Today, when I came into VV2, I had FOUR (count them..4) little 2 year old boys named "Ponui". Now, one is fine, two is OK, but FOUR at a time is excessive! Needless to say, I renamed them all. I tend toward using vaguely Polynesian-sounding names. And, I'm not so sure that this game doesn't learn names, because I sometimes get an actual combination of the parents names.

RuthieJo, you can prevent your villagers' names from changing. There's an explanation for that problem in this answer in our Support FAQ.

i assign first and last names to track lineage.

Me too ^.^

I am on this kick of having blonde haired people so when I recently deleted one of my old games, I started out with just a couple of 'other' color hair but now since they died off I finally have done it! A tribe of 28 blondes! And yes, I rename mine most of the time. I watch a lot of soaps/tv so I name them according to hair color! On my VV1, I stopped naming them after a few months! I have 3 games still going on since back in April '07! I can't wait for VV3!

I dress my doc's in blue and all my elders in white also.


I put my doctors in black/white, elders in white, farmers in blue, scientists in green, builders in red/white and the twins/triplets in the others.

<Hmm, I took a snapshot picture of them but can't figure out to put in the reply?!?!?!?>

OK, I figured it out...I think...LOL

[img]http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?image=myvillagersii6.jpg[/img]

Well, just to prove that I'm still a newbie, the thought never even occured to me till I saw this poll question in forums. Now however, I've started doing so and likely will continue. I saw something interesting about changing the villagers clothing. Is this something that can be done in VV1 or is it a VV2 thing like elders etc?

you can build a sewing hut in VV2, in which you can change villagers clothes, and as of VV1 you can change clothes by pressing F11

I, also change names only when I see a lot of duplicates. Isn't there some way you could do away with duplicates? Sure, in reality people have repeat names, but we have two or three or four names to minimize confusion.