[joefromchicago]

Well, as someone who has contributed a few name mods, this is discouraging. I hope the developers are working on this and fixing it. I get the sense that shifting ethnicities to the xml file might have been one of those things that wasn't thoroughly tested, like the introduction of historical minors a couple of versions ago.

Anyway, since there's now no limit to the number of ethnicities you can have, I suppose you can avoid the problem by having a comprehensive list of ethnicities in the xml file to start with. That way, any changes that you make down the line would be made in the in-game nation editor, which I presume still works. Of course, that also means you need to get that comprehensive list of ethnicities to begin with, and you have to make sure you get it right the first time.

Oh well, two steps forward, one back... that's still progress, right?