Good character names are running out, huh?
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Ad Astra,
Posted on: 2010-01-20 08:53 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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No, it's not.|
Originally Posted by Godpants
It's not your fault if you found a name you liked when someone else didn't, but it is your fault, or at least your responsibility, if you take time out to snark at him or her.
Srs bzns and all that. |
I don't owe anyone here anything. Anyone who thinks I do has an awfully inflated sense of entitlement.
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I have a post that addresses this somewhere in the thread. It shows up on page 2 for me, but because I use 20-post pages, it's likely on page 3 or 4 for some people. I went at great length to explain this. Whether it's a GOOD name is subjective. Whether it's appropriate for a super hero name with the likes of Green Lantern much-revered... Yes, I firmly believe it fits right in.|
Originally Posted by Willowpaw
I'm in agreement here, and with a few others who are of the opinion that Cecity does not quite work as a good and decent superhero name.
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| Anyway, the first thing that came to mind for me when you described the character was "Needs to work Braille into the name." |
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| Cecity, combined with a normal last name would work as part of the hero's "civilian" name though, since that is an old trend in comics (the hero's normal name just happens to foreshadow his or her powers...like say, Edward Nigma or Nygma as The Riddler, or Johnny Blaze as the 70s Ghost Rider for example). |
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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That's a lot of how I got the name for my panda girl, when a coworker called a picture a "panda" in his rush, when he meant to say "koala," which is what was on the picture. Putting the the two together gave me Pandala, which ended up being a remote area in Zambia, and wasn't used by a character that I could find.
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Originally Posted by EU_Damz
For example my girlfriend [at the time] drank malibu a lot and im more of a magners type of person. One day playing the game i saw those two bottles and my mind being wierd just combined the two.
Malibu + Magners = maliner To me that sounded like a very cool name to have, something without real meaning. Just looking around my room now i combine names of items and i've come up with a whole load. Chargilled chicken sandwhich + can of relentless = charless or sanlent Scratchcard + aftershave = scarter or cartave scar sky box + magazine = skyma |
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I'm surprised you didn't try and think of a name related to Helen Keller.
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Yeah, "fault" and "responsibility" were probably the wrong words to use there. The decision about the phrasing and content of post does rest with the author, though.|
Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
I don't owe anyone here anything. Anyone who thinks I do has an awfully inflated sense of entitlement.
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No animosity here.
By the way, for Sam's character was "Senseless" taken?
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The blind/deaf villainess "Helen Killer" is already in use on several servers.
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Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
I'm surprised you didn't try and think of a name related to Helen Keller.
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I've always envied the fact that you had the name Freeze Frame on Virtue. |
Originally Posted by Angry_Angel
Never really had a problem with obtaining a name on Virtue.
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That's a good one. And if you ever decide to give her a sister, you can make some sort of Sonic Blaster and call her Peaches and Scream. |
Originally Posted by Angry_Angel
"Oh that's a cheerleader named Peaches if I ever saw one." Peaches didn't quite fit. Gave a few more seconds thought to her personality and vocabulary. Imagined her bouncing around and brightly chirping out how "Peachy Keen!" everything was. And since she is a kinetic, "Peachy Kin" was chosen and registered.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Which ignores a large chunk of the story I actually provided in the original post. Adding Braille into the name would assume the Braille alphabet would be in any way, shape or form useful to this character, but since she lacks a sense of touch, it isn't. Her very design is of someone who lacks ANY physical sense at all, not just sight.
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I was just focused on the blindness aspect (still feel free to keep those suggestions in mind for future use). 
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Yeah, and if I did that I'd never be able to look at myself in the mirror again. I'm not above using compound names like you suggest (I already have a woman going by callsight and last name and a girl that goes by name and abstract letter), but I completely refuse to cop out and write an obvious plot device into a character's name. I don't care if it's tradition. It's a BAD tradition that I do not wish to carry on.
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Pyra Painda (yes, her real name is Pyra, and she is a SS/Fire Brute on one server and a Fire/Fire Dominator on another).
Black-Spy (an odd little Alien Amabassador working out of a broom closet in the big building in Grandville)... Well, his civilian name, as far as anyone knows is simply Black-Spy.
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| Putting the the two together gave me Pandala, which ended up being a remote area in Zambia |
Meh, the Virtue Name Watch has hundreds of pages proving that good names are not running out.
In the last 3 weeks I've picked up (on Victory):
Silver Sledge
Lady Fade
Anna Molly
Guns Blazing
Warrior Widow
Grim Fandango
Scarlet Wonder
Shocklance
They ALL float down here. When you're down here with us, you'll float too!
@Starflier
Managed to get Unstoppabubble on Union :P
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Lounge Crooner calls shenanigans! |
Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
Yep, all the good names are gone, I had to settle for...
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Lizard vs. Crooner. All out grudge match! Winner takes all!!!
This Sunday! Sunday! SUNDAY!!!
Mind/Cold Controller Freedom
Mental Ice Ward
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Finger pistols at dawn...
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Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
Lizard vs. Crooner. All out grudge match! Winner takes all!!!
This Sunday! Sunday! SUNDAY!!! |
All the good names have been taken,
Because I have them all!
And I'm not sharing.
Kidding aside, I recently got 'Stronghold' on my first try. I don't think its obscure. And I didn't have to use any special characters or odd spellings. Usually I just use two words, like 'Blast Witch' or 'Fast Kick'. As long as one of the words isn't 'Dark', that usually works.
In my experience the "check name" function works from the character selection screen, but NEVER works from the character creation/naming screen. When I try it at that point in the character creation process, I ALWAYS get the message that the name cannot be checked -- even if I've checked it just a minute before from the character select screen.
my lil RWZ Challenge vid
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'D' is for 'Diploma'! |
Originally Posted by Laevateinn
A good way of giving such people a taste of their own medicine is to reply that they can only find names because they have low standards.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Adding Braille into the name would assume the Braille alphabet would be in any way, shape or form useful to this character, but since she lacks a sense of touch, it isn't. Her very design is of someone who lacks ANY physical sense at all, not just sight.
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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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You whine them, and I'll dine on... I mean dine them. |
Originally Posted by Jophiel
Lounge Crooner calls shenanigans!
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I just grabbed "Megabrain" on Liberty. Can't get more comic bookish than that.
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LOL! Nice!
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Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
Managed to get Unstoppabubble on Union :P
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Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.
But this is a superhero game, and many people would like a character name that sounds like a superhero -- something you could conceivably see on the cover of a comic book. These kinds of names are much more challenging to get.
To me personally, it sounds more like a struggling brand new hero trying to come up with something unique and failing...
Uhm... The Human Spider.
That's a terrible name!
Anyway, the first thing that came to mind for me when you described the character was "Needs to work Braille into the name."
And after thinking it over a bit, I hereby suggest Braillestorm, Braille Storm, Braillestone, Braille Stone, Brailleway, etc (depending on the powersets).
Cecity, combined with a normal last name would work as part of the hero's "civilian" name though, since that is an old trend in comics (the hero's normal name just happens to foreshadow his or her powers...like say, Edward Nigma or Nygma as The Riddler, or Johnny Blaze as the 70s Ghost Rider for example).