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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0024119AI War 2SuggestionNov 18, 2020 3:34 pm
ReporterMiikka Ryökäs Assigned ToChris_McElligottPark  
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version2.631 Multiplayer Swaps And Performance 
Fixed in Version2.634 Multiplayer Solidification 
Summary0024119: Oddball, a suggestion for a planet name list
DescriptionI've been working on a planet name list to publish as a mod, but x4000 offered to use it as a lobby option. So here it is. I call it Oddball. Feedback is dreaded.


TAGLINE

"Aims to give a sense of history. One heavy with warfare and bored scout captains."


DETAILS

I've gone for comedy. It's weird, but the sort of weird you could still see on the sillier end of scifi works. Going completely off the wall would just be annoying. I've also avoided memes and recent pop culture references.

I've broken every one of the above principles. Most only once or twice, the comedy one more often - some of the WWI references are downright sordid.

Keeping with the backstory of the game, I've aimed to give the impression of a setting that's worn in and rather worn out. Humanity's long since familiar with star travel. The majesty of the cosmos is undimmed, but easier to miss thanks to the smoking ruins and other forms of mankind's dirty fingerprints.

I haven't even tried to keep a consistent tone. Place names shouldn't have one.

CREDITS

Several people I know have made suggestions that made it in, and some also helped with sanity checks. (I haven't even been asking for entries - I just have to mention what I'm working on and these weirdos start tossing around their own ideas and having fun. I'm lucky to know them.) If you integrate Oddball as a lobby option, I request that you include to the following list of names in the tooltip:

"Thanks to Loweko, R. Jean Mathieu, Vornicus, McMartin, Reiver, Quasispace, Derakon, Kyoshyu & the anonymous."

Each of these people has confirmed to me that they're giving permission to use their entry or entries, and that they have no objections to being mentioned in this manner and by this name or nick. They all also deserve to be thanked. I'm hoping dragging other people into this won't be a problem for using Oddball as a lobby option, but if it is, I'm cool with just making the list a mod.

If I can suggest a tooltip:

"Aims to give a sense of history. One heavy with warfare and bored scout captains. Created by Kizor. Thanks to Loweko, R. Jean Mathieu, Vornicus, McMartin, Reiver, Quasispace, Derakon, Kyoshyu & the anonymous."


PROFANITY, OBSCENITY & COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL

I've removed Super Mario World and Moraff's World from the working version and changed Chaos Engine to Calamity Engine. What's the score on Hyundai Prime and PepsiCo IV? I've left those in for the time being.

The closest thing to profanity is Fugazi, a Vietnam-era term for something broken beyond repair. It's certainly reminiscent of FUBAR and the F in FUBAR, but still distinct.

The closest things on the list to obscenity and alcohol use are Naughty Bit, BUTTS., C2H5OH, and Last Call. I feel those are more than a comfortable distance away.


REFERENCES

The list makes extensive use of references. You've got Helen Keller, 20-year-old Flash animations, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1910s scifi, Alice in Wonderland, bash.org, Bionic Dues, the works. I've followed the principle I got from Pratchett that to borrow from one source is plagiarism, to use twenty makes it a reference or a homage. I haven't used any one source more than two or three times, but haven't kept track of them beyond that.


KNOWN ISSUES
- The galaxy screen looks a bit cluttered when zoomed out.
- Several of the longer planet names (max 24 characters) are severely truncated in notifications in the upper left of the screen. I've found this to be a minor issue (e.g. New New New Verdun is still distinguished from New New), and the full name is displayed on mouseover, but then I'm more familiar with the list than most. The list may not be for everyone, which I consider alright since it's supposed to be an option.
- I'm a dreadful bore.
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Miikka Ryökäs

Nov 15, 2020 3:10 pm

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”Caritas”
2e24 Cats In Trenchcoat
Ablative
Acrimony
Actus Reus
Akratic Reach
Annoying Expanse
Anvil
Another Man's Treasure
Ardent
Backstop
Bat Country
Beleagure
Beloved By All
Best Laid Plans
Better Than Having
Booby Prize
Bountiful Empire
Bummer
BUTTS.
Buyer's Remorse
C2H5OH
Cadet Dispenser
Call Your Mom
Cape Nocapesinspace
Captain
Casa Belli
Cataclysm Engine
Chapter Eleven
Chicanery
ChillWorld
Civil Forfeiture
Collateral
Contra Bonos Mores, Ltd.
Compost Mentis
Cost Overrun
Creeping Disquiet
Cripes
Crumple Zone
Danger Close
Dave's Pet Rock
Decoy
Desperate Glory
Dibs
Dinosaur Planet
Disco Preserve
Do Not Attempt
Don't Know But It Talks
Dreams of Avarice
Edgewise
Egg
Eldest's End
Eminent Domain
Eternal Bastion
Exfilade
Exile's Rose
Failure Cascade
Far Out
Fiasco
Flesh
Fooby's Rest
Fort Pregnable
Fort Temerarious
Frankly Unsavory
Friendly Reminder
Frogspace
Fugazi
Funky Horror
Gambol Gate
Golden Goose
Goofball
Great Redoubt
Greater Kerfluffle
Guitar Reef
Hardwon
He Blows Up
Here Is Joy
Hey Bob, Watch This
High Garden
Home Plate
Home We Once Knew
Horrible Mistake
House Of Silence
Humanextinctionsayswhat
Hyperplanet
Hyundai Prime
Iceberg
Igno Mines
Inadvisable
Ivory Tower
I Won What?
Japery Central
Jive Town
Keeplooking
Kessler Pit
Kingdom Of Exile
La-dee-dah
Languid Luxuriance
Last Call
LD50
Lesser Kerfluffle
Let's Say We Tried
Limited Exchange
Low Road
Maasamo
Making Music Of Decline
Mantower
Maybe This Time
Midnight Sun
Mine
Mining Made Costly
Misrule
Mistakes Were Made
More Explosions
Most Kinds Of Disturbing
Naptime Zone
Naughty Bit
Neet
New New
New New New Verdun
New Mametz
New weN
Ninth Extinction
Noble Affront
Nolo Contendre
No-Man-Fathomed
North Fracas
Not A Place Of Honor
Not Even Sorry
Not That Planet
Object Lesson
Oh My Goodness.
Old Habits
Oops
Opfor
Opportunity Cost
Our Fathers Lied
Palace Of Love
Peevish Delight
PepsiCo IV
Place Of The Ab-Humans
Plaent
Planet Of The Japes
Port Impertinence
Preposterity
Procras
Pluto-In-Disguise
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
Pyrrhus' Glory
Qrrbrbirlbel
Raising Concerns
Ratiregum
Really Big Jawbreaker
Red Queen's Race
Respawn Yards
Revanche
Round Space Orb Thing
Royal Aviary
Rumpus Room
Salutant
Sanguinery
Secret Denmark
Shame Orb
Shenanigans
Ship Of Stone
Sinecure
Single Point of Failure
Slightly Foxed
Small Consolation
Southeast Fracas
stabyouintheface planet
Still Not Earth
STOP VOTING ON THE NAME
Soft Rains
Strange Silent Wrongs
Talent Pool
Terms & Conditions Apply
Texarkana
Terrible Secret Of Space
The Balk
The Clemencies
The Data Mines
The Hijink Planet
The Inconvenience
The Kickflip Planet
The Other Planet
The Red Grail
The Screaming Planet
The Sunk Cost Colonies
They Call It Peace
Third Base
This Too Shall Pass
ThrillWorld
Treacheries Base
Troublemaker
Tumultuous Bacchanal
Twice-Traitor
Twotimes
Ubi Sunt
Ultra Vires
Under New Ownership
Unruly Felicities
Untransferable Asset
Us Fools
Vestiges
Vici
Villainy!
Wanhope
We All Scream
West Fracas
What Larks
Whatuvydun
Wheeeeeeeee
Where Jupiter Ended Up
Windstriver
Wonderment
Yonder
Your Ad Here
Your FACE
You Fools
Yourown
Yup, Still On Fire
Woe And Spiders
Zest
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Miikka Ryökäs

Nov 16, 2020 2:46 pm

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Chris_McElligottPark

Nov 16, 2020 7:36 pm

administrator   ~0059616

I'm getting to this super soon! I didn't want you to think I'd missed it. I've just been running around a lot on a few features, and I got about 2.5 hours of sleep last night. Will try to get this in tomorrow. Cheers!

Chris_McElligottPark

Nov 18, 2020 3:34 pm

administrator   ~0059661

This looks really great! I think it's the sort of thing that people will really enjoy having as a new option. :)

Added just as you suggested. No worries on the profanity and the corporate references the way you have them. Thanks for checking on that!

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Nov 15, 2020 3:02 pm Miikka Ryökäs New Issue
Nov 15, 2020 3:02 pm Miikka Ryökäs File Added: Oddball.txt
Nov 15, 2020 3:04 pm Miikka Ryökäs Description Updated
Nov 15, 2020 3:05 pm Miikka Ryökäs Description Updated
Nov 15, 2020 3:09 pm Miikka Ryökäs File Added: Oddball-2.txt
Nov 15, 2020 3:10 pm Miikka Ryökäs File Deleted: Oddball.txt
Nov 15, 2020 3:10 pm Miikka Ryökäs File Deleted: Oddball-2.txt
Nov 15, 2020 3:10 pm Miikka Ryökäs File Added: Oddball.txt
Nov 15, 2020 4:24 pm Miikka Ryökäs Summary Oddball, a submission for a planet name list => Oddball, a suggestion for a planet name list
Nov 16, 2020 2:36 pm Miikka Ryökäs Severity major => feature
Nov 16, 2020 2:46 pm Miikka Ryökäs File Added: Oddball in planet view.jpg
Nov 16, 2020 2:46 pm Miikka Ryökäs File Added: Oddball in galaxy view, close zoom.jpg
Nov 16, 2020 2:46 pm Miikka Ryökäs File Added: Oddball in galaxy view, far zoom.jpg
Nov 16, 2020 7:36 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0059616
Nov 17, 2020 8:27 am Miikka Ryökäs Description Updated
Nov 17, 2020 8:31 am Miikka Ryökäs Description Updated
Nov 18, 2020 3:34 pm Chris_McElligottPark Assigned To => Chris_McElligottPark
Nov 18, 2020 3:34 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status new => resolved
Nov 18, 2020 3:34 pm Chris_McElligottPark Resolution open => fixed
Nov 18, 2020 3:34 pm Chris_McElligottPark Fixed in Version => 2.634 Multiplayer Solidification
Nov 18, 2020 3:34 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0059661