Me again viz: system names.

[Elowan]

Don't know who came up with these. Don't care for most of them - so I compiled my own list from actual star names and added in the best (IMHO) from the default list.

Question though: there are only 100 names in the default list. It's possible to add 256 systems to the large map -- hence it must be possible to add more names to the list. Yes?

I ask before I screw things up - being the cautious type.

Wanted for SEV: larger map - say ... HUGE.

Thanks for putting up with me.

[Phoenix-D]

You can add as many names as you like.

Don't put the limit to 256 though, I'm 95% sure that'll crash. Use 255 (and why isn't that big enough?)

Phoenix-D

[Captain Kwok]

You can add as many names as you want. The game will choose randomaly which ones it uses when setting up a map. If you don't have enough - some systems will have no names!

The max systems can be set in settings.txt to no more than 255.

[Fyron]

It's 255 cause of programming limits. There can be up to 256 variables (or something like that) there, and 0 counts as the 1st.

[Elowan]

I'm just and old programmer and probably don't understand these things but 256 items is still 0 to 255. Hence there can be 256 systems; 256 names and so on.

[Captain Kwok]

In this case though, zero is not included in the max number of systems, hence the 255 limit.