21-06-2002 07:10									#1
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Lent manual to a friend, and she still can't find it . Anyways...what's the key combo? Scoured the menus, can't find it.

	21-06-2002 08:16									#2
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Just click on the button in the main base screen that says rename or something like that. I missed it for the longest time too. I is big, and right above the unit window. Middle lower.

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	21-06-2002 11:36									#3
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Ah, one of the great pleasures of the game for me is renaming the captured bases of my enemies. Even after I have given them back to my (now) slave, they provide amusement. Nothing like turning Godwinson's Hope into Godwinson's Hopeless etc.

	21-06-2002 12:31									#4
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My fav is renaming cities into new Hive colonies:

Terrible Swift Sword->Anger of Yang
Gaia's Landing->People's Landing
Morgan Industries->Hive Industries
U.N. HQ->Nerver Stapling Center
Ironholm->People's Bunker
New Jerusalem->New Hive
Last Rose of Summer->(usually planet bustered)

	21-06-2002 13:36									#5
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The funniest renaming I ever saw took place in a game my sister was involved in. She was the Spartans, and she captured the Gaian base "The Flowers Preach". Having already entered an aggressive renaming policy but not feeling like thinking too hard for a name, she tacked one word onto the end of it. The Gaians attacked their former base, "The Flowers Preach Death", until the earth ran with blood, but my sister held the base until the end of the game.

Most of her base names in that game were like that. House of Knives, Palace of Pain, and Blood On The Water were just a few. It tells you what style of player my sister is.

	21-06-2002 16:38									#6
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I tell ya, I don't think there's a rename button...can't find it

	21-06-2002 16:43									#7
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Then there must be something wrong with your game. When you open the base screen, the button should be right in front of you.

	21-06-2002 17:12									#8
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It specifically says "Base Rename", right? I've been playing SMAC/SMAX since they came out, and I used to rename bases...took a 3 month break and I can't find it anymore...

At work, will check when I get home.

	21-06-2002 18:01									#9
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Just press the r key on your keyboard when you have the base screen open.

	21-06-2002 18:23									#10
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I tried n and ctl-n, thinking "Hey, this is how to rename a landmark right?" expecting consistance. Bah Thanks! Knew it was a key combo...

	21-06-2002 18:47									#11
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I think the button is cunningly hidden as the actual base-name. Click it, and IIRC that'll let you rename it.

	22-06-2002 00:17									#12
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I swear I've clicked on the base name, shift clicked, alt-clicked, ctl-alt clicked, ctl clicked, etc., and nothing happens...because that's what I thought, too . No go. Will play around more when I get home.

	22-06-2002 00:41									#13
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Dude! There's a freakin' big button right in front of you on the base screen that says RENAME. I've used it tons of times. Maybe try patching to the latest version, but I'm pretty sure it was there even in SMAC v1.0.

	22-06-2002 00:47									#14
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I'm at SMAX 2.0. If you can find it, let me know, otherwise I'll just use "r".

	22-06-2002 02:09									#15
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Just like BustaMike, I really can't understand how you can look besides the 'Rename' button. Glacialis, could you please post a print screen of your SMAC game while there is a base screen open?

	22-06-2002 03:09									#16
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Glacialis

I'm with them -- the " RENAME" button is HUGE and is just under the table that shows the allocation of energy.


The only possible solution I can think of is with your screen resolution/ settings. I can recall a time I opened up the game and the screen settings/ resolution or whatever were such that everything on the screen was very very big to the point that the base screen only showed one table (nuts, min, energy) and I would have to toggle that one off to see the energy allocation table ( and the Rename button IIRC).



Oh and the r button worked for me as well. I was not aware of that keystroke method before

	22-06-2002 03:46									#17
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Yup, that was it. Resized to 1024, and all is fine. Must have been this latest install...though surprisingly, from all the problems I've heard about, other than hiding the REALLY FREAKIN OBVIOUS "Rename" button, it installed on XP Pro just fine. Thanks all!

	22-06-2002 18:03									#18
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The mystery is solved.

	02-07-2002 23:27									#19
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quote: Originally posted by frankychan My fav is renaming cities into new Hive colonies: Terrible Swift Sword->Anger of Yang Gaia's Landing->People's Landing Morgan Industries->Hive Industries U.N. HQ->Nerve Stapling Center Ironholm->People's Bunker New Jerusalem->New Hive Last Rose of Summer->(usually planet bustered)

Free Drone Central is better to name Nerve Stapling Center .

Dreams of Green->Dreams of Red
Memory of Earth->Memory of Memory of Earth after i nerve gas it and build a new base there.
Bird: Cry->H'minee: cry
Freedman's park->Slave labour camp
the lord's wrath->Marr's Wrath (or yang if you like)
Yang Mine->You're Mine Yang!
Pavlov biolab->biochemical weapons lab
Safe Haven->No longer Safe
Roberts' Dread->Robert's Dead

When you're the usurpers you're always at war and there's no shortage of bases you need to rename. things like terror's delight though are fine how they are.

	03-07-2002 03:19									#20
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quote: reams of Green->Dreams of Red

A really devout Gaian/Cult player should rename this base to "Dreams of Purple"

	03-07-2002 21:43									#21
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I always thought that the Believer's "He Walked on Water" was funny enough... Once I played as Morgan and, when I conquered that base, I would like to rename it to "He Walked on Water Using Morgan Hovershoes (TM)" but, alas, the game would not let me do it...

	03-07-2002 22:17									#22
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The names of the Believer's bases are almost exclusively taken from the Bible. Zak might be lucky enough to rename the base to "I Know the Stepping Stones"

	04-07-2002 13:44									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Flubber Glacialis I'm with them -- the " RENAME" button is HUGE and is just under the table that shows the allocation of energy. The only possible solution I can think of is with your screen resolution/ settings. I can recall a time I opened up the game and the screen settings/ resolution or whatever were such that everything on the screen was very very big ...

I'd care to point out that SMAC comes with two defined resolutions, and that unless you force it definining some parameter in the .ini file, the game chooses the best fit one to your current screen resolution.
Other catch tho, is that chosen resolution does NOT adapt *dinamically*.
Thus, to see the game screen so big that its elements don't fit in the screen, you must have been in one of these cases:
- you work at 800x600 and *willingly* forced SMAC to always run at 1024
- you work at 640x480, and lowest SMAC resolution (800x600) is bigger than that
- you have a SMAC session *OPEN*, and you switch your screen resolution underway: if you start SMAC at 1024 and then switch your screen to 800, the "pixel dimensions" of the game elements drawings have already been determined and fixed in relation to linear dimensions in the previous resolution, and DO NOT get re-adapted. In this case the rightmost and bottom elements of the game screen will fall indeed outside of screen limits, and you won't see them.
But if you switch to 800 *before*, and *then* you "open up" a new game session, that session will regularly & visibly start at 800 (unless you forced it...)

	04-07-2002 15:20									#24
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quote: The names of the Believer's bases are almost exclusively taken from the Bible. Zak might be lucky enough to rename the base to "I Know the Stepping Stones"

A couple of those names are actually parts of the lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic. See how many you can spot.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...678#post1094678

	04-07-2002 20:18									#25
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well, i got 4. any i missed?

	05-07-2002 00:05									#26
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quote: Originally posted by TKG well, i got 4. any i missed?

I think not.

Judgement Seat
The Coming of the Lord
Terrible Swift Sword
Righteous Sentence

Am I right?

	07-07-2002 13:49									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Alexnm Judgement Seat The Coming of the Lord Terrible Swift Sword Righteous Sentence Am I right?

Spot on.

	07-07-2002 20:07									#28
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Haven't seen more than those four names, but there are a few good potential names:
Grapes of Wrath
Fateful Lightning
Across the Sea

	08-07-2002 05:18									#29
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quote: Grapes of Wrath Fateful Lightning Across the Sea

Yeah, those would be cool. Maybe "The Beauty of the Lilies"? That might be getting a little long, though.

	08-07-2002 11:41									#30
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Mr. President, might just fit, I think the box is 24 characters wide But it look more like a Gaian base name.