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Not sure if its the answer but it might be worth pointing out that the two developers are Swedish (I believe) and most of the alpha testers were Finnish? Thats the impression I got anyway.

Gandalf Parker

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Sure, but then I'd expect a lot of Swedish and Finnish names, not Polish ones - especially like Szczebrzeszyn, which is a kind of an inside joke http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif I suspect a Pole on either the dev or the testing team http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Anyway, thanks for the welcome and congratulations to Illwinter on shipping!

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The map was made by Jason Lutes. I have no clue as to where he got the names from http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Does Szczebrzeszyn have anything to do with bumble bees?

Illwinter and alpha are mainly swedish AFAIK. A few of unknown nationalities (likely european and american) as well.

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I suspect IW got their hands on a polish map. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Well an insect anyway, yes ... it's used in a phrase along with the town name as a tongue twister for kids and foreigners. The kids usually do better http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Does Jason Lutes collect tongue twisters? Or insects? Or both? o_O

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...or then they just got tired of hearing complains that the game wasn't polished enough..? "Now here's a map with maximum Polish!"

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HA!

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Wow http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

I'm really flattered! Thanks for the compliment http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif we are obviously the same age...

btw du you tell your wife that Dom3 is a game you can leave at any instant, or du you keep telling her "sure, but i just have to finish the turn first so i can save the game" ?

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> Well an insect anyway, yes ... it's used in a phrase along with the town name as a tongue twister for kids and foreigners. The kids usually do better

I have a suedo-polish friend that has tried to make me utter an unspeakable sentence about a bumble bee (perhaps another insect) flying in reeds or something.