Emperor Crazyname from Typoempire

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  1. trusw

    trusw New Member

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    What got me really interested about the naming part is less the cool names, many games have cool names... it is rather that there could be one faction that is either plain weird-named or seems to have a memory error. Something weird and funny only very few games have.
    How about Emperor null from the plaground empire? From the proud NaN empire?
    After all, the humans or aliens that created them could have been weird! Emperor Scissorpainter would kill you if he knew you laughed about his name or his Snailsquisher Empire!

    Put down your weirdest ideas and maybe one will sway our glorious devs!

    <neutrinotag> Criticize me bluntly. </neutrinotag>

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    Collecting the posted Ideas (i mix some stuff here):
    Faction, Commander Name, Planet Name, Tagline:
    NaN, Stack Overflow, null, 503 Service Unavailable, server was hit with an asteroid.
    Misigno, -, -, -
    404, 0x3F60B10C, null_pointer, 504 Bad Gateway, Galactic Gate to a black hole.
    Last edited: September 21, 2013
  2. comham

    comham Active Member

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    A faction designed around Glitch Art? That's pretty cool actually.
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  3. Tormidal

    Tormidal Active Member

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    Yeah. Definitely a great idea.
  4. LordQ

    LordQ Active Member

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    Misingno faction? I like it.
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  5. Devak

    Devak Post Master General

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    Only if we call it Faction 404
  6. cptconundrum

    cptconundrum Post Master General

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    I love this idea, especially Faction 404. Obviously a 404 error would never show up in a future robot, but I'm pretty sure everyone would overlook that.

    Commander 0x3F60B10C is from Faction 404, which is based on planet null_pointer.
  7. crystaline109

    crystaline109 Member

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    this is absolutely fantastic. i would SO play the 404 faction or NaN. Commander Stack Overflow to the rescue!
  8. BradNicholson

    BradNicholson Uber Employee Uber Alumni

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    ha. you know, the great thing about the planetary annihilation universe is that there's four "known" factions ...
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  9. DeathToARM

    DeathToARM New Member

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    I like it.

    503 Service Unavailable, server was hit with an asteroid.

    504 Bad Gateway, Galactic Gate to a black hole.
  10. l3tuce

    l3tuce Active Member

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    It would be cool if something like this was the default faction name for AI players. If the computer behaves in predictable ways, it's because the commander's AI core was corrupted. Human players would be the machines that are still at least partly sentient.
  11. Tormidal

    Tormidal Active Member

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    So we're going to have a Dawn of War-esque army creation/painter thing?
  12. trusw

    trusw New Member

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    I love all the ideas here, and Brad's comment makes me hope we'll really see some of them in the game :-D
    Uber, you are awesome!
  13. dallonf

    dallonf Active Member

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    I'm a programmer. Time to throw some cool-sounding faction names out there because I've been working with Objective-C more than I prefer lately:
    • void * (pronounce it Void Star because it sounds awesome)
    • SIGABRT
    • Malloc
    • nil
    • NSFaction (ok, now I'm running out of ideas)
    • [planet destroyWithAsteroid:asteroid] (yep i'm done)
  14. GreenBag

    GreenBag Active Member

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    The easy answer is the Bacon Faction, The bots just love their bacon, even the grease is useful to them
  15. czarkirby

    czarkirby New Member

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    I am pretty sure that brad means that we could always make our own faction mod with its own lore and units. this would definitely be an awesome faction.
  16. trusw

    trusw New Member

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    Another take would be imaginary ads that filtered into the commanders memory... commander healthy from the gluten free faction doesn't know his name was an ad!
  17. Devak

    Devak Post Master General

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    Commander Pepsi?

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