the ability to simply include a file of names that the game will load and automatically add to the pool? Then if you're doing a mod based on an established theme you could use names common to that theme.

gladestrider