Chris wrote:I'd be interested to see the kind of frequency values you determined for what you ended up enjoying more
Well, there wasn't too much to it. Like I said, I roughly doubled the number of last names (added some first names also). Most of them I only assigned a frequency of 1, but simply adding any names at all decreases the frequency of the Smith/Jones/Brown type names by a little bit. Then I also sorted by most popular names, and anything over frequency of 20, I knocked down by about 5-10. I wasn't scientific about it, it was pretty scattershot but it helped some.
It's definitely improved the name generation. Ideally you'd get kind of an OOTP-type database which pretty much includes every last name there is, but that's an ungodly amount of work so this probably suffices for me.