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Year 8 Day 337 19:35	Question about naming cities
Varick Wrath	I have looked around and can't quite seem to find a definate answer on the Combine site, so I will ask the question here. Would naming a city in the Combine after a city in real life be against the rules? I have not found any information that indicates this would be against the rules, and I want to double check before I get anybody in trouble. thanks, Varick Wrath

Year 8 Day 337 20:33	Question about naming cities
Cam Antilles	No it wouldn't, of course we always promote people being orginal instead of trying to create "new earth". ____________ "Somewhere, there's a bullet with your name on it. The trick is to die of age before it finds you"

Year 8 Day 337 21:30	Question about naming cities
Dane Orestes	:LOL: Well, I'm just a newbie, but I've already seen several cities in Combine with names which were taken from non-SW sources, or are clearly just plain jokes. Personally, I prefer those to the cities that are just named "Planet G-2," "Planet G-3," and so on. It appears that those members who manage to put a city together have a lot of liberty in what they label it. I think we could consider that to be part of the designer privledges. I, too, value the sense of realism that comes from well chosen or appropriately creative city names. Many of the ones found in SWC really ARE like that, and it's nice to come across them. Still, you can't expect total continuity in an environment like this. Nothing's perfect. You could justify it as simply one of those things. You know, like Luke Skywalker's name: "Skywalker" can be taken as alien/futuristic, but "Luke" is amazingly just like the common Earth name derived from ancient Greek/Italian origins. I'd advise you to just assume that it has all been translated into Earth terms, to one degree or another. That''s what I do, anyhow, so it doesn't bother me: I still really get into the overall fantasy here. ____________ "When one is at harmony with the universe, one acts as one must to maintain harmony." -- "The Force" Chapter Six, Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, First Edition

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