Creating a City with custom name, but GM needs to moderate the name...

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.

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Yuyukoyay

Sounds like a bad idea just because of the fact that they are going to most likely pick dumb names anyway. Expect like 80% of the nodes to be dick jokes.

Conrad

Yuyukoyay wrote: »

Sounds like a bad idea just because of the fact that they are going to most likely pick dumb names anyway. Expect like 80% of the nodes to be dick jokes.

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

insomnia

I recall it was said that we won't be able to. Which is fine with me. Just more work for the GM team. It can proberly generate issues. Plus who says you will keep being the mayor. So does a new mayor get to rename it if they are in power when it increases in level.
Various reasons for a no

Conrad

insomnia wrote: »

I recall it was said that we won't be able to. Which is fine with me. Just more work for the GM team. It can proberly generate issues. Plus who says you will keep being the mayor. So does a new mayor get to rename it if they are in power when it increases in level.
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

Kaban

Another thing to consider is how many languages is there in the world? Moderating the names is impossible because identifying the language (even tho im quite good at it myself) is not an easy task let alone identifying the slur. It would be fun but at the same time yeah... so many dicks around.

Conrad

Kaban wrote: »

Another thing to consider is how many languages is there in the world? Moderating the names is impossible because identifying the language (even tho im quite good at it myself) is not an easy task let alone identifying the slur. It would be fun but at the same time yeah... so many dicks around.

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.

paradax

How would you feel about naming the city after the 1st Mayor?

Conrad

paradax wrote: »

How would you feel about naming the city after the 1st Mayor?

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

bloodprophet

There was talk about maybe letting the first mayor pick a name from a preset list. May or May not happen.
They are trying to avoid BoatyMcBoatface and other less savory names.
I think a preset list is the way to go.

Conrad

bloodprophet wrote: »

There was talk about maybe letting the first mayor pick a name from a preset list. May or May not happen.
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

Asgerr

As it stands, they've said they're possibly looking into letting you pick the name off of a list of preset names.

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.

Vhaeyne

I am highly pro pulling names from a list.
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.

bloodprophet

Conrad wrote: »

bloodprophet wrote: »

There was talk about maybe letting the first mayor pick a name from a preset list. May or May not happen.
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

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?

Conrad

bloodprophet wrote: »

Conrad wrote: »

bloodprophet wrote: »

There was talk about maybe letting the first mayor pick a name from a preset list. May or May not happen.
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

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?

Dygz

We choose the names we want to call the towns/cities from a dev-curated list.
We get some choice, rather than no choice.
That's a great compromise.

Yuyukoyay

Would they turn down the name Mushroom Wood. Innocent sounding enough to me. xD

Conrad

Dygz wrote: »

We choose the names we want to call the towns/cities from a dev-curated list.
We get some choice, rather than no choice.
That's a great compromise.

Well, at least player suggestions would be great then.

Yuyukoyay

Conrad wrote: »

Dygz wrote: »

We choose the names we want to call the towns/cities from a dev-curated list.
We get some choice, rather than no choice.
That's a great compromise.

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.

Dygz

Conrad wrote: »

Well, at least player suggestions would be great then.

I doubt it. Names will most likely be based on Steven's lore.

ViBunja

What do you think of giving us optional names to name the city? It'd limit us instead of just giving any name, but less work. I think I've seen some games that does this like to shops/taverns, and stuff like that.

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