30-09-2003 13:10									#1
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Hi all,

One thing we might have forgotten:

As we settle into new systems, we will have the chance to rename the star.

If you want to rename, like to honour certain persons or whatever, please vote Yes.
If you don't want to rename, vote no
If you don't care you can choose Abstain/Banana.

Please also feel free to post suggestions or if you don't like my idea

	30-09-2003 17:11									#2
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That's a little too granular for me. I say we leave them be.

	30-09-2003 20:10									#3
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Don't care

	01-10-2003 02:17									#4
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Never bothered to rename, so banana for me.

	01-10-2003 05:24									#5
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We should have a system for naming them if we are going to rename them.

	01-10-2003 12:22									#6
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My idea for renaming:

Open a thread, where everyone can post his suggestion and it is being worked from top downwards. And to be fair to everyone, we could post like in a succession-game, one after the other.

	01-10-2003 21:13									#7
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Well, I usually rename certain systems. Like I will rename all ultra-rich systems with names of precious stones. Artifact systems are named after famous scientists. Rich systems get names of "somethingstone", where something is a colour (which includes golden and silver, etc.).

Poor and ultra-poor planets have names like crap, poop, etc.

	02-10-2003 15:19									#8
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UR's idea is good, I've done something similar myself.

	02-10-2003 15:23									#9
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As far as I can see, a majority is for renaming. So which way shall we go?

	02-10-2003 15:25									#10
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Yes, we should rename stars.... hell, that's half the fun.

	02-10-2003 20:21									#11
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What's the limit for characters in a name? We should come up with a way to identify all the major characteristics of a planet in the name if we want to do an "official" renaming scheme. If not, maybe we should start the thread Gilgamensch suggested and just have everyone post planet names there then go down the list as needed.

	02-10-2003 20:27									#12
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The length is not fixed, it depends on the location of the system. If another one is to close, it might be only 4 letters.

But it is in the range of 4-8 letters.

	02-10-2003 22:18									#13
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It's definately more than that -- unless the tag bumps another star, as you said.

	03-10-2003 00:25									#14
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Ugh. That could make this a difficult process, then. I'd hate to run polls for every star system.

	03-10-2003 00:46									#15
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How about whomever is playing at the time, names them or not as they see fit.

	03-10-2003 02:00									#16
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That sounds like a good opportunity for political back scratching. I like it.

	03-10-2003 13:21									#17
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Sounds like a good reason to complain about the Pres

	03-10-2003 14:32									#18
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Even better... new administrations can creatively RE-name already named systems to change with the new ideological times... think St. Petersburg -> Leningrad -> St. Petersburg.

	03-10-2003 17:54									#19
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And here I was thinking of using something similiar to the Civ 3 Demogame.

"Ghengisplanet"

Just kidding............

Last edited by GhengisFarb on 03-10-2003 at 17:59

	03-10-2003 22:07									#20
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Or we could specify a system method such as

Three letters for former name -- Dra (Draconis)

A number for planets -- 3 with a slash for potential planets (asteroids & gas giants)

With key letters for descripters -- R = Rich, A = Average, L = large, H = Huge, etc.

In fact, we might limit ourselves to only one letter of best feature per planet, Average or better, thus a string of four or five letters (Dra 4/5 GRRH) would display a terrific system, and a Dra 1/3 would have a boring planet with two potential planets and Dra 0/0 would have no planets at all.

	04-10-2003 01:33									#21
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Hey, if you wanna name systems Borg-style when you're able to name them, be my guest. I'll just re-name them to something with a bit more style

	04-10-2003 01:34									#22
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I like stuff like the "Big Blue Blob". That would work for a planet name.............

	04-10-2003 02:28									#23
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Old n Slow if I was to rename them, I probably would use some sort of system like you suggest.
In Space Empires I name my ships like that CA-I2 to denote it is a crusier with 2 I type engines. I may add other characters to let me know what the type of weapons. This makes it easy to see what ones need upgrades.

	04-10-2003 03:26									#24
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* GhengisFarb thinks at least one planet needs to be named "Bob"......

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quote: Originally posted by GhengisFarb * GhengisFarb thinks at least one planet needs to be named "Bob"......

Indeed

	04-10-2003 19:37									#26
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Let's start with our home system:

How shall we call our home system?

	04-10-2003 20:44									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Gilgamensch Let's start with our home system: How shall we call our home system?

Bob.

	04-10-2003 21:50									#28
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quote: Originally posted by GhengisFarb Bob.

That would be appopriate, but so would Apolyton

	04-10-2003 21:52									#29
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If we have multiple planets they can be Big Bob and Little Bob and Bobette.

Besides Apolyton already got voted down once for our starting system name.

	04-10-2003 23:40									#30
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quote: Originally posted by GhengisFarb If we have multiple planets they can be Big Bob and Little Bob and Bobette. Besides Apolyton already got voted down once for our starting system name.

We can only name the system AFAIR........ not the planets......