How do you call starting location in 1 word?

[Krom]

Till now we have called the starting locations on KaM maps - "Players". But now, when we think about adding spectators we need to clearly distinguish players and locations they play/spectate. Question is - how to call "Starting Location" in one word? A word that implies existence of town and/or army.

[Bence791]

Kingdom? It sounds "weird" tho, I know

[T*AnTi-V!RuZz]

SPAWN.

[Krom]

Starloc, Nation, Tribe, Gang, Authority, Force ...

For now my favs are Starloc and Force.

[Ben]

I like SPAWN, too. Maybe Origin?

[Krom]

Single "spawn" sounds okay, but when referring to several "spawns" .... I don't know, it sounds weird ... Matt controls spawns 1 and 2 in a game ... And especially from code perspective: gSpawns.FlagColor := $808080; Maybe it's okay

Thanks for ideas guys! Keep em coming

[dicsoupcan]

aaaaw spawn has been taken already ok then what about camp to keep it more medievallike themed? i mean the storehosue might aswell have bene a camp you expand into a city.

[Krom]

I was thinking about card games, there players cards are called "Hands". Maybe we can use some nouns that imply it being a players tool? Hand, Hammer.

[Tiank]

Force is nice. Camp sounds okay as well. Maybe settlement?

[Krom]

Settlement does not fit because there are also pure fighting missions where there is no any settlements. Same with camp, it implies there's a camping place, where in fact we want to refer to players assets all the way.

[Krom]

After discussion with Lewin we agreed on "Hands". This term has a good background from card games, easy to spell, short to write, fits best

[pawel95]

Force would be okish, tribe for example is for me sth like "barbarians/normal people" so that doesn´t make sense in kam for me. Spawn hears also okish for me, but what does that "hands" mean? Hands from the humans body? :p

[dicsoupcan]

i thought of nation but i assume i am too late already

[Ben]

Force would be okish, tribe for example is for me sth like "barbarians/normal people" so that doesn´t make sense in kam for me. Spawn hears also okish for me, but what does that "hands" mean? Hands from the humans body? :p

As Krom already said, a "Hand" refers to what cards a player possesses.

[Nissarin]

What about 'faction' ? It has a nice ring to it, 'hand' sounds little weird to me.