28-06-2004 03:10									#1
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I thought I'd start a thread to collect all possible suggestions for base, unit or landmark names in the game.

To begin with, base names! Fire away your suggestions!
(Reminder: base names can have 23 characters at max)
For the record, these are the standard base names that come with the game:

#BASES
Sparta Command
Survival Base
Commander's Keep
War Outpost
Militia Station
Fort Legion
Janissary Rock
Blast Rifle Crag
Hawk of Chiron
Assassin's Redoubt
Centurion Cave
Bunker 118
Hommel's Citadel
Training Camp
Defiance Freehold
Hero's Waypoint
Fort Liberty
Ironholm
Fort Survivalist
Fort Superiority
Halls of Discipline
Parade Ground
#END

#WATERBASES
Fleet Anchorage
Admiralty Base
Hydrodock
Fleet Base
Sea Outpost

Which should we use ourselves in this game? Several of them are great, but a few others (eg War Outpost, Training Camp, Fleet Base...) are rather dull and uninspired IMHO.


Then there are unit names. Personally I think it would be great to have a name for each ship. Something like the Pirates had in ACDG2. Have a look here. Also if we use the idea that each unit, also land and air units, is under command of a specific member, whether it is nominally or effectively, perhaps the commander could give its unit also a special name, eg Jamski's Jaguars, Googlie's Goliaths, Burns' Berzerkers... for a company of rovers or infantry.
What do you think about this?

Last edited by Maniac on 11-07-2004 at 23:22

	28-06-2004 03:58									#2
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In my SP (and PBEM) games I use B-etc and F-etc for my penetrators and interceptors

Thus a B-4 would be an impact bomber, while an F-6 would be a missile interceptor. A B-13e would be an empath shard penetrator while an XF-16e would be an empath nervegas quantum interceptor

I have more problems with my choppers, so I just interchange Falcon and Blackhawk for ones with SAM capability and Commanche and Huey for those without (one name will usually be obsolete until upgraded, then I can use the other )

My infantry probes re Boy Scouts while my peripatetic ones are CIA, with Navy Seals being the foil probes

Also, I've added the following seabase names to my sparta .txt:

Scapa Flow
Peenemunde
Brest
Norfolk
Pearl Harbor
Taranto
Vilnius

(I just seem to build more than 5 or 6 in a game)

(and if we do have units named after us, I'd like Googlie's Gnats for our first commissioned interceptor squadron)

G.

	28-06-2004 06:09									#3
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Naming everything is good.

	28-06-2004 06:30									#4
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We ought to name something after Santiago, now that she's in stasis indefinitely.

	28-06-2004 06:41									#5
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Maybe call our second base Santiago's Citadel or Fort Santiago, in her honour?

Or call the highest elevation tile at our start site (prolly the tile one north of the seed pod tile) Mount Corazon

Edit: On second thoughts, Morganites woiuld have a field day with that name. Maybe Corazon Peak or Corazon Summit

Last edited by Googlie on 28-06-2004 at 06:47

	28-06-2004 07:14									#6
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Maybe "Corazon Defense Facility"? (It might confuse our opposition "We need to capture the CDF!" - The Corazon Defense Facility?" - No, the base with the Citizens Defense Force in it!"

Also:

Blackshirt Citadel - does a little pinch of Fascism go along with our militarism?

Elite Enclave - this can be a base with morale-enhancing facilities.

Grand Armoury - this can be one of our high-mineral, heavy military-producing bases.

We could also have Western Command Sector, Eastern Command Sector, etc.

	28-06-2004 12:24									#7
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quote: Blackshirt Citadel - does a little pinch of Fascism go along with our militarism?

Given that we're at least partially basing oruselves on Heinlein's Starship Troopers, I wouldn't say so. Anyway, Nazi-style mob organisations wouldn't do very well in Sparta; they're easy to get rid of if you have trained soldiers to suppress them.

	28-06-2004 12:48									#8
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I wonder if I can get an honorary position.

	28-06-2004 19:13									#9
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Kody's Cave for a basename - or Kody's keep?

Kody's Bight for a bay on our coastline?

	28-06-2004 19:16									#10
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with Straits of Buster for any narrow channel separating our landmass from another (or maybe Drogue's Ditch?

	28-06-2004 19:30									#11
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Nah a honorary job position. I'm collecting useless but impressive titles.

I've got SCUM of the Morgan, forgot what the abbreviation stands for. And I'm janitor of Honghu's washroom too. Need to collect more titles.

	28-06-2004 20:47									#12
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You can be the Minister in charge of making sure the pins stay in the right spots on the War Map. Hoorah!

	28-06-2004 21:04									#13
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Oh that's a really nice long name of a position. Can you insert that into your job list and make it official?

	28-06-2004 21:09									#14
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But Tass and I were honored last game by many factions, in having bases named after us, so i suggest we adopt:

Buster's Bastion
Kody's Keep
HongHu's Haven
Drogue's Depot
Method's Metropolis

somewhere in our list of bases (assuming that we do go ICS)

	28-06-2004 21:17									#15
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HongHu's Lost Haven

Or I could be a Lieutenant at Spambot Station One.

	28-06-2004 23:13									#16
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I updated the first post with a list of suggestions.

	29-06-2004 21:20									#17
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You forgot Spambot Station One.

	30-06-2004 05:54									#18
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Method has requested the title "Secretary of Keeping the Rabid DBTSverse Bunnies at Bay".

	30-06-2004 06:57									#19
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Gah Method is catching up to me! Must find more positions.

	30-06-2004 07:13									#20
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Captain Googlie shuffles from the Mess Tent and spots Civilian Kody lurking in the shadows. Pulls shredder pistol from holster:

Hey .... You, Freeze Just what do you think you are doing? Assume the Position

Uh ...... what position, Sir? mutters Kody

Harrumph - you mean there's more than one?

	30-06-2004 07:15									#21
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(which in a perverted sort of way reminded me of the story of Rommel and the Camel in the Afrika Corps)

	30-06-2004 07:24									#22
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I wouldn't know the story of Rommel and the Camel in the Afrika Corps, but I have an idea what you mean.

	06-07-2004 03:12									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Zeiter in the interfactional IC story (Viewed by: Spartans) Zeiter wrote: Today was my first recon mission. I, as the rookie, was chosen to pilot the scout rover and investigate the surrounding areas.

As you're the pilot, I think this means you have the honour of baptizing our first troop of scout rovers. How would you like to call the unit?

	06-07-2004 04:43									#24
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here are some of the names that I have used during the years:

*Bases
Fort Sword
Fort Phalanx
Fort Kane
Fort Steel
Fort Unity
Fort Nova
Fort Edge
Fort Blade
Fort Dawn
Fort Superion
Fort Santiago
Fort Rifle
Fort Alpha/Alpha Sector
Out Post One
Ki's Rest
Ranger's Hideout
Wolf's Lair
Eagle's Nest
Spartan Stronghold
Helldann Freehold
Enochian Freehold

*Land Marks
Hunt Valley
Hommel's Isle
The Abyss
Helm's Deep
Mare Sirrion
Mare Courrain
Mare Tourbidus


I wouldn't mind naming all of the bases (except Sparta Command) Fort Something or Sector Something or Out Post Something. all in the same way I mean.


EDIT: and giving every unit its own name is a good idea too.

	06-07-2004 05:13									#25
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R-112 Corazon Recon Vehicle

I figure just keep it functional and militaristic, while honoring our leader. I open to any other suggestions.

	06-07-2004 05:22									#26
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*Bases
Fort Claw
Fort Fang
Fort Tiger
Fort Panther
Fort Lion
Fort Virtue

where do all these names come from?

	06-07-2004 14:55									#27
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*Bases
Fort Victory
Fort Shield
Fort Domination

	06-07-2004 17:22									#28
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base names
deathbythesword!


for unit names:
just codes like f-21 and stuff are always nice. so i concur with that

	06-07-2004 18:45									#29
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Garland Crater is just to the west of Sparta Command (and if we build Santiago Citadel on 58:18 it'll actually be on the side of the crater)

So do we need a Spartan type of name for that landmark, or are we happy to continue to honour the Captain?

	06-07-2004 19:31									#30
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The captain in our story was called buster.
Also I think the Spartan rebels wouldn't be too fond of the Unity's captain.
So a rename seems commendable.