Base/Unit/Landmark Naming Thread

[Googlie]

well - here's an alternative to mull over (yes, too many names for such a small piece of real estate, but just staking a claim to our fair share of names)

(image deleted as overtaken by subsequent events)

[Googlie]

Any further thoughts on river names and bays, mountains etc?

Suggestions so far for rivers (my favorites for the 3 we can see are bolded):

Blood River
Black River
Blood Of The Earth
Blood of the Martyrs
River of Martyrs' Blood
Blood of the Fallen
Red River
Rio Rojo
Gunrunners' Creek
Nuovo Colorado River
Skanky Burns River
River Tacticus

Chime in, everyone, the more names we lay on the table the bigger choice we have

[Maniac]

RÃo Grande
RÃo de Janeiro

[Googlie]

I lIke Rio Grande as the name for that humungous river that runs through SC2

I guess we don't want Rio de Los Angeles (River of the Angels) as they are a faction in this game

[Maniac]

Once we have conquered them, we could call a river in their previous territory like that.

[Googlie]

Here's what the 2106 map looks like with some landmarks and units named, and with Fog of War off

[Googlie]

Sites of next bases?

We agree (don't we?) that after Flex we go for Info Nets and Planetary Networks, (prolly around 12 to 15 turns from now) then get our foil probes in the ocean.

This means we need to advance-plan at least 1 coastal base, if not more

Sparta Command's CP (will finish first, so let'c code this base as SC3)

I suggest we consider planting it where Chiron Knights is right now (66:24) or else on the land between the 2 water bodies at 58:24 (if suitable - currently unexplored). That would open up the ocean to the east, and south (if indeed these 2 partially exposed water bodies are indeed ocean frontage). If the CP isn't rushed, it'd get to either site in 13 turns

Santiago's Citadel's CP - let's code that SC4 - I suggest we plant at 53:11. (with no pod rush it'd get there in some 15 turns time). This brings the offshore mineral special into its radius as well as the the 2 Unity seedpods at 54:8 and 54:14, plus 3 crater tiles to exploit (and leaves room for an infill base at 55;13 or within the crater itself at 52:16 or 53:15)

[DeathByTheSword]

i agree with SC3....about SC4 i would have placed it around 2 tiles more north east...but this is very good

[Andemagne]

any news about other factions approoving the 1/4 of landmark names to each faction?

[Googlie]

Hmm - would Santiago - or her officers - have been much of a historian? Maybe the river running thru SC2 could be River Eurotas (and the bay it runs into could be called the Laconic Gulf)

see here

(Eurotas is the name of a river in the region of the Peloponnesus in Greece. It flows through the city of Sparta and empties into the Laconic Gulf)

[Googlie]

Originally posted by Andemagne
any news about other factions approoving the 1/4 of landmark names to each faction?

Drogue - or Method - should issue a ruling that each faction is limited to [.25 * {64 - X }] where X = the # original landmarks on the full map

G.

[Maniac]

/me suddenly remembers his history classes.
Sounds great!

[Jamski]

Ther#s like no where near enough baes neamed afzer me *doitnow!*

-Ja

[Googlie]

You've gotta wait for bases, but how about this:

[Andemagne]

Laconic Gulf and River Eurotas are OK with me.
but tell me more about Mount Taygetus