06-07-2004 19:35									#31
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nuclear test site?

	06-07-2004 22:07									#32
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PlanetBuster Effect
Buster's Love for the Planet?

	07-07-2004 01:36									#33
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Since we've started the trend with 2 Sxxxxx Cxxxxx bases, if we want to continue, we could perm any column 1 name with a column 2 name: (some would be landmark names and not base names - and some are seabase names - adjust the Col 1 adjective accordingly))


Column 1 ............. Column 2
Sparta ............... Command
Sabre .................. Cache
Saddle .................... Cairn
Safe ....................... Camp
Salvo ...................... Canal
Samurai ................... Canyon
Sanctuary ...................... Cape
Sanity ........................ Castle
Savage ...................... Catacombs
Scabbard .................... Cauldron
Scenic ........................ Causeway
Science ...................... Cave
Scientific ....................... Cell
Scimitar ..................... Center
Scorched ........................ Choice
Scourge ................... Citadel
Sea ............................. City
Seal .......................... Collective
Sector ......................... College
Secure ....................... Colony
Sentinel .......................... Commune
Serene ....................... Complex
Shaft ....................... Compound
Shallow ....................... Cordillera
Shard .......................... Cove
Shark ....................... Cradle
Sheathed ............................ Crag
Shield
Shuttle
Skirmish
Skull
Snipers’
Solar
Soldiers’
Spam
Stalwart
Submarine
Swordman’s

eg Shard Cache (landbase)
Scorched Cordillera (mountain range)
Submarine Cradle (seabase)

etc

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	07-07-2004 01:44									#34
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(and given the shape of the Garland Crater, perhaps it could be:

Drogue's Doughnut

	07-07-2004 04:11									#35
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W00t, I get the impression we won't run out of creative basenames any time soon.

	08-07-2004 02:30									#36
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OK. Buster's Crater or Leonidas Memorial.

	10-07-2004 01:58									#37
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those 3 rivers should be given names!

	10-07-2004 03:02									#38
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I like Buster's Crater

And would the colonists use river names to:

• remind them of earth
  
• honour their senior officers
  
• reflect the topography around them, or
  
• have some militaristic connotation

	10-07-2004 03:10									#39
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*Bases
Fort Blood
Fort Predator
Fort Sisu

*Rivers
Blood River
Black River

quote: Originally posted by Googlie I like Buster's Crater

Good.

quote: And would the colonists use river names to: remind them of earth honour their senior officers reflect the topography around them, or have some militaristic connotation

yes they would. I'll give that a tought.

quote: (Also, we need to name the second rover that's exploring south of Sparta Command)

Chiron Knights. In Command of Captain Andemagnus

	10-07-2004 03:31									#40
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These are my suggestions:

Edit - image removed as updated one filed below

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	10-07-2004 03:33									#41
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I forget how many allowable landmark names there are (Kody - do you recall - 64 or 128 or something?)

Anyway, the mods should allocate 1/4 of the slots to each of the 4 factions so that 1 faction doesn't monopolize all like almost happened in the last game

G.

	10-07-2004 03:38									#42
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Gunrunners' Creek sounds good. whats a Gunrunner? or is it just a combination of words?
Creek is a minor river, right? but that is quite big river.


should all the names be Santiago this, Corazon that? me thinks this is bad.


how about "Blood Of The Earth" for the river that flows thru Santiago's Citadel?


EDIT: I second that what Googlie said. (1/4 of names for every faction.)


EDIT2: and is that Mount Olympos that big/tall/high after all?

	10-07-2004 03:55									#43
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quote: Originally posted by Googlie I forget how many allowable landmark names there are (Kody - do you recall - 64 or 128 or something?)

64, including the standard landmark names.

	10-07-2004 04:22									#44
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A gunrunner is a smuggler of guns

the "pus" of my Mount Olympus (ie that rocky tile) seems to be the highest point in our map (as revealed so far) at 2974 meters high. Sparta Command is founded on a peak that's 2846 meters high

And, yes, on second thoughts if Santiago were dead, then maybe we'd revere her with placenames and river names, etc, but as she's in cryosleep we prolly wouldn't

Gunrunners' River is OK too - I just thought that Creek fit better to the ear than river in that instance. Also, as it seemed to huddle beneath the crater rim it lent itself to smuggling connotations (Spartans clandestinely rowing downriver to deliver a cache of arms to discontented drones in the other factions, to foment revolt)

In terms of size, a Stream or Brook would be the smallest, then a Creek, then a River

If honoring the dead, wouldn't Sparta be more dramatic with a name - more like Blood of the Martyrs or Blood of the Fallen instead of "Blood of the Earth"? (especially as it's Chiron - "Blood of Chiron", maybe?)

Or as befits the faction's southern California/Mexican roots, maybe the Neuvo Colorado River

	10-07-2004 04:25									#45
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Of course, we could have

Maniac Mountain
Skanky Burns River
River Tacticus
Gulf of Googlie

etc
etc

Until we have named a landmark after everyone in the faction

	10-07-2004 10:24									#46
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well - here's an alternative to mull over (yes, too many names for such a small piece of real estate, but just staking a claim to our fair share of names)

(image deleted as overtaken by subsequent events)

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	12-07-2004 07:46									#47
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Any further thoughts on river names and bays, mountains etc?

Suggestions so far for rivers (my favorites for the 3 we can see are bolded):

Blood River
Black River
Blood Of The Earth
Blood of the Martyrs
River of Martyrs' Blood
Blood of the Fallen
Red River
Rio Rojo
Gunrunners' Creek
Nuovo Colorado River
Skanky Burns River
River Tacticus

Chime in, everyone, the more names we lay on the table the bigger choice we have

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	13-07-2004 04:26									#48
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Río Grande
Río de Janeiro

	13-07-2004 05:28									#49
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I lIke Rio Grande as the name for that humungous river that runs through SC2

I guess we don't want Rio de Los Angeles (River of the Angels) as they are a faction in this game

	13-07-2004 05:36									#50
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Once we have conquered them, we could call a river in their previous territory like that.

	13-07-2004 06:47									#51
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Here's what the 2106 map looks like with some landmarks and units named, and with Fog of War off

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	13-07-2004 18:32									#52
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Sites of next bases?

We agree (don't we?) that after Flex we go for Info Nets and Planetary Networks, (prolly around 12 to 15 turns from now) then get our foil probes in the ocean.

This means we need to advance-plan at least 1 coastal base, if not more

Sparta Command's CP (will finish first, so let'c code this base as SC3)

I suggest we consider planting it where Chiron Knights is right now (66:24) or else on the land between the 2 water bodies at 58:24 (if suitable - currently unexplored). That would open up the ocean to the east, and south (if indeed these 2 partially exposed water bodies are indeed ocean frontage). If the CP isn't rushed, it'd get to either site in 13 turns

Santiago's Citadel's CP - let's code that SC4 - I suggest we plant at 53:11. (with no pod rush it'd get there in some 15 turns time). This brings the offshore mineral special into its radius as well as the the 2 Unity seedpods at 54:8 and 54:14, plus 3 crater tiles to exploit (and leaves room for an infill base at 55;13 or within the crater itself at 52:16 or 53:15)

	13-07-2004 20:37									#53
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i agree with SC3....about SC4 i would have placed it around 2 tiles more north east...but this is very good

	15-07-2004 03:52									#54
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any news about other factions approoving the 1/4 of landmark names to each faction?

	16-07-2004 03:03									#55
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Hmm - would Santiago - or her officers - have been much of a historian? Maybe the river running thru SC2 could be River Eurotas (and the bay it runs into could be called the Laconic Gulf)

see here

(Eurotas is the name of a river in the region of the Peloponnesus in Greece. It flows through the city of Sparta and empties into the Laconic Gulf)

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quote: Originally posted by Andemagne any news about other factions approoving the 1/4 of landmark names to each faction?

Drogue - or Method - should issue a ruling that each faction is limited to [.25 * {64 - X }] where X = the # original landmarks on the full map

G.

	16-07-2004 03:08									#57
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Sounds great!

	16-07-2004 04:01									#58
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Ther#s like no where near enough baes neamed afzer me *doitnow!*

-Ja

	16-07-2004 06:31									#59
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You've gotta wait for bases, but how about this:

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	18-07-2004 15:29									#60
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Laconic Gulf and River Eurotas are OK with me.
but tell me more about Mount Taygetus