Name for the Indian base in mars-sim

[shirishag75]

Here are some of the alternatives that people have suggested for the Indian base in the game so far. This is purely from Indian standpoint -

1. Maangalan
2. भौमभवन - BhomBhavan
3. Marshal
4. Base SANI
5. बस्ती / Basti

In the above 5 I do like 1. and 4.

[mokun]

That's cool !

Base SANI

Does SANI have to be capitalized ?

भौमभवन - BhomBhavan बस्ती / Basti

is it okay to have just "BhomBhavan" and "Basti" ?

[mokun]

So far, we have the following 5 settlement name choice for ISRO.

https://github.com/mars-sim/mars-sim/blob/ba32d20ffe3972a04e58c16a833000805b84ebe1/mars-sim-core/src/main/resources/xml/settlements.xml#L3913-L3918

Does it make sense to have them as names ?

[mokun]

Also, can you provide a list of Indian vehicle names ?

As for settlements, may be you can think of a list of famous landmarks or geographical features as names.

As for vehicles, we can make use of the last name or surname of some famous Indian scientists.

[mokun]

@shirishag75 ,

In the past, it was just a big pool of candidate vehicle names to pick from, regardless your country of origin and sponsor.

Now I'm going to make mars-sim to name a vehicle specifically according to its sponsor.

https://github.com/mars-sim/mars-sim/blob/f5c926bebc0b209e03d526c4ee9bda9c6db9f96c/mars-sim-core/src/main/resources/xml/vehicles.xml#L340-L407

[mokun]

@shirishag75

Now, it looks like this :

https://github.com/mars-sim/mars-sim/blob/e867d7ac36b1d4c890dcd5eb2ac81b65170237ee/mars-sim-core/src/main/resources/xml/vehicles.xml#L342-L486

[midhatdrops]

@mokun Hello! Want to help in this issue but don't know exactly how. Should i just add the names for rovers and settlements in the actual release? Could you guide me please ?

[mokun]

@midhatdrops yes, it depends on your availability and what you would like to contribute as well.

Do you happen to know any native languages of the countries that mars-sim includes currently ?

For sure, adding vehicle and settlement names on those xml files would be one way to contribute.

@bevans2000 Do feel free to offer any pointers here for @midhatdrops

[mokun]

@bevans2000 Can we start pinning more issues as good first issue and help wanted ?

Surely @midhatdrops can find some he's interested in contributing to mars-sim.

[midhatdrops]

@mokun there's an official list of languages supported by mars-sim ? From those i saw in the commits i only know English and a little bit of Japanese, but if i could i would be glad to add brazilian portuguese(my native lang) to settlement and vehicle names.

[bevans2000]

@bevans2000 Can we start pinning more issues as good first issue and help wanted ?

Surely @midhatdrops can find some he's interested in contributing to mars-sim.

Good point, we have been lapse note highlighting good first tasks. Let me have a scan through the issue list.

@midhatdrops As to helping. You could use the Scenario Editor to create your own Reporting Authority that has a Brazilian bias. This would allow you to create specific names. Then we can bundle that in to the release. Or you could look create a Portuguese version by creating a new set of language bindings. Or if you want to do some Java development, then there will be some Issues tagged as Good First.

[mokun]

@midhatdrops

We have since added Brazil to be a part of this venture of going to Mars and settling there.

See country_brazil.xml.

Also find Brazil's mission agenda in governance.xml.

Feel free to provide your input and comment.

[mokun]

So far, in governance.xml,

    <!--  Reporting authorities. The code attribute must match
        the ReportingAuthorityType enum -->
    <authorities>
        <authority code="AEB" name="Agencia Espacial Brasileira" corporation="false"
                    agenda="Space Tracking" gender-ratio="0.85">
            <country name="Brazil"/>
            <settlement-name name="Alcantara" />
            <settlement-name name="Antonina" />
            <settlement-name name="Antonio Prado" />
            <settlement-name name="Escola" />
            <settlement-name name="Florianopolis" />
            <settlement-name name="Morretes" />     
            <settlement-name name="Paraty" />
            <settlement-name name="Sao Sebastiao" />    

            <rover-name name="Agrale" />  
            <rover-name name="Lobini" />  
            <rover-name name="Marcopolo" />    
            <rover-name name="Neobus" />  
            <rover-name name="Engesa" />  
            <rover-name name="Troller" /> 
            <rover-name name="Puma" />  
            <rover-name name="Santa Matilde" /> 
            <rover-name name="Gaganyaan" /> 
            <rover-name name="Kuiper" /> 
            <rover-name name="Modelos" /> 
            <rover-name name="Bingo" /> 
            <rover-name name="Energia" />           
            <rover-name name="Embraer" />   
            <rover-name name="Visiona" />   

        </authority>

Feel free to provide additional rover and settlement names that are appropriate.