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Need more random names for non-English languages
Morten8035
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The game really need more names in CAS and for townies and NPC.
I've checked the game files and this is how many names there are in the Norwegian language compared to the English.
Norwegian:
Female: 40
Male: 40
Last names: 40
English:
Female: 1080
Male: 1076
Last names: 3150
As you can see, if you're playing the game in Norwegian (and probably other languages), you'll get very low variation when it comes to names and you'll just be seeing the same names over and over and over. (I'd repeat the last two letters in that sentence several more times to prove my points but I think I'll let that be.)
This just gets boring after a while so we really need more names, I'm sure I'm not alone feeling this.
I personally wouldn't mind to get all the English available while playing the game in my own language.
I've checked the game files and this is how many names there are in the Norwegian language compared to the English.
Norwegian:
Female: 40
Male: 40
Last names: 40
English:
Female: 1080
Male: 1076
Last names: 3150
As you can see, if you're playing the game in Norwegian (and probably other languages), you'll get very low variation when it comes to names and you'll just be seeing the same names over and over and over. (I'd repeat the last two letters in that sentence several more times to prove my points but I think I'll let that be.)
This just gets boring after a while so we really need more names, I'm sure I'm not alone feeling this.
I personally wouldn't mind to get all the English available while playing the game in my own language.
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Right. Ever since City Living, almost every randomly generated sim has an Asian name. I can’t believe they still haven’t fixed this (or maybe I can). It’s highly annoying.
I decided it's not a broken name generator but on purpose. Like in tribute to someone on the team, or a CEO or Disney bigshots, or to those who do the outsourcing (that team or peson etc.). I don't know, but it isn't the first time Maxis added big shot names to the game (CEOs and Investors etc.) and then the game had a lot of Sims by those names. So, I don't expect it will ever be fixed after I decided I'm right. lol
Funny how there has never been any Sim with the name Will Wright generated before and if there has then I want to see evidence!
Do you remember all the LeTourneau Sims in TS2, because of the producer and a CEO by that name. The graveyard was full and my Sims always ran into them. And Buckinghams etc. I think the name generator in TS4 is doing the same thing.
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YES. THANK YOU.
I play in Norwegian too, and dear lord there aren't many names available in the randomizer at all. Is it possible to mod more into it? I know for a fact that there are way more names than just 40, and I really feel like the translators got incredibly lazy here. The townies are all named more or less the same garbage, I want more variation!!!
Honestly it gets to the point where I just merge the townie households that end up with the exact same last names, that's how lacking our list of names is. Honestly kinda surprised my first name is even included.
Let me just say that I really, really envy the English-speaking players and their vast variety of available RNG names.
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Yeah, there's up to 17.000 first names names and probably more in Norway, 80 in the game is just disappointing.
I have done some modding and managed to add all the English names to the Norwegian names list. Only confirmed working in CAS so far, don't know if townies will get them yet until I meet one.
Either way, mods or not, I would really like to get more officially added names to the Norwegian list.
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mine is installed in french too, but 🐸🐸🐸🐸 I am annoyed that the only name spawning are french names when i'm making sims from different ethnic background. I wish we could patch in att the names of any language....
-1425 female first names (originally 40);
-277 last names (originally 40);
-518 male first names (originally 40).
Solved my problem.
In any case, this small number of names in the other languages is inadmissible. They can easily solve this.
I understand that they won't put in as many names as in the English version for all the translated ones, but 40 is not much at all. I would love if they added some more.
And in my current generation they all literally have the same name! My kid has befriended a few other kids (in school, on the playground...) and three of them have the SAME PLUM NAME! I hate that! I mean I have friends withe the same last name or the same first name. But how rare is it to meet three people with the same first and last name!?
All I want is some diversity! Some english names, some foreign names and most of all I don't want all Sims to have the exact same name!
I've played in English for years now because some of the translations in Finnish are so cringy which it's not the translators' fault btw... :-D
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Is it hard to do? I'd really want to be able to do that with french names because I'm sick of the 80 ugly names we've got!
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It doesn't eliminate the city life names for randoms, but for all others.