Talk:Familiar Names

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So I made this page. If you think it's nonsense, ... delete it :) If anyone thinks it's useful though, I'll edit the familiar action lines on the familiar pages to link to Familiar Names, like (some) combat messages on the adventure pages do. Anyway -

This alternative recipe might apply, but I haven't come across any familiars with names ending in "rn" yet, so I don't know (somebody else might?)... --NewZorkBat 04:36, 5 January 2006 (Central Standard Time)

	G	(r)	o	bert
				nald
	T			(r)	g
					n
					t
Recipe	generic familiar name

Possible references in the random names: for example "Tron" (not sure it's worth mentioning because of it's random status, but then again, someone created this algorithm, so, hm.) --NewZorkBat 04:36, 5 January 2006 (Central Standard Time)

I just got my ADD, and it has called itself "Gofflesby", which lies outside anything here.--Fireyflame 09:58, 30 January 2006 (Central Standard Time)

• My brand-new stinky gravy fairy named itself "Grofflesby" - looks like there's more variation than I thought :) I'll sort this out later... --NewZorkBat 05:52, 11 February 2006 (Central Standard Time)

• I encountered a "Tofflesby" now as well, so I added the "offlesby"s to the recipe in the article. --NewZorkBat 06:22, 14 February 2006 (Central Standard Time)

• I seem to have a Starfish named Trog-dor (with that obvious reference there). As the account in question is open to an entire clan for usage -- and the fact that it used to belong to a friend that was a Homestar Runner fan -- I question the validity of it. However, y'know, might be important info.--Azu 16:05, 21 February 2007 (CST)

• I just used an unwound clockwork grapefruit, and there is some new text that says "You decide to name him 6655321". This is related to the adjustment to familiar output when placed into the terrarium that was announced today. Would someone with knowledge in wikicode please spade and update pages accordingly? Thank you. --Grogum 23:28, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

• I just placed my reassembled blackbird in the Terrarium, and it named it "Boulder", which doesnt fit into this algorithm. this one likely needs to be redone, as it also doesnt include the "offlesby" endings either. --Gannstboy 23:36, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
  • That's because you named it "Boulder" in a previous ascensions. Names do carry over ascensions, even if you lose your familiars somehow (i.e. this is true for bad moon as well) --CG1||| 07:49, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Accents

• I don't know if anyone else has had this but if I try to include an 'è' or any other character which isn't actually a "letter" it will do a jumble of letters. So for example I called my ADD "Dèwii", it then became "Dèwii", then when I hit rename with Dèwii as it's name, it became "DÃ�¨wii" and then, "DÃ��Ã" and then it just stays as that. I can rename it "DÃ��Ã" as many times as I want to and it remains DÃ��Ã. It follows the exact same pattern when named anything with 'è' in it. I haven't played around with any other letters or if this is important enough to mention or someone wants to fiddle around with it and other possible characters like à and the like and we could get to the bottom of this! --Allean 04:16, 8 June 2007 (CDT)
• Update: Dàwson follows almost the same pattern but starts with a ' '(space) instead of a '¨' in the second naming so ends up being named 'DÃ��Ã' ie the same as Dèwii becomes. --Allean 04:19, 8 June 2007 (CDT)
  • Accents used to be allowed, but were de-implemented some time ago, as shows in this forum post. --Bagatelle 17:56, 8 June 2007 (CDT)
    • Sorry, I should have been clearer, I'm aware that this happens and I'd read about it before and had forgotten, so I tried it on my familiar and then noticed a pattern and asked here if people thought it should have a section on the page itself. Though just pointing someone to a forum link isn't too helpful as this is supposed to be separate to the forums, I just found some information but wasn't sure if it was really important/interesting enough to be included here.--Allean 06:00, 12 June 2007 (CDT)