[blowfish]

Of course, because the Ancients know all about Norse mythology

[ShadowGorrath]

And they know english too, right ?

Seriously though . . . Can we agree on a compromise and use both namings? Ship names, for example?

[terran_emperor]

For all we know the Ancients could have the Norse Gods...Ragnarok could very well be a description of a Shivan/Ancient Battle that took place in the Sol System.

Loki for instance may have been an Ancients version of Bosch. I could very well that Knossos portals were a Blaock-ops project developed for drawing the attention of and meeting the Shivans and only can say im wrong with any authority.

[Mobius]

Took place in the Sol system?

You may decide to use other names if the Minoan ones aren't enough. In that case I'd recommend using "pre-civilization" names like the precolombian ones...

[Snail]

The idea that the Ancients use Norse names seems like an absolutely stupid one to me to be perfectly honest. I mean, if you're translating it into English, you may as well use the names the Terrans use for them, right?

[Antares]

I could have sworn that Steaky made a render of the Lucifer bombarding an Ancient world, but, uh... I can't find it. 

[ShadowGorrath]

I'll use both norse and minoan . . .

[Antares]

Ahh, here it is!



Sathani!

[Mobius]

chose Minoan names because the Minoan civilization was the precursor of the Greek one(and, to some extent, to the Roman one). That's why it was appropriate.

Norse names aren't appropriate at all for the Ancients. Use pre-colombian names and any other names used by REALLY old civilizations.

[Aardwolf]

I had a brilliant idea. Name everything after HLPers.

[Hellstryker]

You know, You can always use some recolored Vasudan textures, and the setekhs crystal array thing texture

[Mobius]

I had a brilliant idea. Name everything after HLPers.

Well there's something in INF named after me so...

You know, You can always use some recolored Vasudan textures, and the setekhs crystal array thing texture

A Setekh's crystal arrays looks like a...crystal array. I don't foresee a wide use of it in this mod.

[Droid803]

Well there's something in INF named after me so...

Well, Mobius is like a good name for a ship, because it sounds sci-fi ish.

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I really don't like the Norse stuff for Ancients star systems and all. They belong on Terran vessels, IMHO. I'm too used to Ragnarok as a type of corvette from Nukemod, and I can't picture it being a star system, at all. Name the ancients after other obscure ancient civilizations and associated mythologies - it will look just as alien.

[Solatar]

This is one of those MODs that is big and ambitious and the director of such a MOD would be prudent to let the community guide him one way or another. Nobody can do something like this by themselves (and have it be any good), and with labor tied up in so many other projects it's going to be hard to find a staff. It'll be even harder to find a staff if the MOD projects itself as being closed to suggestions and community support.

[Titan]

I had a brilliant idea. Name everything after HLPers.

AJ Titan 

[Droid803]

I had a brilliant idea. Name everything after HLPers.

AJ Titan 

You already have the GTD Titan!

[terran_emperor]

SJ Emperor

[Aardwolf]

AA Aardwolf (AWACS)

[esarai]

you know... you can always try to make up new names that mean nothing. Just take the sounds of words from different languages and throw them together until you get something that sounds nice. Or just enter a random string of text and pull out something that looks/sounds interesting. Like so:
 nshkbwelkfjkerioptueruiofsdklvjfgkxzmnscuhsajhqgajksnxcm,cmv;ld

Oh, be sure to close your eyes.

erioptueruio => Iio'Tueru (could be pronounced Eeyo Tweroo).

[ShadowGorrath]

I'm thinking of calling Ancient systems by terran names, except for the ones not seen in FS. But Ragnarok stays

But I have something more serious than naming that needs to be decided: pilot/command head animations.