Name weighting for AI rulers

[Lysistrata]

One of the big immersion breakers for me in CK2 and 3 alike is the apparent lack of any sense of naming conventions for higher ranking rulers. Let the AI Karlings or Capets rule France for a century or 2, for example. Reading back over the title history, you're not as likely to find multiple Henris, Charleses, Louises, etc. as a bunch of kings with the most random-ass names like Centule, Manasses, and Evrard. Certainly for many European cultures there should be a clearer sense of royal/imperial naming conventions which lower-ranking rulers also follow to a lesser degree. Also, cultures like Bulgarian just need more historical names in their namelists. You can randomly generate baby names for quite a while as a Bulgarian before you encounter one that was historically used by their royalty, especially for women.

Even Greek needs more actual Byzantine era names rather than whimsical classical era names like Aristarchus.

 

[schnizzle]

Very important suggestion. Basically the reason why "rename everyone" is my favorite mod. I think this is a problem that bothers a lot of people but not that many are really really bothered by it, so this is why it might have been swept under the rug for now. Despite this problem being metioned several times in comments, this is the first time I see an actual suggestion post done about it. There should be something done about this. The question is what can be done?

One option is to tie a naming preference to titles. What I mean by this is give naming preferences to the title. Like a x% additional chance when naming a child that it has either the name of a previous ruler from the primary title, or from a ist of title specific names. For example Charles and Louis for the Kingdom of France, Lothaire for Lotharingia, and these names should have their foreign language versions like Ludwig, Karl and Lothar included. This isn't a perfect solution. Bavarian rulers probably weren't named Ludwig and Maximilian for the duchy, but for the Wittelsbach dynasty. If a French noble took control of the duchy he probably wouldn't name his child Louis just to conform to the naming sheme of the duchy, when his entire family was made up of Henris and Arnaults. But it is a start.

Another option would be to finetune cultural names or add some sort of dynasty dependent naming sheme. All of this sounds quite cumbersome for a problem not many people have voiced their discontent about so far. I don't think this will be fixed soon and until then I just continue using "rename everyone"