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Creating a City with custom name, but GM needs to moderate the name...
Conrad
Member, Alpha One, Adventurer
I was thinking about this and suggested it a few times to people on discord but what if we were allowed to give a custom name to the city we create, HOWEVER, it has to be moderated by a GM to see whether the name is:
1. Not just random troll name
2. Not full of slurs or other bad words you CERTAINLY wouldn't want to see?
Suggesting this mostly because (at least to my current knowledge) being unable to name the cities we create (or at least use custom names) is a bit disappointing, especially since in some cases it might be that the city was created by a coalition by players and they want to commemorate that moment with a unique name for their own piece of land.
To some it might seem pretty pointless to suggest, but I am sure to those who wish to rule a piece of land with their guild or a big bunch of friends, they wish to have a city they will always be able to point at and say, "That place, is our home." A pregen name is kinda...meh. Doesn't feel much like something of a player's but nothing more than something given.
1. Not just random troll name
2. Not full of slurs or other bad words you CERTAINLY wouldn't want to see?
Suggesting this mostly because (at least to my current knowledge) being unable to name the cities we create (or at least use custom names) is a bit disappointing, especially since in some cases it might be that the city was created by a coalition by players and they want to commemorate that moment with a unique name for their own piece of land.
To some it might seem pretty pointless to suggest, but I am sure to those who wish to rule a piece of land with their guild or a big bunch of friends, they wish to have a city they will always be able to point at and say, "That place, is our home." A pregen name is kinda...meh. Doesn't feel much like something of a player's but nothing more than something given.
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U.S. East
They would end up getting declined xP. And if too many dick joked then just a forced pregen name. I mean, sounds pretty simple. No point punishing people who would properly use the feature
Various reasons for a no
The only time you could rename the city is if it was destroyed and someone built a new one, like it usually happened in history. New Mayor has to live with the same city name.
And, tbh, it would only be a lot of work initially. After that it will slow down significantly as cities being built are far less common.
So basically initial surge, and then a steady fall of name verification
That varies by how intrepid is gonna handle languages. If English is main across all servers then the players might just have to roll with english names.
After a long war between 2 nodes, and the city has been raised to ruin despite victory, the survivors come together and decide to name the city after the leader who united them against the common threat.
Yeah that would work. Besides that, I guess renaming could be possible after a huge event or something. This would require a bit of discussion overall tho, cuz just renaming at any time is just stupid tbh
They are trying to avoid BoatyMcBoatface and other less savory names.
I think a preset list is the way to go.
I mean, if they want to avoid that, then just have someone moderate names. Make it a Sunday as the only day to rename or something of sort
Once that name has been assigned, every other node can no longer pick that one.
Seems as good as creating our own, and probably more lore friendly.
There is an amount of freedom I am not willing to give other players.
Just play Ark or Atlas on ab official server until you understand my point of view. It should not take long.
If I had more time, I would write a shorter post.
So Node hit level 3 and Mr. Boatface becomes Mayor on Monday and the Node goes all week to get a name? What would we call the town? That place over the hill past the river and around the bend?
Call it finishing off the paperwork, sending the word that this place is now ours?
We get some choice, rather than no choice.
That's a great compromise.
U.S. East
Well, at least player suggestions would be great then.
Yeah that would be better. So they can filter out all of the stupid name suggestions ahead of time.
U.S. East
Why do cities get special treatment?
Cities are different because they are a part of the map. Do you want to play a game that takes place in Verra or 4chan? I don't know about you but I don't want to run caravans from doge town to pepe shire. It is only cute for an evening tops.
Also I would bet a litter of my own blood that people would name towns after their guild. Which is totally not in the spirit of how nodes are intended to work.
If I had more time, I would write a shorter post.
Well varies how fast people get to a nameable level.
A bit of player suggestions wouldn't be bad, considering it's meant to be players that name the cities.
Tho, if it will work based on suggestions Baldur's Gate most likely won't be possible anymore due to copyright...unless players name a city as such doesn't count 🤣
Because they are a Part of the map? Don’t tell me you spend more time looking at the map then player names. Giving the people a choice with moderation is the golden mean. A list with predetermined choices is too moderating.
I think it would be cool if a guild would be so influential as to get that power to name a whole city after them but guilds come and go and so does cities.
Much love ❤️
Not really.
CS time is tight from launch day for the first three months. Adding in hundreds of node name checks to that will only make things worse.
Steven is going to give us a range of names that match the lore and then the Mayors get to choose the names from those lists.
Again, that is a great compromise.
These posts of yours that state, "I want Steven to make MY game" are absurd. Steven is making his game; not yours.
I don't like it when people name their characters non RP names too. I don't RP in MMOs at all because I see it as a inferior medium for the practice, but I do not like non RP names in MMOs. The just feel wrong.
I once played on a WOW:Classic RP server due to high pop and long wait times on the normal servers. I learned that you could report non RP names. To me that was the greatest feature I had ever seen. I must have reported an average of 20-30 people an hour for non RP names. I would have reported the name "Sunboy" in a millisecond. Nothing wrong with "Sunboy" as a forum name, but as a character name I would not like it.
I normally argue for player agency and against RP, but non RP names in MMOs is something I don't like. Because I can't draw the line at player names and guild names, I am drawing the line at town names.
Just my personally take on all this.<3
If I had more time, I would write a shorter post.
Basically this.
You or your guild are contributing to make a node grow but you nor your guild are going to own it. Even if your guild is the one that contributes the most and becomes one of the patron guild on the node, this node will still not be theirs.
What is going to happen if players from a node want to change the name again because the players who choosed the first name don't even play in that node anymore and they don't like it? Be able to choose a good lore friendly name from a list is good enough.
I feel like this suggestion could fit as a one time reward in a really high tier backer pack as the opportunity to add a node name to the node name list, but not in the game for all players.