Small Observations General Thread (things not worth separate threads)

[Gori the Grey]

Don't exactly know where to post this question, so I'm putting it in this, as the closest we have to a catch-all thread:

Do you think that here and on other discussion sites, people will refer to the civs they've played with mash-up names: Akmajica, Missimingunda, stuff like that?

 

[AriochIV]

Don't exactly know where to post this question, so I'm putting it in this, as the closest we have to a catch-all thread:

Do you think that here and on other discussion sites, people will refer to their civs with mash-up names: Akmajica, Missimingunda, stuff like that?

I'm not a personal fan of referring to relationships with mashup names, but I'm sure someone is. Just sounds ridiculous to me.

 

[Gori the Grey]

So do you think people will always spell it out: "I started as Mississippi, then went over to Ming and finished as France"?

CFC is so full of acronyms and abbreviations, IYKWIMAITYD. The mash-up names seem almost inevitable.

 

[Krikkit1]

Don't exactly know where to post this question, so I'm putting it in this, as the closest we have to a catch-all thread:

Do you think that here and on other discussion sites, people will refer to the civs they've played with mash-up names: Akmajica, Missimingunda, stuff like that?

Probably not too often, because you don’t carry over much besides the traditions (unlike HK)

 

[AriochIV]

If one requires some kind of recognized format, the form A->B->C seems already well established here.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Probably not too often, because you don’t carry over much besides the traditions (unlike HK)

But people will want to narrate their whole arc.

Strategies will be built around particular sequences.

There will be arguments about the top-tier combos.

All of these point to abbreviations. You think people are always going type: I played Mississippi>Ming>France as Ben Franklin?

 

[Krikkit1]

But people will want to narrate their whole arc.

Strategies will be built around particular sequences.

There will be arguments about the top-tier combos.

All of these point to abbreviations. You think people are always going type: I played Mississippi>Ming>France as Ben Franklin?

Probably just shorten some of those
Miss-Ming-France

 

[Siptah]

I can see some common combinations mashed together in short forms. E.g., if Egypt > Abbasids is a common start that's often used, it might be referred to as the Egysid start. Similar, the Greemans, Egyhai, Hangols, Maugols, Pergols, Romiards, Hanla, Akshai, Hing, Hanwaii. But we probably end up with Romans and Mayapahit

 

[thecrazyscot]

You think people are always going type: I played Mississippi>Ming>France as Ben Franklin?

I certainly hope so. How hard is it to type something that is easy for other people to understand?

 

[Gori the Grey]

Here's an example of someone discussing Civ VI, selected pretty much at random:

Lol, GG and foot make cavalry obsolete, especially with the +1MP promo. And the wall nerf makes up for the ZOC bypass.

 

[chaosprophet]

Probably just shorten some of those
Miss-Ming-France

That sounds like a name.... are you Miss Ming France?

 

[thecrazyscot]

Here's an example of someone discussing Civ VI, selected pretty much at random:

I have 600+ hours in Civ 6 and I still had to stare at that for a while to parse it. It's not hard to write in a way that people can read without having to pull out their cypher book.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I'm not disagreeing with you about how people should write. But my question was about how they will.

Especially since civ-switching is so much the feature of this iteration of the game. A person's game experience will to a large extent be the three civs he or she cobbled together.

 

[thecrazyscot]

I'm not disagreeing with you about how people should write. But my question was about how they will.

My apologies - I was literally coming back to this thread just now to acknowledge that as it occurred to me it looked like I was arguing with you.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

There are literally so many combinations that creating portmanteaus for all of them will create confusion. But I imagine that there will be some combinations that will be popular enough, especially in multiplayer, that players will create names for them.

 

[Gori the Grey]

And imagine it compounded:

So, I’m playing as EgyNormJi. MaurCholAin is off to my SE and HanAbbAnda to my N. MissIncIam is the tech leader . . .

 

[Black Gate]

You aren't going to see silly compounds. "EgyNormJi" hurts my brain just to read, let alone parse, and I still don't really know what the modern age civ is meant to be there.

But popular routes picking up names like Steppe Conqueror Xerxes for a Persia -> Mongolia -> [insert aggressive civ here] game for a military victory? I'm sure we'll see a few, and they'll have some silly and incomprehensible, but easy to read, names as well.

 

[shaglio]

It was fine in Civ 6 when people would refer to Englanor and Frelanor, but in Civ 7 there's just far too many permutations. Trying to decode them while reading a post would detract from the meaning the poster is trying to get across. Personally, I have a hard enough time with the Roman Numerals, which is why I will always use Civ 5, Civ 6, Civ 7, etc.

 

[AriochIV]

Gamers like abbreviations, but I haven't really noticed a lot of gamers using relationship-mashup words. That seems like kind of a girl thing.

I expect that if gamers are too lazy to type something out they'll just use abbreviations for common groupings like RNF for Roman-Norman-France.

 

[Zaarin]

Gamers like abbreviations, but I haven't really noticed a lot of gamers using relationship-mashup words. That seems like kind of a girl thing.

I guess you don't play many RPGs.