Capitalism 2 and Capitalism Lab Forum

Hi,

this is a little suggestion for the generated names for AI companies in the game. I understand that some algorithm is applied when the game is generating them in the beginning or in the process of playing. My suggestion is to apply a little touch that will make them more realistic and more fun to play with/against.

Now, i suppose each corporation must have at least 2 names. So let's divide the fictional company names in 2 groups and make the game generate the company's name picking random name from the first group/name list. The second name however should be more informative and should explain what the company focus/strategy is. Here's the example:

1/ First names - some random words like "Green", "Miller", "Super", "Dog", "United", "Micro", "Stream", "Blue", "Sky", "Johnson", "Mozaic", "Insight", "Model", "Future", "ABC", "Ultimate" and so on.
(with possible combination of two in case of merger or buy-out, like Super Corp merging with Blue Systems to create Super-Blue Corp)

2/ Second names will be based on the focus of the company :
- for investment focus: "Holding", "Holding Group", "Capital", "Fund", "Venture" and such
- for banking sector: "Bank", "Financial", "Ins", "Security", "Services" and so on
- for real estate focus: "Building Group", "Estates", "Homes", "Holdings", "Construction"
- for media focus: "Media", "Media Group", "Vision", "News group", "Entertainment"
- for tech focus: "Tech", "Intel", "Technologies", "Systems", "Labs", "Sciences"
- for digital age: "Software", "Programs", "Computers", "Systems", "Global"
- for diversified companies: "Corp", "Corporation", "Company", "Inc.",
- for private companies: "Limited", "Ltd", "And Sons", "Partnership", and such
- for natural resourses focus: "Nature", "Mining", "Logistics", "Materials"
- for retail focus: "Foods", "Crafts", "Stores", "Retail Group", "Shops", "Selling Group", "Products"
for future development in the game:
- healthcare: "Health", "Healthcare", "Pharma", "Care",
- energy: "Energy", "Power", "Transmission", "Grid", "Force"
...
Basically the list can go on and on with new ideas, sectors and such. In this possible upgrade of the game, the player will always have a choice to select his own company name at the start, but will also always know what kind of companies "United Media", "Micro Foods", "Sky Capital" or "Future Technologies" are just by looking at the names. In case of a company chaning focus, being merged or such changes, the last name can be changed too. For example, the AI starts a company named Blue Media, but with time and expansion it changes its name to Blue Corp. If it merge with Green Holdings, it may became either Blue-Green Corp, or BG Corp, or the full version Blue-Green Holdings Corporation, or short possible version BGHCorp, or it just can stay Blue Corp. The game can decide this at random. If they're in the same sector, they will keep the last name (like Tech or Foods), or a new name will be generated, like Angelic Corporation or such.

Please look at this idea and share your thoughts about it.

See ya!

Hi,

sorry for the double post, i've just added a poll about it.

Regards

I definitely think it is an interesting idea to randomize the corporation names to keep the names fresh(er). It shouldn't be that hard to implement either but I personally don't think it is super necessary either. It would be cool though if it were added not gonne lie

I'll support your case

I support this idea, its a great and simple initiative that will make the game much more interesting and realistic without changing much of the mechanics.

Personally I find it difficult to remember company names and when playing with 40+ it gets hard to remember whos who. So a simple system like this would really make things easier

Yeah if there's some sort of clear naming mechanic it would help a lot in not only differentiating between companies but also figuring out what they actually do

Right now it is everyone's guess.

For example.

''Matt Stylists'' is a default corporation in the game but the word stylists makes me think they are involved with cosmetics or something to do with ''stylists'' but nope ... bank in one game, insurance in another, car producer in again another, it's just completely random yo.

not a bad idea i guess

but i always play with mods so it wouldn't affect me much so I'm neutral (but no poll option for that)

the problem is companies can change what they do, for instance change from real estate to diversified.. so that would need accounting for too