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More British Town Names
Posted: 12 Nov 2011 16:31
by hthhs
Hi all,
I've made a GRF containing approximately 2300 real names of British cities, towns, villages and places. Most of them are from me haphazardly editing a list of railway stations in the UK mainland, and adding some villages from around Leeds and Cambridge. The names of cities have a greater chance of appearing, larger cities even more so.
It adds two town names options:
More British will generate only real names, while
More British+ will add affixes to approximately 40% of the names generated, allowing more than 100000 unique town names to be generated.
Enjoy! Feedback is much appreciated
Re: More British Town Names
Posted: 21 Nov 2011 12:55
by JacobD88
Fantastic hthhs!
You must have spent an age compiling this. I'm using the MoreBritish+ option and the new combinations are working brilliantly
Re: More British Town Names
Posted: 21 Nov 2011 18:48
by jonnie47
great job
Re: More British Town Names
Posted: 23 Nov 2011 11:12
by JacobD88
First interesting combination from this set...
- Great Sugar Loaf?
- Unnamed, 1st Jan 1860#1.png (42.53 KiB) Viewed 6002 times
Where on earth did the words "Sugar" and "Loaf" come from...
The irony is it's tiny population
Re: More British Town Names
Posted: 23 Nov 2011 18:11
by kamnet
There are several mountains or great hills in the UK which bear the name "Sugar Loaf" because of their steep hillsides and rounded tops, resembling a traditional sugar loaf.
Re: More British Town Names
Posted: 23 Nov 2011 18:44
by PaulC
Since the grf is based on a list of station names it would seem to come from here:
Sugar Loaf railway station
Re: More British Town Names
Posted: 24 Nov 2011 22:39
by JacobD88
Wow! Great find! I love the fact that it's the 14th least used station in the UK with only 99 paying passengers in a year! That's incredible...
Re: More British Town Names
Posted: 19 Jan 2012 17:25
by JacobD88
Think i've found a bug with this GRF and FIRS...
When using MoreBritish+ (haven't tried with the normal one) and FIRS 0.7.0M or r2701 and OTTD nightly r23823 many FIRS industries, those that add a suffix such as Mills, Factory, Farm, etc. Will not provide the town name with that suffix; you just end up with a whole load of stations named "Mill" or whatever...
If i stop using MoreBritish+ then the problem stops; at first i thought it was because i'd switched NewGRFs in a game (hence no save attached), but the problem persists with any new game i start too...
NewGRF List...
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[preset-FIRS]
newcc_set-0.1newcc.grf =
more_british_town_names-1.0morebritishtownnames_1.grf =
opengfx_landscape-0.2.3ogfx-landscape.grf = 0 0 3 6
Industryfirs-nightlyfirs.grf = 0 0 2 0 0 1
Infastructurenutracks-nightlynutracks.grf = 0 2 0 0 80 125 180 230
smits-1.0smits.grf =
foobars_tram_tracks-1.0.0foobarstramtracks.grf = 0 0 1
RoadVehegrvts.grf =
RoadVehgenerictrams_v0.4.grf =
RoadVehpb_hovs.grf =
light_road_vehicle_set-0.2beta2lrvs-0.2.grf =
generic_cars-0.4cars.grf =
bobs_random_vehicles_-0.8.2brbvv0.8.2w.grf =
bats-0.4batsv0.4w.grf =
modern_tram_set-3.1motraset_r3.1.grf =
trolleybus_set-0.2trolley.grf =
opengfx_road_vehicles-0.3.1ogfx-rv.grf = 0 9 9 1 1 1
heqs_heavy_equipment_set-1.5.1heqs.grf = 9 9 1 1 1 1
Climatetreesw.grf =
Infastructuredutchcatw.grf =
Stationscanstnw.grf = 3 0 0 0
InfastructureUKRoadswSigns.grf =
total_bridge_renewal_set.1.12total_bridges.grf =
total_town_replacement_set-3.13ttrs3w.grf = 1 0 0 1
tai_uk_houses-0.3tai_uk.grf =
uk_town_set-2.1ukts_2.1.grf =
fish_ship_set-0.9.2fish.grf =
Shipsnewshipsw.grf =
sailing_ships-0.4sailing_ships.grf =
Stationsnewstatsw.grf =
Stationsukwaypointsw.grf =
Stationsbuffers.grf =
Stationsae_ruraw.GRF =
Stationsae_subuw.GRF =
Stationsae_cityw.GRF =
industrial_stations_renewal-0.8.1indstatr.grf = 0 0 0
dwestationtiles_industrial_ter-v0.7dwe_stat_r.grf =
chips_station_set-0.6.0chips.grf =
vast_station_tiles-0.2.0vast.grf =
vast_fences-0.2.0vastfences.grf = 1 1
InfastructureVASTobjects.grf =
Infastructuremaricow.grf =
dwenewobjects-v0.1dwe_newobj.grf =
ukrs2__the_uk_railway_set-0.82proj1000.grf = 0 0 6 0 1
ukrs2_uk_railway_addon_set-1.1pj1kadd.grf =
invisible_leading_engine-0.21blank-engine.grf = 2
TrainSetsTranspEngw.GRF =
climate_dependant_airports-0.3.0airportsplus.grf =
Airportsseaplaneairport_v1_0.grf =
av8_aviators_aircraft_set-2.0pb_av8w.grf = 0 0 0 0 3
general_av8ion-1.0genav8.grf =
hot_air_balloon-1.0hotairballoon.grf =
apache_helicopter-1.2apache_w.grf =
Infastructurebigdepot.grf =
Infastructuretramdpw.GRF =
Infastructurehighhqw.grf =
Climatenewobjects_mq.grf =
Climatesacsobjects1w.grf =
ClimateTTD_landscapew.grf =
Re: More British Town Names
Posted: 19 Jan 2012 17:38
by planetmaker
Did you try whether that issue maybe persists for other townname newgrfs and other industry sets?
It might be another view on
http://bugs.openttd.org/task/4986
Re: More British Town Names
Posted: 19 Jan 2012 18:09
by JacobD88
Hi planetmaker, thank-you for the prompt reply.
Yes, it appears the problem persists with other Town Name GRFs (I've just tried British Town Names after your post), but, for me at least, doesn't give any problems with Default Names (English Original) which is why i thought it was MoreBritish+.
If the moderators want to move my post elsewhere that's fine as it appears from my experience and the flyspray article its something in trunk not this GRF afterall...
It is however causing problems in more places than the News Article if is affecting Station Names, so i have commented on the flyspray task.