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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)


Start talking about World of Warcraft now, why don't you... Or how Linux is better than Windows...  :doubt:

 

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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
Well this has gone nowhere quick.

 

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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
 :wtf:

Holy crap people, only rabid fanboys would allow this to bother them. It's a goddamn LIST and when they hit a new fighter they pull it off a name list, presumably depending on if its a fighter, bomber or interceptor. This makes perfect military sense because there is always the possibility of encountering more then one new ship type at the same time, and if that happens you simply can't be referring to them as LOOK OUT THERE'S AN UNDESIGNATED SHIVAN FIGHTER CLASS OF SOME SORT SHOOTING AT YOU. Hence there would be a list of prepared names.

Seriously, this should be a No Duh kind of thing.

 

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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
Um, has there actually really been any debate on that point?

Chill. The ****. Out.

 

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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
Huh? Thread's still on topic.

 

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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
But there's nothing more to say - I mean, there's been no debate on the fact that they just have a list and they take names from it.
Also, there's more spam in this thread than actual content, unfortunately.
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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
:wtf:

Holy crap people, only rabid fanboys would allow this to bother them. It's a goddamn LIST and when they hit a new fighter they pull it off a name list, presumably depending on if its a fighter, bomber or interceptor. This makes perfect military sense because there is always the possibility of encountering more then one new ship type at the same time, and if that happens you simply can't be referring to them as LOOK OUT THERE'S AN UNDESIGNATED SHIVAN FIGHTER CLASS OF SOME SORT SHOOTING AT YOU. Hence there would be a list of prepared names.

Seriously, this should be a No Duh kind of thing.
Oh jeez, calm the **** down. We're having a discussion. This is a forum. Discussion, is kind of what we're about. To quote AoA, "What crawled into your fighter and died?"

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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
Okay, everyone cool it, or this thread really is heading for locksville.

 

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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
All right, back to topic:
What do you think, why were the FS1 Shivan wingnames discarded?
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Offline Kszyhu

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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
Those names were connected to Hinduism, which caused some backlash among believers of said religion. (At least that's what I've read somewhere).

 

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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
I'm not sure if FreeSpace itself was subject to this backlash, but other stuff which used similar names was. Volition might have decided to be on the safe side and avoid all possible criticism and just use more neutral names.


Interestingly though, this decision appears to have been made sometime during development, as if you take a peek into the mission files of FS2 some of them still refer to them with their original names, albeit behind the scenes (like message or event names, invisible to the player).

Also, NTF ships were originally named "Marauder" and "Bandit" as if they were Pirates like in Derelict. You can still see a remnant of this in the Sixth Wonder briefing (one of the bomber wings being named "Bandit").

 

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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
Hmm, that's interesting. I should open these missions up sometime.

 

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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
Those names were connected to Hinduism, which caused some backlash among believers of said religion. (At least that's what I've read somewhere).

Aren't the new ones insulting the astrologists then? :D
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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
Who cares about astrologists ? :p
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Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
On this one I like to think that Command decided after the GW to use a species-neutral hostile wing designation system, and used the astrological signs because it's what they used for Vasudan wings in the T-V war, after all in FS2 NTF fighter wings have the same designation as Shivan ones.

 
Re: Question about named ships (nerd nitpick)
or the old shivan names could have been dumped to save space in ship's tactical computers.

As for capital ships like the Ravana and Sathanas (1) were most likely named as such as they were the first ship encountered of their class. its highly probable that Alpha 1 never sees the first deployment of every enemy vessel ever created. Ever