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A quick poll: Should the names of specialized products be directly related to the corporation they belong to?

Currently we only have specialized products named after the corporation that produces them: Omnipotari Corporation creates Omnipotari Crystals, and the Dryatech Consortium creates Dryatech Organics. One of the new corporations is VAC QuadraCorp, their current product listed (but not yet created in the rules) is Quadranium Metals; in the old scheme that would be VAC QuadraCorp Metals.

Since the new dataified specialised products we can more easily have differently named products... I see both pros and cons to this.

Pros of the current naming scheme:

• Easy to identify the product being traded as belonging to a specific corporation
• Easier to fill in trade blocks because naming scheme is predictable
• No naming collisions if multiple people want to make the same thing (i.e., no two "Unstable Rare Elements"), since their corporations are named differently.

Cons of the current naming scheme:

• Most names are very abstract. I.e., "X Corporation" for product Y will always make "X Y" (see examples above)
• It limits player creativity for no reason.

Should we try to adhere to having the product be named directly after the corporation?

All I want from you is a vote of 'Old' or 'New'. 'Old' if you want to adhere to the old system, 'New' if you don't think that is necessary. (Of course, more comments with your vote are welcome as well ^_^)

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New!

We should not limit creativity for no reason -- with the footnote that people should really come up with cool and unique names that are still ending in the actual product. For a lot of products and raw materials the 'CorporationName Product' makes sense. No actual corporation makes only a single kind of thing (think of car manufacturers like BMW... 'BMW Vehicles' makes more sense than 'BMW Cars' or 'BMWs'), so that should be reflected in the name.

[Stuiter]

I think having unique names is good for roleplaying. I would rather talk about my corporation making cool product X instead of Corp X raw material.

[Dragonmaster352]

Before I make a decision I would like to know if you are referring to tier 1 raw materials, tier 2 products or both.

I ask because I think with corporations there is such a thing as being too specific. With the vast amounts of stuff a corporation produces, it would be unrealistic if they would only make one specific thing. For example: The Crystalline Optics Concern produces optical equipment, lets say I define that equipment as lenses. Now it produces such an enormous amount of lenses that it will never be able to sell them all. No one in their right mind is going to do something like that.

The above is an example of a tier 1 raw material. For tier 2 products this is less of an issue. As a finished product has a larger volume, the actual amount per unit is lower.

[Brend]

Not sure if you are adressing me, or Stuiter, so here's my two cents:

I am not referring to any particular tier. Actually, as you can read in my own vote, I think that most product corporations would do well with "CorporationName Product", since I feel that most product corporations are really large and create different types of prodcuts. An example would be "VAC Coolant Utilities", clearly this is more than the single type of coolant.

I fully agree with Dragonmaster352 that most corporations will be to big to make a specific raw material or product... On the other hand, I understand why Stuiter wants to talk about cool product X instead of "CorpName Metals".... The thing here, I think, is to make sure that your product name is at least related to your corporation.

[Dragonmaster352]

Ok now it's a bit more clear to me. So I'll vote:

New!

[Elmer]

New!