[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?

Speak

[Knight Templar]

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?

Speak

Yes.

[TheCelestialOne]

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.

[Akalabeth Angel]

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.

[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'.

[IceFire]

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.

[Geezer]

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.

[phreak]

im bad with that. just usually string two words together

barring that, song titles tend to work, but i hate doing that:blah:

[Flipside]

It's like naming perfume, the more pretentious you are, the better

Flipside

[Galemp]

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.

[Knight Templar]

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."

[phreak]

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

[Black Wolf]

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

[Cancer]

i not give good titles: assault convoy, defend orion, defend orion II. :-\

[Sandwich]

The Big Surprise™

[TheCelestialOne]

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...

[Sandwich]

The One Where Ross and Joey... oh, sorry! Wrong reference!

[Flipside]

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

[TheCelestialOne]

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*

[TopAce]

Originally posted by TheCelestialOne
....A mission where you have to find something: "A needle in a haystack"
....

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