Refar
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Flavoured city lists would be really cool.
This is a non-priority feature right now, but it requires lot's of ideas/input, so i think we might start collecting some names, so we might have enought in time for 1.0
I think it clearly takes some atmosphere out, when i recognize my opponentes to be Germans, Chinese, Ethiopians ... I think in the postapocalyptic theme there should be are no "Nations" left - just different groups of survivors - which strive to develop into new nations.
Not saying we need to replace every single town name - some might have actually be resettled in old locations, or reused names people remembered. Here some general ideas:
* I think from all original lists, greater, famous cities, i.e. Capitals should go first - they were probably to take most of the Nukes, making bigger groups of survivors unlikely. It is unlikely that Moskow, Washington, New York, London, ... would survive a all out nuclear disaster.
* Maybe some of the old names could be slightly misspelled (Whoever remembered it might have remembered wrong. Or maybe someone found a old town name sign, where a few letters burned/rusted away).
* Neo-Mystical names referring to some Survivor Legends or Events of the past war could work as well.
* In the very end, when all the better ideas are used up, some cities could get prefixes - Neo Rome or something.
* And of course we could collect a lot from related games, movies or just someones cool ideas...
Overall from my test games, we might need less names, than the original lists have - the game is quite fast paced, not too many cites can be maintained due to restraiden economy. So a dozen per civ might be enought already. Still 18 times a dozen cool names is a lot.
So let start collecting
Here are some locations i remembered/found from the orginal fallout games. Not all of them are really cool, but just collecting for now, we can mix the lists for the civs in game later, when there is some material....
This is a non-priority feature right now, but it requires lot's of ideas/input, so i think we might start collecting some names, so we might have enought in time for 1.0
I think it clearly takes some atmosphere out, when i recognize my opponentes to be Germans, Chinese, Ethiopians ... I think in the postapocalyptic theme there should be are no "Nations" left - just different groups of survivors - which strive to develop into new nations.
Not saying we need to replace every single town name - some might have actually be resettled in old locations, or reused names people remembered. Here some general ideas:
* I think from all original lists, greater, famous cities, i.e. Capitals should go first - they were probably to take most of the Nukes, making bigger groups of survivors unlikely. It is unlikely that Moskow, Washington, New York, London, ... would survive a all out nuclear disaster.
* Maybe some of the old names could be slightly misspelled (Whoever remembered it might have remembered wrong. Or maybe someone found a old town name sign, where a few letters burned/rusted away).
* Neo-Mystical names referring to some Survivor Legends or Events of the past war could work as well.
* In the very end, when all the better ideas are used up, some cities could get prefixes - Neo Rome or something.
* And of course we could collect a lot from related games, movies or just someones cool ideas...
Overall from my test games, we might need less names, than the original lists have - the game is quite fast paced, not too many cites can be maintained due to restraiden economy. So a dozen per civ might be enought already. Still 18 times a dozen cool names is a lot.
So let start collecting
Here are some locations i remembered/found from the orginal fallout games. Not all of them are really cool, but just collecting for now, we can mix the lists for the civs in game later, when there is some material....
Spoiler :
). Here's a few from NSW that kinda fit the post-apocalyptic theme:
How could i not think of it. I have a good Name generator as well, that i use for Pen&Paper RPG.
Were there any cities/towns in mad max?
