Uncharted Planet Names

Vhaerun · Post by **Vhaerun** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 12:38 pm

Is there a way to locally change the planet/star designations, or is all the information hard-coded? For example, changing a planet's name from 'U540' to something like 'Paradiso'?

Post by **DaveK** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 1:42 pm

So that you can name planets you discover so they appear on your PC? Or are you suggesting changing it so that everyone sees your chosen name? At present Mods only exist on your own machine.

Stealing the idea from a couple of recent entrepreneurs, I'd like to claim the franchise for approving and registering new Planet (and System and Moon and Star and City) names. Only as a not-for-profit public service, you understand - I'll issue licenses at cost ( around 3M creds for a system, down to 100K for a City )

Naming on your own PC sound like a great idea. I suspect their could be potential problems if they appeared on every PC though.

Perhaps Vice could add system, planet and moon names to the list of moddable items.

Vhaerun · Post by **Vhaerun** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 1:57 pm

Mostly I was thinking of for the player's PC, not the server, basically so they just end up being named different locally, and not server-wide.

Individual servers could, then, have a board/system for "claiming" systems and renaming them (IE, if they have enough "control" of the system). Players could then rename systems other players control/name if they want to participate.

Or it could just be local so there's a little more variety.

Post by **Marvin** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 3:52 pm

Planetary systems' names are hard coded. You can go to SeeJay's website and claim discovery of an uncharted planet ... but only if you use the hard-coded name for the planet. You can also search through his database to visit uncharted systems which have been discovered earlier.

Post by **DaveK** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 6:14 pm

I wonder if it would be possible to code it so that we keep the present hard-coded letter - number - number - number name and then allow an optional extra number of letters/numbers - say up to ten - so you could name your new planet! We can already name trade stations although that works server side.

Vhaerun · Post by **Vhaerun** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 6:32 pm

From post: 174692, Topic: tid=11763, author=DaveK wrote:I wonder if it would be possible to code it so that we keep the present hard-coded letter - number - number - number name and then allow an optional extra number of letters/numbers - say up to ten - so you could name your new planet! We can already name trade stations although that works server side.

Interesting idea. And maybe the clan/group with the largest percentage hold could name the system? Add a little bit more usefulness to doing all those contracts.