The new names for buildings.

Galaahd

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• May 28, 2013

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I've downloaded the patch. I must say I am somewhat disappointed by the new names of the buildings :sad: They are so generic and flavourless.

Now you have Keep I, Keep II, Keep III... they all have been replaced with a generic name plus the number.

 

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Damn. I was hoping they would move the other way and we would get unique names and descriptions like in family palaces. :-(

 

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I'm not sure how "Small Keep," "Expanded Keep," "Epic Keep" and so forth is any less generic. This way it's easier to keep track of your holding upgrades, and the building names will never be cut off due to their length.

As for descriptions, all buildings were given them when The Republic was released.

 

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• May 28, 2013

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Goosecreature said:

I'm not sure how "Small Keep," "Expanded Keep," "Epic Keep" and so forth is any less generic. This way it's easier to keep track of your holding upgrades, and the building names will never be cut off due to their length.

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Why not use both?
Like "Expanded Keep (II)"

 

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Nyrael said:

Why not use both?
Like "Expanded Keep (II)"

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Length issue, if I had to guess.

 

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Nyrael said:

Why not use both?
Like "Expanded Keep (II)"

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It looked cluttered and unintuitive, and as I said, some names didn't fit.

 

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Goosecreature said:

I'm not sure how "Small Keep," "Expanded Keep," "Epic Keep" and so forth is any less generic. This way it's easier to keep track of your holding upgrades, and the building names will never be cut off due to their length.

As for descriptions, all buildings were given them when The Republic was released.

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I don't know, I preferred the old system.

Castle village instead of castle town can do a lot for immersion for instance, at least to me. And I never found it hard to keep track of the updates to be honest.

 

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+1 I also was a bit disappointed to see the name changes for buildings.

 

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There already was a big Roman figure in the list. Why add it to the name too?

 

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I liked the old way, but from a gameplay perspective I understand the change. With the descriptions it's not that much of a loss anyway.

 

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Galaahd said:

I don't know, I preferred the old system.

Castle village instead of castle town can do a lot for immersion for instance, at least to me. And I never found it hard to keep track of the updates to be honest.

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I usually kept track by looking at the price for the update.

 

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+1 Bland,bland,bland.

 

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Goosecreature said:

As for descriptions, all buildings were given them when The Republic was released.

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Not the upgrades though. They are all the same for things like stables and barracks.

 

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this is one of the things i have improved through magnate lords.

The devs ability to name buildings (amongst other things) seems incredibly poor and uninteresting, if not lazy.. ?

 

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Goosecreature said:

This way it's easier to keep track of your holding upgrades.

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Agreed, this actually annoyed me before now because I had no idea where I was in terms of upgrades. Feels better this way for me personally anyway.

 

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I like how they've done in Lux Invicta (A mod). So much depth, so many buildings it got confusing at times. But it also made it more fun

 

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But, didn't we have the roman numerals for how far along it was right there to the left?

I liked the old system, personally. It was a nice touch of flavor, and at no point was I left scratching my head.

 

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Comradebot said:

But, didn't we have the roman numerals for how far along it was right there to the left?

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Indeed. Thus I was also confused.
It's a simple localisation thingy, so it can be modded without changing the checksum. Still... Why?

 

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+1 Also don't like the new naming.. This isn't exactly a Starcraft.. The names did add a bit of flavor.

 

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Comradebot said:

But, didn't we have the roman numerals for how far along it was right there to the left?

I liked the old system, personally. It was a nice touch of flavor, and at no point was I left scratching my head.

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This indeed. I was never confused by the names and liked the bit of flavour they gave. Names of Islamic titles/holdings is more confusing, but you don't remove that either