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Old 03-11-2008, 03:34 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by DesertFox07 View Post
My inital thought on the above issue is that OOTP uses a 1->1 relationship between the last names position in the names.dat file and a key that references it in the players dat. This is only a theory as I have no clue what the binary format is. But I have noticed that OOTP accepts and uses unique names you manually enter so I assume names.dat can be added to by OOTP, so I'sd assume this can be done manually as well. Can anyone confirm this?
You are correct. All the names (last, first and nick) are referenced by their position in the file - despite also having an ID field in the structure.
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