<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14917 >
> [vasc - Tue Jan 03 22:25:17 2006]: > > On 1/3/06, Peter Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14917 > > > > > On 1/2/06, Daniel Markstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14917 > > > > > > > Well, he [Marvin] of course deserves to be leader of the Martians > more than any > > > Earthling who never sat his foot in space. =) > > > > > > But in the end, I think we'd rather avoid adding (any more) > trademarked > > > fictional content to the game... > > > > Sorry if this leads me to rollback to some earlier point of the > > trademark discussion, but: > > > > Marvin is a common name, IMHO you would only violate the content of > a > > computer game or story if you copied a distinctive part of it - when > I > > hear "Marvin", I think of tHhGttG, but not that Marvin was ruler of > > Mars, so it is not recognizable. > > > > I also see no problem with using even a trademarked name inside the > > game, as long as it is not the name of the game (or maybe a game > mod) > > itself. For example, there may be tardemarks for "Andromeda", but > you > > sure could still name your characters "Andromeda" if you wanted to. > > > > (It is still wise not to use LOTR names since because the names are > > invented, any one of them is distinctive) > > > > Your collection of SciFi-writers, especially Isaac Asimov, would > make > > great leaders for a nation named "Foundation". I am not sure there > > would be any memorable Martian leaders though who were non- > fictional. > > Given that no human has actually even been there, it is hard for it to > have > been ruled by any. > > Although, I suppose, we could use robotic Mars probe names for the > rulers. :-) > > Express, Mariner, Pathfinder, Phobos, Sojourner, Viking, etc. > > -- > Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa > > Those names are too generic IMO. If we would go with Marvin, what about having "Aelita" (Tolstoy character) as his female conterpart? Another idea: use names of the planet in various cultures. In most cases, this is also the name of the male diety that personifies it, so it would make sense semantically. ~Daniel
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