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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.

Kingdom? It sounds "weird" tho, I know

SPAWN.

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

For now my favs are Starloc and Force.

I like SPAWN, too. Maybe Origin?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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