Amaryllis
Inactive Member
Well this might sound good now but what about in the long run? I know people have frowned upon items and characters being added to the setting that used the names of real people, places or things and names that were lifted from other kinds of media. If you keep going with this you might have people see the map or a list of worlds and sigh as they are disappointed by an apparent lack of creativity despite the user base having all the people they've used the names of for inspiration to make their own distinct setting.
I know we already have acronyms like DATASS and PANT-IES but those weren't necessarily good ideas in the long run and even if they are and create a precedent for naming things whatever you want it can still be argued having a strong precedent for humorously naming things and a strong precedent for naming things after real people isn't a good idea. There may never be one single thing that stands out as being the straw that breaks the camel's back but people may find themselves looking back with regret as they see things getting worse instead of better as a result of creating trends they thought were harmless or didn't realize they were even making.
Writers here have complained things looked too much like Star Trek or something from X other franchise in the past when people were trying to/intended to get them passed in the NTSE. If we want to avoid people blatantly lifting from other media/settings and we want to avoid everything being about subtle or supposedly subtle jokes/references/inside jokes to elsewhere we might want to avoid naming a planet Nemoy as that can be seen as an invitation for that kind of behaviour.
You can say SARP is about fun but I bet many people would say they wouldn't find it fun to be a part of a collaboration of tributes and jokes that they don't get or aren't their style.
Besides, it could always be said these planets are just hanging around with boring systematic names until the next Kotori or whatever appears.
If we want to reference other settings weren't their ones that just had planets forever named a bunch of letters and numbers with no meaning beyond making their location easier to remember or something?
I know we already have acronyms like DATASS and PANT-IES but those weren't necessarily good ideas in the long run and even if they are and create a precedent for naming things whatever you want it can still be argued having a strong precedent for humorously naming things and a strong precedent for naming things after real people isn't a good idea. There may never be one single thing that stands out as being the straw that breaks the camel's back but people may find themselves looking back with regret as they see things getting worse instead of better as a result of creating trends they thought were harmless or didn't realize they were even making.
Writers here have complained things looked too much like Star Trek or something from X other franchise in the past when people were trying to/intended to get them passed in the NTSE. If we want to avoid people blatantly lifting from other media/settings and we want to avoid everything being about subtle or supposedly subtle jokes/references/inside jokes to elsewhere we might want to avoid naming a planet Nemoy as that can be seen as an invitation for that kind of behaviour.
You can say SARP is about fun but I bet many people would say they wouldn't find it fun to be a part of a collaboration of tributes and jokes that they don't get or aren't their style.
Besides, it could always be said these planets are just hanging around with boring systematic names until the next Kotori or whatever appears.
If we want to reference other settings weren't their ones that just had planets forever named a bunch of letters and numbers with no meaning beyond making their location easier to remember or something?
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