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RE: Community input: Name that Freelancer! - jammi - 05-23-2025
(05-23-2025, 03:57 PM)Kayla Trevarthian Wrote:(05-23-2025, 11:07 AM)LuckyOne Wrote: While we're at this topic why not open up some of these minor NPC names for "canonisation"?
For example if one wanted to retire from roleplaying a character that was a transport captain, it would be a nice touch if it could still exist in-game as an NPC.
Same could be applied to bar NPCs. Like, imagine going to a Freeport and there's Bessie Bishop BHG NPC telling me how she used to be an adventurer like me before she took a blaster shot to the left wing.
I LOVE THIS IDEA!! Please do!
I would love to see the Inn if I were to stop RPing as an NPC. And maybe the 'famous' People that are kinda legendary and everyone knows their name could be candidates for NPC 'immortality' .
I'm fine with that (within reason).
Person names are a little tricky though, due to the way the game generates them. It's two separate lists of names, first names and surnames. There's no specific way to guarantee a full name. You could enter the entire name as a first name, and then it'd look like "first middle surname", I suppose.
Bit funky. I'd have to think about how that would practically work.
RE: Community input: Name that Freelancer! - Shulsky - 05-23-2025
(05-23-2025, 06:44 PM)jammi Wrote: I'm fine with that (within reason).
Person names are a little tricky though, due to the way the game generates them. It's two separate lists of names, first names and surnames. There's no specific way to guarantee a full name. You could enter the entire name as a first name, and then it'd look like "first middle surname", I suppose.
Bit funky. I'd have to think about how that would practically work.
Is there no way to have the middle and surname being blank spaces, with the full bit being the first name?
RE: Community input: Name that Freelancer! - jammi - 05-23-2025
(05-23-2025, 06:47 PM)Shulsky Wrote:(05-23-2025, 06:44 PM)jammi Wrote: I'm fine with that (within reason).
Person names are a little tricky though, due to the way the game generates them. It's two separate lists of names, first names and surnames. There's no specific way to guarantee a full name. You could enter the entire name as a first name, and then it'd look like "first middle surname", I suppose.
Bit funky. I'd have to think about how that would practically work.
Is there no way to have the middle and surname being blank spaces, with the full bit being the first name?
Not that I'm aware of. Basically the game runs a random number generator across the two lists, and picks a name from each at random. There's no way to ensure that the complete name you put on one of the lists is also paired up with a blank slot on the other list.
RE: Community input: Name that Freelancer! - Petitioner - 05-23-2025
Sangwish
Keldian (named after a band that did an album about Freelancer)
Ceciltucky
Olympic Rambler
Liberty Alement
Fair Weather Lover
Neptunafish
Zanker
Audacious
Stellar Spelunker
Solar Sailor
Jump Hole Addict
RE: Community input: Name that Freelancer! - Warlitz - 05-24-2025
Name ideas and origins:
Sealand---Based on the micronation of Sealand in the Thames(?) Estuary
Gluten Bag---A play on Guten Tag, could be transporting food
Libertonian dream---Based on the American Dream
Green Dragon---Oriental style name, green after Rayquaza, a pokemon (though in universe it would not be the exact origin)
Le Basque---Based on the Basque people in France and Spain (Gallic Freelancer)
Freethinker---Freelancers are not associated with any major groups, the see themselves as free thinkers
Mongol---Based on Mongolia, more specifically the medieval hordes, who were nomadic. I am NOT saying that the ship flying with the name is infected, but it's kind of a cool reference
Hope some can be considered for application!
RE: Community input: Name that Freelancer! - jammi - 05-24-2025
Thanks all, I think we've got enough for now!
... Given that I have to implement each name individually with its own unique IDS number.
RE: Community input: Name that Freelancer! - EisenSeele - 05-24-2025
Fornicate-Not-Before-Marriage-Lest-Ye-Be-Cast-Down-Into-Perdition - if we have any Liberty based Puritans
RE: Community input: Name that Freelancer! - Sand-Viper - 05-24-2025
Banger-Alert (Plays Bretonia Bar #02 in proximity)
Swift-Endeavor
Stale-Horse
Prancer-Dancer
Pain-Train (Heron w/all Vandal Missile Turrets hehehe~ Give it high value cargo to match its loadout)
RE: Community input: Name that Freelancer! - James Greed - 05-25-2025
I'm only a little late for this.
Code:
Sidewinder Fang
Trained Professional
Astrophobia
Checks and Balances
Legally Distinct
Unpopular Culture
Trailblazer
Locomotive
Abuse of Power
Snake Eyes
Housing CrisisRE: Community input: Name that Freelancer! - FLa$h-Jordan - 05-26-2025
(05-24-2025, 08:12 AM)EisenSeele Wrote: Fornicate-Not-Before-Marriage-Lest-Ye-Be-Cast-Down-Into-Perdition - if we have any Liberty based Puritans
I wonder what the random generator would crank out for a ship name from ur list, EisenSeele. Could end up with "Fornicate Ye", no? o.O
FLa$h