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[shizzy0]

I'd like to suggest pulling names for dwarves from some social networking site.  I did this by hand on one occasion and it added a lot to the story.  I felt worse when a dwarf named after my girlfriend died; I felt mad even!  Likewise, it influenced how I played when not-so-close-friends were in jeopardy.  It made it easier to allocate roles too because the dwarves were differentiated in my mind more.  I suggest that there be some text file where a player can list names they'd like to be given to dwarves.  A separate application can scour a social network to grab the names.  What do you guys think?

[Nogford]

Jesus Christ. Either you're taking the piss or you're one of the worst human beings I've ever come across.

[shizzy0]

I'm being completely earnest.  If that makes me the worst human being you've come across, your lower bound on humanity is not very low. 

[Capntastic]

What do you guys think?

I think it breaks immersion, is silly, and that Dwarf Fort shouldn't need to read people's social networking stuff.

[nenjin]

There is ONE element of this I do like.

It would be nice if I could input names into a .txt in the DF folder, and have the game look there for names. I always rename my dwarves, even if I don't really want to. I get tired of the repeat names, and the impossible to pronounce names. So for me, it would actually be nice to just drop names into a .txt file whenever I come up with them, and know that I'll see them on my dwarves at some point. (Hopefully with the right genders...)

As for DF connecting to the internet to get names...uh, no.

[shizzy0]

I'm glad we all agree that "A separate application can scour a social network to grab the names."   

[Valdemar]

If you get past the "social network" part in the title, having a text file to automatically name your dwarves from sounds pretty good. Is there perhaps an updated utility capable of doing this? Dwarf Companion certainly can, though it hasn't been updated for DF2010 yet.

[Strife26]

It could be a cool feature to have a text file with some chosen names in it. Definitely help with Video Game Caring Potential, or if one felt like having the good Captain Ironblood show up somewhere.

[Craftling]

You would put an actual person into Dwarf Fortress!? The place where people drown dwarves in magma for fun!? I applaud you sir.

[tomas1297]

That's horrible.And I didn't misspell "hilarious".I meant horrible.

[kurokikaze]

Whoa, that's some crazy idea.

Also, I think for people names this is actually fun. Maybe human liason named after your FB friend (drown him in magma!:)). But for dwarves human names just won't go.

Also, YMMV.

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[penguinofhonor]

I find this suggestion hilarious. Toady should dedicate next April 1 for hilarious things like this.

[atomicthumbs]

Urist McFarmer has watered your crops!

[Chronas]

making new names isn't that hard to do.

Spoiler: painfully long and comprehensive explanation (click to show/hide)

you just enter language_DWARF.txt and create new words in the form of:

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[T_WORD:<english_word>:<dwarfish_word>]you might as well use the same word for both.
then in language_words.txt define their use -a noun will simply do and pluralizing can lead to unwanted names. FRONT and REAR force syntax to a small degree. limiting compounds to 'Johnsmith' instead of 'Smithjohn' with no 'of's 'the's or adjectives.

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[WORD:<english_word>]
[NOUN:<english_word>:<english_plural>]
[<FRONT/REAR>_COMPOUND_NOUN_SING]then in language_SYM.txt define a symbol for your new words in the form of:

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[SYMBOL:<symbol_identifier>]
[S_WORD:<english_word>]then in entity_default.txt add in under [ENTITY:MOUNTAIN]

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[SELECT_SYMBOL:REMAINING:<symbol_identifier>]the 'REMAINING' tag instead of 'WAR', 'BRIDGE', 'TUNNEL' etc means that they will only use the symbol for naming everything but constructions and events, therefore only people and artifacts. but the other selected symbols will be used for naming them too.

Spoiler: example (click to show/hide)

if i were to put 'John Smith' in i would have:
in language_DWARF.txt:

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[T_WORD:JOHN:john]
[T_WORD:SMITH:smith]in language_words.txt

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[WORD:JOHN]
[NOUN:john:john]
[FRONT_COMPOUND_NOUN_SING]
[WORD:SMITH]
[NOUN:smith:smith]
[REAR_COMPOUND_NOUN_SING]in language_SYM.txt:

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[SYMBOL:REALNAMES]
[S_WORD:JOHN]
[S_WORD:SMITH]and in entity_default.txt:

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[SELECT_SYMBOL:REMAINING:REALNAMES]

-it just takes just a really long time

Be warned though that names are not gender or syntax specific, and can result in ridiculous names, like 'Jim Johnsmith' or 'Smith Maryjohnson' -remember that the dwarves are used to names like 'Dagger Canyonpipe'
'Urist'. 'Sodel', 'mestthos', etc will still be in there if you don't delete [SELECT_SYMBOL:REMAINING:ARTIFICE] and [SELECT_SYMBOL:REMAINING:EARTH]. the only way to remove all dwarfish names from the list is to delete all symbol selectors, but that will result in the game only being able to use singular noun compounds for forts/wars/roads -naming them like people
so, the whole mess isn't really worth it.

Spoiler: irrelevant grumbling (click to show/hide)

somebody had better value this information. took me way too long to figure this shit out