Name our upcoming 4x (best - Stars Beyond Reach) POLL 10/27

[mrhanman]

"Proto Empire: Age of the Strangely Ashen Sun of the Mystery Colony of Omicron Ceti in Emerald Sector"

That way you please everyone!

PE: AotSASotMCoOCiES for short.

[Draco18s]

"Proto Colony: Empire: Age of the Strangely Ashen Sun: The Mystery Colony of Omicron Ceti: Emerald Sector"

Fixed that for you.  You forgot the Colon Cancer.

[x4000]

Colonoscopy, Pronto!

[Histidine]

I looked at the "__ of Omicron Ceti" names and then thought, maybe it should be called Chris Park's Omicron Ceti.

If your primary goal with the title is to convey the gameplay, my tongue-in-cheek suggestion: Nick Machiavelli's Revenge

[x4000]

This is in no way a slam against Sid Meir, as I think him including his name is fine.  But I think that it really smacks of hubris these days for someone else to do that, unless they are already super famous.  But even if there was Gabe Newell's Half Life 3 or Shigeru Miyamato's Zelda 22, I think that would just feel... off.  And in the latter case, there's nobody more deserving of such a call-out, frankly, but he'd never ask for one from what I can tell.

[wwwhhattt]

Proto Colony is my favourite so far.

Spectre of an Empire does have most of what I want, it just doesn't personally speak to me or roll off my tongue.

Spectral Empire maybe? That makes it sound like it's populated by ghosts.

Shigeru Miyamato's Zelda 22

I now want Miyamoto to make a game about being trapped by his past successes.

[x4000]

Spectral Empire is really cool!  That's an awesome name, actually.  I'm still on Proto Colony at the moment, and I have a feeling that will become the final name of the game (we'll see).

[Shrugging Khan]

Proto Colony is bad, IMO. Because it honestly seems to make no sense at all - "proto" signifies that something is in a state of being preceding that after which it is actually name, so a Proto Colony would be an entity from which a Colony might eventually develop. But to my knowledge, the player faction will start out as a colony and become an empire from there.

[x4000]

Proto means "first," or "in the earliest form."  And yes, you are starting with the seed of a colony that you are just starting to develop.  Your foes (and potential allies) are already well established (unlike Civ games), while you are just this puny landing party that is growing into a larger colony to rival the others.  Empire is frankly kind of a misnomer here anyway, because the scale of this game is a bit lower.  You aren't building many cities like in Civ, but rather are building fewer but way more detailed cities.  A "city" in civ would actually be more analogous to a "city hall" here, and then the various tile improvements in civ would be more like buildings here.

You'd have multiple cities here, just as with civ, but each of these is more complex in terms of how many tiles they take up and what is on the tiles.  Closer to SimCity.  So the feeling of a deeper interaction with each city will be there (I feel), but at the same time it's not as abstract a sweeping sense of massive nations.

[Draco18s]

I was a little hesitant about Proto Colony, but did like it better than whatever-I-went-for-last.

But I'm behind Spectral Empire pretty strongly.  Its not a literal name (you're not playing an empire of ghosts (although could be really cool) but as an alien civ having been utterly destroyed and scraping out a living on another planet?  Totally makes sense.

It also sounds cool and rolls off the tongue well.

[x4000]

I... could be convinced to go with Spectral Empire.  I am considering it, anyhow.

There's really only four titles up there with any substantial support, so I cut the poll way back to just include them.

[x4000]

All right, Keith agrees that Spectral Empire sounds more epic, and I have to say I feel that is true.  I'm switching that to the frontrunner for now -- that may be the name of the game, we'll see.

[nas1m]

Yay for Spectral Empire! I like that one .

[Coppermantis]

Spectral Empire's pretty cool, and for some reason it doesn't bore me as much as the other Empire titles did. I guess because "spectral" isn't as common a word, so it makes up for it.

I'd be okay with that one or Proto Colony making it, out of the options listed.

[topper]

close enough 

It's got my vote.