[OTTD] UK Town Names - v1.0 [11/01/2014]

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[OTTD] UK Town Names - v1.0 [11/01/2014]

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So, I was playing around generating random maps in OTTD earlier this evening - using the British Town Names GRF. I was getting frustrated as it seemed to struggle to generate any more than 800 names, so I decided to make a slightly extended version. This has some 13,700+ names, so should hopefully cover all the bases.

It is uploaded to BaNaNaS (UK Town Names) and thus available ingame or you can download it from this post.

In the future I think I want to try and give a higher priority to the names of cities and bigger towns, but works quite well as is currently.

Any questions, comments etc please shout.
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How is this GRF different to British town names and more British town names GRF's?
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Morgs wrote:How is this GRF different to British town names and more British town names GRF's?
Well, like I said above, British Town Names can't generate more than 800 town names or so, compared to over 13,000 in this GRF.

As for More British Town Names, I wasn't even aware it existed.

I assume technically speaking, British wouldn't include names of cities/towns etc in the Republic of Ireland.
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jvassie wrote:
Morgs wrote:How is this GRF different to British town names and more British town names GRF's?
Well, like I said above, British Town Names can't generate more than 800 town names or so, compared to over 13,000 in this GRF.

As for More British Town Names, I wasn't even aware it existed.

I assume technically speaking, British wouldn't include names of cities/towns etc in the Republic of Ireland.
Thank you

You do realise the Republic of Ireland seperated in the early 1921 I presume you meant Northern Ireland
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Morgs wrote:
jvassie wrote:
Morgs wrote:How is this GRF different to British town names and more British town names GRF's?
Well, like I said above, British Town Names can't generate more than 800 town names or so, compared to over 13,000 in this GRF.

As for More British Town Names, I wasn't even aware it existed.

I assume technically speaking, British wouldn't include names of cities/towns etc in the Republic of Ireland.
Thank you

You do realise the Republic of Ireland seperated in the early 1921 I presume you meant Northern Ireland
Yeah never mind me :lol:
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jvassie wrote: Yeah never mind me :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Good work dude. You better have kept Brierley Hill in!!!
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Re: [OTTD] UK Town Names - v1.0 [11/01/2014]

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Did I do something wrong? Is this working for everybody else? :(

By default it seems every odd town is called Lewis<Something>, who is Lewis, a developer?
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It's just luck. The names are randomly generated based on an algorithm. I just ran it on a 1024*2 map w/ hundreds of towns. I got for instances of "Lewis" and 12 of "Bree".
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Re: [OTTD] UK Town Names - v1.0 [11/01/2014]

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used this and all i get is the silly uk nakes tht ttd had and i done over 7000 towns and cities
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Hello
Paulica Windrunner wrote: 21 Oct 2023 18:22 used this and all i get is the silly uk nakes tht ttd had and i done over 7000 towns and cities
It's not just that you have to download the town name set, you also have to activate it in the game settings.

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where in the game settings

Auge wrote: 23 Oct 2023 07:03 Hello
Paulica Windrunner wrote: 21 Oct 2023 18:22 used this and all i get is the silly uk nakes tht ttd had and i done over 7000 towns and cities
It's not just that you have to download the town name set, you also have to activate it in the game settings.

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ty lol
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