Has anyone created a Kerbal name generator?

[SuperWeegee4000]

A thought I had. If not, I would love to see one.

[LameLefty]

Did you watch the Squadcast last night? Harvester said that, other than the few names "hardwired" into the game like Jeb, Bill, Bob, Gus and a few others, the game pulls a couple syllables together from a pool and comes up with a new name. There are something in excess of 10,000 combinations and they've never seen the system generate duplicates even after killing a LOT of kerbals.

[SuperWeegee4000]

Uh... when did I say anything about in-game?

[LameLefty]

Uh... when did I say anything about in-game?

You didn't. You also didn't say why anyone would need it otherwise.

[Guest]

It would be incredibly easy to program. Choose a random number of syllables from a pool, combine them randomly, slap "Kerman" onto the end, and call it good. Given a list of syllables I could write that in a few minutes. If you really want it you could easily write it yourself.

[SuperWeegee4000]

I can't code... and you would need to take every syllable from the config files.

[Javster]

I can't code... and you would need to take every syllable from the config files.

If you read up about Python, it's easy to learn. I know very little about it, but I think it's possible.

[NovaSilisko]

I could make it since I have the syllable tables available but I'm not sure that would be looked upon very well.

[maniacc0]

I'm failing to see the point of this....

[SuperWeegee4000]

I'm failing to see the point of this....

Well, it's fun. You can use it for stories. Don't be like that....

[swiftgates24]

Well, it's fun. You can use it for stories. Don't be like that....

It's fun to click a button and see what name comes out? And besides, you can make your own. Dunbill Kerman. There. I did it. No need for a generator now.

[SuperWeegee4000]

It's fun to click a button and see what name comes out? And besides, you can make your own. Dunbill Kerman. There. I did it. No need for a generator now.

It's a tool....

Why is everyone rejecting this idea so harshly?

[kola2DONO]

It's really easy to make a kerbal name generator, i could make one now if you want.

[Zeblote]

Here's how kerbal names are generated:

First, it's decided whether to pick a pre-made name or to build a new one. If it picks a pre-made one, it takes one from this list:

Adam, Al, Alan, Archibald, Buzz, Carson, Chad, Charlie, Chris, Chuck, Dean, Ed, Edan, Edlu, Frank, Franklin, Gus, Hans, Jack, James, Jim, Kirk, Kurt, Lars, Luke, Mac, Matt, Phil, Randall, Scott, Scott, Sean, Steve, Tom, Will

If it doesn't, then it takes one of these strings:

Ad, Al, Ald, An, Bar, Bart, Bil, Billy-Bob, Bob, Bur, Cal, Cam, Chad, Cor, Dan, Der, Des, Dil, Do, Don, Dood, Dud, Dun, Ed, El, En, Er, Fer, Fred, Gene, Geof, Ger, Gil, Greg, Gus, Had, Hal, Han, Har, Hen, Her, Hud, Jed, Jen, Jer, Joe, John, Jon, Jor, Kel, Ken, Ker, Kir, Lan, Lem, Len, Lo, Lod, Lu, Lud, Mac, Mal, Mat, Mel, Mer, Mil, Mit, Mun, Ned, Neil, Nel, New, Ob, Or, Pat, Phil, Ray, Rib, Rich, Ro, Rod, Ron, Sam, Sean, See, Shel, Shep, Sher, Sid, Sig, Son, Thom, Thomp, Tom, Wehr, Wil

And adds one of these behind:

ald, bal, bald, bart, bas, berry, bert, bin, ble, bles, bo, bree, brett, bro, bur, burry, bus, by, cal, can, cas, cott, dan, das, den, din, do, don, dorf, dos, dous, dred, drin, dun, ely, emone, emy, eny, fal, fel, fen, field, ford, fred, frey, frey, frid, frod, fry, furt, gan, gard, gas, gee, gel, ger, gun, hat, ing, ke, kin, lan, las, ler, ley, lie, lin, lin, lo, lock, long, lorf, ly, mal, man, min, ming, mon, more, mund, my, nand, nard, ner, ney, nie, ny, oly, ory, rey, rick, rie, righ, rim, rod, ry, sby, sel, sen, sey, ski, son, sted, ster, sy, ton, top, trey, van, vey, vin, vis, well, wig, win, wise, zer, zon, zor

Then it adds Kerman and the name is done.

Shouldn't take more than a few minutes to code

[Zeblote]

Everyone else is appearantly lazy, so here you go:

http://zeblote.com/ksp/namegen.php?c=100

[SuperWeegee4000]

Everyone else is appearantly lazy, so here you go:

http://zeblote.com/ksp/namegen.php?c=100

Thanks! I like it.

[MGCJerry]

I just seen this topic when looking up something else... Here's a quick 10 minute script based on the information provided above. Now we have 2 online Kerbal name generators.

<?php

$first = array('Ad', 'Al', 'Ald', 'An', 'Bar', 'Bart', 'Bil', 'Billy-Bob', 'Bob', 'Bur', 'Cal', 'Cam', 'Chad', 'Cor', 'Dan', 'Der', 'Des', 'Dil', 'Do', 'Don', 'Dood', 'Dud', 'Dun', 'Ed', 'El', 'En', 'Er', 'Fer', 'Fred', 'Gene', 'Geof', 'Ger', 'Gil', 'Greg', 'Gus', 'Had', 'Hal', 'Han', 'Har', 'Hen', 'Her', 'Hud', 'Jed', 'Jen', 'Jer', 'Joe', 'John', 'Jon', 'Jor', 'Kel', 'Ken', 'Ker', 'Kir', 'Lan', 'Lem', 'Len', 'Lo', 'Lod', 'Lu', 'Lud', 'Mac', 'Mal', 'Mat', 'Mel', 'Mer', 'Mil', 'Mit', 'Mun', 'Ned', 'Neil', 'Nel', 'New', 'Ob', 'Or', 'Pat', 'Phil', 'Ray', 'Rib', 'Rich', 'Ro', 'Rod', 'Ron', 'Sam', 'Sean', 'See', 'Shel', 'Shep', 'Sher', 'Sid', 'Sig', 'Son', 'Thom', 'Thomp', 'Tom', 'Wehr', 'Wil');
$second = array('ald', 'bal', 'bald', 'bart', 'bas', 'berry', 'bert', 'bin', 'ble', 'bles', 'bo', 'bree', 'brett', 'bro', 'bur', 'burry', 'bus', 'by', 'cal', 'can', 'cas', 'cott', 'dan', 'das', 'den', 'din', 'do', 'don', 'dorf', 'dos', 'dous', 'dred', 'drin', 'dun', 'ely', 'emone', 'emy', 'eny', 'fal', 'fel', 'fen', 'field', 'ford', 'fred', 'frey', 'frey', 'frid', 'frod', 'fry', 'furt', 'gan', 'gard', 'gas', 'gee', 'gel', 'ger', 'gun', 'hat', 'ing', 'ke', 'kin', 'lan', 'las', 'ler', 'ley', 'lie', 'lin', 'lin', 'lo', 'lock', 'long', 'lorf', 'ly', 'mal', 'man', 'min', 'ming', 'mon', 'more', 'mund', 'my', 'nand', 'nard', 'ner', 'ney', 'nie', 'ny', 'oly', 'ory', 'rey', 'rick', 'rie', 'righ', 'rim', 'rod', 'ry', 'sby', 'sel', 'sen', 'sey', 'ski', 'son', 'sted', 'ster', 'sy', 'ton', 'top', 'trey', 'van', 'vey', 'vin', 'vis', 'well', 'wig', 'win', 'wise', 'zer', 'zon', 'zor');

if (is_numeric($_GET['names'])) {
    $r = $_GET['names']-1;
} else {
    $r = "1";
}

for ($x=0; $x<=$r; $x++) {
    $pre = array_rand($first,1);
    $suf = array_rand($second,1);
    echo $first[$pre]."".$second[$suf]." Kerman<br>";
}

?>

Save as whatever and place on a server with PHP. It will display 1 name. You can specify how many names you want by adding "?names=30" to the end of the filename such as http://example.com/namegen?names=30 (will create 30 names)

[Pds314]

One of my kerbals was named Kerbin Kerman

[teuchito]

Well, I'll post mine too! Here