Some basic mod questions

[Corporal Kindel]

Thanks for the replies guys . Yeah, I figured it would be either impossible or next-to-impossible to do what I really want to do, namely adding a magic path . I'll probably never find the time to really delve into the code to the extent that's needed to do that modification. Oh well, it's not at the top of my list of things-to-do right away anyway.

As far as the name lists, thanks, that info was very good. I've already fleshed out a large notepad (.dm) doc with blank spots enough for about ten thousand names. It's gonna be a very large scale name-adding mod to cover the largest maps to insure that no duplicate names get generated. I just plan on leisurly adding 50 to 80 or so names every day until it's done, taking my time. I'm in no big rush to do it all at once. I do plan on adding a lot of colorful names but most are just gonna be short and sweet like George, Jim, Bob, Don, Dork, etcetera.

I do have a couple more general name questions though. I was hoping to find the list of basic names used by the nations in Dom3 so I don't inadvertantly duplicate one. Do you know if there's a master list anywhere? I'm very familiar with the maverni names, but I haven't used any other nation yet, except as an opponent.

I also have no idea what some of the nation's names are. For example, which nations are Rus, Gath, Deep ones (I assume R'lyeh for deep ones) and Rephaim? I need to have some idea of the national leader names so I can keep my custom-National-leader- names on topic so to speak.

Also, I'm guessing the custom name tables (127 and 128) are only used when creating (modding) new nations, otherwise these are never used, correct?

Last question is related to how the name mechanism works during a game of Dom 3. I've noticed some AI leader with the same name as my own guys, so I'm wondering how that works exactly. For example, using Maverni, I'm guessing that all the names in the maverni lists (tables) are used when recruiting new leaders, when this table is exhausted, does the game then switch to the Misc male & misc female table before recycling back to the beginning of the maverni table (after exhausting the misc tables)? Or does it skip the misc tables completely and just cycle back to the start of the maverni table? Or does it work some other way altogether?

Thanks for any replies,
rk