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28527.27 in reply to 28527.24
Date: 5/9/2008 1:43:09 PM
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Very interesting.

I guess 92% for Estonian names is okey.
The other sources you brought out are too much off our actual population. Basically we don't have here Greek and German names at all. Maybe some little percentage of some English names.
Other percentage should be something like this: 5% Russian, 2% Finnish, 1% English.
In fact there's more Russians here, but I prefer Estonian names and in basketball here's not much Russian names anyway.

PS. Are names in countries also generated from different first and last name sources? For example Estonian first name and Finnish last name.

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28527.28 in reply to 28527.24
Date: 5/9/2008 1:46:00 PM
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Looking at the demographics data on wikipedia, it looks like the non-Estonian names should be primarily Russian.

I've edited that in the database, although I'm still a bit curious what that other population was composed of.

This is correct, Russians and Estonians are the two major ethnic groups there. Hopefully our Estonian colleagues will stop by to let you know whether they're happy with the new situation.

By the way, my money is still on Irish/Welsh ;)

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28527.29 in reply to 28527.15
Date: 5/9/2008 2:39:59 PM
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Bosnia and Herzegovina is now fixed and will only generate players with Bosniak, Serbian and Croatian names in the future. Thanks, Bevzil.

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Date: 5/9/2008 3:19:13 PM
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PS. Are names in countries also generated from different first and last name sources? For example Estonian first name and Finnish last name.


No, what we do is:

Step 1: Choose a name database to grab from.
Step 2: Grab a first name, last name, and face from that database.


This was always a gripe of mine in Hattrick. That model works pretty well in countries where ethnicities are still quite well-defined, but in countries like Canada or the USA that are a bit more multicultural and and have centuries worth of different immigrants, pulling both names from the same DB can be pretty limiting... e.g. I rarely saw an English first name and a French surname in HT Canada, which is a pretty common scenario IRL.

OTOH, one of my original players was "Mikey Li", and "Dirk Trujillo" is world-famous... so maybe this isn't an issue. Anyway, something to think about.

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Date: 5/9/2008 3:24:53 PM
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"Dirk Trujillo" is world-famous


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28527.33 in reply to 28527.5
Date: 5/11/2008 5:18:39 PM
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Will this include the ability for players that undergo religious conversions to change their names... ie. Lew Alcindor -> Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Keith Wilkes -> Jamaal Wilkes ?


Steve
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28527.34 in reply to 28527.33
Date: 5/17/2008 6:53:32 PM
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Any way without possibility to edit our countries data base there wont be any good decision to solve it out...

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