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Hello,

I am wondering how will alien names come to be. On Earth we have a variety of different style of names from all over the world. Yet Aliens are different, obviously they need names of some sort(even if they are designation in a hive mind society. Moreover, names tell culture after all compare Aishwarya to Siobhan.

so I am curious how names will come up and what sort of names would exist. The easist way would be to have a set of "name packages" which would have about 10-20 names for both men and women. With say around 5 or so packages it would allow variation when dealing and creating species; one would be selected automatically for the pregen species.

~vyshan~
 
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I want a species that has a name that is over ten thousand letters long and cannot be pronounced or comprehended by younger races. That's when you know stuff is getting serious!
 
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Stellaris uses name lists. There are premade ones you can select and preview in the species creation menu. They are fully modable and might be directly customizable from the species creation menu as well.
 
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Stellaris uses name lists. There are premade ones you can select and preview in the species creation menu. They are fully modable and might be directly customizable from the species creation menu as well.
And what's about name lists that only contain syllables? There could be far more variety I think, and it would randomize even this tiny part of this epic game.
 

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It'd be really cool if they could use a recursive neural network to generate the names, although they would have to train it really well so that people don't end up fighting against an evil dictator with the name equivalent of "Discard a basic land or player" and "Tromple".
 
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Or something conceptually like German but on steroids, where you have a basic name like Fred and then just load on everything else relevant or not:

FredtheslackervideogameplayingjoblessnephewofmyredheadedsisterdespitebothourparentsbeingbrunetteandwhowhomarriedtheshoesalesmanandlivesinDelaware, known to his friends as Fred and to his family as 'him'.
 

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If the Spore creature creator has taught us anything, it's that all aliens will be named for whichever part of human anatomy they most resemble in the eyes of a thirteen year old.
 
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If the Spore creature creator has taught us anything, it's that all aliens will be named for whichever part of human anatomy they most resemble in the eyes of a thirteen year old.
Don't get me started, and the number of aliens that are just a wet noodle with noodle limbs and a giant crocodile head attached to it, with stale skin colour.

You know what Paradox could do that they might have some expertise in? They should have the aliens spawn with names from some giant list of incredibly obscure or outdated Swedish names.....no.....FINNISH names.

Someone can mod some other obscure names from other cultures.
 

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Well a race could use symbols instead of letters.

They've already stated they're avoiding using silly names outside of relatively standard alpha characters. Even if they do use symbols (i.e. letters) to write their names, I'm sure that you, as a player, would probably prefer reading something in your own language instead of just incomprehensible squiggly bits.

Even within humanity we do this. There's a name for Baghdad in arabic with arabic letters (and kurdish, for that matter) but when I refer to it, I use my own alphabet and pronunciation.
 

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i can imagine some races like predators or sangheili that have 4 jaw mandibles rather than 2 jaws would be much more prone to names starting with K, C, F, and U and be unable to correctly pronounce P sounds.