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Old 03-06-2003, 05:58 PM   #8
church
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: winnipeg, manitoba.
Posts: 121
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Originally posted by Matteo
church: how did you change the names? Did you use the editor within OOTP or is there a way to do it more efficient?
I made a more efficient way. Though I'm probably going to add real AAGPBL players by hand.

The way I did it was to make a custom fnames.dat file. I took the 1000 most popular names from each decade from 1900 to 1990 and put them into a text file. I then had a friend write a small script to count the instances of each name and spit out a file with the names in alphabetical order with their frequency beside them. So it looks something like this:

Amy 8
Isabel 2
Sue 5

Just as in the real fnames file but different in the fact that it only goes up to 10 and well its all female names. I thought about changing the frequecys to go higher than 10 but decided that I'd rather have more unique names come up than to have a hundered Marys etc.

If anyone is interested in the file I'd be more than happy to post it in the mod's forum along with a bit on instructions on how to get them to work.
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