I strenuously object to renaming them simply because it is unpopular with players. We do a lot of things that are unpopular with the players but we don't revert these or change them simply because enough people complained (unless it's something that's actually broken).
However, this is going to turn into a bike shed colour argument, so I'd like to recommend that we leave it for a few months and then come back to it then. If members of the development team are still unhappy with the name, we can change it then. -Jude On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Raphael Langella <[email protected]> wrote: > The renaming of giant bats to megabats doesn't seem to be very popular among > players. This may be because I'm not a native speaker, but to my french > ears, megabat does sound quite silly. After looking it up, I guess it either > sound silly or technical. Do native speakers really know and use the term > megabat to talk about this kind of bat? > While I have no problem with having funny names and joke monsters, I don't > think they fit on D:1. New players might get the wrong impression about what > kind of game crawl really is. I suggest we just name them bats. Being almost > harmless and annoying, they don't really deserve being "giant". > > Raphaël > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
