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by Citizen Fist of John - 4/15/2003 7:54:57 AM

Anything beyond 5 plants get had to keep straight with names thought up by others. Fortunaly we can think of our own, here's mine:

Being that my empire is the FIST OF JOHN I name my systems as follows:

Largest Planet size in System 15-19 I rename to Finger Finger1, Finger2, etc..
Largest Planet size in System 14-under I rename to Knuckle Knuckle1, Kuckle2, etc...
Largest Planet size in System 20+ I rename to Fist Right Fist, Left Fist, Cock Fist, etc...

Any systems with generally worthless planets I use for hunting good/evil events or as a tradable resource get demeaning names like "Throw away pet", "Throw away pet Stepchild", or "Babbling drooling Retard".

So what are your Star naming conventions? I'm curious to see what some of you use..

#1 by Citizen Malovane - 4/15/2003 9:24:40 AM

I use a geographic convention.

For central systems I use name such as Tau Ceti Central, Prima, etc...

For south systems, I use name of Arabic-Asiatic cities : Samarkand, Thebes...

North systems : nordic deities : Odin, Thor, Loki...

For strategic systems : military names : Sparta, Achilles, Hector.

For far away planets : Hope 1, Hope 2... or Lone Star 1, 2, etc.

But perhaps naming according to the size of the planet is better... I may add +, ++, +++ after the names...

#2 by Citizen EffBie - 4/15/2003 11:47:17 AM

I play with a paper map in front of me which I keep notes on. It makes things so much easier!

#3 by Citizen myomer - 4/15/2003 3:04:54 PM

Inner Sphere planets from Battletech... specifically, Draconis Combine planets... it's the name of my empire, after all...

#4 by Veteran Za H - 4/15/2003 3:41:52 PM

I just add the sector coordinates and some planet class designation to the the original system name. For example, "(10.04)* Sol". The numbers are added in front since the game automatically attaches Roman numerals to the end when reporting planets.

#5 by Citizen Brashin - 4/15/2003 3:49:15 PM

Star Wars planet names

Hoth, Coruscant(High Lvl Planet), Commenor, Folor, Kuat (Military Ship Producing Planet), Correlia, Sluis Van (Military Ship Producing planet, Ryloth, Yavin (Got to have 4 planets with 4th planet being hospitable Yavin IV)

Just use ones either from Rebellion or the expanded universe. Also changed my ship names to reflect Imperial ships and such as well as change the Alien races to Star Wars...Hope I am not going a little overboard here....just wish I could get my wife that Princess Leia Slave outfit in ROTJ but getting her to wear it would be the next hardest thing...

#6 by Citizen Fist of John - 4/15/2003 4:11:52 PM

Where do they sell those outfits?

#7 by Citizen Verenti - 4/15/2003 4:59:48 PM

I name them after countries

New Germany - Industrial Core
New Britian - Commerece Core
New France - Tech Core
and my favorite name from that Scheme is New Byzantium

#8 by Citizen OneInTen - 4/15/2003 9:49:26 PM

Whatever the game gives me. Sheesh, get a life people.

#9 by Citizen Fist of John - 4/15/2003 10:50:19 PM

"Whatever the game gives me. Sheesh, get a life people."

Go throw a boomerang at a koala, and fix your teeth while your at it.

#10 by Citizen Albow - 4/16/2003 2:14:21 AM

HAY! No bad mouthing Australia ... mate!

We don't all live in the middle of a sheep paddock, riding kangaroos to work - that's just a lifestyle preference I have

As for Stars and stuff, name them after mythical creatures, like Pegasus, Griffin etc ...

#11 by Citizen Fist of John - 4/16/2003 6:08:20 AM

I was going to mention something about Crocodile Dundee, but I figured that would be hitting too far below the belt.

#12 by Citizen Brashin - 4/16/2003 8:19:05 AM

"Whatever the game gives me. Sheesh, get a life people."

Hey I bet you'd have the same reaction I'm having to your comment if someone heard that you play video games "Get a life"

Look I do what makes my game fun for me and you do what makes it fun for you but don't go putting people down because of it, were all here to have fun with the game not nitpick

#13 by Citizen PriestOfDiscord - 4/16/2003 7:43:59 PM

I do the same thing as Verenti. A few other examples:

New China: My breeding pits
New Iran: All missiles, all the time
New Tibet, New Gaza, New Golan, New Kashmir...: Systems I took by force

New Tajikistan: Worthless in every way but I put a colony here anyway

#14 by Citizen Fist of John - 4/18/2003 4:40:33 AM

Hilarious Priest!

#15 by Citizen Essex Ascendant - 4/18/2003 1:53:06 PM

Generally name my planets after characters in whatever book or series of books I'm currently reading.
Often end up using X-men character names

#16 by Citizen Wheatley - 4/19/2003 1:26:57 AM

I keep all the same, but my top planet gets a British themed name. United Kingdom, Great Britain, Britannia, Brittany, etc.

#17 by Citizen TFM - 4/21/2003 2:06:32 PM

Can you name planets in systems?

I haven't figured out how to do that yet...

Thanks

TFM

#18 by Citizen Fist of John - 4/21/2003 4:06:19 PM

tfm,

Nope.

#19 by Citizen Valamir - 4/21/2003 5:37:39 PM

I've never changed a planet name...seems like a colossal waste of time to me. But I do rename starbases late in the game on a big map. I generally name sector starbases (the production and trade boosters) after the biggest system in the sector. I generally name resource starbases after the resource and compass directions i.e. Martial Far West etc. This makes it easier to manage the constructor caravans I send out so that I know which is which.

#20 by Citizen TFM - 4/21/2003 10:41:59 PM

Fist, Darn... I want to be able to have Rukbat, Pern, Red Star etc...

Is there anyway to mod your own star system?

Also what is Sol IV???

TFM

#21 by Citizen joea64 - 4/22/2003 8:24:35 PM

I basically have two systems for naming planets:

1) I use system names from the Niven/Pournelle CoDominium/Empire universe ("The Mote in God's Eye", et al.) e.g., Sparta, St. Ekaterina, Tanith, Friedland, Santiago, Tabletop, Makassar, New Caledonia, Sauron, etc.

2) I use the names of classic Hollywood actresses (Monroe, Russell, Hayworth, Grable, Lamarr, Rogers, Gaynor, Shearer, Bacall, Darnell, MacDonald, etc.)

If I get ahold of enough colonizable systems, I sometimes use both systems simultaneously.
Incidentially, in the OS/2 version, you _were_ able to name individual planets within systems (which enabled me to have New Scotland and New Ireland in the New Caledonia system, for instance.) I hope this feature might be resurrected in a later update.

#22 by Citizen Offholdr - 4/22/2003 8:39:51 PM

Star Trek and Star Wars planet names, whichever ones come to mind first, although I haven't gone into detail with system names like Kuat, Dantooine, et cetera. Also use the names of US and British cities (Manchester, London, Leeds, Atlanta, Orlando, and so forth).

Great ideas here though. The creativity here is impressive...

Offholdr

#23 by Citizen John Doe - 4/23/2003 11:22:15 AM

If I get a planet event (e.g. +49 shipyard), I put the info in the name (e.g. Darth,+49ship). The UI does not easily distinguish these special systems.

Planet naming would be even better.

#24 by Citizen Malleus - 4/23/2003 2:03:55 PM

My naming list:

Alabaster, Beryl, Corundum, Diamond, Emerald, Fluorine, Garnet, Hematite, Ilmenite, Jasper, Kaolinite, Lapis Lazuli, Malachite, Nephiline, Opal, Plagioclase, Quartz, Ruby, Sphene, Tourmaline, Uvarovite, Vesuvianite, Williamsite, Xenotine, Yttrium, Zeolite

Can you tell I was a Geology major?

M

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