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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
Are you serious?
The International Ice Hockey Federation has 51 full members, of which about a quarter are barely able to field a national squad, let alone contribute players to professional leagues. I sincerely doubt that Mongolia, Hong Kong, India, or North Korea are sending a lot of players to the NHL.
Forty name sets would be perfectly adequate for a realistic representation of international hockey as it currently exists. |
Hehe, indeed, they don't send many players to the NHL - they are still at the "let's try not to be destroyed this year again" stage. Still, it's a matter of what level of realism you enjoy, of course.
If we look at the current 40 sets that come with OOTP, we can always part ways with African, Indian, Polynesian, Filipino, Indonesian, Pakistani, Vietnamese and US Historical. These can be replaced by Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Belarussian, Slovak, Slovenian and Hungarian. We're back at 40.
But we still miss Swiss German, Italian German (South Tyrolers actually make up a good percentage of the players hailing from Italy), Romansh (several top Swiss players are Romansh), Swiss French (yes, there's many unique names not found in France), Tatar (several past and present notable Soviet/Russian players are Tatars, such as Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, for instance), Israelis (yes, there are pros such as Alon Eisenman), Bulgarian, Icelandic or ethnic Kazakhs, who are increasingly numerous. We're up to 49, and I did not consider any Division III nation, nor any of the affiliated members who are beginning to play or are newly registered, nor even Belgium, which would need two sets.
My point is, it's not so much a need to release a game that contains a hundred name sets that matters. It could only come with 20 and I wouldn't mind,
as long as it is possible to add more. That's the key part - being able to add more ourselves if we are so inclined, which, as far as I know, is not possible in OOTP. If the devs want to keep their current nameset structure, they could perhaps just include 20, 50, 100 or however many as seen fit empty set slots which can be filled and attributed a custom name.
-YZG