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: 40Male: 40Last names: 40English:Female: 1080Male: 1076Last names: 3150As 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.

Weird. My game's in English, and yet every townie I meet is named Yoshida or Sakamoto.

"kwanzaabot;c-16173894" wrote:Weird. My game's in English, and yet every townie I meet is named Yoshida or Sakamoto.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.

"xitneverendss;c-16174296" wrote:"kwanzaabot;c-16173894" wrote:Weird. My game's in English, and yet every townie I meet is named Yoshida or Sakamoto.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

"king_of_simcity7;c-16175195" wrote:@Cinebar I had a Sim in TS2 named Randy London before. I forgot who it was with that second name but once years ago I accidently referred to a developer as 'Randy London' and no one knew who I was on about! :no_mouth: 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! :smiley: 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.

my game is install in French if I needed an English name I would simply type it other wise I would select a French name for my sims

Need more random names for non-English languages

kwanzaabot
8 years ago
Weird. My game's in English, and yet every townie I meet is named Yoshida or Sakamoto.
xitneverendss
8 years ago
"kwanzaabot;c-16173894" wrote:
Weird. My game's in English, and yet every townie I meet is named Yoshida or Sakamoto.

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.
Cinebar
8 years ago
"xitneverendss;c-16174296" wrote:
"kwanzaabot;c-16173894" wrote:
Weird. My game's in English, and yet every townie I meet is named Yoshida or Sakamoto.

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
Cinebar
8 years ago
"king_of_simcity7;c-16175195" wrote:
@Cinebar I had a Sim in TS2 named Randy London before. I forgot who it was with that second name but once years ago I accidently referred to a developer as 'Randy London' and no one knew who I was on about! :no_mouth:

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! :smiley:

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.
FriendlySimmers
New Traveler
8 years ago
my game is install in French if I needed an English name I would simply type it other wise I would select a French name for my sims
Magdaleena96
Seasoned Newcomer
8 years ago
"Morten8035;d-930158" wrote:
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.

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. :|
lisalittlesimme
8 years ago
Exactly! I play in german and the names are really bad. I'm not creative with names, I'd love to be able to use a decent random name generator. I'd be happy with the english names actually. I think there is a mod that lets you use the english pool of names instead, but I can't find it anymore. And I don't want to play the whole game in english just to get some decent names.
Weirly
New Spectator
8 years ago
"Magdaleena;c-16175318" wrote:

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. :|

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.
minimouette
7 years ago
"friendlysimmers;c-16175283" wrote:
my game is install in French if I needed an English name I would simply type it other wise I would select a French name for my sims

mine is installed in french too, but damn 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....
SimsTime
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
I play in Portuguese-Brazil. And it's exactly the same amount, 40 of each. To solve this problem, I made a mod with a friend that adds a huge amount of Brazilian names.

-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.