Hey guys, I was wondering, since the cultures of the AI nations will be constantly changing, what will they be called in game? 

Will they be defined by an AI name like in the endless games? 

Will the names be randomly generated fictional names? 

Will the civilizations be defined as their most recent culture? 

I'm not quite sure if I'm fond of any of those options so let me know what you guys think. Sorry in advance if this has already been addressed! 

While I doubt it, it is possible that civilizations could be identified by their leaders as leader names wouldn't change. But like I said, I heavily doubt this.

Narcisse wrote:

Really good question,  I would like to know that too^^

Maybe our faction is named by our pseudonym. Like Empire of Narcisse, Kingdom of Narcisse, Republic of Narcisse ? Don't know if there is politic notions in the game.

But in the screenshots it's look like we are named by our last picked culture.

So, the same for IA ?

Hmmm if the names are chosen by the most recent culture it could be really confusing keeping up with who's who. Likewise, if they are distingished by leader names or fictional empire names it could detract from the historical narrative.

Broc0lli wrote:

Narcisse wrote:

Really good question,  I would like to know that too^^

Maybe our faction is named by our pseudonym. Like Empire of Narcisse, Kingdom of Narcisse, Republic of Narcisse ? Don't know if there is politic notions in the game.

But in the screenshots it's look like we are named by our last picked culture.

So, the same for IA ?

Hmmm if the names are chosen by the most recent culture it could be really confusing keeping up with who's who. Likewise, if they are distingished by leader names or fictional empire names it could detract from the historical narrative.

I think distinguishing who's who shouldn't be too much of a problem. It seems that they're going with the Endless Legend approach where every faction gets a specific colour for its borders, troops etc. So yeah an ai might constantly be changing it's name but they'd always be the purple or orange one.

I do think that in an earlier dev video,(correct me if I'm wrong) they said something about Player flags or colours being use to indentify different players.

This was talked about on the discord but it looks like your "civilization" icon (and probably the AIs too) will be user created. So that should help with distinguishing

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales:

"I was actually just talking to the designers about this a few moments ago. All the culture icons you see in the screenshots are placeholders, because the plan is that in the end picking the symbol for your civilization is part of the avatar customization (and OpenDev participants will receive a G2G symbol to use for that.)"

yes apparently. I will just add "icon will be user created" it's not really like that than I understand. As I understand, we will be able to choose and pick in a list of existing emblems.

Noflunk wrote:

Noflunk wrote:

Yes, much better explanation ^_^

Narcisse wrote:

yes apparently. I will just add "icon will be user created" it's not really like that than I understand. As I understand, we will be able to choose and pick in a list of existing emblems.

Alice99 wrote:

Broc0lli wrote:

Narcisse wrote:

Really good question,  I would like to know that too^^

Maybe our faction is named by our pseudonym. Like Empire of Narcisse, Kingdom of Narcisse, Republic of Narcisse ? Don't know if there is politic notions in the game.

But in the screenshots it's look like we are named by our last picked culture.

So, the same for IA ?

Hmmm if the names are chosen by the most recent culture it could be really confusing keeping up with who's who. Likewise, if they are distingished by leader names or fictional empire names it could detract from the historical narrative.

I think distinguishing who's who shouldn't be too much of a problem. It seems that they're going with the Endless Legend approach where every faction gets a specific colour for its borders, troops etc. So yeah an ai might constantly be changing it's name but they'd always be the purple or orange one.

Only problem I see with this is accesability to those with colorblindness.