User talk:Gsklee
Why not real names?
(P.S. If I may be so bold, why do you not want your name to be used? I've heard of religon's that place a very high value on a name, is that what it is? I'm not trying to be nosey, but I'm curious about other people in other countries)
- I am not sure how to explain things like this... to put it simple it is just weird. In real life we tend to call unfamiliar people by something else like sir, classmate, or hey, even when we know their names, and we also feel comfortable to be addressed in this way. If someone whom I do not know very well, come up to me and call me by my name, that will make me shivering, thinking, "do I know you so well?" This is true for most people in East Asia. -- Gsklee 10 October 2005 11:03 (CEST)
- It sounds like a good explaination to me and it jives with other things I've read about Asian cultures. I guess this a case of culture shock, but in the West, it's considered unpleasent or rude to call someone "hey you" or "you, over there" when the person knows the other persons name. Oh well, live and learn, eh? --Marc J. 10 October 2005 11:13 (CEST)
- Comparing to Chinese, the Japanese people even have a more constricted way in addressing each other. If you are interested I can tell you more, but now I will just spare it. Another reason I hope that ingame names be used is that often there are some Westerners make up mistakes like messing my given names with family names, or mispronounce them (yes, I cannot hear them over the web, but I know they definitely got some wrong ideas on how to speak my names). Calling me by Western style IG names saves these problems once and for all. -- Gsklee 10 October 2005 12:01 (CEST)
West Continent Region Names Collecting
We will need at least about 230 region names candidates (cities and their donuts will share the same names). Since the map is a community work, everybody who has ever provided helps on the list are all more than welcome to leave your own marks on this map. You can either:
- propose a set of names with a "coherent theme"
- propose a name for a city after something you wish it to be honored or
memorialized.
There are few restrictions however:
- No famous place names of real world. For instance
names like "Seattle", "Kyoto" will definitely not be accepted.
- If you want to put up your name as a region name,
better change it a bit to let it looks like a region name. For instance "Danny" is not acceptable, while "Dannigrad", "Danniberg" will be considered fine.
- Don't come up with some controversial names.
I hope the region names we are going to put into this map are more than some random spellings but with its own story behind every name. Also we can try to use somemore "fantasy" style of names in this map I think. Like "Storms End", "Nacht Schatten".
One more thing. About the cities and their donuts, I plan to use the following naming method: City - "Darfix City" Donut - "Darfix" I think there is no problem with this?
We need 230 good names. This is a huge number. I think we will need at least 10 days to collect it. So everybody please take some time and give a good think about it. If you come up with some good ones, there is a high chance that you will see it in the next BM land.
P.S.1 You can also add name candidates to this wiki community page directly: http://wiki.battlemaster.org/index.php/User_talk:Gsklee/West_Continent_Region_Names_Collecting
P.S.2 If you are interesting in helping improve the images, please send a private email to the following adrress: gsklee.of.planet.earth(AT)gmail or leave a message on my wiki take page.
