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Yes

83 (79.8%)

No

21 (20.2%)

Total Members Voted: 103

Voting closed: March 16, 2011, 09:21:43 pm

[Michaelh139]

I say no.  Then you'd have The Green Hand, TheGreenHand, Th3 Gr33n Hand, etc. etc. etc.  It'd obviously be much worse with big gangs.  It'd be hard to tell if your gang is really taking a town.  Also, how would moderating work?  Delete the base somebody just paid 130k for?  Or change the name to "Generic Gang 83"?
The name list wouldn't be a problem if you could have more than one base per gang.

holy crap I never thought about it that way..

Can I change my vote?  This would indeed happen and would obviously be a major pain.

[Surf]

I'd say no. I've been in a couple of "gangs" and created some of them. While it was cool to see some name I've chosen from some list or even if I'd be free to type in my own, it'd still not feel like Fallout*. I remember when we started to play at the beginning of the beta and there were lengthy discussions which name we should take. Only names in question were "Fargotraders" and such, as everything else feels out of place. I may be in a minority (you asked from a players perspective, Solar), but I neither want to spend my day deleting "PwNz0rgangXY1398198", "OMGILUVHITLER!11#1787", "It'sfineasitisclub252" or see similar names on the gamescreen.

*Especially when each random wasteland gang can gank whole cities like NCR which is supposed to be approx. tenfold the size. 

[Hololasima]

With mentals which will take these names, like "pwnzors" and similar its bad yeah. Someone must handle them.

But people from bigger and little bit older gangs will take normal names.

And yeah. If someone will make some stupid name then just erase his base. He should know that if he take stupid name, he will be hardly punished(-130k and etc)

[OskaRus]

IMHO pWnz0rz gang name is prety cool. And i would really rofl when i would see Pwnz0rz are taking Klamath. xD Char names can be made and player char names usuallu are not so silly like u are afraid. I belive that mayor gangs would preserve their standard names and maybe personal gangs for one persons alts would have silli names

[Sarakin]

I chose no, because as I said on IRC, better would be buying bases without name. Faction names could be requested/bought later by additional cash.

For example:
"Some friends which don't want to take part in Town Control" now for time to time are fucked up because there isn't any name of base. With this idea they just buy base and nothing else. Now "gang" which want to show their power and take part in Town Control cannot do it because there isn't any name which can be taken. With this suggestion after they buy base they go to "Official Departament of Factions" or something like that and buy name from list. That's all

This I approve

[Alayen]

Hmm that's good idea i think, but Dev's must improve this system (censure of offensive gang names) and then will be ok.

[headshot]

This "own faction names" will make the gameplay less Falloutish that it's right now so my voice is one big f*cking no!

[bubbles]

hell no!

[Sius]

Since this is pretty much connected to bases.

[Who Killed Bambi]

maybe make prefix + sufix + middleware words (list like about some amount each) or less.

[Haterade]

id vote yes, make them able to type anything, except add a filter to it, so they arent accepted if there is words boobs, fuck, tits, pussy, etc. and if someone breaks it as typing b00bs, they can be banned (all members of base) for some days/weeks, and base deleted. why not? why would someone risk 130k for ban and losing base... it should be clearly told to everyone, i bet there will be just 10 fools to do that...

[Sius]

id vote yes, make them able to type anything, except add a filter to it, so they arent accepted if there is words boobs, fuck, tits, pussy, etc. and if someone breaks it as typing b00bs, they can be banned (all members of base) for some days/weeks, and base deleted. why not? why would someone risk 130k for ban and losing base... it should be clearly told to everyone, i bet there will be just 10 fools to do that...

And what if someone types his gang name in other language than english? What would you say to "Děvko, pobliju ti kozu!" gangname when you would be the guy to decide whats ok and whats not?

If I would be the head of 2238's development i would go for:
- everyone able to type his own gang name ingame during gang formation (not while you buy hideout, these should be 2 separate actions)
- lore names such as Enclave, BoS, NCR restricted
- gang names would be allowed to consist only of letters of english alphabet (no special signs, numerals, russian or whatever)
- rest described in my old suggestion linked above

[Solar]

Yes, but when they go to buy that name, should it be chosen by them or from a list.

That is all there is to this question, nothing else about the system.

[Eclair]

Definitely, maybe

[Sius]

Yes, but when they go to buy that name, should it be chosen by them or from a list.

That is all there is to this question, nothing else about the system.

Well in case of FOnline its debatable since the community is not that large therefore its possible to keep things up and running using premade gang names.
But when it comes to game itself you can see that often gangs don't care what name is on the TC line. They call themselves otherwise anyway and they are referred to as "own gang name" rather than "premade gang name" here on forums too. They only had to take whats left ingame so they could setup a gang.

Therefore I've mentioned other aspects of 2238 that are closely connected to gang names and affect each other.
base = gang -> can end up in 1 gang using 3+ other gang names just to have more bases
more bases = more gang names -> need to create new gang names when all premade are already taken

So far everyone starting an active gang has 2 options. Either choose from premade name and be recognized as such or simply ignore premade names and call themselves as they see fit and with enough propaganda, community will memorize and call them by their own name, not by the premade one. And so far my experience is that those who participate in wasteland politics choose to ignore premade names. And I must say there have been no attempts to go down in history with gang name like "Pwned ya n00b" as far as I can remember. Also there is another sort of people who don't give a f*** and for those gang name is just another requirement to get place for few people to safely store stuff and play a bit together.

So for big gangs or people who want to be seen its a great opportunity to create their own identity ingame. And for everyone else, well... that name won't be seen by a mans eye until next wipe, when some dev might decide to read them in database, so where is the harm in this?