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Renaming in Rheinland - misterich - 03-07-2018
First of all I am a German and because of that I do not like many names ingame so far, so I would request to change them.
Planet Saarbruecken (Saarbrücken) ---> Planet Koeln or Planet Aachen or Planet Duesseldorf (Düsseldorf)
Reason: Saarbrücken is the capital of the Saarland and so the perfect choise for the old Saar system, but Saar has been removed a long time ago. Koeln-System represent the Rheinland (here i mean the real Rheinland that goes over 2 Bundesländer (states)) or Nordrhein-Westpfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia). I am not sure what of them both Koeln should represent but all three names are in NRW and the Rheinland. Here i would prefer Aachen. Also the people from Rheinland and Saarland do not like each other.
Tholey Station ---> Aachen Station, Duesseldorf Station or Dueren (Düren) Station.
Reason: Same like Saarbrücken. Dueren is not large enogth to be a colonizable planet and Koeln is the system's name. In old Fl tradition i could be the planet's name too (Kyushu, Hamburg, Leeds...) but not of a minor station.
Munich ---> Muenchen (München)
Reason: That is the German name. Koeln is not named Colonge (or even worse: Koln without the e for the ö) either.
Planet Nuremberg --> Planet Muenchen (München) or at least Planet Nuernberg (Nürnberg).
Reason: Nuremberg is the English name and Nürnberg (ü->ue) the German. Nürnberg was the former capital of Franken a former German state. Today Franken is part of Bayern (Bavaria) but Franken and Bayern does not like each other so Nürnberg does not fit here. If you do not want to take München i woulde normaly take Augsburg, Passau or Ingolstadt but they are all allready in use and there in no other larger Bavarian city left.
Battleship Bayern ---> Battleship Isar
Reason: Battleships are named after cities (Braunschweig), states (Bayern), lands (Westfalen) or rivers. I prefer last version. The Isar is a river through Bayern's capital Muenchen.
Speyer Base --> Marburg Base or Lübeck (Luebeck)
Reason: Duesseldorf was a system ones with Speyer. Both are more or less Rheinland (even when Düsseldorf is at north end and speyer at souths end). The Frankfurtsystem represents (Schleswig-)Holstein & Hessen so i coose an hessian city and an Holstein's one.
Planet Hammersee --> Planet Ruhr:
Reason: Bochum is in NRW, Westfalen, Ruhrpott and Bielefeld in NRW, Westfalen, Ostwestfalen so I could imagine Westfalen or Ruhrgebiet as a concept for Sigma-15 at all. Hammersee is the name of three small lakes in Niedersachsen (lower saxonia), Brandenburg and Bayern. I did not know that - i needed to use Wikipedia to find out what Hammersee is and that is never good for setteled planets.
Munster Research Station --> Bremnerhaven Research Station
Reason: The name Munster is clear. It could be the city Münster (Muenster) or Munster (look here again on the ü that is not a u). Both are set NRW and not in Bremen. Bremen is a two-city-state with the cites Bremen und Bremnerhaven so it is not hard to pick a name. Else I could also imagine a city from Niedersachsen (Lower Saxonia) like Oldenburg.
RE: Renaming in Rheinland - sasapinjic - 03-07-2018
Altough renaming to German to be more autentic do Sounds good at first glance, remember that this is enGriSh speaking and more importanty typing game, players will have extrimly hard time recognizing, reading, speaking (in voice chat), and especialy typing German letters, not to mention that mayority of them dont have German keyboard.
RE: Renaming in Rheinland - Rvg5 - 03-07-2018
(03-07-2018, 06:51 PM)sasapinjic Wrote: Altough renaming to German to be more autentic do Sounds good at first glance, remember that this is enGriSh speaking and more importanty typing game, players will have extrimly hard time recognizing, reading, speaking (in voice chat), and especialy typing German letters, not to mention that mayority of them dont have German keyboard.
While true, nearly all of those names are type able, even if someone butchers the typing you'd still be able to tell what they are saying.
RE: Renaming in Rheinland - DarkTails - 03-07-2018
It's an unnecesary thing to do. It's been like this since Vanilla Freelancer and there is no point in renaming things when devs and co have very more pressing concerns on their hands. While you may argue it's a simple changing of the name, it's not something that's needed nor is it in any way a pressing concern. There's no reason to make this happen as quite honestly, it would just take time away from the more important issues that need to be tended to.
RE: Renaming in Rheinland - Skorak - 03-07-2018
I don't understand why they didn't name Koeln Cologne. would be much easier. Lübeck being the only exception that you cannot type. But I think there's no english name for it.
It's New Berlin too.
RE: Renaming in Rheinland - Sombs - 03-07-2018
Cologne is sort of the french name of Köln, tho.
RE: Renaming in Rheinland - Char Aznable - 03-07-2018
What's even more confusing about this is that the only other system that also has a different name in English, Munich (München in german) is using the english name.
As for the rest of the renames, I think they're unecessary.
RE: Renaming in Rheinland - TheJarl - 03-07-2018
You assume some logical system for naming stuff, but it's really no different from other houses. For example Pittsburgh is in New York system and not in Pennsylvania. Also renaming stuff would be a mess to retcon everything.
RE: Renaming in Rheinland - misterich - 03-07-2018
(03-07-2018, 07:46 PM)TheJarl Wrote: You assume some logical system for naming stuff, but it's really no different from other houses. For example Pittsburgh is in New York system and not in Pennsylvania. Also renaming stuff would be a mess to retcon everything.
I do not want to rename any normal Freelancer name aswell. For example Dortmund and Essen does not fit to Berlin either, but here I can ingore it, because it is standart Freelancer.
(03-07-2018, 06:51 PM)sasapinjic Wrote: Altough renaming to German to be more autentic do Sounds good at first glance, remember that this is enGriSh speaking and more importanty typing game, players will have extrimly hard time recognizing, reading, speaking (in voice chat), and especialy typing German letters, not to mention that mayority of them dont have German keyboard.
I have allways used the option without ä,ö,ü or ß.
And the Japanesse, Javanesse (IMG), Russian or French are not easy either.
I do not say it is necesary, but it is disturbing especially when the devlopers are able to do it well f. e. at Gallia