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Thread: Unique names for some items or spells for races and classes?

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    Default Unique names for some items or spells for races and classes?

    http://www.adom.de/forums/project.php?issueid=3221 made me think - if different names for the same spells for different classes enjoy such strong public support, why stop there? Wouldn't it be fun to make some unique racial names for some items and spells? For example, Trolls might not distinguish corpses at all, calling them "tiny crunchy piece of meat" or "big smelly piece of meat"? Or maybe you can even create unique names for monster types as well!

    Or maybe some gods have different names for spells, so once you switch from L+ to C-, your Wrath of Heavens becomes Hellish Wrath.

    Can be done by creating a special configuration file that would substitute original names with new ones depending on race/class or their combo.
    Boorish people that like usability might even use it to remove this fun and confusing feature for the spells.
    Last edited by SinsI; 07-22-2014 at 12:39 PM.

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    The problem with that kind of change is that a lot of people got used to a specific naming convention throughout the years.
    With that in mind, it's already a stretch when some single items have their names changed - look at the scrolls of chaos resistance being changed to scrolls of corruption removal.
    There was an uproar on the irc channel and a proper RFE followed quickly with a huge support that allowed to use the old name to avoid confusion.
    Changing a hole bunch of things in this way is just out of question, the resistance from old, experienced players (me included) will be enormous.
    It's enough to get new items with fancy names that depend on a bunch of parameters but changing old stuff that people got used to is just wrong.
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