Slitherine

Thought I would give this one its own thread. But here is how it started off….

Lillarpy wrote:

Xerkis wrote: • Able to name individual soldiers either in game play or in Force Builder.

I like this idea! All the soldiers that served you well in battle could be honored by having their name in that squad for ever!

Also I could send Private Laxen head on into every battle

How could you do that to poor Laxen?

……. I would leave him in the rear guarding a Control Point all by himself



I see two main reasons (or usages) for being able to name your soldiers.

1) Being what Lillarpy has said above. Being able to honor them and making it more lifelike in the game play.

2) If you name as “Captain HMG”, then in the Combat Log you can get a better feel for what happened and who (with what weapons) did it.

We actually planned to have it that way from the start. But we figured that players would only be annoyed, having to name each soldier when designing their forces. But in retrospect, I guess a combo of the options would have been the better; soldiers are given random names if not given names in the force builder.

Good to know for the future. It should not be too hard to implement that

And I do not know why Lillarpy would want to send me into battle at a regular basis, I'm ever so kind to him

Options are always a good thing.


Perhaps something along the lines of: if name is blank (from force builder) then random pick a name as it is now, if the name is not blank then use name from force builder.
The hardest part of all of that would be the change to Force Builder – and that wouldn’t be much of a change.


Maybe you crush Lillarpy too many times in Multi Player, and he wants some pay back.