Our naming system informs you when you can name someone by letting the keyboard icon to the lower right corner of the screen jump. Just click on the icon and type the name. That’s basically it. I will show an example below to illustrate the system and highlight the difference between ours and Jason’s original.
First, if you are born as Eve, you can give yourself a family name as well as a first name in this order.
Here I was born as Eve and after I clicked the keyboard icon, touch keyboard showed up and prompted me to enter my family name.
For players who played Jason’s game: When you enter your or someone’s name, just type in the name itself. No need to write a full sentence like “I am XXX” or “You are XXX”.
In this fashion every mother may name her children and all origin players (Eves) can name themselves. Every named child automatically inherits their mother’s family name.
I finished this example and looked my family tree. Me and my little girl were displayed with our full names. What a sweet memory!
The reason to strip those away is we plan to support multiple languages. So each language needs to have its own pattern in that case, which we want to avoid. Actually, in this way you need to type less words and become faster. Nice, isn’t it?
Now I really like where the discussion is heading towards. However it is quite late here so this is probably the last reply I make today.
Anyway, my thinking around these points:
I’m not sure if it is valuable to know whether your mom is Eve or not in game. But outside of a game when you are in the family tree view, Eve player is always at generation 1. So you can still know that.
It is true that there is less things for Eve to do. From this point of view, it is a minus. However it does provide something more interesting which may give it another plus.
I think this is a personal taste thing.
When multi-language support is in place, your mother selection will also take your language setting into account. No one would want to be born to a family that he/she cannot understand, right? That means your mother will speak the same language as you do and most likely share the same culture background with you.
No matter what, if we decide later to enforce the name Eve for some reason, it is always easier to hide a feature than create one.
With version 0.9.9, there is now a unique button just for naming, and the keyboard button is only used for speaking.
Other than that, naming still works according to this guide.
I always name my character eve if i spawn alone, and i try to get maximum generation stretch out of the other players, playing as fast as i can and making stuff readily available for everyone to pick a job. Its hard most times because the babies come immediately after spawning, can we get like a 3-6 min delay somehow? That way we can get it all set up and wed be able to care for baby after baby a lot easier.
