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I know that ssilk has put a lot of work into making this Epics subforum for ideas and suggestions.
However, I completely agree with this post:
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 745#p85663
which states that "epic" is the wrong word for this, and it should be named "Concepts".

I'm speaking German and at first even I wasn't sure what ssilk meant by the word "Epic" the first time I saw it.
It looks like he meant the german word Epos (Heldensaga, or english Epic poetry). In casual german it might be allowed to use this word for a collection of something related, but you can't translate that to english or other languages, and even in german it's only used regional.

I think he is trying to combine several topics into one and making a concept out of them, and I agree it would be a good idea, as seen in the current topics Food, Enemy variation, ...

But calling it an epos/epic is plainly wrong, Wiktionary has no meaning for that word that would even give an idea as to what we're talking about:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epic wrote:1. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity or demigod

At first I wanted to write this as a PM to ssilk, then I thought I'd like the input of the community on this topic, so please comment what you think it should be called.

One other thing:
This subforum is viewed as being heavily moderated, so please have some consistence in how you name the threads. We currently have:

epic: producing food (herbalism) [all lower case]
Epic: World Names (Config... [all upper case]
Epic: water as limited ressource [mixed]

Please refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Case_styles and either pick the Sentence case (normal english spelling) or Title case (most of the words uppercase).
My suggestion would be:
Concept: Producing Food (herbalism) [aka Title Case]

Also note: This thread is just for discussion about the name of this forum, should there be an agreeable solution with enough posts to back it, you can delete this thread.

Changing this is in my working queue, but it is really much work; it takes some time to create such summaries, cause it takes some recherches to find all depending article.

And for information: "Epic" is a term taken from project management. Jira for example uses it to handle a sums of tickets. I see of course, that this is not the right term here. I think "concept", or "draft" is more useful.

So the current plan is:
- creating own articles for every draft (currently called "epic" )
- moving the current articles back
- looking around for more

Everybody is invited to help.

I think a good first example is https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 80&t=13022 Draft: World Generation
(and of course most drafts are much smaller than this first example)