Alpha 25 name suggestions

[wraitii]

5 hours ago, Gurken Khan said:

But I also don't know if this is a democracy or what's the deal with the closed poll...

Just to clarify -> We're not going with the most upvoted suggestion. The poll is mostly here to see if some names get a clear lead.

The poll closed on June 1st because that was the original FF date, I've reopened it up until Sunday (didn't notice that).

To be honest, so far, Y seems like it's lacking in very relevant names. I'm not sure what's getting picked at all at this stage.

[Yekaterina]

We can leave it at the letter Y, because it is such a good source of memes an puns. Why? Y. (the sound of it)

Other considerations: Y-axis (since there are so many mathematicians and scientists playing this game), Y-chromosomes etc

decent names starting with Y: Yurya, Yelizaveta

Or I wouldn't mind if you just use my name. 

Edited June 5, 2021 by Yekaterina

[Genava55]

yin and yang

[Gurken Khan]

'Yakety Yak'

Spoiler

After I didn't find anything inspiring in the changelog in the wiki I voted for Yaunā.

 

[Carltonus]

13 hours ago, Genava55 said:

yin and yang

Unfortunately, its Old Chinese trascription would be something close to "qrum lang", or in the IPA, /*q(r)um laŋ/.

Either "Yavana" or "Yona" is the best you can get close to given the features we already have.

[Genava55]

3 hours ago, Carltonus said:

Unfortunately, its Old Chinese trascription would be something close to "qrum lang", or in the IPA, /*q(r)um laŋ/.

I suggested Yinyang because of the rebalance focus.

Anyway the alpha names don't respect the old etymologies of the words (I pointed it out before, page 2).

Furthermore, the whole idea of using letters like W, Y or Z is a problem in regard to ancient names and alphabetical order.

At the end, instead of a cool idea it becomes pedantry.

[Yekaterina]

14 minutes ago, Genava55 said:

I suggested Yinyang because of the rebalance focus.

Anyway the alpha names don't respect the old etymologies of the words (I pointed it out before, page 2).

Furthermore, the whole idea of using letters like W, Y or Z is a problem in regard to ancient names and alphabetical order.

At the end, instead of a cool idea it becomes pedantry.

That is actually a good idea man

[wraitii]

I think we're going to go with Yauna - still a few days for a late change of heart on our end, but it's looking unlikely.

See reasoning at https://code.wildfiregames.com/D4130

I do agree that the naming scheme is getting quite awkward - That being said, we've got only 2 letters left, and I feel it's natural to finish what we started. We'll see what we do once Z rolls over, as names in AA are unlikely

[Freagarach]

22 hours ago, wraitii said:

as names in AA are unlikely

We'll be a triple-A game shortly!

[Gurken Khan]

38 minutes ago, Freagarach said:

triple-A

 

[Yekaterina]

I find it ridiculous that games are rated AAA solely based on the developer's budget but not its actual quality; many open source games are superior to some so-called AAA games. 

Names starting with AA are hard to find, but perhaps we can try Aaron? Most names starting with AA are Indian. 

Perhaps we can try using the Greek alphabet next after the Latin alphabet runs out, then Phoenician, Persian...

Or, we can restart from A again. 

[Genava55]

I suggest dropping the alphabetical order and keeping the only good idea of using old names to label the alphas

[Gurken Khan]

7 minutes ago, Yekaterina said:

Names starting with AA are hard to find, but perhaps we can try Aaron?

Excuse me, but did you think as far as 'B'?

Dunno, maybe we theoretically could continue with this scheme if we rely on languages without written vowels...

[Genava55]

1 minute ago, m7600 said:

Or maybe I'm just crazy.

I really doubt 0ad will move on beta. I don't interpret the message from wraitii the same way.

Edited June 9, 2021 by Genava55

[Genava55]

1 minute ago, Gurken Khan said:

Excuse me, but did you think as far as 'B'?

This is inclusive for people suffering from stuttering.

[Yekaterina]

4 minutes ago, Gurken Khan said:

Excuse me, but did you think as far as 'B'?

You have a point. This won't work. We will get very strange names. Better restart from A.

[wraitii]

The commit has been made: Yaunā is the name.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions, it's been quite hard to find something good for 'Y' in the end, and we chose to remain relatively topical as we did in past alphas.

I'll leave this thread open, though close the poll open.

[LetswaveaBook]

I am fine with Yaunā, the Old Persian word for Ionians, Macedonians, and Greeks. We have 3 Greek factions and 2 successor states and on top of that the word also refers to Persians.

I couldn't be really bothered myself with thinking about a name, but Yaunā seems cool.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Yaunā is a cool name. I dig it. Yangtze would have been perfect in other circumstances (if the Han had been committed), but Yaunā is pretty cool regardless.