Saturday, August 15, 2020

Proposal: Altum Videtur

Timed out / quorumed 8 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 17 Aug 2020 15:22:38 UTC

In “Making New Distinct Discoveries”, replace the bullet point beginning “Give it a name, which must take the format of” with:-

Generate a valid Name for it, and give it that Name

To the end of that rule, add:-

Prefixes are those in the [[List of Latin and Greek prefixes]] wiki page (their hyphens ignored).

* To generate a valid Name for an Animal: Select a random Prefix, then add either “on”, “os”, “ox” or “us” at random (if the prefix ends in a consonant) or “don”, “raptor”, “saur” or “tops” at random (if the prefix ends in a vowel) to the end.
* To generate a valid Name for a Vegetable: Select a random Prefix, add an “a” to the end if it ends in a consonant, then add a space and another random Prefix, then add “ia” or “um” (chosen at random) to the end.
* To generate a valid Name for a Mineral: Select a random Prefix, add an “s” to the end if it ends in a vowel, then add “ite” or “ium” (chosen at random) to the end.

If a generated Name would exactly match the Name of an existing Discovery, add the prefix “mega” or “ultra” (selected at random) to the generated Name.

In “Location”, replace “A name, which is randomly selected from the EFF Wordlist (re-rolling if the result is currently in use in the name of another Location) followed by the location’s Topology” with:-

A name, which is a string, and which when created is formed from a random Prefix followed by a random vowel (if the Prefix ends in a consonant) or a random consonant (if it ends in a vowel), followed by a space, followed by the location’s Topology (re-rolling if the result is currently in use in the name of another Location)

Generate valid Names for all Discoveries except Deltarite, Sudorite and Vertorite, in the order they appear in the ruleset, and give those Discoveries those Names.

Switching from the EFF word list to Latin/Greek prefixes.

Comments

Josh: Observer he/they

15-08-2020 13:27:01 UTC

for

Madrid:

15-08-2020 13:37:33 UTC

for

derrick: he/him

15-08-2020 14:47:39 UTC

for

Lulu: she/her

15-08-2020 14:52:26 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

15-08-2020 21:15:43 UTC

for

Aname:

16-08-2020 17:21:09 UTC

for

Bais:

17-08-2020 14:55:27 UTC

for