Colonized system name change

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
After two outposts that I had paid ARX to name, I just let the random name generator do the job.

I may name my Coriolis when it's done, but nothing that would cause the Thought Police to unleash Rover on me...
 

Knuttin Atoll

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sidereal6 said:
The most immersion-breaking thing to me are the dumb names. I’m talking about stations and player factions. It’s common (and funny) to give your CoD clan an ironically funny name, but nobody would name what amounts to a gang …. or a corporation (many pmfs are corpos) something intentionally dumb. Nobody would ever join you!

And nobody would name something as huge and expensive as a space station - basically a city, something “funny.” Nobody would ever immigrate there.

In the real world, that giant floating city would be your home, and you’d name it something hopeful; that faction you’re creating would need to inspire people (or scare them) and you’d name it accordingly. Oh well

The second immersion-breaking thing is the presence of gigantic stations in the middle of nowhere
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Mianus, Connecticut - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Danieros said:
We're heading (or probably reached the point) more populated systems will have alphabet soup names than actual names.
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Good guess. From EDDN data (so an underestimate on the new systems side, but probably not too big)
- 53144 total inhabited systems
- 27822 with names ending in the AB-C d1-23 pattern, so now slightly above half.
- and 34 2MASS names which are technically not procedural but if anything are even less practical than the procedural ones. (Those someone made a choice to take, though)
 

Knuttin Atoll

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Dillon Fallon said:
Not sure what you're arguing for here. The article suggests that the "joke" about the name is the result of a mispronunciation.

Although it's similar to if we were laughing at stuff like "arsenic", which itself was derived from latin. No doubt the US town had a similar non- English language influence in its naming.
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The post I quoted reminded me of the Jack.... arx? episode when I used to watch those guys and it made me chuckle. The wiki states "mispronounciation" and I do wonder whether that claim comes from a resident, because I seem to remember when the guys asked the locals things like "what do you do in Mianus?" they didn't even flinch, which was amusing in an adolescent kind of way. Anyways, just shows that silly named places exist, deliberately named or otherwise. No big argument here beyond that really.
 

Dillon Fallon

Dillon Fallon

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Dillon Fallon said:
All of those were perfectly sensible things to call something at the time they were named. Language changes, especially since some of them weren't even English in the first place.
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I bet you are a right laugh at parties!. :p

PS am struggling to see how Scratch ars* ware was ever anything other than a deliberate joke name, esp as it happens to be a slippery slope covered in gorse!. (genuinely an amazing part of the world btw and i would love to go and visit that area again.. am v jealous of the locals)
 
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Therinfluffs

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Rat Catcher said:
Maybe my google is censored, as a search brought up nothing even vaguely rude, apart from Nordic names that could be mispronounced to be childishly naughty. (after all, a foriegn language is always funny, isn't it?)
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I'm pretty sure I can't post the actual article without moderator intervention despite it literally being from national geographic.
 
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