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Title: How do you name your missions?
Post by: Hippo on August 23, 2003, 01:31:52 pm: How do you come up with the names for your missions? Is it taken from something that happens in the mission, like "Surrender, Belasarious"? Or is it something that sets the tone of the mission, like "Exodus" or do you just make something up that sounds good?

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Title: Re: How do you name your missions?
Post by: Knight Templar on August 23, 2003, 01:32:33 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Hippo
How do you come up with the names for your missions? Is it taken from something that happens in the mission, like "Surrender, Belasarious"? Or is it something that sets the tone of the mission, like "Exodus" or do you just make something up that sounds good?

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Title: How do you name your missions?
Post by: TheCelestialOne on August 23, 2003, 01:46:07 pm: I always write the mission script in Wordpad first. After the script is done I look what happened and come up with a name that fits with the scenario.
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Post by: Akalabeth Angel on August 23, 2003, 02:15:49 pm: Well, I'm making a campaign and I have thus far named the missions with somewhat literary references, and also such that they relate to the mission. There's a few missions in FS2 where the title gives away some of the stuff that'll happen in the mission. I don't care for that approach at all.
Title: How do you name your missions?
Post by: TopAce on August 23, 2003, 03:04:42 pm: If there were a contest where the best mission name would win, I would be the last in the list.

I am trying to give a name somehow related to the events happen in the mission, like if I made a mission where the Colossus II will be destroyed, then I would give it the name something like 'A dark day', or 'second tragedy'.
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Post by: IceFire on August 23, 2003, 03:16:11 pm: I prefer to keep the player guessing as much as possible about what may happen in the mission.

If a discovery in a nebula is going to be made then the name should probably have some kind of weather analogy followed by something suitably vague about the discovery. The more cryptic the references are, the better.
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Post by: Geezer on August 23, 2003, 03:34:27 pm: I think good mission names are like prophesies - clear only after you've lived through them. As for the names themselves, there's all of mythology, literature, history and even pop culture to use as inspiration.
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Post by: phreak on August 23, 2003, 04:33:56 pm: im bad with that. just usually string two words together

barring that, song titles tend to work, but i hate doing that:blah:
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Post by: Flipside on August 23, 2003, 05:12:03 pm: It's like naming perfume, the more pretentious you are, the better ;)

Flipside :D
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Post by: Galemp on August 23, 2003, 06:28:33 pm: :ha:

Sometimes I think of the title after the mission, but that's usually a mediocre name at best. Sometimes I think of an awesome name and then make a mission around it. I've been wanting to make a mission titled The Whites of Their Eyes for a while now.
Title: How do you name your missions?
Post by: Knight Templar on August 23, 2003, 06:45:51 pm: Quote
Originally posted by TopAce
If there were a contest where the best mission name would win, I would be the last in the list.

I am trying to give a name somehow related to the events happen in the mission, like if I made a mission where the Colossus II will be destroyed, then I would give it the name something like 'A dark day', or 'second tragedy'.

Where as I would name it "Deja Vu, you ****ing retards."

;)
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Post by: phreak on August 23, 2003, 10:27:21 pm: Quote
Originally posted by PhReAk
barring that, song titles tend to work, but i hate doing that:blah:

on another note, i'd like to start off a campaign with a mission named Welcome to the Jungle

yes, i am listening to GNR right now
Title: How do you name your missions?
Post by: Black Wolf on August 24, 2003, 03:29:34 am: I'll sometimes put references to FS2 missions in (EG - If I have an early mission where a large capital ship is destroyed I'll often call it "Surrender ####" Otherwise, I try to do what Icefire said and make veiled references to what's going to happen in a mission. I'm quite proud, for example, of my latest title "Rules of Engagement" Where you're defending a medical convoy against a hostile force. Both sides have actually violated these rules, so it makes it have a sort of double meaning, which is always good :) Other than that, referencesa to literature, mythology history etc. are always good.

Phreak - You justy named my next mission for me :)

It's the Eye of the Tiger,
It's the thrill of the fight,
Rising up to the challenge of our rival,
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night,
And he's watching us all
With the Eye of the Tiger
Title: How do you name your missions?
Post by: Cancer on August 24, 2003, 08:02:11 am: i not give good titles: assault convoy, defend orion, defend orion II. :-\
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Post by: Sandwich on August 24, 2003, 08:22:07 am: The Big Surprise™
Title: How do you name your missions?
Post by: TheCelestialOne on August 24, 2003, 08:47:40 am: Here, some examples:

A mission where you have to find something: "A needle in a haystack"
A mission that revolves around a pre-emptive strike: "A retrospective strike"

Etc... etc...
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Post by: Sandwich on August 24, 2003, 02:25:53 pm: The One Where Ross and Joey... oh, sorry! Wrong reference!
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Post by: Flipside on August 24, 2003, 02:38:12 pm: LOL :lol:

Also, mythological references are good at well, such as, when defending a comms array, 'Holding Babel'. Or for a full installation attack 'The Seventh Horn' (as in Troy).

Flipside :D
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Post by: TheCelestialOne on August 24, 2003, 02:52:48 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
The One Where Ross and Joey... oh, sorry! Wrong reference!

"The One With The Kiss"

*Some huge Jugger rams into the planet-kinda mission*
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Post by: TopAce on August 24, 2003, 03:23:48 pm: Quote
Originally posted by TheCelestialOne
....A mission where you have to find something: "A needle in a haystack"
....

As Lightning Fall :lol:
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Post by: magatsu1 on August 24, 2003, 03:33:09 pm: I've done a couple of missons which were FS2 levels from an opposite P.O.V.
I did "The Kings Gambit" from the perspective of an NTF Fighter and called it "Our Final Gambit".
Cheating (probably) but easy to come up with titles !;)
Title: How do you name your missions?
Post by: TopAce on August 24, 2003, 03:36:51 pm: Quote
Originally posted by magatsu1
....Cheating (probably) but easy to come up with titles !;)

That's not cheating. The cheating is IDDQD :D
Title: How do you name your missions?
Post by: Sandwich on August 25, 2003, 01:00:12 am: Quote
Originally posted by magatsu1
I've done a couple of missons which were FS2 levels from an opposite P.O.V.
I did "The Kings Gambit" from the perspective of an NTF Fighter and called it "Our Final Gambit".
Cheating (probably) but easy to come up with titles !;)

*takes sudden interest*

Oh, you have, have you? Hmmmm......... (with a capital "H") ;)
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Post by: magatsu1 on August 25, 2003, 07:57:36 am: "Hmmmm" ?!
actually it was never really finished. I got to the final tweaking stage and got bored.
I now fancy doing a mission with the player as a Shivan.
Title: How do you name your missions?
Post by: TopAce on August 25, 2003, 09:57:23 am: Quote
Originally posted by magatsu1
....
I now fancy doing a mission with the player as a Shivan.

From the View of a the Five-legged Spider.
This is a bit long ;)
Hostile POV
Evil comes
Just a few ideas for naming. That's all I can do in this field.
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Post by: Charmande on August 25, 2003, 08:07:19 pm: so far my favorite mission title i came up with was "Clash of too many titans"
Title: How do you name your missions?
Post by: Nuclear1 on August 25, 2003, 08:21:06 pm: Quote
Originally posted by PhReAk

on another note, i'd like to start off a campaign with a mission named Welcome to the Jungle

yes, i am listening to GNR right now

Like Welcome to the Boonies in Derelict ;)

Anyway, I name mine anyway I like. Last mission might be Omega. There's even a mission where ******* ***** *** and the ****** ***** save the ****** ***** called "Trump Card".
Title: How do you name your missions?
Post by: TopAce on August 26, 2003, 04:03:47 am: Quote
Originally posted by nuclear1

Like Welcome to the Boonies in Derelict ;)

Anyway, I name mine anyway I like. Last mission might be Omega. There's even a mission where ******* ***** *** and the ****** ***** save the ****** ***** called "Trump Card".

These too many stars in this one. I think would become a classic line in the history of moderating stuff. :)