Historical name and ethnicity accuracy

cbbl · 07-25-2011, 10:26 AM

Hey all ...

Not really a noob, per say, but have been playing OOTP so infrequently over the last few years that it is kinda like starting over.

Anyway, I'm the guy who likes to play a fictional league beginning right after WWII, and thus is looking to begin with historical names and ethnicities. I had a way to do it (and to evolve them over time) in older versions, but now that some files are XML, I'm, well ... as I said, learning from scratch.

Very simply, I want to build a fictional start-up league beginning in 1946 with era appropriate names and an all caucasian population. As I get into nearer to the 50s I want to modify the ethnicities to incorporate more African American players (at graduating increases), and eventually players of all traditional "baseball ethnicities".

I haven't yet played around with the files in OOTP12 other than to notice nations.txt is replaced with the xml file.

Any thoughts on how to accomplish this goal?

Thanks,
cbbl

joefromchicago · 08-15-2011, 01:17 PM

It used to be easy -- just make some changes in the ethnicities file. Now it's ... complicated.

07-25-2011, 10:26 AM	#1
cbbl All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 1,179	Historical name and ethnicity accuracy Hey all ... Not really a noob, per say, but have been playing OOTP so infrequently over the last few years that it is kinda like starting over. Anyway, I'm the guy who likes to play a fictional league beginning right after WWII, and thus is looking to begin with historical names and ethnicities. I had a way to do it (and to evolve them over time) in older versions, but now that some files are XML, I'm, well ... as I said, learning from scratch. Very simply, I want to build a fictional start-up league beginning in 1946 with era appropriate names and an all caucasian population. As I get into nearer to the 50s I want to modify the ethnicities to incorporate more African American players (at graduating increases), and eventually players of all traditional "baseball ethnicities". I haven't yet played around with the files in OOTP12 other than to notice nations.txt is replaced with the xml file. Any thoughts on how to accomplish this goal? Thanks, cbbl

08-15-2011, 01:17 PM	#2
joefromchicago Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 3,725	It used to be easy -- just make some changes in the ethnicities file. Now it's ... complicated.