Poll: First Expansion Name (Answer: The Zenith Remnant)

[x4000]

AI War: The Zinith Element

or

AI War: The Zinith Factor

or

AI War: The Zinith Emissaries


Am I getting warmer?

Possibly The Zinth Faction, or something.  Or Zinth Horizon, or something...

[ldlework]

Okay so I have to agree here:

AI War: The Zinth Faction

It is short. It contains no hard to pronounce words. It is precise as to the thrust of the Expansion, a look into - well - none other than The Zenith Faction. It encompasses all implications of said faction regardless of what direction you chose to take it (IE, its not about the Artifacts, its not about the Emissaries, its about the Faction - period.) It is above the blandness of the others but not so outlandish as my suggestions. It would look bad ass in block-form box art. Its honest.

edit:

"Hey man have you ever played AI Wars?"

"Hell yes. Did you know there is an expansion coming out?"

"No way! Already? What's it called?"

"The Zinth Faction."

"Sweet like the star-ship. What's new?"

Well it introduces the Zinth faction, units, lore, they are a third neutral force on the map..."

"Ah I suppose I could have guessed. "

[RCIX]

It's just so... blah.
The Zinth Remnant is nice, and besides it seems that people are thinking that Zinth is too hard to type let alone say.
(It's zinth not zinith or zenith...)

[ldlework]

RCIX - I was typing it incorrectly because in my head I was saying "Zee-nith" as in the actual existing word.

[x4000]

Okay so I have to agree here:

AI War: The Zinth Faction

It is short. It contains no hard to pronounce words. It is precise as to the thrust of the Expansion, a look into - well - none other than The Zenith Faction. It encompasses all implications of said faction regardless of what direction you chose to take it (IE, its not about the Artifacts, its not about the Emissaries, its about the Faction - period.) It is above the blandness of the others but not so outlandish as my suggestions. It would look bad ass in block-form box art. Its honest.

Yeah, that's all true.  Good points!  The one bad thing about this name is that only about 25% of players seem to be able to spell "Zinth."  I may need to rename these aliens slightly as part of 2.0, because everyone is typing "Zenith" or "Zinith" or some variation without meaning to.  "Zinth" is made up, and it's nice because it does alliterate with "Zenith" to a degree, but perhaps to much.

Zin
Zint
Zinith
Zenith
Zenh

Hmm...  Of course, I am very partial to Zinth already, so I probably shouldn't even bring this up since I'm not positive I want to change it.  But people have enough trouble spelling "AI War" and "Fleet Command" (adding an "s" and/or an "er" on those, respectively).  Zinth is just begging for trouble in the search engines, although I imagine people will find it okay given the uniqueness of the word, anyway.

EDIT:  And then I see that RCIX was just commenting on the Zinth thing.  This is a pretty widespread problem, misspelling that ship's name, but it was never a problem when it was just one ship.  Now that it would be part of the name of the whole expansion, that will be more of a problem.  I'll have to start digging through my phonemes and see what I can come up with.

[RCIX]

Zin seems best if you're going for simplicity, though it might get confused with zen.

RCIX - I was typing it incorrectly because in my head I was saying "Zee-nith" as in the actual existing word.

Sorry, didn't know. No offense?

[x4000]

Zin seems best if you're going for simplicity, though it might get confused with zen.

Yep, people will still spell that wrong, haha.  And I'd really like something a little more complex.  I love the sound of "Argos," as in "Argos Navel Yard."  I want something with a similar effect to that, but obviously a completely different name.  I think that Remnant or Faction are both good, each in different ways.  I'm really partial to Artifacts, too, but that might put some people off as being a bit too... quiet?  I'll come back with new alien names later, possibly tomorrow.

[ldlework]

Just my two cents but the Zinth is really cool. Doesn't matter if its Zenith or Zinth - the thrust of your intentional characature you're drawing for them is perfect with that name.

[x4000]

Just my two cents but the Zinth is really cool. Doesn't matter if its Zenith or Zinth - the thrust of your intentional characature you're drawing for them is perfect with that name.

Yeah, that's what I always thought, too.  Glad to know I'm not the only one.  As I noted before, I really like the name, I just have worries about the spelling.  I'm sure that people will spell it wrong, but then again they can't even spell stuff like AI War or Fleet Command right.  So it's a fair bit that google is going to have to be correcting for bad spelling no matter what I name this.  So maybe I should just leave it as Zinth, which everybody knows already anyway (who is an existing player), and not overthink all aspects of this.

[Admiral]

I suggest the very simple:

AI War: Zinth

Cheers!

[RCIX]

In that case, i'd have to cast my vote for Argos Remnant.

[x4000]

I suggest the very simple:

AI War: Zinth

Cheers!

Thanks for the note!  I think I prefer that with "The" in front of it, but if there's other people who also prefer it without the "The," I could add it as a poll option, at least.

[darke]

Zenith works nicely via definiton anyway: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zenith

Especially if you're talking the last remnants of a former star spanning alien empire, or even smaller extremely-high-tech alien civilisation or something.

[x4000]

Zenith works nicely via definiton anyway: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zenith

Especially if you're talking the last remnants of a former star spanning alien empire, or even smaller extremely-high-tech alien civilisation or something.

That's why I originally picked the word "Zinth," as kind of a spinoff of the word "Zenith."

[ldlework]

Perhaps just plain Zenith isn't a bad name for them. There are no other associations with the word Zenith and RTS races. Darke is quite right about the definition. It was what people - including you - were imagining in your head anyway.

Take the word Zenith, make it your third-party faction. Your game is good enough to own Zenith as part of it's lore.


AI War: The Zenith Faction


It just looks good on paper.

The "Zenith Spire" just sounds cool. Infact this is how I've been saying it in my head the whole time.