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Nedrear -> RE: Names need work (12/27/2011 8:02:12 AM)

I don't mind implementing it like you want. We could further simply add another vertical line in the information matrix. A little information window after the name would be enough. Derana | Swamp Moon | [Kapala Minor 3] would be enough. It tells you everything needed... you then simply need to sort by "Location" and scroll through Kapala Minor system to the planet Kapala Minor 3 as the location and got your moon. Yes a solution would be simple.

But your way works fine too. Kapala Minor 3 Moon A... well I edit my names anyway. How they start does not matter.



LoBaron -> RE: Names need work (12/27/2011 8:19:33 AM)

Yep adding the info is possible as well, thing is, youŽd need to implement the additional information
in several interfaces which are already crowded enough.

Personally IŽd prefer to have the information available in one go with the name, as it is already the case with the planets.

IŽd never edit names in a game of this scale, sounds like a lot of work...
(Ok, admittedly I edit ship names, but only to change them to add the proper classification to the name (FF, DD, CA,...))



Nedrear -> RE: Names need work (12/27/2011 8:30:51 AM)

Did I say I edit all? Only those which got a meaning in a roleplay... a site of a great battle after the dead Admiral or a planet for it's roleplay features or history... not everything deserves a name.

For your names sake:

Let's use greek numbers then. Kapala Minor 3 Alpha, Beta, Gamma etc.



LoBaron -> RE: Names need work (12/27/2011 8:57:21 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Nedrear

Did I say I edit all? Only those which got a meaning in a roleplay... a site of a great battle after the dead Admiral or a planet for it's roleplay features or history... not everything deserves a name.

For your names sake:

Let's use greek numbers then. Kapala Minor 3 Alpha, Beta, Gamma etc.


Nice touch to roleplay! Thats worth considering.

Re: Greek numbers: Good idea as long as it doesnŽt exceed the maximum allowed lenght of characters.



WoodMan -> RE: Names need work (12/27/2011 2:12:36 PM)

A looooong time ago I made a suggestion for moon names that was quite popular at the time.  Some people wanted their moons to be named with letters, so for example Sol IIIa would be the name of our moon as it is the first moon of the 3rd planet.  Others wanted names and names got put in.

My suggestion was for moons to be named with letters but for all moons and planets that are of a colonizable type and with a quality of 50% or more to have an actual name too.  So Earth would be Sol III or Earth and the moon would be Sol IIIa.



nukkxx5058 -> RE: Names need work (12/27/2011 3:59:59 PM)


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ORIGINAL: 2ndACR
I thought it was funny
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IT IS !!!! I had a good laugh, thank you ! LOL :-) [:D][:D][:D]



LoBaron -> RE: Names need work (12/27/2011 4:51:39 PM)


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ORIGINAL: WoodMan

A looooong time ago I made a suggestion for moon names that was quite popular at the time.  Some people wanted their moons to be named with letters, so for example Sol IIIa would be the name of our moon as it is the first moon of the 3rd planet.  Others wanted names and names got put in.

My suggestion was for moons to be named with letters but for all moons and planets that are of a colonizable type and with a quality of 50% or more to have an actual name too.  So Earth would be Sol III or Earth and the moon would be Sol IIIa.



Hmmm I wonder if its difficult to implement considering that the galaxy generation is only running at games start, and the name generation
could be an extension of the planet naming procedure.



tjhkkr -> RE: Names need work (12/27/2011 7:08:01 PM)

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ORIGINAL: WoodMan

A looooong time ago I made a suggestion for moon names that was quite popular at the time.  Some people wanted their moons to be named with letters, so for example Sol IIIa would be the name of our moon as it is the first moon of the 3rd planet.  Others wanted names and names got put in.
My suggestion was for moons to be named with letters but for all moons and planets that are of a colonizable type and with a quality of 50% or more to have an actual name too.  So Earth would be Sol III or Earth and the moon would be Sol IIIa.


Yeah, I thought we had decided on some kind of naming convention to be used....



Krippakrull -> RE: Names need work (12/27/2011 7:16:37 PM)

This made me laugh. [:D]

I'd say keep it. I imagine some disgruntled explorer sending in his latest finding to the imperial database of astronomical bodies and deciding to do some trolling. Or an explorer getting a kaltor on his sensors just as he is recording his latest find: "Found class M planet with a marshy surface. I'll name it... ****! ... Kaltor on sensors! I have to... *static*"



the1sean -> RE: Names need work (12/28/2011 2:55:01 AM)

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ORIGINAL: WoodMan

A looooong time ago I made a suggestion for moon names that was quite popular at the time.  Some people wanted their moons to be named with letters, so for example Sol IIIa would be the name of our moon as it is the first moon of the 3rd planet.  Others wanted names and names got put in.

My suggestion was for moons to be named with letters but for all moons and planets that are of a colonizable type and with a quality of 50% or more to have an actual name too.  So Earth would be Sol III or Earth and the moon would be Sol IIIa.


I remember that! I totally agreed with you too, and I definitely posted about it during ROTS testing. Personally I also would like it if none of the systems in the game had more than one word names, that gets confusing. Most vexing though is that uninhabitable moons have all the cool names, but all the prime colony real-estate has super boring names. I used to rename EVERYTHING, but it got waaaaaaaaaaaay out of hand as games progressed.

Lobaron, I also really like your idea for using proper vessel classifications. I would prefer if it were something super simple like "DD 001" with the flavor text being in the design name only. As it is currently the vessel names are actually confusing because they just display irrelevant data.



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