NationStates Jolt Archive


Lack Of Creativity

East Row
12-07-2007, 11:33
Does anyone notice that when reading a majority of the issues at least one of the citizen's names is a portion of a modern U.S. president? Now I am a patriot and all but I think that we, collectively, can come up with better names for our characters than George W. Clinton. I am not against funny names. I think we can eliminate bias by stepping up creativity. If you submit an issue think about that.
Sirocco
12-07-2007, 11:36
Most disputant names are randomly generated from a list of first and last names selected long ago.
Kahanistan
13-07-2007, 13:06
I personally think we could add a couple of dozen ethnic names to the mix. Probably 90% of the names there are Western, if some Indian, Arabic, African, Russian, etc. names were added, it might be more realistic and we won't have as many US Presidents advocating crazy positions. :)
Emperor Matthuis
13-07-2007, 23:35
I don't really tend to look at the names of the people in my issues. Especially since I've had most of them so many times, I just pick the same option to keep my economy one of the strongest in NationStates.