Last updated: 12/15/2008
Howtos:
Player names files are country-specific and contain last names and first names from a given country.
Making a player names file isn't really necessary for a country definition to work, but of course it's nicer if the player names of the teams in the country's leagues sound like original names from the country.
Player names files should begin with player_names_ and end with .xml
(of course); in between you put the country name, e.g.
player_names_england.xml or player_names_germany.xml.
The files should be put into the support_files/names directory.
To make the program load the names for a league from a certain names file,
you have to add a tag <names_file>sid</names_file> to the league definition
file, sid being the part of the file name between player_names_ and .xml.
The syntax of the names files is pretty simple, only three tags are used:
names is the root tag, first_name encloses a first name, and
last_name encloses a last name. The following example is taken from
player_names_germany.xml:
<names>
<first_name>Lucas</first_name>
<first_name>Lukas</first_name>
<first_name>Nicklas</first_name>
...snip...
<last_name>Wurster</last_name>
<last_name>Zieren</last_name>
<last_name>Zinn</last_name>
<last_name>Zwilling</last_name>
</names>
If possible, there should be more last names in the file than first names, maybe about twice as many as first names. 100 first and 200 last names make a nice names file already.