Poll: Renaming C7 (Part Zero? Stepping Back)

[WildWeazel]

Polling will continue until nomenclature improves!

Since the previous polls had so many options and were very inconclusive, I want to take a step back and ask first what kind of name we should use to see if there is a signal in the noise. Of all those mentioned, I see them falling into the 5 broad categories below. Pick your preferences, and we'll go from there.

Of course, non-binding poll as we're still under Despotism!

Explanation of the choices:

Mononym: In the style of Civilization, a one-word title describing the concept.
Examples: Polity, Civitas, Holocene, Statecraft, Millennia, HUMANKIND

Thematic: A few words or brief phrase that evokes the historical 4X theme.
Examples: "C&C" format, Epic History, Vox Populi, Rise of Nations

Creative: A longer and/or more unique title that isn't as literal.
Examples: One Turn Deserves Another, From Stone Age to Space Age, Past is Prologue, Weight of the Crown, Call to Power

FOSS-style: Following the common pattern of open-source clones, just add a stylistic prefix/suffix.
Examples: ReCiv, OpenCiv, CiviLibre, CivPi, UnCiv

Obscure: A codename that makes no attempt to be marketable.
Examples: C7, Threepeat, Project 312

 

[Vuldacon]

Thematic

 

[WildWeazel]

Is it worth switching from C7 to Heavy Is The Crown just so one day we can start a teaser trailer with the line (click for timestamp) -

....maybe.

 

[Quintillus]

I favor '80s rock bands over 90s rock bands (yes, I realize it's a new song, but still not my preferred style of rock or metal). But Heavy is the Crown is not a bad name at all, much better than C7. Might be even better with an increased political focus than Civ-like games have traditionally had. Creative with hints of thematic.

The other name I thought of a while back is Strategikon, after the Byzantine military manual. Mononym with hints of thematic.

Both appear to be available from a not-used-for-other-games standpoint.

 

[WildWeazel]

Like most of what I say on this topic I'm mostly joking, but when I had a conversation about the naming situation shortly after hearing the song for the first time, it struck me that not only is Heavy Is The Crown a perfectly cromulent name, but the lines "cause I'm tired of explaining what the joke is, this is what you asked for: heavy is the crown" would be a very apt narrative to announce the new name. Not to mention a real banger of a trailer intro.

Anyway, more votes

 

[Tortenschachtel]

Is it worth switching from C7 to Heavy Is The Crown just so one day we can start a teaser trailer with the line (click for timestamp) -

....maybe.

Unfortunately someone else picked that name in the mean time - see "Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown" on Steam.

 

[Kyriakos]

Thematic.

 

[WildWeazel]

Interestingly there is a clear split between the votes here and on Discord. I opened another poll there and asked people to vote in one or the other since many of them do not use the forum. They overwhelmingly favor Mononym and FOSS. As of now the sum totals are (updated with final count)
Mononym 28
FOSS 27
Thematic 19
Obscure 12
Creative 9

 

[Vuldacon]

IF Thematic is too difficult, Mononym is 2nd best.

 

[Kyriakos]

I can think of a few indie games which became popular, having thematic names (eg Risk of Rain). Is there any one which had a mononym? (assuming the mononym is not a uniquely coined term).
Edit: there are some, but arguably in spirit they are thematic, just thematic with one word. eg Banished. The name evokes things not just more generally but arguably also not strictly tied to the genre of the game (city-builder).

 

[D551]

Just had this thought for a name, "civ 3 reborn" or "c3 reborn" thought I'd throw that out there.

 

[curtastic]

III Conquered. Short for "I came, I saw, I conquered" but looks like CivIII conquered, as in we solved all the problems with modding by recoding the whole game.

 

[Serutan]

Thematic : Engulf and Devour


Link to video.

 

[Blake00]

Hadn't seen this thread and posted a bunch of name suggestions in the announcement thread.. so I'll just quote that post below so it's here too.. In the end OpenC3 or a more obvious OpenCiv3 are prob my favs which I guess come under FOSS style. ReCiv3 would be okay too, there's a Master of Magic rebuild project going these days called ReMoM but I was hoping he'd go with OpenMoM lol.

Looks like I was watching the wrong C7 thread and have missed the updates in this one.. Quintilius just linked me here after dropping by the Civ 4 Mini Engine thread where a bunch of talented Civ4 folks are looking at facing the same 'Godot engine connecting to existing Civ assets files' challenges you guys have been..

Noticed someone accidentally calling this Civ7 earlier in this thread lol.. and just watched @SuedecivIII 's new video about you guys that mentioned you still wanting name suggestions.. if you want ones that don't look like Civ3 or Civ7 but are kind of Civ3 related and lead to catchy acronyms then maybe...

Third Age of Civilization?.. can all it TAC.. actually maybe not, as TAC is taken by the Civ4 Col mod haha.. maybe TAoC then.

Third Civ?.. call call it TCiv or 3Civ or 3C..

Or hell.. just go with C3 instead of C7 lol.

oh how about C3 Engine.. can be C3E.

But I think as someone who follows a lot of open source fan rebuild projects I like the sound of 'OpenC3' the most!