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Edit name & nationality / Youth academy nationalities fixed

This is a two-in-one announcement.

Changing your name and nationality

You can now change your name, however to avoid this system being abused it will cost 5 Tokens to do so, the same as driver and staff name changes.

The reason we will charge Tokens for this is twofold. One is the game experience - we want to avoid scenarios where people over-use or abuse it, e.g. trolling or diminished realism and consistency when managers/drivers/staff within a league are changing names too frequently for everyone to follow who is who. The second reason is because we will be moderating name changes, tracking whether they are appropriate or not, which requires a lot of time and energy to moderate, so it will help make it more manageable. We will be storing your name before/after any edits, and reserve the right to roll it back to a more suitable name if the new one is deemed inappropriate during review.

Youth Academy fix
The nationality of drivers generated by the Youth Academy will now match the nationality set on your account, if we have a database of names for that nation. Otherwise, a random nationality will be selected. E.g. If you set your nationality to 'Tonga' then random nationalities will be selected as we have no name database for that nation. However, if you set your nationality to 'Italy' then Italian drivers will be generated.

Here is a full list of nations that we currently have name databases for, and so we can generate drivers for these nationalities:

If you provide a list of names we will be happy to add it. That is how the countries were added - we started with a few then asked users to send in lists of forenames and surnames for nations they wanted to see added, since locals could do a much better job than we can of this. Nobody sent or requested Venezuela, it certainly was not a conscious decision on our part to exclude any nation. We'd love to add the whole world!

We've come a long way since the current names lists were added several years ago, and grown a lot as a company, so I will check with everyone in the team to see if there is a way we can cover more nations as well.

Yes, of course. As long as they are fairly common names we're happy to add more to any nation as well.

I've added a thread for this purpose, please post any suggestions there, following the guidelines given:
https://igpmanager.com/forum-thread/14862

You can now edit your name on the settings page:
https://igpmanager.com/app/p=settings&tab=account

Please read the messages and follow the instructions provided. Names should be suggested through the designated topic.