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Does anyone else hate the name "Elite Dangerous"?
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I think they were keeping that one for Penelope Super-Cruz. Good god how things could have all gone so much worse than Dangerous.
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Only if "Dangerous" was an actual rank, in the real world. Is not.
Sargeant, Commander, General....those are ranks...Dangerous is not. Dangerous is an adjective that denotes, well... danger, unsafe, risky, reckless behaviour or attributes.
It just so happen that IN THE GAME, is also a rank.
So, if you are an outsider and read ELITE: DANGEROUS, you won't see it redundant. Much less with a colon there!
For the outsider:
Reads, ELITE (a rank, a group, somebody in this game) : Dangerous (is very skilled and deadly and could do you a lot of harm or even kill you!)
Doesn't read ELITE (ah, like my uncle!) : DANGEROUS (huh? Like my father too?) and then off they go scratching their head.
I think, but I may be wrong, that it was chosen because the rank needed to join the Elite Pilots' Federation recently (in game lore) dropped from Deadly to Dangerous. (That bit is apparently true but I don't know for sure that's why the name was chosen, I just read it somewhere, probably on this thread.)
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Pilots_Federation
But no-one would know that from the title.
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Its predecessor was called "Elite: Bad." #chamone
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Thats a retrospective attempt to explain it away.
I've always disliked the name, i thought it was just a working title to start with. They could have chosen from dozens, hundreds of other words, instead they went with a rather mangled title.
Well..yeah. the game should BE dangerous. If you have to tell me how dangerous you are..you're not. Kinda like the "overweight gals" wearing those "sexy" or "juicy" shirts, ya know?
You're not sexy, hon.
Elite needs to get other people calling it dangerous by delivering that kind of gameplay, then word of mouth will do the rest..
Well
The name could be better
The name could be better
'Elite Delta' ?
Delta would signify '4' (Greek numeral).
Also the progression of development has roughly been Alpha, Beta, Gamma and then full release (which would correspond with Delta).
The triangle which is another pictorial view of the number 4 in Greek could have been used as a border of sorts to encompass the wording/design of the title and shield logo.
And....a triangle is sort of a nod back to the earliest (simpler) designs of some ships in the previous classic games, and 'Delta' sounds 'fast' or 'speedy'. A hollow triangle is also a players view in the radar as another 'commander'?....so that's another 'link' to the actual game play.
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Anyhow, take all this with a pinch of salt, because I woke up too early this morning, and to pass the time before 'sleepiness' kicked in again, I browsed the forum and came across this topic.
I can't see a name change for Elite Dangerous anytime soon if ever now though, I think the die's been cast, so 'Elite Dangerous' it's going to stay, at least until the Planet Expansion!
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Goodnight all....I'm going back to bed! zzzzzzzzz
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Jack
Delta would signify '4' (Greek numeral).
Also the progression of development has roughly been Alpha, Beta, Gamma and then full release (which would correspond with Delta).
The triangle which is another pictorial view of the number 4 in Greek could have been used as a border of sorts to encompass the wording/design of the title and shield logo.
And....a triangle is sort of a nod back to the earliest (simpler) designs of some ships in the previous classic games, and 'Delta' sounds 'fast' or 'speedy'. A hollow triangle is also a players view in the radar as another 'commander'?....so that's another 'link' to the actual game play.
.
Anyhow, take all this with a pinch of salt, because I woke up too early this morning, and to pass the time before 'sleepiness' kicked in again, I browsed the forum and came across this topic.
I can't see a name change for Elite Dangerous anytime soon if ever now though, I think the die's been cast, so 'Elite Dangerous' it's going to stay, at least until the Planet Expansion!
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Goodnight all....I'm going back to bed! zzzzzzzzz
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Jack
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