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Contributions => Offtopic => Topic started by: Mr. Quiet on August 25, 2013, 08:54:12 am
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When you start a fresh new game, do you always take a few seconds to think up a good name for your starting base? Or are you like me, you always use the same name for your main?
My main is almost always "Thor base" just to get things going quickly. Then as the game progresses, I try to come up with a new name, and sometimes I'll go into my messy closet and find a good base name because I have all my gaming history stashed in that little room.
So the topic is "What are the names of your X-COM bases?"
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EDF（Earth Defencive Force） -(Area Name)
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I usually use the Greek Alphabet , Alpha, Beta ,Gamma, Delta .....
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Used to think of complex names like Kalrhoun or somethnig. Now I just call em' xcom 1 and 2... you can easily change names anyway....
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I just name them based on location (Europe, etc.) or purpose (Research, Radar, etc.).
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I usually name my base by the name of their continent. Twice I preferred using the name of the nearest country I could locate around. And once I named my bases SG-1, SG-2, etc...
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I like cheesy codenames with a simple numbering.
DOGTOOTH-#
HEART-#
ALMIGHTY-# (Ala Apocalypse Now!)
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I'll name some of mine.
Thor Base
Sword Base
Watchmen
Malachi
Archangel
Enigma
Cobra HQ (Continent Acronym)
Guardian Base
Secret Base
World Base
Area 51
Sometimes for fun, I'll build a secret base that I'll imagine nobody else knows about except for myself and the X-COM brothers and sisters who never leave my sight. CFN members won't know in-case they become compromised. I'll build it in Antarctica mid-game as a back-up if I lose all my main bases so we can safely fall back to this one for one final stand. And I forgot the names for these bases :P I'll always lose before this happens, but you can say this is the base where you and the human resistance fighters will reside in after the aliens have taken full control of the World.
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I usually do badly at naming them only because I ultimately find that I dont associate the name I gave it with where it's actually at. For example my current game has bases named flashlight, daylight, nightlight, arclight, stoplight, and ghostlight. The first one was ghostlight so of course I can remember that. The second was actually arclight, and though I kinda remember it I still have to step in and out of screens to be sure if, for example, I'm transferring stuff between them. After that I built the rest kinda all at once as radar/intercept bases and the names mean nothing to me.
You know what might help me? Seeing the name of your bases on Geoscape. like with a toggle or something so you can turn it off to get it out of the way. Or I could just always use names like Eurocom, Americom, Asiacom, etc.
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Yeah, that's a problem to me too and I like your idea. This way we'll see the names and locations so that should help us memorize our bases.
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Just my Geoscape location.... XD
e.g. Europe, America or Asia. :P
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I like to think up a scheme, like names of Antarctic exploration ships, or as mentioned greek letters, or Roman emporers. Sometimes i'll do a little pun on the region, like "Americ". Currently when setting a base I boot up google earth and find the nearest 'rinky dink' town, like Dourados...
( no offense to Douradosians!! )
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Sounds cool. I've never done it that way. You do actually find some neat names on far away small towns. I'll try it next time :)
I have a new base name I've been wanting to use, "DungDang TruSo". Named after my boss at work, Tru So means HQ. I put it on Antarctica and as soon as I have money, the base will be used for secret scientific research. In my mind, my boss is in charge of that area, meaning I'm his boss in X-COM, muahahahahahahahahaha!!
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My first base is always called X-COM HQ
Additional bases are named after their role and the continent they are on, for example:
X-COM USA (general purpose)
Fighter Base Asia
Radar Australia
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Eat at Joes.
hint - today's movie skyfox ?? ... TooOldCantRememberTheNumber..
they are ads shown on the wall of a certain spaceship. Can you name the ship?
although I now name bases by country and purpose, such as SRT, OBS, LAB, and TET.
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Well, the European base is often named Pennemunde. There's usually a Shangri-La or Xanadu. Sometimes there's a Wonderland (or Wunderland) and an Ice Station Zebra. I've also used roller derby league names.
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Main base: X-Command
Support base: X-Support (additional squad and dropship, sometimes called X-Backup)
Research base: X-Research
Manufacturing base: X-Manufacture
Storage base: X-Storage (X-Cold Storage if I place it in Antarctica)
Sometimes I name the base after an animal that is commonly found on the continent it is placed.
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Main Base: HeadQuarter, Homebase
Extensions: FarEast, DownUnder, Norad, etc. ...
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I make them sound mysterious / semi-historical/mythological, Bermuda (for Bermuda triangle), Roswell (USA), Europa, Atlas (North Africa, both are Greek deities), Carthage, Prometheus (research base)
Or just based on location, I often pick mysterious places for my bases... Bermuda and Roswell as mentioned, Malta, Stonehenge, Nazca, Teotihuacan, Lascaux, Easter Island - all have conspiracies of past alien visitation
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I do the Alpha,Beta thing.
Except I always make a base for my team of special forces. I put all the best soldiers there, with the best weapons and training. They are known as the "Omega Squad", their base? "Omicron Theta".
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My bases are generally named Site-##, a naming convention I
shamelessly stole borrowed from the SCP Foundation site.
Of course, sometimes I name them after Geoscape location and the suffix -Com (command).
I.e. EuroCom, AfriCom, AmeriCom, etc.
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I used to just name them X-COM One, X-COM Two, etc, but then I realized that made it very difficult to see from the Intercept screen which craft was at which base, so now I name them X-COM EU, X-COM USA, and so on.
Nothing like the way I name my soldiers. I strip them of all personality by just naming them EU-1-1-1 HW-1, for example (base, location, squad number, sub-squad number, deployment sequence, role, skill at that role (so that guy would be the #1 Heavy Weapons troop in that squad)).
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Im usually used positive words for my base like Hope, Wisdom, Justice, Courage, Glory :).
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"We're gonna die"
"Doomed base"
"Humanities grave"
"Probing done here"
Hehehe ^^
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I used "Libertad" (freedom) for my first base, "Victoria" (victory) for my second base and "Liberación" (liberation) for the third one. But as I started to use more than 3 bases I started to use acronyms to describe them.
Just to see how I did it last time, I installed it (Steam version) and restored the savegame (I left it uncompleted last year).
I have the folowing bases:
Delta-Eu (Multipropuse - Europe)
Delta-Am (Multipropuse - North America)
Sat-Af (Radar/Hiperwave and 2 hangars, so i guess Sat stands for Satellite)
Sat-Cas (Central Asia)
Delta-Au (Multipropuse - Australia)
Sat-Ru (Syberia)
Sat-Am (South america)
Sat-Eu (Europe)
I wounder what was i thinking when used Delta to describe a multipropuse base :-\. It seems at that time i decided on use just 2 base types.
But if i have to start a new game and name it again i would be something like this:
( REGION ) + ( JOB ) + ( NUMBER if applicable )
Region:
EURO
ASIA
NAM (North America)
SAM (South America)
AFRI
RUS
OCEA
ANT
As for the type of base: Main Intercept, Satellite (just a radar), Lab, Factory
Alse, I like this idea:
I like to think up a scheme, like names of Antarctic exploration ships, or as mentioned greek letters, or Roman emporers. Sometimes i'll do a little pun on the region, like "Americ". Currently when setting a base I boot up google earth and find the nearest 'rinky dink' town, like Dourados...
( no offense to Douradosians!! )
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X-COM Europa (base in Europe) - It's always my main and first base in game :P
X-COM Am. Płn. (base in North America)
X-COM Am. Płd. (base in South America)
X-COM Australi. (base in Australia)
X-COM Azja (base in Asia)
X-COM Antarkt. (base in Antarctica)
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i keep it simple and just use a prefix for all the names based on the region where they are and the COM for a more militar-ish touch
EURO-COM
ASIA-COM
AFRI-COM
AMER-COM
OCEA-COM
and allways CENT-COM for my inicial base :P
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"El Baso Mexico"
"Sweatshop 1"
"Storage 2"
"Hangar 18"
Not too creative, am I?
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I name my bases after something historical/mythical from the region. Or from an animal that lives in those parts.
In that way, I always know where each base is located, and they are named more creatively than just "Base 1, 2, 3"
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I've been reading Wayward Sons (https://waywardsons.keenspot.com/) lately, so I named my current bases: Athena, Artemis and Aphrodite. Naturally, I keep mixing them up.