Using information I gathered for a similar Rebuild 3 mod I made, this mod adds 500 male first names, 500 female first names, 500 last names, and 200 male and female names used for "Word on the Street" quotes on the colony management screen.

Male and female first names were drawn from the United States Social Security Administration's birth name popularity database for the year 2010 (the top 500 of each sex used for Citizen names; male and female names ranked 501 to 600 combined for Word on the Street quotes). Last names drawn from the United States 2010 Census database.

USAGE

In the game's default UnitNamesText.xml file (where all Citizen name possibilities are defined), there is a small set of human names for the Terran Resistance faction, and a similarly small set of human names that have no faction associated with them. Since all other name lists in the file have a faction associated with them except for United Earth and the Terran Alliance, the 2nd small set of human names is used for both of those human factions, as well as any other custom factions that don't have a custom .xml file created for them.

In this mod, I remove the small set of names assigned to the Terran Resistance completely and make my name lists the un-assigned default. That means that the same list is used for all three human factions, as well as any other custom factions without a custom .xml file.

I have also provided a file that you can edit and use as your custom faction's Citizen names list. I may do similar expansions for other factions if I can find or develop an alien names generator that can create names that sound similar to what the game provides by default.

COMPATIBILITY

I used the UnitNamesText.xml that exists after installing all DLC and expansions up to and including Retribution as a template. Crusades should be the minimum required expansion for this mod, but I think it will still work if you don't have Retribution.

INSTALLATION

Option 1: Replace Defaults

To make my names list the default for existing human factions, unzip ExpandedCitizenNames.zip file into your mods directory ("\Documents\My Games\GC3Crusade\Mods" in Windows). I included all the empty directories the game requires.

Option 2: Custom Faction

To use the custom factions xml file I provide, do the following:

1. Create your custom faction in the game, then exit the game.
2. Navigate to  "\Documents\My Games\GC3Crusade\Factions"

At the top of that directory you should see a file for your faction that follows the following naming format: [faction name with any spaces]_[a long series of letters and numbers].faction

You want to take note of the first part before the .faction file extension. For example, if you see a file named "Best Faction Ever_012A346B789C.faction" that part you want to copy is "Best Faction Ever_012A346B789C"

3. Open my "Faction Name_XXX_CitizenNames.xml" file in a text editor and copy the contents.

4. Open your equivalent "Best Faction Ever_012A346B789C.faction" file in a text editor, delete the contents and replace it with the content from my file above. In that same content you just pasted, replace all four instance of "Faction Name_XXX" with your equivalent faction identifier (Best Faction Ever_012A346B789C).