Name concerns are Fake News

[Cen]

I just made the following names for test characters:

Broserilis
Brolloszek
Brotoxxulous
Brostlebane

all untaken

if bro versions of the gods arent taken nothing is

[dekova]

Originally Posted by Cen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I just made the following names for test characters:

Broserilis
Brolloszek
Brotoxxulous
Brostlebane

all untaken

if bro versions of the gods arent taken nothing is

I will pay you one million internet points for Brolloszek.

[Cen]

Originally Posted by dekova [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I will pay you one million internet points for Brolloszek.

I believe I deleted that ogre an hour ago. If its not still available someone else took ;D

[Maker_Mayhem]

Brolusek Bro

[Asher]

Check out this link for the number of words for each letter count.

The numbers are a tad bit lower than you reference.

https://www.quora.com/How-many-4-let...ist-in-English

How many of words are there of different sizes in that dictionary?

# Case-sensitive results
# To address why there are 52 1-letter words.
# macOSX considers each letter a separate word
# so -> 26 * 2 ( for upper and lower cases)
1 letter words -> 52
2 letter words -> 160
3 letter words -> 1420
5 letter words -> 10230
4 letter words -> 5272
8 letter words -> 29989
7 letter words -> 23869
9 letter words -> 32403
6 letter words -> 17706
11 letter words -> 26013
10 letter words -> 30878
12 letter words -> 20462
14 letter words -> 9765
16 letter words -> 3377
15 letter words -> 5925
20 letter words -> 198
19 letter words -> 428
17 letter words -> 1813
13 letter words -> 14939
18 letter words -> 842
21 letter words -> 82
22 letter words -> 41
23 letter words -> 17
24 letter words -> 5

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How many of those words would people want as their name? I suspect those numbers are a small fraction of these numbers.

[Nagoya]

Dictionary words != names... words like: Juul, Talep, Findar or whatever makes a perfectly fine name, not in a dictionary.

Even if I lower my percentage to 0.00001% of possible combination of letters (and i didn't do 4^26, so i already filtered out a lot of consonant mashups), which is one in ten millions, it would still take about 90,000 iterations of Green to take 0.01% of these names.

It's honestly flabergastingly high as a number the possibilities that we still have open.
You just have to think of a name for your character, not a gimmick word that people will go, "Oh, good one [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]" when they see it.

If anything, this will slightly protect immersion.
Well.
Slightly.
People are still the usual dumbasses they are ^^;

Hell, some people even name their character after a city they lived in or something. losers.

[Trollhide]

Originally Posted by Nagoya [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hell, some people even name their character after a city they lived in or something. losers.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=17488

Originally Posted by P1999 Naming Policy

Common words and phrases that would not be found in the time, place and setting of EverQuest (e.g. Switchblade, Phaser, Toaster, Cannabis).
Names of religious, occult, or significant historic origin (e.g. Jesus, Allah, Satan, Stalin).

Shut it down, mods. I'm sure he can find another name from the 565,341,123,140 perfectly mathematically acceptable ones.

[Videri]

Thanks a lot for running the numbers and making this post.

[Nagoya]

Originally Posted by Trollhide [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=17488


Shut it down, mods. I'm sure he can find another name from the 565,341,123,140 perfectly mathematically acceptable ones.

Just to be clear, that was a jab at myself [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I'm not a witch hunter for names.

[Asher]

Originally Posted by Nagoya [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Dictionary words != names... words like: Juul, Talep, Findar or whatever makes a perfectly fine name, not in a dictionary.

Even if I lower my percentage to 0.00001% of possible combination of letters (and i didn't do 4^26, so i already filtered out a lot of consonant mashups), which is one in ten millions, it would still take about 90,000 iterations of Green to take 0.01% of these names.

It's honestly flabergastingly high as a number the possibilities that we still have open.
You just have to think of a name for your character, not a gimmick word that people will go, "Oh, good one [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]" when they see it.

If anything, this will slightly protect immersion.
Well.
Slightly.
People are still the usual dumbasses they are ^^;

Hell, some people even name their character after a city they lived in or something. losers.

I suspect those names are less desirable than names like:

John, Shawn, Robert, Legolas etc.

Just because you can arrange letters into many different combinations doesn't mean even 0.00001% are desirable. I'd add many more 0s before the 1.