Wondering what others name their places?

[Robirda]

I have a fondness for naming the places I frequent, and my planet crafter locations have not escaped this personal habit... just wondering if anybody else likes to play with names? Some of the locations are fairly obvious, the Crator, the Canyonlands - but I prefer to use names (sometimes drawing on other languages) that also act as descriptors.

A few of my commonly used names from game to game - you can probably guess where they are;

-Zambezi Lake (means, 'the heart of everything' lake)
-Eldenheim (means, old home, or, home of the elders)
-Schwartzenveld (black plains)
-New Haven (oldest of the 'new' biomes)

....and, well, you get the drift, I'm sure! Just wondering if anybody else out there has any such names that they like to use and would like to share with the rest of us?

[wyldfae28]

Cool names! I named my planet Alku, which means "beginning" in Finnish. Therefore, my base is Alku Operations and Tourist Center. I have a tourist cottage at Alkua Falls, Crater's Edge, Raptor's Nest (the canyon) Solar Beach (the southern coast ocean) Hell's Gate (the lava biome) Eden Valley, Shipwreck Cove and Paradise Pools (both behind the waterfall) and Stargate Lake, out by the ring. Not sure if I will build more yet. Still working on the last cottage at Paradise Pools.

[Robirda]

Wow, awesome names, thank you, and very thorough coverage, too - I'm still trying to think of better names for some spots, if it's okay with you I might just borrow a couple of yours? I love the tourist cottage idea, lol - now I know what all those little places scattered all over my map will be good for, thanks for the inspiration! :-D

[maestro]

I'm not very imaginative, lol.. my teleporters:

"Home"
"Ancient Palace"
"Lava Wreck"
"Waterfall"

etc. lol

[sheldonp55]

I name my portals by which resource they are located.
For my storage i labele my Explosives "Mr. Torgue" cause...EXPLOSIONS?!

[firebloom]

From now on, the black plains will forever be "Schwartzenveld"!

[avatar.zero]

Bob Lake, Bob Waterfall, Bob Crater, Bob Fields, The Bob Sea...

Come see them all on Planet Bob!

[Annonymous]

Lake Side Cabin (it's actually built over the lake where the starting location usually is)

Then just bland names for teleporter destinations.

Uranium
Waterfall
Launchpad....

[wyldfae28]

Originally posted by Robirda:

Wow, awesome names, thank you, and very thorough coverage, too - I'm still trying to think of better names for some spots, if it's okay with you I might just borrow a couple of yours? I love the tourist cottage idea, lol - now I know what all those little places scattered all over my map will be good for, thanks for the inspiration! :-D

Feel free to borrow. I love Eldenheim and New Haven. Sounds very LOTR ish. :)
I got the tourist idea when the clear domes came available. I wanted a place to put my teleporters around the planet anyway, so I started setting up "apartments" in a clear dome to put them in. I didn't want to have to make entire bases everywhere, it seemed redundant.

Once I'd built, furnished, and decorated a dome, it occurred to me that this would make a cool place for tourists to stay while visiting the planet. And an industry was born. Lol. My whole planet is now set up for tourism. It was a fun idea to play with and kept the game interesting.

[GReimer]

I never really named the places on the map but I did name my planet B00BL35S since I'm a dude and the only one there lol

[Robirda]

<quote=wyldfae28>

Feel free to borrow. I love Eldenheim and New Haven. Sounds very LOTR ish. :)
I got the tourist idea when the clear domes came available. I wanted a place to put my teleporters around the planet anyway, so I started setting up "apartments" in a clear dome to put them in. I didn't want to have to make entire bases everywhere, it seemed redundant.

Once I'd built, furnished, and decorated a dome, it occurred to me that this would make a cool place for tourists to stay while visiting the planet. And an industry was born. Lol. My whole planet is now set up for tourism. It was a fun idea to play with and kept the game interesting. </quote>

LOTR (the books) were right up there on the list of my first loves; read them to my younger brother before bed beginning in the fall of 1964, took us right through the rest of the school year and summer vac too, to get through all three volumes, but once we started, neither one of us would even dream of stopping, lol! We had no TVs or electricity, but those books were better than any movies for us - and there very well could be subconscious echoes of them in my namings. :-)

My world is littered with single-pod cabins, I tend to do my exploring fairly early on, even though I don't open all the chests - just some - but I always carry 3 iron, 2 titanium, and a silicon along with a couple each food & water, and one air- if I need more air I build a quick pod, then leave it in place, collect another pod's worth, and carry on snooping about. Even 20 or so games later (I've lost count) I'm still finding things I hadn't found before - those devs are sneaky good at hiding things! :-)

Nothing about those little pods are anything like as fancy as your tourist cabins, but I do love the idea - and yes, our planet would make an awesome tourist stop, the nights in particular are spectacular, what with all the glowing foliage and colourful moons and such (particularly the eastern one).

It's so wonderful to come over another hill and see yet more butterflies and frogs flitting or sitting about - I am very much looking forward to the mammals stage, hopefully they will be just as much fun and equally satisfying! :-)

[Robirda]

Whups, wrong brackets on the quotes I guess? New at this, sorry! =8-}