world_default.xml, ethnicity.txt and names.txt files - what are the relationships?

[mikezone13]

Posted originally in the general discussion... posted here on advice.

Can someone give me a good run down on the relationships of these 3 files please.

What I am trying to do is create a league in a country that is multicultural and is about:

85% Caucasian
1% Chinese
1% Korean
2% Italian
1% German
1% African
1% Serbian
1% Greek
1% Indian
1% Filipino
1% Vietnamese
4% Polynesian

I have my world_default.xml setup correctly, however I keep having players created with specific ethnic names but the wrong face-type (e.g. Chinese and Korean names but a Caucasian face-type)

Thanks in advance for the run through on this as I thought I read something about it on here recently, but have been searching up and down and can't find it again.

[kq76]

I can't say I know exactly how the relationships work, but double check that you have all the ethnicities you want in that country's section of the xml file and that they all have the correct matching ethnicity ID from its file. See the below USA section for an example (note that you don't want the hardcoded parts). Other than that, I don't know.

<NATION id="206" use_hardcoded_ml_player_origins="1" this_is_the_usa="1" name="The United States" short="United States" pop="311900000" lid="0" gender="0" bbqual="5" abbr="USA" dem="American" time_zone="-5" observes_dst="1">
<ETHNICITIES>
<ETHNICITY lid="0" pct="2500" />
<ETHNICITY lid="1" pct="420" />
<ETHNICITY lid="2" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="3" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="4" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="7" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="8" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="9" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="10" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="11" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="12" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="13" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="14" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="15" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="16" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="17" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="18" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="19" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="20" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="21" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="22" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="23" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="24" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="25" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="26" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="27" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="28" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="29" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="30" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="31" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="32" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="34" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="35" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="36" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="37" pct="2" />
<ETHNICITY lid="38" pct="2" />
</ETHNICITIES>

[mikezone13]

Thanks, I beleive I've sorted it out myself, just played a bit with the ethnicities.txt and word_default.xml to ensure the predominant name/face type was over represented seems to ahve fixed everything up nicely (I simmed 24 years to get a sense of things).