What's In A Name? (CMDR Name Thread)
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Hmm, name threads seem to be doing the repeat cycle recently. I think that's a sign of the apocalypse or something.
I didn't notice anything recent, but maybe I missed it. I enjoy them. People have reasons and it's nice to hear them in some detail.
Some usernames are obvious by design, and some are fairly cryptic. Or obscure. And then there's people with names like "Large Collidable Object" and "Napoleon Blownapart", which are particularly close to my heart.
I use my real first name and that started when you could only enter 3 initials on the high score table of an arcade machine – MAT.
When you could write longer names it became MADMATT, the irony being I am not mad at all.
It then morphed into ’madmatt‘ when I got a Playstation and then ‘madmattnz’ when I emigrated from the UK to NZ (had to have a new regional PSN account)
I started ED on Playstation so just had my PSN login name ‘madmattnz’ but since switching to PC, and being allowed whatever name I want that isn't taken, in game I am now ‘MAD’ Matt. Although my original Playstation name remains for my forum login.
When you could write longer names it became MADMATT, the irony being I am not mad at all.
It then morphed into ’madmatt‘ when I got a Playstation and then ‘madmattnz’ when I emigrated from the UK to NZ (had to have a new regional PSN account)
I started ED on Playstation so just had my PSN login name ‘madmattnz’ but since switching to PC, and being allowed whatever name I want that isn't taken, in game I am now ‘MAD’ Matt. Although my original Playstation name remains for my forum login.
Nah, this subject came up a while ago. But we also had the "What's your ship name" thread recently. Gives me the heebeegeebees.
Novindus is a previously undiscovered land across the Endless Sea in Raymond E. Feist's world of Midkemia from his Riftwar novels, which are my favourite fantasy novels after Tolkien's works.
It's about the size of Australia, where I'm from, and there's a character from there named Jommy, who appears to have an Australian accent and slang.
So I chose it for both of those reasons - its similarities to Australia, and the association with exploration, as the continent Novindus was found across the "Endless Sea", which can be a metaphor for space.
As a side note, my exploration Asp Explorer is called Vingilot, which Tolkien fans will know the applicability of.
It's about the size of Australia, where I'm from, and there's a character from there named Jommy, who appears to have an Australian accent and slang.
So I chose it for both of those reasons - its similarities to Australia, and the association with exploration, as the continent Novindus was found across the "Endless Sea", which can be a metaphor for space.
As a side note, my exploration Asp Explorer is called Vingilot, which Tolkien fans will know the applicability of.
Online conversation can and does feel like a vortex sometimes. It all just keeps coming back around.
My cmdr name is the same online handle I use everywhere else.
Some people thought it's a reference to a sword in World of Warcraft but it's actually referencing a sword from a Diablo novel 2 years before WoW was launched.
Since the username is sometimes taken when I want to register in other websites, I just changed the o to a 0 and it has stuck since.
Some people thought it's a reference to a sword in World of Warcraft but it's actually referencing a sword from a Diablo novel 2 years before WoW was launched.
Since the username is sometimes taken when I want to register in other websites, I just changed the o to a 0 and it has stuck since.
Ulysses - good name for a traveller.
DeLacy - puts me in the right universe. As a bonus I get called by proper ingame name when flying DeLacy ships. This is coincidental - the feature wasnt in when the name was chosen.
DeLacy - puts me in the right universe. As a bonus I get called by proper ingame name when flying DeLacy ships. This is coincidental - the feature wasnt in when the name was chosen.
Well. The Bald -part should pretty obvious, and i'm always Rookie when i start playing a new game (and after 2 years still seem too be a "Rookie" in ED 
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I tend to use variations of 'Doc' in games, hence THE DOC in ED.
Gooddoc is a variant of this....my surname is the same as a well known American Western gunslinger/dentist (see avatar) during the Wyatt Earp days - Doc Holliday.
At work for years both myself & my father were knicknamed 'Doc'. One of my work colleagues always refered to me as 'Gooddoc' & that stuck
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Gooddoc is a variant of this....my surname is the same as a well known American Western gunslinger/dentist (see avatar) during the Wyatt Earp days - Doc Holliday.
At work for years both myself & my father were knicknamed 'Doc'. One of my work colleagues always refered to me as 'Gooddoc' & that stuck
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"Alien" is my real-life nickname. As is the rule with nicknames, I didn't choose it, it was chosen for me. But, "Alien" is often hard to get online on websites and forums because it is a common word. I got so fed up of not being able to get it as a name, I came up with "Alee Enn" which if you say it out loud is, "Alien", but a lot of people don't make the connection, which I don't mind, it's not their fault it's obscure. So those are my two commander names in Elite "Alien" for my main account, and "Alee Enn" for my rarely used second account.
If anyone needs character names, I recommend this site: Fantasy Name Generators
If anyone needs character names, I recommend this site: Fantasy Name Generators
When the very 1st Alpha dropped I looked out of the window and saw my house pig and my ducks snuffling together in the mud for worms.
Good job you didn't catch your two dogs fu........er, mating
My Cmdr name is Arbilac; I've used it across games for 25+ years. At the time I struggled with it and I looked out of my window at the time and saw my car, a Vauxhall Calibra. I just wrote it backwards.
My forum name is the same as I use everywhere (it's partly my last name). I never thought of using my Cmdr name in here.
My forum name is the same as I use everywhere (it's partly my last name). I never thought of using my Cmdr name in here.
I was thinking of something that verged on possible but also seemed grandiosely ridiculous for my character. Then I remembered the Michael Caine film The Ipcress File where his character Harry Palmer tells a girlfriend how he wished he had a cooler, more American name. When she asks what he says “Oh I don’t know. Something like Rock. Rock Hunter.”
It fitted my game character well but I’ve always imagined anyone on the forum that sees my name must just assume I love Exploration.
It fitted my game character well but I’ve always imagined anyone on the forum that sees my name must just assume I love Exploration.
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