KOKON Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 (edited) In russian Alen' woul be read as deer which in russian (and other slavic) slang means asshole and has a lot of even worce synonyms. This word can be applied to computer gamer very easily. Especially if he tries to get more alenium lol. Ie this thing is called smth like assholium. This can make the game less popular in russia. It sounds really wired --- When i was going to make a computer game of my own i've invented the similar substance name: Kronaker isotope / Kronacker isotope May be that would be ok for Xenonauts? Alenium is awful Edited February 20, 2012 by KOKON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 What is the etymology of your name? What does Kronaker refer to? Maybe use something with Xeno instead of alien? XenoHexium? PS. I got the hexium part from periodic tables number 116 (113-118 are named Unun-tri/quad/pent/hex/sept/oct-ium) all of those are synthetic elements with unknown chemical properties. DS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOKON Posted February 20, 2012 Author Share Posted February 20, 2012 (edited) I wanted to invent an eivil sounding sci-fi game resource name. Doom 3 just came out. There was a dr. Betruger scintist. I wanted to have smth similar. Kronaker isotope seemed sophisticated enaugh. This is the story )). Sounds like a german surname. Lets say this is a fictional scintist who was in charge of alien powerplant research after rosswell incident. Xenoblabla would be too much head-on simplistic however the word Xeno itself is fun. Xeno. Give me Xeno. Xeno Isotope ^^ Edited February 20, 2012 by KOKON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 There was a huge 20+ page thread about names for the element. No one managed to persuade Chris that their idea sounded better. Feel free to try though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherdevil Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 yeah, I too think Alenium sounds a bit weird (what happens with the second alien element found?), but no dice so far! =p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Well, it shouldn't be hard to "mod". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I'm haveing an issue with calling the element for isotope. Isotopes are variations of a periodic element (different ammount of neutrons), so if there is one isotope it has to be more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I like Alenium, and I'm almost certainly not going to change it. Unfortunately I can't really change the name of things in the game because they sound funny in another language, too. There's a lot of languages, and a lot of rude words... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherdevil Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 maybe you should call it 'rudewordium' and just get it over and done with! That was a joke, just FYI =p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 (edited) at least its not "unobtainium" Edited February 21, 2012 by Gorlom I can't spell words withing quotation marks =S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 When the game gets translated (as I am sure it will sooner or later) the words will probably get changed slightly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherdevil Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 yeah or 'unobtanium' like in Avatar. God that was the worst name ever =p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henkka77 Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 KOKON, did you know that Mitsubishi has a car model named Pajero? AKA also Shogun or Montero. Did you also know what it means in spanish? If not, check it out, you might just get surprised.. So lets not waste time thinking if some object name is bad or rude in some language, you cant possibly please every soul on this planet.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davoren Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Can't help but to throw my two cents in to this. Unobtainium is actually something that is really being used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium If you don't want to read the article yourself, it's basically a term that engineers started using in the late 1950s for any material that would perfectly fit there needs, but that does not actually exist. That, and there days it is often used to talk about rare earths that are simply too rare to fill the growing demands for it, you can see it in newspaper headlines and the like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherdevil Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I know it's being used, I've read the article (when trying to think of other names for Alenium), just think it's a silly name, that's all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I still think Gauddium is the best name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOKON Posted February 21, 2012 Author Share Posted February 21, 2012 Gauddium isotope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Maybe Gauddium Oxide. Bit tarnished but gets the job done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 (edited) I kinda like The term Eludium (also spelled with variants such as Illudium) has been used to describe a material which has eluded attempts to develop it. PS. KOKON: if you are going to refer to the isotope instead of the element, don't you need to clearify which isotope it is? or atleast the number of nucleons to make it relevant that it is an isotope? Are you trying to suggest it is radioactive or somesuch by calling it an isotope? I'm not sure I get the point of makeing it an isotope instead of an element as a whole. DS. Edited February 21, 2012 by Gorlom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davoren Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I guess it does sound a little silly. Did always like Phlebotinum though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherdevil Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Na anotherdevilonium is clearly the most superior name =p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOKON Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 (edited) PS. KOKON: if you are going to refer to the isotope instead of the element, don't you need to clearify which isotope it is? or atleast the number of nucleons to make it relevant that it is an isotope? Are you trying to suggest it is radioactive or somesuch by calling it an isotope? I'm not sure I get the point of makeing it an isotope instead of an element as a whole. DS. Isotopes are usually hard to get in sugnificant mass. This unique Kronaker Isotope is stable while contained in ufo powersource and does not require heavy screening. It is used in a cold fusuion reactor providing 340 GJ per gram or more (kerosine 46 kJ per gram). It is impossible to determine the number of it's nucleons. But it's fusion can go with hydrogen, hellium and other elements giving more and more energy but it seems that aliens use only the first two somewhy. It has an average mass around 300 Edited February 22, 2012 by KOKON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Given that its an alien element it's hard to get signigicant/sufficient amount anyway since you are dependand on the aliens for aquesition of it. If you cant determine the number of nucleons you cant really defend the stance that it is an isotope imo. Do you imagine the aliens to have refined the element and extracted the isotope by itself or are you imageinging that the isotope is mixed up with the rest of the element like in real life? Your isotope is the only isotope I've heard of that has a unique name for a particular isotope. every other isotope is the element and a number. You know what. Nevermind I'v vented enough about the issues with it being an isotope. I'm not going to be able to change your mind and it's not even relevant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOKON Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 (edited) Do you imagine the aliens to have refined the element and extracted the isotope by itself or are you imageinging that the isotope is mixed up with the rest of the element like in real life? The most sophisticatad way i imagine this: All elements sync change in the course of time among Kronaker isiotope group. microsec 1 - all elements in the universe - isotope 303 microsec 2 - isotope 301 microsec 3 - isotope 308 microsec 4 - isotope 297 Scintists can not understand the nature of this effect and how so heavy element can survive more then nanosecond but they found out logics of it's multistep cycle. Some isotopes would produce cold fusion with hydrogen the rest would produce hot fusion. When the fusion is complete it turns into isotope with a greater number and can be used again. The general mass reduces insagnificantly. Edited February 22, 2012 by KOKON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 (edited) I still think Gauddium is the best name. In bavarian, Gaudium means fun or time of merriment. Na anotherdevilonium is clearly the most superior name =p It has the superior letter count for one thing! Edited February 22, 2012 by Gazz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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