Alpha 27 Naming Poll

[Stan`]

Hello everyone,

We are a bit late to the party but it's time for you to vote for the next name of the Alpha. As you all know we reached the end of the Latin alphabet. We decided that for this alpha we would instead choose a name matching the biggest feature(s). Our biggest feature for A27 is Vulkan support so naturally we are gonna name it after that. An obvious choice would be Alpha 27 : Vulcan the roman god of the smiths. But we thought we could pimp it a little by making a reference to it using another similar deity.

 

 

[asterix]

20 minutes ago, Stan` said:

Hello everyone,

We are a bit late to the party but it's time for you to vote for the next name of the Alpha. As you all know we reached the end of the Latin alphabet. We decided that for this alpha we would instead choose a name matching the biggest feature(s). Our biggest feature for A27 is Vulkan support so naturally we are gonna name it after that. An obvious choice would be Alpha 27 : Vulcan the roman god of the smiths. But we thought we could pimp it a little by making a reference to it using another similar deity.

 

 

I vote for Vulcan I believe it is the most straightforward candidate.

[Akira Kurosawa]

Maybe Obsidian would sounds better? Pretty nice name for Vulcan-based game version. Also it could be much better if you add mesoamerican tribes with.

Spoiler

 

[Itms]

I really like Agni as that just restarts the alphabet while keeping the thematic meaning

I also voted in favor of Hephaestus but I might be biased as my profile picture suggests

[leopard]

I prefer the name AGNI , If Indian media like this then 0AD get free advertisement,

one of India's powerful ballistic missile is named as Agni,

I don't know how many people will care about 0AD if we give it some names of Gods in dead religions,

If it is Agni Indians will definitely care about 0AD, Agni is an active god in a Living Religion (Hinduism).

 making it too obvious by naming it as Vulcan is not very stylish but I like the way Vulcan sounds than Agni.

0AD Vulcan sounds a bit dramatic than 0AD Agni for sure.

[Yekaterina]

0AD Hephaestus would sound cool.

Perhaps we want to follow the old naming system and go for AArdvark

Or AAchen, where your Linux mirror is located; Aachener mirror is often the default for many Linux distributions if you downloaded your ISO from an European hosting server, which means you probably curled your 0ad program files from Aachen - so it definitely deserves some credit. In addition, located on the border between Germany and Belgium, it is a nice city to visit.

 

[rollieoo]

18 hours ago, Itms said:

I really like Agni as that just restarts the alphabet while keeping the thematic meaning

I agree.

Besides Vulcan refers to an underlying technical item and not something in the game itself. And it has the ST association which sounds a bit weird to me.

[Fabius]

Vulcan lives!  

[sternstaub]

9 hours ago, Yekaterina said:

located on the border between Germany and Belgium, it is a nice city to visit.

Also a nice place to live in, really  And to study data science.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

14 hours ago, rollieoo said:

Besides Vulcan refers to an underlying technical item and not something in the game itself. And it has the ST association which sounds a bit weird to me.

Vulcan is the roman god of fire tho.

[Gurken Khan]

I would go for Agni, because that's how we always did it. And I like the name Hephaestus. Gofannon is cool too.

So maybe "Agni Gofannon Hephaestus"?

[hyperion]

Anything that hasn't any silly requirements like letters or relation to a feature so that we can have the name for A28 committed with the first commit in the development cycle.

[hyperion]

@Stan`

A good code name is one that people know how to pronounce and is available from the day the development cycle starts. That way the vulkan announcement could have mentioned it for example. Cynically speaking, currently the code name is simply another RB (even a month after FF), sort of a tradition already.

I don't expect everyone to agree but unless the two points I mentioned are fulfilled we are better off without a code name in the first place. Axx naming convention is how everyone refers to releases anyway.

[Stan`]

2 minutes ago, hyperion said:

A good code name is one that people know how to pronounce and is available from the day the development cycle starts.

Except that's not a code name. A code name isn't meant for the general public.

Picking a release name from day 1 is assuming you know what's gonna happen during a milestone. And you simply can't. I have no idea who's gonna be around to work on something, and what they are gonna work on. And you can't force them either, so I can only make educated guesses once Feature Freeze is hit. 

4 minutes ago, hyperion said:

Cynically speaking, currently the code name is simply another RB (even a month after FF), sort of a tradition already.

I'll admit that I messed up on that one, and the health issues and other niceties of the game lobby got me away from doing it much earlier.

5 minutes ago, hyperion said:

I don't expect everyone to agree but unless the two points I mentioned are fulfilled we are better off without a code name in the first place. Axx naming convention is how everyone refers to releases anyway.

I don't agree, but maybe.

[hyperion]

39 minutes ago, Stan` said:

I'll admit that I messed up on that one

If even you mess up then I take it as solid proof that a release is far to expensive

39 minutes ago, Stan` said:

and the health issues

Sad to hear and wish you all the best and a speedy recovery.

[Stan`]

10 hours ago, hyperion said:

If even you mess up then I take it as solid proof that a release is far to expensive

It is. A full process for release takes 10h excluding building the artifacts and building the trailer and announcement. It's just a lot of things to update everywhere. 

And obviously on some linuxes it can take months for 0 A.D. to finally arrive in Repos.

[Lion.Kanzen]

On 03/02/2023 at 3:25 AM, Stan` said:

Hello everyone,

We are a bit late to the party but it's time for you to vote for the next name of the Alpha. As you all know we reached the end of the Latin alphabet. We decided that for this alpha we would instead choose a name matching the biggest feature(s). Our biggest feature for A27 is Vulkan support so naturally we are gonna name it after that. An obvious choice would be Alpha 27 : Vulcan the roman god of the smiths. But we thought we could pimp it a little by making a reference to it using another similar deity.

 

 

I'm impressed by the game performance with Vulkan.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

For the record, I didn't know we could choose more than one option, so I probably would have vote for Agni as well.

[beau]

I had three I was rooting for, Agni placed as my close second. Excited for #27

[Lion.Kanzen]

On 03/02/2023 at 9:57 AM, YouMustBeMyLuckyStar said:

Maybe Obsidian would sounds better? Pretty nice name for Vulcan-based game version. Also it could be much better if you add mesoamerican tribes with.

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Mesoamerican tribes still need more development.

[Lion.Kanzen]

On 05/02/2023 at 12:30 AM, Gurken Khan said:

I would go for Agni, because that's how we always did it. And I like the name Hephaestus. Gofannon is cool too.

So maybe "Agni Gofannon Hephaestus"?

I already thought about that too.

[Lion.Kanzen]

The next Alpha we must have a name mixed by the letter of the alphabet plus another.

 

A + ( a qualifying noun of said Alpha).

 

Arkhon Vulcaniensis.

it's a crazy idea.

[Akira Kurosawa]

On 11/02/2023 at 12:11 PM, Lion.Kanzen said:

Arkhon Vulcaniensis.

Vesuvius.

[Akira Kurosawa]

You really should add the Mesoamericans. This should add more audiences from Brazil and Mexico. I'm not sure that the Scythians or the next Greeks will interest someone. It is necessary how to do like Microsoft - to add the most "selling" regions, squeezing out investments from local patriots.

[sternstaub]

1 hour ago, Radament said:

It is necessary how to do like Microsoft

Please only imitate this company if there is no other way 

1 hour ago, Radament said:

to add the most "selling" regions, squeezing out investments from local patriots.

I still think that this is no good idea before the game scales properly. We should not spam on food before we have the wood to build houses   Although it might add more interested devs or mods to the project. Maybe there is a more profound truth to your post than i cannot fully see now...

But still, please don't take Micro$oft for an inspiration ugh

Edited February 12, 2023 by sternstaub