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Post by xdesperado on Feb 10, 2017 0:02:57 GMT -5
Sounds tricky. Seems like colonists are prone to naming their new towns after fondly remembered places in 'the Old Country'. Yeah, which doesn't exist Lore PDF Tell us a bit more about where people came from and their society etc. and we will give you more appropriate personal and place names. Think I may have been the person responsible for submitting Portlandia originally, if not then it's a name I would have submitted as not only is it common in human history to name stuff after well known places and people from the old country but it's also common to name places because of their primary purpose at founding or the surrounding geography. Hence the reason there are so many cities not just in US but around the world that have Port as part of their name. Portland, Newport, Shreveport, Portsmouth, Portsmith, Port Victoria etc. Similarly you get a lot variations of Victoria, Elizabeth, George, William, Washington etc. As they were prominent figures around at or near time of founding. By the way not lobbying to get Portlandia retained just expressing personal thought process about selecting place-names.
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Post by fallen on Feb 10, 2017 0:28:43 GMT -5
xdesperado - absolutely. We happy to have names of all sorts. I have to admit the Lore Book is not going to dedicate pages to lists of names of places from before the Exodus, but it is full of great content. We'll just have to keep making judgment calls on name-by-name basis. Portlandia being a TV show currently (I think so?), etc etc blah blah.
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Post by ntsheep on Feb 10, 2017 0:38:51 GMT -5
Sounds tricky. Seems like colonists are prone to naming their new towns after fondly remembered places in 'the Old Country'. Yeah, which doesn't exist The Lore PDF should help us all a little, but going by things heard in the spice halls in ST such as human history being lost and forgotten, and the sometimes confusing hints and jokes by you TB's. We just don't know whats whats Maybe it's not a name humans gave a star or planet. There's xenos and narvidians. Those two ancient races whose name I can't remember at the moment and don't want to start playing a game of ST4X just to get Maybe I should focus on name hunting as I'm playing. That could be a phase of the alpha alone
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Post by resistor on Feb 10, 2017 1:24:09 GMT -5
ntsheep, I believe those alien races were called Alfaan and Xarth.
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Post by ntsheep on Feb 10, 2017 2:14:42 GMT -5
Thanks resistor. I did remember the Xarth but couldn't remember if it was X or Z for the first later and I knew the other started with an A but that was about it. At times my memory is amazing, others not so much
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Post by xdesperado on Feb 10, 2017 16:30:49 GMT -5
Another name to remove is the crew surname Sma'rtalec
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Post by ntsheep on Feb 10, 2017 18:06:10 GMT -5
I like that one xdesperado. Wonder who came up with it?
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Post by bobc on Feb 10, 2017 18:27:07 GMT -5
Got a world name of Commodore64?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 18:29:53 GMT -5
That's an actual star name. How the hell can that be a copyright issue. No one owns the stars. JUST DON'T SAY IT THREE TIMES IN A ROW !!!!!!!!(Sorry. Distorted childhood.)
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Post by athios on Feb 10, 2017 18:39:39 GMT -5
Is it too late to submit new (stupid) name suggestions? I am thinking of a smuggler world called Gravster's Paradise.
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Post by ntsheep on Feb 10, 2017 18:47:13 GMT -5
That's an actual star name. How the hell can that be a copyright issue. No one owns the stars. JUST DON'T SAY IT THREE TIMES IN A ROW !!!!!!!!(Sorry. Distorted childhood.) My friends and I have actually had some next level shit happen after saying it three times.
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Post by Officer Genious on Feb 10, 2017 20:15:10 GMT -5
Is it too late to submit new (stupid) name suggestions? I am thinking of a smuggler world called Gravster's Paradise. Hey fallen I was serious about the name thing, us backers would love to submit more.
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Post by Kanly on Feb 10, 2017 20:39:45 GMT -5
Noodle whiff quadrant? Who comes up with these names?
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Post by ntsheep on Feb 10, 2017 21:02:04 GMT -5
We did Kanly. It was the backers of ST2 that got to submit names. Mine were Setenph Cassie Wells Cobra's Den Nakvorian Vorains Trench
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 10, 2017 21:33:45 GMT -5
A lot of people seemed to think it would be more fun to submit joke names tho We'll get it sorted out and gather / make up more as we go. We'll need them for the bigger maps.
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