Just thought I'd update you on my progress.
For character names, I am at:
Holland - 3982 Male, 3210 Female, 1045 Surnames
England - 816 Male, 501 Female, 1651 Surnames
For ship names, I am at:
England - 4277
France - 827
Holland - 253
Pretty unbalanced numbers, I know. I've been bouncing around from one country to another just so I don't go insane trying to understand any one language lol. The ship names have been pretty interesting to research because I've been learning some history about each countries navy and some of these ships. I honestly didn't know that the Dutch navy gave the British and French navies a run for their money back in the olden days. As for the character names, I've been using censuses and baby name sites to get a broad range. I'm taking my time with the British because I'm trying to stick to names that sound like they would be British in origin.
One question I had was that their isn't a variable range for the Pirate nation in the document with the rest of the character names. How exactly does the game generate names for pirates? I was thinking that maybe there is coding somewhere to randomly pull names from any of the countries. If not, maybe this should be how they are generated. Granted the voice for the pirate characters in this game sounds a lot like the British voice, but I'm thinking the Pirates nation would be like the mutts of the Caribbean.
Regardless, the current way, at least current as of build 13 (I haven't tried 14) seems broken. When I capture a pirate captain, his name is usually Thierry Bartolone. Seriously, I can remember it without having played for a few days, that's how often it is. If not that, like say I've already got a pirate by that name in my hold, the next captain is probably either Deadly Pirate or doesn't have a name.
Anyways, I'm going to keep building up these files so that someday you will be able to never run into the same individual again or sink the exact same ship 10 instances in a row.
Is there a timeframe for build 14 being done? I'd read in another thread that it might be done soon and I'd like to contribute this to it if you'd have it. It shouldn't be a difficult add or need any troubleshooting.