I've taken a look at the new Plantoid name lists added in this patch and - whilst I'm glad Plantoids now have 3 name lists - I'm deeply disappointed.
Other species' name lists are creative, using invented phonology and grammatical rules to create strange and unfamiliar names. All of the Plantoid name lists just use human names for flowers and plant anatomy, and two of them use the names of plants from human mythology (Yggdrasil, Irminsul, etc.). What's worse is that they all have far less name variations than the other name lists.
Most name lists have well over 50 generic ship names, but PLANT3 has 12, PLANT2 has 11, and PLANT has 4.
The standard for how many planet names a name list should have seems to be 20, or 10+ per planet type if the names are divided up by planet type. However PLANT still has 12 names divided up between 6 planet types, each planet type receiving 2 names each. PLANT3 has 15 planet names overall, and PLANT2 has only 10!
The leader names for PLANT and PLANT2 are still a lazy copy of the names from AVI3, and the regnal names in said lists are identical, save for the first name which is "Trunk of" in PLANT and is "Flower of" in PLANT2.
I wish the Plantoid namelists had the same amount of work put into them as the other phenotypes' namelists had - the current ones are limited, uncreative, and nonsensically human.
Other species' name lists are creative, using invented phonology and grammatical rules to create strange and unfamiliar names. All of the Plantoid name lists just use human names for flowers and plant anatomy, and two of them use the names of plants from human mythology (Yggdrasil, Irminsul, etc.). What's worse is that they all have far less name variations than the other name lists.
Most name lists have well over 50 generic ship names, but PLANT3 has 12, PLANT2 has 11, and PLANT has 4.
The standard for how many planet names a name list should have seems to be 20, or 10+ per planet type if the names are divided up by planet type. However PLANT still has 12 names divided up between 6 planet types, each planet type receiving 2 names each. PLANT3 has 15 planet names overall, and PLANT2 has only 10!
The leader names for PLANT and PLANT2 are still a lazy copy of the names from AVI3, and the regnal names in said lists are identical, save for the first name which is "Trunk of" in PLANT and is "Flower of" in PLANT2.
I wish the Plantoid namelists had the same amount of work put into them as the other phenotypes' namelists had - the current ones are limited, uncreative, and nonsensically human.
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