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Old October 2nd, 2003, 09:37 PM

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No joke.

The name change in Dom I was not intended either.

It might be abused as you can rename commanders to confuse MP enemies.

My brother has suggested a solution to the naming business: adding some kind of name tag to a commander that is displayed for you only. This way you can rename your commanders without bothering other players with stupid or offensive names.

This will probably not be in the release Version, but perhaps in an early patch.
you are penalizing many players for just a few ones which would names their leaders with insulting names.

Remember, your game filter most of the poorly educated players which are unable to grasp the beauty of Your Work

with the exception of PDF which is uneducated, but (at time) intelligent.

just joking PDF. You are french, I'm french, so it is blatant we cant be educated
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Old October 3rd, 2003, 12:12 AM

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I'm a dope. I never used it AGAINST my enemies. Renaming helps with immersion and makes one care about one's minions.

I would never expect my enemies to use offensive nomenclature to upset me - these are not the kind of people you should play with.

I'm for free renameing but I am only one consumer (Well, I guess I'm seven consumers if you count the five copies of Dom I and 2 of Dom II I've bought).
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Old October 3rd, 2003, 12:23 AM
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I think I'd be fine without re-naming (since I didn't know you could ) so long as there are enough names for commanders that you don't get too many repeats. Most of the time I get names repeated, which is kind of annoying, especially when it comes to magic item assignment, or gem relocation, when all you have to go by is the name. Of course, the way you do those things is changed in Dom II and so it might not be an issue anymore.
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Old October 3rd, 2003, 04:15 AM

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Well so long as the rename only shows up as a tag for you will you be able to rename enemy commanders to help keep track of them?

Prolly not, but I figured I'd ask

Gonna change all my commanders names to Chirac now... gotta love an all french (sauf moi) PBEM game
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Old October 3rd, 2003, 04:25 AM

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Well so long as the rename only shows up as a tag for you will you be able to rename enemy commanders to help keep track of them?
Now, THAT would be amusing! You could change "Xiroc" (or whatever) to "Xiroc, The $#@% Who Killed My Prophet".

"Xiroc, Who Will Be Next To Fall"

"Xiroc, He Who Smells Like Bad Cheese"

Yes, many possibilities here!
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Old October 3rd, 2003, 07:34 AM

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I would never expect my enemies to use offensive nomenclature to upset me - these are not the kind of people you should play with.
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never encountered a single one of these individuals in my pbem too.

Come on Kristoffer, we are not playing with Command and conquer (I played it btw ) pre teen which knows nothing but insults. See how our younger forum members are, they are quite polite, educated and intelligent I would say.
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Old October 3rd, 2003, 07:50 AM

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Doh, I am going to miss this one, loved renaming my HoF heroes...pls reconsider.
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