How to rename bases?

[Flubber]

Glacialis

I'm with them -- the " RENAME" button is HUGE and is just under the table that shows the allocation of energy.


The only possible solution I can think of is with your screen resolution/ settings. I can recall a time I opened up the game and the screen settings/ resolution or whatever were such that everything on the screen was very very big to the point that the base screen only showed one table (nuts, min, energy) and I would have to toggle that one off to see the energy allocation table ( and the Rename button IIRC).



Oh and the r button worked for me as well. I was not aware of that keystroke method before

[Glacialis]

Sigh

Yup, that was it. Resized to 1024, and all is fine. Must have been this latest install...though surprisingly, from all the problems I've heard about, other than hiding the REALLY FREAKIN OBVIOUS "Rename" button, it installed on XP Pro just fine. Thanks all!

[Maniac]

The mystery is solved.

[Method]

Originally posted by frankychan
My fav is renaming cities into new Hive colonies:

Terrible Swift Sword->Anger of Yang
Gaia's Landing->People's Landing
Morgan Industries->Hive Industries
U.N. HQ->Nerve Stapling Center
Ironholm->People's Bunker
New Jerusalem->New Hive
Last Rose of Summer->(usually planet bustered)

Free Drone Central is better to name Nerve Stapling Center .

Dreams of Green->Dreams of Red
Memory of Earth->Memory of Memory of Earth after i nerve gas it and build a new base there.
Bird: Cry->H'minee: cry
Freedman's park->Slave labour camp
the lord's wrath->Marr's Wrath (or yang if you like)
Yang Mine->You're Mine Yang!
Pavlov biolab->biochemical weapons lab
Safe Haven->No longer Safe
Roberts' Dread->Robert's Dead

When you're the usurpers you're always at war and there's no shortage of bases you need to rename. things like terror's delight though are fine how they are.

[Adalbertus]

reams of Green->Dreams of Red

A really devout Gaian/Cult player should rename this base to "Dreams of Purple"

[Alex]

I always thought that the Believer's "He Walked on Water" was funny enough... Once I played as Morgan and, when I conquered that base, I would like to rename it to "He Walked on Water Using Morgan Hovershoes (TM)" but, alas, the game would not let me do it...

[Adalbertus]

The names of the Believer's bases are almost exclusively taken from the Bible. Zak might be lucky enough to rename the base to "I Know the Stepping Stones"

[MariOne]

Originally posted by Flubber
Glacialis

I'm with them -- the " RENAME" button is HUGE and is just under the table that shows the allocation of energy.


The only possible solution I can think of is with your screen resolution/ settings. I can recall a time I opened up the game and the screen settings/ resolution or whatever were such that everything on the screen was very very big ...

I'd care to point out that SMAC comes with two defined resolutions, and that unless you force it definining some parameter in the .ini file, the game chooses the best fit one to your current screen resolution.
Other catch tho, is that chosen resolution does NOT adapt *dinamically*.
Thus, to see the game screen so big that its elements don't fit in the screen, you must have been in one of these cases:
- you work at 800x600 and *willingly* forced SMAC to always run at 1024
- you work at 640x480, and lowest SMAC resolution (800x600) is bigger than that
- you have a SMAC session *OPEN*, and you switch your screen resolution underway: if you start SMAC at 1024 and then switch your screen to 800, the "pixel dimensions" of the game elements drawings have already been determined and fixed in relation to linear dimensions in the previous resolution, and DO NOT get re-adapted. In this case the rightmost and bottom elements of the game screen will fall indeed outside of screen limits, and you won't see them.
But if you switch to 800 *before*, and *then* you "open up" a new game session, that session will regularly & visibly start at 800 (unless you forced it...)

[Mr. President]

The names of the Believer's bases are almost exclusively taken from the Bible. Zak might be lucky enough to rename the base to "I Know the Stepping Stones"

A couple of those names are actually parts of the lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic. See how many you can spot.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1094678#post1094678

[Method]

well, i got 4. any i missed?

[Alex]

Originally posted by TKG
well, i got 4. any i missed?

I think not.

Judgement Seat
The Coming of the Lord
Terrible Swift Sword
Righteous Sentence

Am I right?

[Mr. President]

Originally posted by Alexnm

Judgement Seat
The Coming of the Lord
Terrible Swift Sword
Righteous Sentence

Am I right?

Spot on.

[Adalbertus]

Haven't seen more than those four names, but there are a few good potential names:
Grapes of Wrath
Fateful Lightning
Across the Sea

[Mr. President]

Grapes of Wrath
Fateful Lightning
Across the Sea

Yeah, those would be cool. Maybe "The Beauty of the Lilies"? That might be getting a little long, though.

[Adalbertus]

Mr. President, might just fit, I think the box is 24 characters wide But it look more like a Gaian base name.