Me again viz: system names.

[Growltigga]

Fair comment Gryph, fair comment indeed....

Personally, I find that too many systems means too much real estate and therefore too much micromanagement to sort out your empire. I personally prefer medium size galaxies.

The two links for system names are excellent. I have changed all the system names on my SEIV to real star names and I think it gives a great feel to the game.

The only problem is that it can clutter up the map as your planets will tend to have long names such as "Australis Coriolis I", "Australis Coriolis II"

[Baron Munchausen]

I have to agree that huge numbers of systems doesn't make the game better. More detail would make the game better. If planets had gravity, temperature, radiation levels and populations had to adapt or use technologies to cope. If stars had internal dynamics and output levels that affected solar harnessing techs. If storms would kick up spontaneously, move around, and die out. If solar systems evolved according to consistent laws of physics and didn't remain static, in other words, life would be much more interetsing on the SE IV map.

[Elowan]

Originally posted by Growltigga:
... your planets will tend to have long names such as "Australis Coriolis I", "Australis Coriolis II"

Which begs the question: can your systems have compound names such as: "Coma Berenices"? I haven't tried it because SEIV seems rather sensative to change in my view so I confined names to one word.

For example - right after I introduced new system names I got a 'system range out-of-bounds' when I tried to send a vessel to a system.

[ July 12, 2002, 16:12: Message edited by: Elowan ]

[Puke]

you definitly can have multi-word names in the systemnames.txt file. i know that SPACE and ' are both legal characters, but i dont know about other things. There may be a character limit, but i dont know what it is. the longest name in the devnull mod system names file is "Greater Plooriod Cluster"

your error may be because of a formatting problem. i think that the first line of the file must be a line of text (the name of a system) and i think the Last line of the file must me a blank line. (with no blank lines inbetween, or it will be read as the end of the file)

[Elowan]

I've compiled a list of almost 600 system names (including some from SEIV) and another of about 500 or so of just actual star names.

I can post this if it is of interest.

[Gryphin]

you can definately have long names.
My personal list includes In Your Face and several others. I'll give it a test tonight.

[PaladinOfEarth]

Gryphin,
Did you add, "Hotel Carlton, Earth"?

[Puke]

id be interested in the list of real star names. i hate to be a nit, but are they all star names or they simply names of visible objects (including nebulae, galaxies, and clusters)?

it might be a bit odd having systems named after galaxies or globular superclusters or something, and i seem to remember that most visible objects in the night sky are galaxies. of course, its still better than completely fictional names.

[Dracus]

once again I get to plug. On the gold cd under eyecandy you will find a system file that has all the real star names in it.

[Elowan]

Originally posted by Puke:
...
i hate to be a nit, but are they all star names or they simply names of visible objects (including nebulae, galaxies, and clusters)?
...

I just used star names choosing Arabic, Latin or Proper names without duplicating them (which-ever struck my fancy). I've also added some ancient Egyptian names (gods, etc)

Eye Candy has a lot of secondary stars with numbers and/or alphabetical designators (alpha orionis, B-33-A, etc.) which I don't have in mine. But it's a good list just the same.

Dracus: If I'd seen yours sooner - it would have saved me a lot of work.

SystemNames.txt

[ July 12, 2002, 21:59: Message edited by: Elowan ]