Poll by Paw: Rename TTA

notyoueither · November 11, 2002, 00:13

OK. We have several useful suggestions for a name, some of which are quite good. So here's how it goes, people pick the name they want to adopt and post that choice below. That way we can tell who is voting for what, which may be important.

If none of the choices get 50% of the votes, then there will be a run off of the top two choices.

The choices are:
A. Gathering Storm
B. Golden Horde
C. Liberal Schola Assembly
D. Slaughterhouse 13
E. Thunder of Hooves

So, have at it. I will not vote for a while. I would like to observe what others think first.

Duration, 5 days. At which time I will ask for this thread to be locked.

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Vote progess

Gathering Storm: FrustratedPoet, Randolph, Meshelic, Velociryx, Nuclear Master, Sir Ralph, notyoueither

Slaughterhouse 13: asleepathewheel, alva848, Conqueror

Done. Gathering Storm it is.

Meshelic · November 11, 2002, 02:12

Do we only vote for one?

asleepathewheel · November 11, 2002, 02:15

Quote:

Originally posted by Meshelic
Do we only vote for one?

well, we can only have one name

Meshelic · November 11, 2002, 02:40

DOH!

notyoueither · November 11, 2002, 02:52

The Golden Horde of the Gathering Storm who Thunder on Hooves...

/Edit. This is not my vote btw.

FrustratedPoet · November 11, 2002, 03:21

A

asleepathewheel · November 11, 2002, 03:24

I will be brave and vote first. Please don't hurt me if this is a lame choice:

D. Slaughterhouse 13

I like this because of the reference and the connotation of slaughter. Also (ok, this is dumb) the 13, that we are individuals, but a team of 13. Yes I know that sounds corny, and yes I feel ashamed that I typed that.

Why not golden horde?
-only good if mongols
-too open for certain jokes

why not liberal schola?
-already a team with a latin name
-not unifying enough for me

why not gathering storm?
-I don't know

----though it does invite bad puns like "THE GATHERING STORM WILL RAIN ON YOUR PARADE, TRIP" and other crap like that.

why not thundering hooves?
-would suck if we don't have horses
-don't feel it would be appropriate unless we have horse based UU

But those are just my thoughts

I hope that the others vote early and often.

*slaughterhouse 13 was not my idea

damnit, just noticed that FP has registered the first vote

oh, is it ok that I have lobbied here?

FrustratedPoet · November 11, 2002, 03:39

Well, I voted for Gathering Storm and that was the suggestion I made in the other thread. I wasn't hesitant to vote for my own suggestion because, well .... if I didn't prefer it to the other options I wouldn't have suggested it in the first place.

Anyway, I think all the ideas are good.

Arnelos · November 11, 2002, 03:43

Gathering Storm:

I can see the NewZupdate now... (from Trip's team, no doubt):

"The Gathering Storm has was 'gathering' for several millennia, but it never did strike..."

Seriously now, just about ANY name can be at the butt-end of a joke. Just pick the name you guys find most cool and go with it

FrustratedPoet · November 11, 2002, 03:44

PS. I promise not to make any of the bad Storm jokes if it wins. (well.... not too many

)

PPS. Get out of our thread!

asleepathewheel · November 11, 2002, 03:46

This should serve as a warning to the other voters:

Vote gathering storm only if you are prepared to hear the "clever" puns of the enemy.

Granted, their voices will be muted by our boots on their throats, but nonetheless, I don't want a name that is so easily ridiculed. So easily lampooned by even the least cultured and imaginative of our opponents.

Arnelos · November 11, 2002, 03:47

Quote:

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
PS. I promise not to make any of the bad Storm jokes if it wins. (well.... not too many

)

PPS. Get out of our thread!

Pfft! Everyone's in everyone else's threads right now! Until we get private forums, that will remain the case. For now, it's even productive to some extent.

notyoueither · November 11, 2002, 03:49

Grrr. I knew I should have proposed 'Hammer of the Storm' as an alternative.

Arnelos · November 11, 2002, 03:54

Quote:

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
Vote gathering storm only if you are prepared to hear the "clever" puns of the enemy.

Aside from pointing out my poor punning ability

, you seem to have presumed that I intend to be your "enemy" - nothing could be further from the truth!

I was merely pointing out that TRIP'S TEAM was likely to have a certain incentive to make fun of a team which was explicitly created to "trash" it

asleepathewheel · November 11, 2002, 04:00

Quote:

Originally posted by Arnelos

Aside from pointing out my poor punning ability, you seem to have presumed that I intend to be your "enemy" - nothing could be further from the truth!

right, right. we're all friends here. this is a happy game. you wouldn't mind giving us some horses, friend, would ya?

Quote:

Originally posted by Arnelos
I was merely pointing out that TRIP'S TEAM was likely to have a certain incentive to make fun of a team which was explicitly created to "trash" it

I suppose...but that will only be an incentive for the first 1000 years, by which point they will be reduced to a mere vassal, we will keep them alive, with one city, merely to ridicule them, as we will do the same to you.

Lets try to keep on topic. How do we get rid of the riff-raff around here

Spiffor · November 11, 2002, 04:02

What will you do with the name "Trash Trip's Ass" then ?

notyoueither · November 11, 2002, 04:35

I shalll put it in my location field. I do not wish to evade the effrontery I have given to Trip. He must be given a chance to make me eat those words.

I will honour the verdict of events.

Arnelos · November 11, 2002, 04:52

Quote:

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
I suppose...but that will only be an incentive for the first 1000 years, by which point they will be reduced to a mere vassal, we will keep them alive, with one city, merely to ridicule them, as we will do the same to you.

Now you're beginning to sound just as irreconcilable to cooperation with other human teams as the Glory of War team

Lest you drive all of your enemies into an alliance against you, perhaps you should be a bit more accomodating (well, at least in public

)?

Harovan · November 11, 2002, 05:28

Since this has turned to a spam fest, I'm preserving my vote. We should do this by either PM or email instead.

notyoueither · November 11, 2002, 06:18

OK, I tried.

The g0dz have ordained,

Thou shalt name your team.
Thou shalt not change your name.
Thou shalt have a logo.
Thou shalt have a team leader as admin.

Now, can we cut the crap and let Sir Ralph vote?

Harovan · November 11, 2002, 06:50

Name: A, B and E sound good to me. Since it was my proposal, I shamelessly vote for B: Golden Horde.

Name change: Not intended.

Logo: Depends on name; I would volunteer to create one, although I'm faaaaar away from being a Sn00py

.

Team leader: That crazy tiger, who else

notyoueither · November 11, 2002, 07:19

Thank you, Sir Ralph.

Now, if we could keep the excess chatter to a minimum and let the 13 choose our name...

Thanks.

notyoueither · November 11, 2002, 07:26

3 heard from. 10 to go. Let's hear it.

GhengisFarb™ · November 11, 2002, 08:03

E. People with Hooves.

Arnelos · November 11, 2002, 08:11

Quote:

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
E. People with Hooves.

Now, I responded to people making jokes in their voting thread, but at least I had the decency not to attempt to VOTE in another team's voting thread...

notyoueither · November 11, 2002, 08:23

ENOUGH.

Let me make it clear. Only the votes of members of the team will be considered.

And excess spam will not be welcome.

Thanks.

Randolph · November 11, 2002, 08:51

note: I have not been lurking (and therefore not posting) in other teams' threads. I understand that fear has motivated others to snoop in our threads, which I understand and will not condemn them for, but I have no such fear.

I vote for "gathering storm", but if "The Hammer of the Storm" becomes a legit option that will be my vote.

FrustratedPoet · November 11, 2002, 13:34

Oh for f**ks sake!!!!!!!!

Let's just do this by e-mail or PM...

Once we've decided this issue we can get our private forum.

Perhaps I should change my vote to "whatever name is winning so we can get this over with and move on"?

Meshelic · November 11, 2002, 14:35

I'm not too worried about other teams using our name in vain (

) , in fact any name-bashing can be expected, I figure I'll sling off a bunch of one-liners against Trip's Team and the Glorry of War, myself! etc etc. It should practically be expected.

However you non (TTA) members shouldn't really be conflicting with our issues here. Not really chivalrous of allovaya, get me? So please allow us to continue un-interrupted.... although Arnelos I believe was sincere and probably trying to help us out a little. The rest of you can die!

ughh what to vote for.....man. Difficult difficult....Okay I'll go beyond my own preferred vote of Thunder of Hooves (because it's mine) and go along with FP on Gathering Storm . That's my vote, alas it cannot be changed.

PS There is no possible way we will be a 'gathering storm' and remain stagnant the entire game. The rest of the teams will realize this soon enough. It's up to them to befriend us or make us enemies. Some have already drawn the enemy card, but I suggest we not tell them yet. haha.

Meshelic · November 11, 2002, 15:08

Vel if you see this I need another PM from you with your email addy. When I sent the Mailing List it gave me an error message, so I believe I may have written your email down wrong and need the correct spelling...thanks.