Portal Naming Conventions

[AmishJustice]

Just setting up my first pair of portals, and I'm struck by difficulty of using a single name for the portals. My instinct is the name it after the place it's going, but then I realized that I'd have to name it after both places. It just made me curious, how do you folks generally go about naming your links and and navigating your eventual "portal network"?

[Nox]

perm portals are in the central location named after the destination

Temp portals are named for their function

"Wood gather"
"stone gather"
"tower salvage"

[AmishJustice]

Originally posted by Anarchist Jurisdictor:

I pretty much just have portals named after the biomes or bosses they go to

"Elder"
"Bonemass"
"Swamp1"
"Swamp2"

etc

You name the path that connects the portals, not the portals themselves. This lends to naming it after the function like Nox does.

This assumes that you use a hub though, right? So you never have to name one half of the portals. It's just assumed that it is your hub.
There must be other people who use more of a subway map style.

[Turd King]

AS the above posters mentioned you can really name it whatever makes sense to you or fits what its location and or use is.

I use one for each boss
1 for a good silver mountian
1 for a good swamp/iron area
then I have 1 with no connection called "home". So I can build a portal on the fly and name it home and have a quick path home

[Professor Goat]

Nope, Nope 1, oops once, oops twice, etc.

[AmishJustice]

Originally posted by Turd King:

...
then I have 1 with no connection called "home". So I can build a portal on the fly and name it home and have a quick path home

I love this idea.

[AmishJustice]

Originally posted by Anarchist Jurisdictor:

Originally posted by AmishJustice:

This assumes that you use a hub though, right? There must be other people who use more of a subway map style.

In that case I'd totally just give proper names to all the nodes and slap them both in the portal title like you're probably imagining

"BFBase-Elder"

Just a bit inelegant.

[Turd King]

Originally posted by AmishJustice:

Originally posted by Turd King:

...
then I have 1 with no connection called "home". So I can build a portal on the fly and name it home and have a quick path home

I love this idea.

On top of that as long as you didnt mine ore when exploring you can demolish your boat you traveled with and bring the materials back through the portal and rebuild it on the other side and or reverse the option and bring a boat with you!

[Jolly]

Things like "Ring" near where you turn in boss heads, one named "Merchant" ..., and one called "TP" that I use like a "town portal"

[jmido8]

I have a main base with a portal hub and name all the portals based on where they're going.

[PhalseDemeise]

i name every portal 'portal' i have a port full of portals. sometimes i pick apart a portal and port portable parts

[HearNoEvil]

Merchant
Boat house
Island
island 2
...
...

[Richshade]

Elder Island, first portal. Jamestown, Forest/Plain (First Colony). Florida which is Swamps/Bonemass/Plains (Second Colony). Port which is our main Port at Kings Landing (Spawn). Columbia, Mountain/Swamp (Third Colony). And lastly Trader. All names were chosen by my friends. I cannot elaborate, but I can guess

[FÆROÜS]

Basically I just label my portals with a number based on the order they were built, and remember where they lead. Not the most efficient way of naming them now that I think of it, but it's what's worked for me.

[Ponneigh]

Hub style with every portal named after their destination, excluding the "Temp" portal that is used on the fly.

[darkflame]

I just number them like 1, 2, 3, 4 etc..