sburke Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 (edited) This is particularly to those who have served, but by no means limited to them. One of the things that has always bugged me is the name file in CM is somewhere around 600 names for the Americans anyway. I have created a file of the top 5000 most common surnames in the US and it works much better. (Excel made it darn easy) I don't have a whole bunch of guys running around with the same name. I expect I'll likely do that for other nationalities as well. In looking for some other info though I came across the casualty lists for Iraq and Afghanistan. It occurred to me that within some limits (CM only displays 13 characters in name field) I could create a name file made up of those who gave their lives. What bothers me is - would that be insulting or simply strange? I am feeling kind of mixed about it. On the one hand it is a way of maintaining a memory of their sacrifice. On the other it could be considered kind of creepy. Thoughts? This is the site if anyone is interested. http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx Edited January 4, 2015 by sburke 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS:96B2P Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 I think I would be okay with it. However I can see where it might provoke some emotion from someone who was familiar with the name. This familiarity may not be a very common occurrence within the BF community. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AttorneyAtWar Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Another idea that is an off-shoot of this is for BFC to have a thread where you can have your name added to the game. The Wargame series (Escalation, Red Dragon) let you do this and it was always fun to see my name pop-up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted January 4, 2015 Author Share Posted January 4, 2015 easy enough to add your name. Funny to look though the list and see who is in it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combatintman Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 A definite no from me. It is meaningless without context - off the top of my head I know that one of my Afghan missions was specifically dedicated to LCpl Matthew Ford RM who lost his life during the action depicted and that was explicitly stated in the mission briefing. Having his name pop up somewhere random as one of the unit commanders in game would not really cut it. Also - what about the women - one of my friends and former colleagues SSgt Sharron Elliott was killed in Iraq in Nov 06. I would be pretty urinated off to see her name come up next to a picture of a bloke in game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stealthsilent1 Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 In the big picture it really doesn't matter, the soldiers are dead now and at the end, everyone is at peace. It's really a petty thing, who cares what they are named. I never look at the names. But it would be cool to make their names funny, just put in a bunch of stereotypes, that would make the game fun. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted January 4, 2015 Author Share Posted January 4, 2015 thanks combatintman, that is exactly the kind of thing I was worried about. That is enough for me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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