Portal Naming Conventions
Just setting up my first pair of portals, and I'm struck by difficulty of using a single name for the portals. My instinct is the name it after the place it's going, but then I realized that I'd have to name it after both places. It just made me curious, how do you folks generally go about naming your links and and navigating your eventual "portal network"?
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Turd King replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 4:45:12 pm PST
AS the above posters mentioned you can really name it whatever makes sense to you or fits what its location and or use is.
I use one for each boss
1 for a good silver mountian
1 for a good swamp/iron area
then I have 1 with no connection called "home". So I can build a portal on the fly and name it home and have a quick path home
I use one for each boss
1 for a good silver mountian
1 for a good swamp/iron area
then I have 1 with no connection called "home". So I can build a portal on the fly and name it home and have a quick path home
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Professor Goat replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 4:45:39 pm PST
Nope, Nope 1, oops once, oops twice, etc.
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AmishJustice replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 4:46:54 pm PST
...I love this idea.
then I have 1 with no connection called "home". So I can build a portal on the fly and name it home and have a quick path home
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AmishJustice replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 4:47:34 pm PST
Just a bit inelegant.This assumes that you use a hub though, right? There must be other people who use more of a subway map style.
In that case I'd totally just give proper names to all the nodes and slap them both in the portal title like you're probably imagining
"BFBase-Elder"
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Turd King replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 4:48:50 pm PST
...I love this idea.
then I have 1 with no connection called "home". So I can build a portal on the fly and name it home and have a quick path home
On top of that as long as you didnt mine ore when exploring you can demolish your boat you traveled with and bring the materials back through the portal and rebuild it on the other side and or reverse the option and bring a boat with you!
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Jolly replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 5:30:01 pm PST
Things like "Ring" near where you turn in boss heads, one named "Merchant" ..., and one called "TP" that I use like a "town portal"
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jmido8 replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 5:32:14 pm PST
I have a main base with a portal hub and name all the portals based on where they're going.
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PhalseDemeise replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 6:02:30 pm PST
i name every portal 'portal' i have a port full of portals. sometimes i pick apart a portal and port portable parts
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NotCody replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 6:06:00 pm PST
Merchant
Boat house
Island
island 2
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Boat house
Island
island 2
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Richshade replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 6:17:23 pm PST
Elder Island, first portal. Jamestown, Forest/Plain (First Colony). Florida which is Swamps/Bonemass/Plains (Second Colony). Port which is our main Port at Kings Landing (Spawn). Columbia, Mountain/Swamp (Third Colony). And lastly Trader. All names were chosen by my friends. I cannot elaborate, but I can guess
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FÆROÜS replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 6:18:45 pm PST
Basically I just label my portals with a number based on the order they were built, and remember where they lead. Not the most efficient way of naming them now that I think of it, but it's what's worked for me.
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Ponneigh replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 6:21:17 pm PST
Hub style with every portal named after their destination, excluding the "Temp" portal that is used on the fly.
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darkflame replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 6:50:28 pm PST
I just number them like 1, 2, 3, 4 etc..
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Nox replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 4:38:54 pm PST
perm portals are in the central location named after the destination
Temp portals are named for their function
"Wood gather"
"stone gather"
"tower salvage"
Temp portals are named for their function
"Wood gather"
"stone gather"
"tower salvage"
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AmishJustice replied to Portal Naming Conventions February 18, 2021 @ 4:44:46 pm PST
I pretty much just have portals named after the biomes or bosses they go toThis assumes that you use a hub though, right? So you never have to name one half of the portals. It's just assumed that it is your hub.
"Elder"
"Bonemass"
"Swamp1"
"Swamp2"
etc
You name the path that connects the portals, not the portals themselves. This lends to naming it after the function like Nox does.
There must be other people who use more of a subway map style.
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