how do you name landmarks

[twoflower]

I know the game automatically names osme landmarks and I want to know how people name their own because I'd like to have places like the straits of blood and other evil names

[Alex]

I think that if you click on the tile where you want the name to be with the right mouse button then there is an option for naming the landmark. Hm, I could be wrong...

[Lazerus]

nope you're right, its as simple as that, click on the tile, right click and "name landmark". Though you might need to have the advanced right click feature activated ?
that might be why you can't see it, its been that long since ive seen the simple feature i can't remember if its there.

[Lefty Scaevola]

"how do you name landmarks"

After hot female porn stars.

[Blake]

I use click on tile then hit shift-N, naming landmarks is great fun in MP games and can end up with some strangely contested worthless land (naming rights are determined by who has a base closest to the landmark)

You can also use it to kind of figure out how far other players are away from you.

[Capt Dizle]

God, it was the little things that made this such a good game. Like when you would infiltrate another player and then piece together his map bit by bit by looking at his stuff. What other game had such splendid stuff?

[Sarxis]

The answer to that is:

NO ONE!! Mwuahahah!

Yeah... :|

[Enigma_Nova]

Also, if you right-click around an empty map you can see where all the landmarks are.

There's a rename landmark prompt when you're within 1 square of a landmark. This is how I tend to find the 'soon sooner, and the MN is Mine.

[Jamski]

Ah, a new exploit for my growing catalogue

-Jam

[Alinestra Covelia]

I remember in one particularly entertaining MP game, I was paired up with Misotu.

We used to have landmark jousts across our common body of water, and terms like "CHEEKY WEE DEVIL" and "VAIN EASE RESEARCH BASE" and "*s*******" would come up.

Another possibility is to find out which direction your enemy is coming from and name a landmark there saying "IF YOU CAN READ THIS WE'RE" (new landmark) "ALREADY ATTACKING YOUR FLANKS". Worth it for a laugh at least.

[Alex]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
Another possibility is to find out which direction your enemy is coming from and name a landmark there saying "IF YOU CAN READ THIS WE'RE" (new landmark) "ALREADY ATTACKING YOUR FLANKS". Worth it for a laugh at least.

This one is good.

But then, what is not good coming from you, Allie?

[Flubber]

It is great fun-- as is naming bases and units. The best base name was " Look Behind You" for a mind controlled base behind an enemy's front lines. ( I think someone else used that basename first in CIV2)

In a game with Mongoose I finally renamed a base of his I captured Tobruk since I had to capture it twice. I hoped, as in WW2 that I could hold it from then on but the base was destroyed.

AS for landmarks I name them all sorts of things. " Come through these straits and Die" was a favorite while in a recent game I saw an opponent with a troopship loaded with a probe so I did 2 landmarks pointing to my nearest base and offering " Wine , Women and song".

I also stuck up no tresspassing signs on my borders when other players kept crossing my frontiers. Another player then put the word " banana" on all his borders.

Overall its a very fun feature of MP games- I love the taunts and back and forth although I usually don't get into it unless I know the other player(s) have a sense of humor about things-- The most I ever did it was was in a duel ( I think with Drago Sinio but my memory could be faulty). My opponent actually started it even though he was being invaded. he pointed a long arrow to his coast with the text " Suggested landing site"-- I hit elsewhere but a second wave hit his suggested beach and I renamed the landmark something like " Thanks for the suggestion"

[Blake]

I remember in a LAN game my friend named a patch of deep sea, so I got my formers and built a land bridge out to it then raised a 3500 mountain - but kept the name

[Enigma_Nova]

It's mildly amusing to conduct an egomaniacal naming frenzy. Name everything after yourself!

Or just to be annoying in games I simply rename everything to have the same name.
-GREAT- fun when the __ at __ is attacking __, so you have to get your __ from __ to counterattack __.

Just to be confusing, I like to landmark certain squares with "26.50" or "1.4" When those are nothing like the real co-ordinates. I do this with bases too.

[Blake]

It's mildly amusing to conduct an egomaniacal naming frenzy. Name everything after yourself!

Morgan agrees