Lack of Star Names

[Tim_Ward]

Back in the days of SEIII (*lights pipe*) I had a systemnames file I got from somewhere with real names like Barnards Star and Epsilon Endrani as well as a bunch of made up names in the same spirit. This was a great improvement on the stock names, which are/were pretty meh.

Never did manage to find it again for SEIV.

[Captain Kwok]

I find that real names are just too "human-centric" with their Alphas and Betas and stuff - at least the stock ones sound kind of cosmic/futuristic/alien-ish without sacrificing too much pronouncability.

[Tim_Ward]

With the stock ones, the name doesn't even make an impact on my mind - I just think of "the crappy system I only colonised to make my empire look neat on the minimap" and "that one with three planets with brathable atmospheres". I prefer human-centric names - I'm a human

[MasterChiToes]

Perhaps each empire/species should have its own naming convention for the stars... and maybe a system should get its name from the first empire to explore it.

As far as human centric names, I find constellation names tend to sound better than most star names. What I don't like with stock lists, is they tend to have entries that are clearly inserted for giggles, like: Alba, Musume, Mutara, Torchwood, etc.

[dmm]

MasterChiToes said: ...stock lists...tend to have entries that are clearly inserted for giggles, like: Alba, Musume, Mutara, Torchwood, etc.

I don't get it. Why are these funny?

[MasterChiToes]

dmm said:

I don't get it. Why are these funny?

Not funny "haha"... but they are pop culture refs that are rather "clever-substitute" (an actress, a j-pop group, a Trek ref, and a Doctor Who ref.)

[AngleWyrm]

What would really be clever is to let human beings rename the star systems.

A little edit box.

Like in that other space game, but better. So you can spend some time on the galactic view renaming stuff.

Like "Bernard Nebula" or "Black Hole", or "Phong Home System".

I'm sure some programmer can figure out how to make that happen with multiplayer. I can, can you?

[Fyron]

Captain Kwok said:
I find that real names are just too "human-centric" with their Alphas and Betas and stuff - at least the stock ones sound kind of cosmic/futuristic/alien-ish without sacrificing too much pronouncability.

Did you actually look at the file? There are no alphas or betas.

Puke said:
now the problem with this, in hindsight, is that most of the visible stars in the sky are actually Galaxies. Not something you want to name your solar system. What you actually want, is a list of local stars, or names of stars in the Milkyway.

All of the names in the posted file are stars; no galaxy names present.

boran_blok said:
Were you the one that found this bug ?

Along with Combat Wombat, yes.

[Combat Wombat]

Combat Wombat could have found it by himself if it wasn't for the fact he has no working SE5 version.