New Regions – Why not use the ones already established by the exploration community?
- Thread starter Corbin Moran
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Yes for names not numbers, yes for the names we already know as far as possible.
And if we need to subdivide some of the existing GMP regions to map onto the game play FDev have planned? Well, we've been naming the interesting bits of the map for 4 years now, I'm sure we can come up with a few more...
And if we need to subdivide some of the existing GMP regions to map onto the game play FDev have planned? Well, we've been naming the interesting bits of the map for 4 years now, I'm sure we can come up with a few more...
/signed
Frontier, please include the community/communities when you create new stuff ...
Frontier, please include the community/communities when you create new stuff ...
Why would FD bother? It's not a community game.
/signed
/signed.
But! I agree it really just needs to be an overlay and maybe a 2-part naming convention; they don't need to redraw the rectilinear puzzle-piece regions to conform. I'm now imagining a petition demanding that lines of long/lat, the equator, tropics, and prime meridian all be redrawn to conform to national boundary lines or something like that.
But! I agree it really just needs to be an overlay and maybe a 2-part naming convention; they don't need to redraw the rectilinear puzzle-piece regions to conform. I'm now imagining a petition demanding that lines of long/lat, the equator, tropics, and prime meridian all be redrawn to conform to national boundary lines or something like that.
/signed
CMDR Sen Kanashimi
CMDR Sen Kanashimi
Yet another /signed.
/Signed
How do we get FDev to acknowledge this thread let alone give the proposal consideration.
How do we get FDev to acknowledge this thread let alone give the proposal consideration.
We have been reaching out to them in PMs here and on discord and it does seem they have noticed. There is a reply from community manager Will Flanagan back in post 135.
But even so it is good to have as many people as possible stop by to show their support. Thanks for stopping by Maia!
Yet another +1
Given that FDev are understandably going to be reluctant to take on new work this late in the development cycle, I would suggest that option #2 is probably the only realistic one. I would love to see the GMP region names in-game, but I'd guess that would need to wait for a later patch. (And yes, I do think its a realistic hope - after all they did solicit the community for things like the tourist beacon content.)
As for terminology, I like the sound of "sector" best (e.g. "Formidine Rift, rumour in Sector 26") but it does conflict with how Sector is currently used to name hand-placed galactic sectors. So something like Grid or Zone would do fine.
Given that FDev are understandably going to be reluctant to take on new work this late in the development cycle, I would suggest that option #2 is probably the only realistic one. I would love to see the GMP region names in-game, but I'd guess that would need to wait for a later patch. (And yes, I do think its a realistic hope - after all they did solicit the community for things like the tourist beacon content.)
As for terminology, I like the sound of "sector" best (e.g. "Formidine Rift, rumour in Sector 26") but it does conflict with how Sector is currently used to name hand-placed galactic sectors. So something like Grid or Zone would do fine.
/signed! When watching the live stream, I thought of the same thing. ‘Feels empty. Glad we get this, but why not use the names that literally everyone else uses.