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Community input: Name that Freelancer!
Online jammi
05-23-2025, 06:44 PM,
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(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.


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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.

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Offline Shulsky
05-23-2025, 06:47 PM,
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(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?

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(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.

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Offline Warlitz
05-24-2025, 07:57 AM,
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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!

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05-24-2025, 08:11 AM,
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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.

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Offline EisenSeele
05-24-2025, 08:12 AM,
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Fornicate-Not-Before-Marriage-Lest-Ye-Be-Cast-Down-Into-Perdition - if we have any Liberty based Puritans

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05-24-2025, 09:31 PM,
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Offline James Greed
05-25-2025, 01:30 PM,
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I'm only a little late for this.

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Offline FLa$h-Jordan
05-26-2025, 03:10 AM,
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(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

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