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Originally Posted by Bluenoser
So that's one example. I didn't say it never happens, but once certainly isn't the norm.
As to how OOTP does it, well only Markus can answer that, since he doesn't share his programming (not that he should), but whatever he does, it certainly works quite well.
The point I'm trying to make here is this - don't ignore your community because something is easier to do another way. OOTP got to where it is in large part because of the community. When you say things like Using middle names may be convenient for people building picture sets remember who those people are. For me, and this is true for a large majority of OOTP users, ease of doing these sort of things (naming convention for images for ex) is what keeps me coming back and buying OOTP year after year. It's easy for me to customize and add my own logos, pictures, etc.
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But as I tried to mention, OOTP doesn't do it well, when you add many more leagues. Given my experience with creating large universes, I can assure you that in larger universes the middle initial does become a real problem.
That's especially so since, as alluded to by others, sometimes it's difficult to impossible to find a middle name. So then you have to arbitrarily assign a middle inital of John A. Smith, John B. Smith etc. Good luck remembering which John Smith is which when you get around to making the pics.
Does this happen a ton? No, but certainly enough to make things difficult. And it's worse, much worse, for hockey. Especially given the fact that Swedish names do repeat often.
Now I'm certainly not saying there's no better way than including the birthdates, perhaps there is. Hopefully someone can come up with one.
In fact I don't think anyone that's posted above is necessarily in love with using birthdates. But those of us with the experience of making facepacks for very, very large universes have learned that the middle initial is definitely not the best way to go.