OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - World Templates creating too many similar names

siobhan · 03-31-2017, 06:33 PM

Not to keep annoying the forum about this...but maybe I know what's going on. I may need to change the name of this post accordingly...

In a text editor, I looked at the names.dat file for a league that uses the same custom database, but is not based on a template, compared to the ones I've put on the FTP. If I need to put the non-template on the FTP, I'll do so.

Anyway, I've noticed that first and last names are seemingly being restricted to one nameset for the template leagues. (That there's a difference of one or two megabytes in the files is telling as well...) Because I (temporarily) have Juan and Jose in nameset 0 (testing purposes...), this is why there are no players named that in nameset 1. I have yet to put in initialed names in the edited nameset 0, which is why they show up frequently in nameset 1. Likewise with last names...Garcia and such shows up in nameset 0, and thus does not occur in nameset 1. Plus, because names are not yet fully spaced in nameset 0, de Jesus shows up frequently in nameset 1. (Got that? Good.)

Hopefully, this makes sense to more than just me.

If you need more info, I'll try to provide it.

03-31-2017, 06:33 PM	#3
siobhan Minors (Single A) Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 86	Noticing a major difference in .dat files... Not to keep annoying the forum about this...but maybe I know what's going on. I may need to change the name of this post accordingly... In a text editor, I looked at the names.dat file for a league that uses the same custom database, but is not based on a template, compared to the ones I've put on the FTP. If I need to put the non-template on the FTP, I'll do so. Anyway, I've noticed that first and last names are seemingly being restricted to one nameset for the template leagues. (That there's a difference of one or two megabytes in the files is telling as well...) Because I (temporarily) have Juan and Jose in nameset 0 (testing purposes...), this is why there are no players named that in nameset 1. I have yet to put in initialed names in the edited nameset 0, which is why they show up frequently in nameset 1. Likewise with last names...Garcia and such shows up in nameset 0, and thus does not occur in nameset 1. Plus, because names are not yet fully spaced in nameset 0, de Jesus shows up frequently in nameset 1. (Got that? Good.) Hopefully, this makes sense to more than just me. If you need more info, I'll try to provide it.