Factions With The Best Base Names

Sprayber · April 4, 2001, 01:31

This is an interesting topic for me. So which faction's base names do you pefer? I pefer the Spartan bases and Hive and Pirate names.

Sparta Command
Hawk of Chiron
Janissary Rock
Blast Rifle Crag
Assassin's Redoubt
Centurion Cave
Bunker 118
Hommel's Citadel
Training Camp
Defiance Freehold
Hero's Waypoint
Fort Liberty
Fleet Anchorage
Admiralty Base
Hydrodock
Fleet Base
Sea Outpost
And many more

The Hive has some good ones too.

The Hive
Sheng-ji Yang Base
Worker's Nest
People's Teeming
Great Clustering
Social Engineering Den
The Labyrinth
Paradise Swarming
Communal Nexus
Social Artery
Factory Maze
Unity Lair
Plex Anthill (My personal favorite

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The Colony (Did they just run out of names?

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Sea Collective
Deep Community
Sea Hive
Port Yang
Factory Drift
Ocean Core
Deep Clustering

The University has some good as well. And we can't forget the Pirates.

Deadman Tavern
Landlubber Inn
Buried Treasure
Sunny Oasis
Sailor's Rest
Freshwater Springs
Marque City
Land Lock
Shanty Town
Penzance
Skull Crossroads
Sailor's Delight
Safe Haven
Port Svensgaard
Crow's Nest
Provision Point
Parrot Landing
Barbary Coast
Capetown

The Pk's and the rest seem a little dull. Morgan named everything after himself. When I conquer bases from these guys I usually delete them or stick the word Fort in front of them. ex. Fort Industries.

Googlie · April 4, 2001, 03:42

In most of my PBEMs now i change the basenames as they are being founded, and stick to themes.

e.g. in one, all my bases are Scottish golf courses, and in another, Irish ones. I have a game with all Palm Springs area towns (natch) and another with interior British Columbia. My Waterworld PBEM (4 pirate factions) my bases are all British ports (with Penzance the HQ, but also Scapa Flow, Rosyth, Portsmouth, etc)

The worst IMHO is Aki, with Alpha this and Beta that - these are mainly the games where I change the names. Uni comes second worst - I can never find the bases with all their weird names, so they too are candidates for change.

Then I've seen others with subtly changed names (Yawn of Planet, The Thistles Endure, The Rupture, etc.)

I liked the base names that Sid and Brian used in their playtest factions.

Some Gaian basenames are cool, but I agree re the UN and Morgan.

G.

Skanderbeg · April 4, 2001, 03:54

In General, the base names of original seven are MUCH better than the names of the SMAX factions.
The names of the Drones, the Cult and especially the Cyborgs are real trash.

I often change the names of their bases if I play them.
The Spartan names are good in English language, but in German the sound a little stupid.

The Best are Gaians, University and Hive in my opinion.

Sprayber · April 4, 2001, 11:36

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Originally posted by Skanderbeg on 04-04-2001 03:54 AM
The Spartan names are good in English language, but in German the sound a little stupid.

Never thought of it from that prespective.

I bet they would sound a little weird. In a custom faction of mine that has an Earth theme, I used the name of countries.

Is there anyway to make the base names come up in a certain order? The sea bases come up in the order that they are listed IIRC, but land bases start with the HQ and then come up random. In my latest custom faction I just used numbers and name the bases as they are founded. Does anyone know what happens when you run out of base names? For most factions sea bases are few, but in my current game the University is building sea bases like crazy. Of course, the started on an island but still.

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Lefty Scaevola · April 4, 2001, 20:01

Ihave fun adding names to the peacekeeper:
U N Department of Failure
U N Bureau of Redundency Dept
U N Small Animal Administration

you get the pictue.

Blake · April 4, 2001, 21:00

I quite like the morganite base names

They are stupid names for cities, but fun netherless, and easy to indentify. I also role-play the bases, for example I try to build the PEG in "Morgan Bank", "Morgan Robotics" and "Morgan Mines" usually get more than their fair share of mineral crawlers. (often one of those becomes a polluter base). I like to build SP's in Morgan Collections.

And when the AI is Morgan, I always add "Morgan Collections" to my "Collection", especially if it has SP's in it. When capturing Morgan bases I usually rename the Morgan part, for example "Gaian Bank".

IMO base names play a much greater part in MP games, also naming landmarks. It's pretty boring having creative names if no-one see's them. In MP I always name all "landmarks" on or near my continent, I also try to "capture" other players named landmarks and re-name them. Even better is raising their named ocean or bay out of the sea, I find it amusing when "Pirate Ocean" is a mountain.

When you run out of base names for memory you get Alpha Sector... Beta Sector... etc. The caretakers did it once when they conquered all the land and proceeded to colonise the sea.

Sikander · April 5, 2001, 07:13

quote:

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola on 04-04-2001 08:01 PM
Ihave fun adding names to the peacekeeper:
U N Department of Failure
U N Bureau of Redundency Dept
U N Small Animal Administration

you get the pictue.

Lefty,

Don't forget the Bureau of Lost Electricity Reclamation, (across from the Tomb of the Unregistered Voter) or Cha Dawn's Security Force - The Natural Guard.

Chowlett · April 5, 2001, 08:59

What happens when it runs out of Greek letters? Has anyone ever ICS'ed enough to find out. I certainly haven't, it's a rare game when I reach Alpha Sector

Lefty Scaevola · April 5, 2001, 10:31

I"ve been up to 506 bases. After running out aplha sector names the default is: (faction name)(muber varible upon the faction=1 more than the number of default base names), eg "Gaian 58". You rename the as they are founded; you case do that on the from that come up when you found the vase "b". After a few dozen names wither fitting the faction or joke names, I switch to stardard series of 99 bases named "aaa01 to aaa99" to "bbb01 to bbb99" etc.

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The Commodore · April 5, 2001, 11:45

Excuse me, but how do you rename Landmarks?

Earwicker · April 5, 2001, 13:03

Of the default base names I'd agree that the Spartans got the best (every time I find Assassin's Redoubt, I remember what their final transmission will be . . .). I seldom go with the suggestions, but instead follow a theme similar to game's intention or often wildly different.

Data Angels. I name everything after references from Philip **** novels.

Drones. Songs by Woody Guthrie, Billy Bragg etc. Union leaders and revolutionaries.

Miriam. Books/ places from the Old Testament.

Cybernetic. Just the greek letters for the first 20, then just numbers.

Morgan and PK. As offered, removing "Morgan" or "U.N" so it's not so repetetive.

Gaian bases get named after things from Dylan songs. Songs for the Cult bases, but from weirder bands like Legendary Pink Dots or Cocteau Twins.

UoP. College towns, cities. Although I like the game's consistency of character to have Zak naming bases after Russian and Soviet scientists.

Aliens. Horrible base names with the This:That routine. I give them towns in New Jersey. Then I gift their lousy captured size one bases to my pact mates (as a special favor, I shall turn over to you: Weehauken!)

Yang and the Pirates have okay names, I just rarely play as them.

Earwicker · April 5, 2001, 13:04

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Originally posted by Earwicker on 04-05-2001 01:03 PM
Data Angels. I name everything after references from Philip **** novels.

Should've seen that coming. PhilipKDick

April 5, 2001, 16:24

heheh.. Domai Dome.

I love that name. If Domai's close by me, I just have this uncontrolable urge to "aqcuire" him. My little "pet-domai".

Ha.

And Domai Dome is the first base I try to capture

Sprayber · April 5, 2001, 18:57

I think the Hive base "the colony" is so bland. I guess they ran out of good socialist terms when they came to this one.

Factory Drift is another good one. I rename caputerd bases as Fort whatever and Port whatever. If the previous owner keeps bugging me about it. I name it something stupid. Can you see Yang saying "if you don't give me Barneys playland back I will wipe you from the planet."

Lefty Scaevola · April 6, 2001, 00:03

right click on the map (you may need detailed menus enabled) at the landmark (cover some area around the displayed name) one of the options that comes up is rename landmark (or if done on the map not on an existing landmark, then NAME landmark). With lastest patch in you can only rename a landmark if you are the closest faction to it.

rename base is a button inside the base screen, and can also be done with the base is founded and the initial name pops up.
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