What's your sim name style?
When you play Sims, how do you guys usually name your sims? Are they normal names? Names based off of something? Names you make up that everyone kind of judges you for? I'm curious, because I have so...
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It depends on the sim, it depends on the family.
- One family may name all their kids with a Norse theme, another family may be going more vanilla with the names. Depends on the parents.
- Sometimes the name might be ironic.
- Sometimes I might be trying for historical accuracy, if it's supposed to be a very old vampire or something.
- Alien names are usually keymashes that I fix in order to make them pronounceable. Hyphens and apostrophes may or may not be included. Honestly I find aliens way easier to name than most other creatures for this reason; I don't need to consult any name lists or go by the few names I can think of off the top of my head. I can just make it up on the spot!
Notably, my game is also in Norwegian, so of course I tend to avoid English names. They just don't feel right.
Honestly I don't really have a particular naming style, I just go for whatever seems right for the sim in question.
At some point I honestly want to try doing the icelandic naming convention for a legacy, in which the baby's last name is the parent's first name. The game allows us to pick the child's first AND last name now, so why not?
- One family may name all their kids with a Norse theme, another family may be going more vanilla with the names. Depends on the parents.
- Sometimes the name might be ironic.
- Sometimes I might be trying for historical accuracy, if it's supposed to be a very old vampire or something.
- Alien names are usually keymashes that I fix in order to make them pronounceable. Hyphens and apostrophes may or may not be included. Honestly I find aliens way easier to name than most other creatures for this reason; I don't need to consult any name lists or go by the few names I can think of off the top of my head. I can just make it up on the spot!
Notably, my game is also in Norwegian, so of course I tend to avoid English names. They just don't feel right.
Honestly I don't really have a particular naming style, I just go for whatever seems right for the sim in question.
At some point I honestly want to try doing the icelandic naming convention for a legacy, in which the baby's last name is the parent's first name. The game allows us to pick the child's first AND last name now, so why not?
