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Originally Posted by Sagitta
I did a similar thing a couple months back.
Since I have the ethnicities in mine, you could grab them and use them for your file if you want. I based mine on US census data, and its generally all right except for a preponderance of forein first names. Without tweaking the names files, you wind up with a lot of non-Anglicized first names popping up.
EDIT: Nearly Realistic US State Ethnic Ratios
Added a link to the thread (actually at this time its right below this one on the board...) for you so you can find it. |
Read your thread, found it interesting. I was looking at doing mine similar but did not like the first names being "foreign", but may be looking at doing this by changing some of the ethnic groups in the ethnicities files getting rid of some of the ones that may not be used. Another down side is that if you set it by race first (Black, White, Hispanic) that only leaves one more ethnic group for your nation. Wisconsin as an example is 43% German heritage, but there are also a lot of Polish and Italian people in the southern part of the state and a LOT of Norweigan, Scandinavian people in the north although the percentage of total population is small.
Perhaps I will look at this more this weekend....
BTW, found it interesting that you use 39 for the african-american players and caucasian at 0. I did it the opposite because of the modern names in set 0. I still wanted some modern names for causcasian players so I use set 0 and modified it to 50%white, 50% black. To do the calcs all I did was find the black population percentage first, doubled it, then find the hispanic population, add the two and the remainding percentage went to set 39 which I use for caucasion only.... only had a problem with DC which is predominately black (57%)....set them to 47% to make it work with the set...