Offical : Base names 6-8 (this time with multiple choice!)

Makahlua · October 3, 2002, 09:13

That's the -last- time I try to do a poll when braindead and sleepy (thank goodness I didn't try the base queue one!

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Let's try this again shall we?

Pandemoniak · October 3, 2002, 10:17

Yeehoo ! Pandemonium leads the poll !! Lets also build our HQ inside !!!

Darkness' Edge · October 3, 2002, 10:35

Og (because it's cool, and suits the randomness of our game)
Tacticus Academy (because, like Antioch, it's about time this got a run)
Zanarkand Gate (because it's smacish, and it's cool, and yeah)

Method · October 3, 2002, 15:40

UN Research complex (its mine and it's smacish)
Concordia (smac-ish, sounds like a caretaker base)
Tacticus academy (i just like it

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Pandemoniak · October 3, 2002, 15:52

Is it Tacitus or Tacticus academy ? Tacitus is much funnier, I think...

moomin · October 3, 2002, 16:10

I voted Zanarkand Gate. Great name.

I'm sorry to see my earlier suggestion; Britney Spears City, didn't make it to the poll. Strange nobody wants to honour the memory of the gratest artist of Earths final century...

Maniac · October 3, 2002, 16:55

I voted Mysidia, Concordia and Aurinko.

Concordia means Unity in Latin.

Mr. President · October 3, 2002, 21:49

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I voted Mysidia, Concordia and Aurinko.

Where were Concordia and Aurinko? I would have voted for them too . . .

I voted for The Sheathed Sword, though, which is also pretty cool.

Hercules · October 3, 2002, 23:27

Me, I voted Deux ex Machina, Concordia and Tacitus Academy. well what do you think a person of my pedigree would vote for: verba et verba

Method · October 4, 2002, 16:29

Maka->make sure you post when your polls expire. its hard to keep the directory up to date

Makahlua · October 4, 2002, 18:55

3 days sorry about that!

Main_Brain · October 5, 2002, 06:05

Can i vote mine thrice?

Hercules · October 5, 2002, 07:26

Is it worth considering that each regular faction citizen have a city named in their honour. Each citizen to submit a name (as at top) and as the empire expands the cities are named accordingly until the 18 to 24 cities are named then start again. Random number could determine order. Or was this appraoch tried elsewhere and didn't work. My submission for a city name is Cyclops

DeathByTheSword · October 5, 2002, 07:34

we have a name thread were you can put in your submission

GeneralTacticus · October 5, 2002, 08:05

My suggestion is meant to be Tacticus Academy. This is a common mistake.

Hercules · October 5, 2002, 10:41

I went back to the constitution and this is what I found

Quote:

Base Names:

The alpha talent or the commissioner will pick 5 names from the name thread and will put them in a poll where a
name for a new city can be chosen. This poll has to be open for at least 2 days. The name with the most votes
will be chosen for the base and will be scraped from the list. The same counts for landmarks. If someone wants to
name a place without a landmark a poll has started about giving it a name or not. This poll will also have minimum
of 2 days.

So Is this naming procedure and poll, unconstitutional. or did I miss something?
I looked at Andemagne's initial suggestion in the City Names thread regarding naming bases after citzens (not too different from my own view above, and many others I noted) and while there was discussion, the issue seemed unresolved.

Makahlua:

Oh and as footnote I did put forward 'Bloomsville' as base name suggestion in the name thread but it didn't appeared above. I'm not too upset it didn't appear as I 've changed my proposed name to Cyclops anyhow.

Method · October 5, 2002, 10:42

go UNRC!

Method · October 6, 2002, 17:38

so the poll is closed, i guess it goes

Base 6: Tacticus Academy
Base 7: Concordia
Base 8: Mysidia/Zanarkand Gate

since we have a tie, how about we just cancel those and name base 8 UN Research Complex

Vlad Antlerkov · October 6, 2002, 18:21

Meh, just hold a quickpoll in the appropriate turnchat. (How many CPs do we have active or under construction?)

Mr. President · October 6, 2002, 23:15

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how about we just cancel those and name base 8 UN Research Complex

That sounds nowhere as cool as either Mysidia or Zanarkand Gate.

Makahlua · October 7, 2002, 01:25

Well since they tied for 3rd I figured we'd just use em both, so no polling for #9

Hercules: Under the most recent set of changes, the DoBP was given the duty of running naming polls (look up the director's duties section)

Gen.T: I'll make sure DBTS spells it proper when that base is formed

Vlad: a -lot- of them actually! I think I may need to hold a second one to cover em all

And if we did any substituting, it'd be Deus Ex Machina

Mr. President · October 7, 2002, 04:54

Fair enough.

Hercules · October 7, 2002, 06:07

Makahlua: I did look it up; this is what it says:

DoBP duties

Quote:

Posting polls on how our bases should be named

What you have done and it's ok for now obviously, is 'Posting polls on what our bases should be named not how our bases should be named. There is a difference.

Anyhow whatever the interpretation, the constitution needs updating to delete
that part of the constitution in part 11, that I referred to earlier about ' Alpha talent ...5 base names'. The two parts could be viewed as in conflict.

Secondly you might finalise the discussion on how to name bases by a poll: You will recall the thread started by Andemagne. There were a number ways proposed:
1. (As you organised above) all names listed and all citizens have the opportunity to vote
2. Every regular and active citizen to have a base name of their choice.
3. Variations of 2

Detective Inspector Hercules Partet and barrack room constitutional lawyer (attorney) (PS I can see quite a few microkreds in fees coming my way if this goes to court)

Method · October 19, 2002, 17:51

time for a new poll! mysidia and zanarkand gate both founded!

DeathByTheSword · October 19, 2002, 18:35

and two other CP are on there way and 3 others are under construction