kjn Wrote:Have someone used the ship names from the Culture novels by Iain M Banks earlier? Plenty of good names for units there, and it's relatively easy to make up new ones as needed.
Excellent suggestion!
If you know what I mean.
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kjn Wrote:Have someone used the ship names from the Culture novels by Iain M Banks earlier? Plenty of good names for units there, and it's relatively easy to make up new ones as needed. I was thinking of that earlier, but a lot of the cool ones are a bit too long, I fear. "Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints" ... :D mh
"You have been struck down!" - Tales of Dwarf Fortress
--- "moby_harmless seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that madly seekest him!"
I think we should go for real fruity names for our workers.
Can we name the important units after forum members?
I suggest starting with mostly_harmless for which ever scouting unit will have first contact duty.
In Soviet Russia, Civilization Micros You!
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." “I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
And naval ones from the Pirates?
...wounding her only makes her more dangerous!
 -- haphazard1It's More Fun to be Jack of All Trades than Master of One. darrelljs Wrote:Military units should come from TEAM's roster I like this. Just don't send me in first every time to scratch the enemy top defender so that everyone else gets odds . Some sort of survival mini-game would be funny, too. (Not to influence decision making in the real game, but maybe so we can have a betting pool to see which forum member survives to the end of the game).Navy for team Pirates! sounds appropriate. But who gets tagged as our workforce? Maybe former PBEM or pitboss winners? Played: Pitboss 18 - Kublai Khan of Germany Somalia | Pitboss 11 - De Gaulle of Byzantium | Pitboss 8 - Churchill of Portugal | PB7 - Mao of Native America | PBEM29 Greens - Mao of Babylon
We should get whoever does the werewolf write ups to write all the death scenes.
In Soviet Russia, Civilization Micros You!
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." “I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.” |
