Re: Bigger Galaxies?
 

Most nearby stars have relatively boring names, like "Groombridge 386" and "Luyten 28," which may be one reason why the SE designers didn't use "real" star names. But an easy Google search will come up with a bunch of star names that could be added to the game the old-fashioned way: by typing them in.:)

-- Mal

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There's some cool names that aren't boring, maybe I'll place those in.

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There's an add-on (I believe it was on the Gold disc, it's part of EyeCandy) which adds over 400 systemnames, including scifi and real star names, such as Hoth, Romulus and names like "42 Pisces 3" and such.

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Hoth and Romulus? Wouldn't that be infringing on copyrights? Star Trek and Star Wars might not be happy about that.

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Romulus is from Roman mythology, and Hoth can be found in Norse mythology, I believe. I doubt Paramount or Lucasfilm could do much about the use of those names any more than they could prevent you from using names like Luke or Loki.

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For those interested, an intersting site to get started with is here:

http://www.solstation.com/stars.htm

It catalogues stars out to approx 65 ly radius of Sol, and has information and such about them.

I've heard of Romulus, but whatinhell is Hoth? Or is that some STNG name (I never did watch STNG).

-- Mal

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Hoth

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You could download the JPEG version. It is only 8.5 MBs. It requires converting the jpeg system images back to bitmap, as in the included instructions, however. This is easy if you have a program capable of batch conversions.

Of course, you still have to download the Planet Pack of the Image Mod to play with FQM Deluxe, which is another 6 MBs...

Alternatively, you could get FQM Standard, which is practically the same mod except that it does not use any custom system or planet images. It is only 1.2 MBs in size.

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Hoth is a planet on Star Wars, first heard of in the movie Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. It was the location of the Rebel's secret base, that is before it was found out and anniliated.

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Also, note that FQM includes a system names file with over 40,000 names in it. There is a "real stars" file included as well, which I believe is a listing of all of the named stars as of some point in time when I found the list. I have attached this list to this post. You will need to rename this to just SystemNames.txt to use it in-game, of course.