Need help naming your map? A name is an important part of anything. It helps people recognize your map when it is posted, and can be an important part of publicity; nobody wants to look at a map with a boring name. Creative and attractive names can help draw otherwise wary forum-lurkers into your post and can possibly draw more attention towards your map. Naming, of course, isn't always easy. Thats why this thread was created borrowed from Whats A Scope (<3) and why you should take a look in here every so often if you find yourself linguistically challenged. If you do your best to follow the guidelines placed before you, i'll do my best to keep this thread updated with all of the name suggestions there are. Now on to the fun stuff! Getting Your Map NamedHere is a format you should use to get a name. Map Style: Map Name Preferences: Map Quality Named After: Map Name Meaning: Map Description: You don't have to fill them all out. Examples: Spoiler Map Style: MLG Map Name Preferences: Map Quality Named After: Map Name Meaning: Speed or Agility Map Description: A quick paced MLG map. Map Style: Casual Map Name Preferences: Map Quality Named After: Escalator Map Name Meaning: Map Description: A casual map that use elevation. You can jump up or drop down or us the escalators for quick access. Map Style: Competitive Map Name Preferences: Begins with V Map Quality Named After: Map Name Meaning: Map Description: This map has many enclosed spaces. If you think you have a good name for a persons map, all you need to do is quote 'em with your response. Name Archive The name archive will be used for suggested names that aren't for a specific map, just a name suggestion. So if you have a cool name for a map that you would like other people to know about post it here. I'll check back every now and then to update the post with your suggestions. If a suggested name is already used, or you would like to use one yourself, just send me a message and i'll make sure to cross it off. Spoiler Adanac Agate Ambiance Battlement Breakdown Calais Coruscate Criscent Daybreaker Draconian Escape Vector Exia Flourine Glade Gliese Headquarters Hecoritive Heirarch Heresy Incandescent Launch Station Matriarch Nexus Nevergreen Nosferatu Observation Opium Portcullis Powerplant Recove Rigor Mortis Shifted Tigers eye The Unknown Void If you need help naming, post here!
Exia Calais Criscent Ambiance Hecoritive Draconian Coruscate Recove Those were ones off the top of my head.
Agate Tigers eye Nosferatu Opium Observation Portcullis Battlement Heresy Heirarch Matriarch Nexus Void Glade Nevergreen Incandescent Flourine Rigor Mortis Just a few, my brain has so many of these stuffed in it that it leaks a bit sometimes, ask me for more and I will give more.
Map Style: Urban "ish" Map Name Preferences: Map Quality Named After: Map Name Meaning: Map Description: A somewhat big 4v4 map with an elevator among other city styled architecture. Was thinking of After Hours.
New Alexandria Asphalt Curb-stomp Riot Times square Rockefeller plaza Metro Just a few that come to mind, feel free to ask for more
i need one! map style: competitive preference: begins with H description: back against the wall very close quarters
I think that most people are using names that are one word which although is good most of the time seems pretty limited for giving a partial descriptions . Also people aren't using enough words that actually seem related to the map . If you build a map in the sky why would you name it " Cupcake "? (not a real example ) but try something like Windbound or Airlock or something like that which tells people before they even click on the link to your post what your map is About .
Boo! these are horrible suggestions, they're all too hard to say! and I honestly dont know what most of them mean! A great name is something that is simple and descriptive, like "Lockout" or "The Pit" not "Cyntacynosure" but if you meant to type Crescent I think that one is good. and Ambiance those are good.
Here's a place I seem to find useful sometimes. It's a random word generator! You can even chose what the word starts with. Usually you have to refresh it multiple times to find decent words. Don't use capitals if your using specifics. some cool results: Chantly Coheed Lurch Motion Retronition
Thesaurus.com | Find Synonyms and Antonyms of Words at Thesaurus.com Search for words related to the theme of your map, then keep narrowing down the results and searching related words to find different words with the same meaning. That's how I come up with all the names to my maps, aside from a few such as Luca and Lime. Using a random unrelated word makes me overlook maps, because if somebody doesn't put the time into properly naming their map, then 9 time out of 10 they didn't put the time into making the actual map. Names such as 'Arctic Jungle' on a forge world map makes no sense, because it obviously doesn't have snow, and it obviously isn't in a jungle. Map names need to make sense, they need to keep with the theme of the map, and be easy to remember and pronounce, and in turn it will immerse the player even more into the experience you've created for them. Just my .02 cents.
Map Style: Invasion Map Description: well, elites are defending and they have a scarab in the canyon (phase 3) but the battle starts in the island, "scarab attack" and that kind of names sounds so lame so i could use some help =/ thx
Suggestions for Waikin- Heretic Defense Prophetic Cool Scarab, Bro Scarab level over 9000 I'm a scarab, and what is this? GTFO my Scarab, noob Too Large, Didn't Scarab Scarabs or GTFO And then I was the Scarab Scarab-Force Newfags can't Scarab Scarab's closed Scarab calling for /b/lackup Operation Scarab Scarab Roullette Last 2 numbers decide your scarab Lolscarab Never Gonna Give you up(my scarab) FailScarab Scarabs, how do they work? Boxxy, Queen of Scarabs This is actually harder than I thought lmao And NOOO most of those ARENT internet memes, if you were wondering
Nope, just random **** from /b/ with scarab thrown in, XP actual suggestions: ...and the horse you rode in on High Noon Final Fight Epilogue Spearhead Arrowhead Tomahawk Thats all I've got, kinda had a western theme goin on there.
Map Style: Competitive , Team based Map Name Preferences: - Map Quality Named After: - Map Name Meaning: - Map Description: Team based , quite colourful , its not square and has some nice aesthetic peices in , it also has a few CQC (close quarters combat) rooms and also some good hallway parts.