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Old December 27, 2003, 12:08   #1
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how do you name landmarks
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
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Old December 27, 2003, 14:53   #2
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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...
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Old December 27, 2003, 15:53   #3
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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.
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"how do you name landmarks"

After hot female porn stars.
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Old December 27, 2003, 20:05   #5
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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.
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Old December 28, 2003, 00:21   #6
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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?
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Old December 28, 2003, 00:32   #7
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The answer to that is:

NO ONE!! Mwuahahah!

Yeah... :|
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Old December 28, 2003, 01:04   #8
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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.
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Old December 28, 2003, 11:25   #9
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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 "*snigger*" 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.
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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?
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Old December 28, 2003, 19:32   #12
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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"
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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
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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.
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"Don't feed the mindworms" on a patch of fungus was amusing.
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If you're losing a war badly or winning it easily rename a large patch of land "France"
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My SP landmarks are usually quite dull and utilitarian. If a sealurk is seen to arrive at a certain point along the shoreline, it is noted along with the year at that point -- that way I have a constant reminder to keep at least a minimal watch in that direction.
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Old December 30, 2003, 22:25   #18
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I name landmarks just to entertain myself, after places I've lived, places I'd like to live, and places whose names just sound cool.

For example, I always have either "Vermont" or "Green Mountain".
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Old December 31, 2003, 15:27   #19
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Hmmm, I've only named re-name landmarks if something special happens there. Like if there is a huge battle going on, I'll rename it to something like "Hallowed Ground" or "Memorial Vista".

Disastrous areas get named appropriately like, "Slaughterhous Hill" or "MindWorm Plains" if a morass of worms destroys my units in that location.
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Another completely bland use I have for landmarks is to make sure the bases are laid out in the precise every-fifth-square grid I favor. I switch the cursor the veiwing squares, count out five from my first base, and plop down the landmark title "site". I then count out another five in another direction, etc, until I've done about two dozen of the buggers.

Almost invariably, when a unit finally uncovers a given "site", it's rocky and fungus covered.
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Almost invariably, when a unit finally uncovers a given "site", it's rocky and fungus covered.
Don'cha just hate when that happens?
Once or twice is annoying enough, but time after time is just , well , grrr
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Is there a time when it doesn`t happen? To me it is always - so in SP I don`t hurry I send formers first
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I send probe teams or (if I don't have PTs and am not rushing an SP) alien artifacts first -- they don't upset the natives near as much.

Just don't pop pods with an artifact.
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