A Crone by any other name

[Yojinbo]

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).

[st.patrik]

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.

[licker]

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

[Psitticine]

Originally posted by licker:
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!

[Pocus]

Originally posted by Yojinbo:
[QB]
I would never expect my enemies to use offensive nomenclature to upset me - these are not the kind of people you should play with.
QB]

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.

[Wendigo]

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

[PvK]

You can name your ships, planets, and ship classes whatever you like in Space Empires IV (SE4), and I've never seen a profane name. The worst names I saw were my own, when I was roleplaying the EEEvil Oooze, and even those didn't get very bad.

SE4 players _do_ use deceptive or changing names sometimes to deceive enemies, though there it's generally considered a neat feature. Renaming ships is a bit different than renaming people. On the other hand, it was fairly common historical practice to deploy decoys dressed as kings and princes to protect the real ones.

I didn't know I could rename characters in Dom I, and slightly enjoyed having to live with the names, except when they repeated. Repeats made some things kind of confusing, like the Hall of Heroes list.

Now that I know I can, I may rename or add epithets to some of my men.

It'd be interesting to be able to tag enemy units, as "licker" and Psitticine suggested.

I suppose the ability to rename could be an option which the person who creates the game can set ON or OFF.

PvK