Currently working on my first mod, adding a custom name list. I believe I got everything right, but inevitably the first time around nothing goes to plan. I load the mod up into the non-steam non game mod folder, and everything goes fine until I try to select the name list. Crash. Crash report tells me something about european or United Kindgom related to the error in the persons file. Fine.

It turns out I named the folder one thing, but put something different in the name-list entry in mod.lua. Got that fixed. Loaded the game, activated the mod, and jumped into a map. Did it work?

Nope. Getting a whole bunch of English names. I'm like fine, what did I do wrong... jump back out to the main menu, start a new game activate the mod, and realize I hadn't changed the name list the game was using, and got that right. Did that work?

Nope again. This time I got a bunch of names that sounded similar, but I realized they were from another mod. Sure enough, I activated the wrong mod, so I jump back out, and this time select the right mod. I go to select the right name list, and it's not there...

So, it turns out that (at least for me) you have to hit 'apply' after activating the mod before jumping to the settings menu to actually select the modded name list, because until you do, the game doesn't see it....

I'm pretty sure I activated the wrong mod, yet again, and had to go back once more, but finally it works, and finally I can say it works and get it uploaded.

For the curious, the other mod is 'Wild West Town Names', while mine is 'Wild West Names (Towns, Streets, People)'. The former offers just town names (from a random name generator), where I went the extra distance and curated the names so they weren't just random and vaguely thematic. I also added streets, and the first and last names of real people (in addition to Hollywood cowboys and actors who played them on screen), so you might just find Wyatt Earp or Butch Cassidy, Rooster Cogburn or Clint Eastwood roaming the streets of your map.