End game credit sink suggestion: naming stars

[SirAdelaide]

There are a lot of stars out there. Like, heaps.

Any explorer probably has systems they found that stand out in some way.

It would be great to be able to name systems that we discovered.

It should be priced so that each Elite player can only name a small number, maybe 1 billion credits?

 

[popuptoaster]

Nope nope nope nope, in no way shape or form do I wish to find myself flying past a star named "butt" or "Spongebob" or pony power" or any other such crap 14 year olds find amusing.

 

[c64orinoco]

As above, no no no no no no no with a side order of not, negative, and some more no.

Also - end game? This is Elite, there is no end-game.

You do not 'win' Elite. There is no final cut scene. Sorry for the spoiler!

 

[Kayweg]

As above, no no no no no no no with a side order of not, negative, and some more no.

Also - end game? This is Elite, there is no end-game.

You do not 'win' Elite. There is no final cut scene. Sorry for the spoiler!

Well, you don't win Guild Wars 2, FF14 or any other MMO either, yet there's end game.

And no, i don't support the OP's idea either.

 

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[Araviel]

Nope nope nope nope, in no way shape or form do I wish to find myself flying past a star named "butt" or "Spongebob" or pony power" or any other such crap 14 year olds find amusing.

yea i agree, it could end up resemble real life way to much, for example "Bob the asteroid" and "Mr.Spock" that is currently cruising around our solar system, or how about Uranus?

 

[Roybe]

For 1 Billion Credits - I either want a CapShip (Carrier) or a fully operational Outpost at any suitable location I choose

Wouldn't even get the population moving to it for that!

To the OP...not even sure how you would define end game in this game....it's similar to GW2 that way. Once you have the ship you want..the game doesn't change.

 

[popuptoaster]

yea i agree, it could end up resemble real life way to much, for example "Bob the asteroid" and "Mr.Spock" that is currently cruising around our solar system, or how about Uranus?

The first two are stupid names for asteroids but who cares, they are asteroids not stars almost no-one will ever know they are named at all, the last one is only funny to 14 years olds who don't care that its a word from another language, so my point still stands.

 

[Mosait]

Nope nope nope nope, in no way shape or form do I wish to find myself flying past a star named "butt" or "Spongebob" or pony power" or any other such crap 14 year olds find amusing.

I am quite upset by your statement! Clearly there are plenty of adults beyond the age of 14 that could/would name stars such things, and worse!

While I appreciate the sincerity of the OP's suggestion, I'm of the mind to follow the cataloging/naming conventions standardized by the IAU.

 

[Araviel]

The first two are stupid names for asteroids but who cares, they are asteroids not stars almost no-one will ever know they are named at all, the last one is only funny to 14 years olds who don't care that its a word from another language, so my point still stands.

that was just a few names that i could remember from the top of my head, if you look there is quite a long list of weird names out there, even on stars

edit: i also like to point out that Uranus is not a word from another language. originally it was named Ouranus after the greek god of the sky, but it has been distorted into Uranus over time, the current name has no meaning in any language.

 

[SirAdelaide]

Nope nope nope nope, in no way shape or form do I wish to find myself flying past a star named "butt" or "Spongebob" or pony power" or any other such crap 14 year olds find amusing.

The thing is, there are 400 billion stars,and only a few would end up named. And only out in uninhabited space where no one sees them unless they are looking. And I'm sure language filters would apply as much as anywhere else.

Personally I wouldn't mind seeing a pony power star in the middle of a nebula. It would add some life to the galaxy.

 

[Kid Firestorm]

I'm sure the devs have their own plans to give players stuff to do with all those extra millions we have lying around, which will be billions in only a couple more months for me!

I find it disturbing enough seeing all the NPCS that were given really cruddy names by my fellow backers (who apparently never grew past the age of ten, even though they're mostly fans of the earlier Elite games) without having to deal with stars named "Pikachu3457" and whatnot.

I find it odd how nearly everyone keeps saying "kids" would name stars things like Pikachu when you just brought up the fact that the backers (most of whom are adults) came up with the most ridicules names for the NPCs. Why would it be so bad with the stars 3 people might see once than the 50 NPCs we see everyday? I think the OP has a valuate point. Give me the chance to name a star. I might surprise you

 

[Valethar]

::Wonders how long it'll take for someone brings up the Kickstarter rewards::

 

[Aussiedroid]

This would be fine, as long as it had a clear approval process for the names to avoid 'bad' namings. This would Frontier would have to manually go through and check before updating the planet or star.

I like the idea, but also I am concerned about potential abuse.

Edit - Added to thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=146579

 

[Don Alvarez]

Nope nope nope nope, in no way shape or form do I wish to find myself flying past a star named "butt" or "Spongebob" or pony power" or any other such crap 14 year olds find amusing.

This is unrelated (yet somewhat related) but you mentioned what 14 year old find amusing and it struck a chord with me. I was reading something the other day about the early days of Activision, back when I used to think David Crane was a game desigining genius (I was right). But anyway I read a recent quote on Wiki from Activision and Accolade co-founder Bob Whitehead (remember "Hardball!"?) in which he opined about the current state of game development:

Too dark and derivative for my taste. The console and computer gaming business is too narrowly defined by the 14 [year old] male mentality and all his not-so-honorable fantasies. It's being driven by what has worked and afraid of what a 10 million dollar development bust will entail. It has lost its moral compass.

Bob long since left the industry, but I found his insight interesting.

 

[n13L5]

There are a lot of stars out there. Like, heaps.

Any explorer probably has systems they found that stand out in some way.

It would be great to be able to name systems that we discovered.

It should be priced so that each Elite player can only name a small number, maybe 1 billion credits?

I find this an excellent idea for a credit sink:

1) its appealing and maybe NASA will accept FD's input for the naming of stars that nobody has previously named.

2) its a voluntary credit sink. Good game design will try as much as possible to have mostly voluntary credit sinks, that way nobody feels robbed.

3) FD would obviously not allow stupid names like Pony Power and other things suggested as a likely abuse.


So, what's not to like, for the triple elite player that has nothing else to strive for, except the wait for more ships to come out?

 

[n13L5]

This is unrelated (yet somewhat related) but you mentioned what 14 year old find amusing and it struck a chord with me. I was reading something the other day about the early days of Activision, back when I used to think David Crane was a game desigining genius (I was right). But anyway I read a recent quote on Wiki from Activision and Accolade co-founder Bob Whitehead (remember "Hardball!"?) in which he opined about the current state of game development:
Bob long since left the industry, but I found his insight interesting.

The period of time the '14 year old male mentality' keeps hold seems to be increasing all the time.

I think it has 30 year olds in its grip by now, as the corporate food industry cooks people's brains with overdoses of hidden, processed sugars (like high dextrose corn sirup and many others) and Glutamate. After problems with Glutamate became known (excitotoxin), Industry simply started to use different names to avoid having to declare it by its known name. They now have 60 different names for Glutamate. (just 2 examples - "Hydrolized anything" on the ingredient list contains Glutamate. Same goes for "Fermented Anything")

Down the line, we can wish people good luck at getting rid of the 14 year old mentality by the time they're 80.

 

[Don Alvarez]

The period of time the '14 year old male mentality stretches to seems to be increasing all the time. I think it has 30 year olds in its grip by now.

Well, thats how long some stay in Mom's basement now, so yeah, I gotta agree with that.

 

[jmg]

Nope nope nope nope, in no way shape or form do I wish to find myself flying past a star named "butt" or "Spongebob" or pony power" or any other such crap 14 year olds find amusing.

"sofa king Stupid".... a system named that is worth a billion credits.

 

[Tarman]

http://www.break.com/article/new-species-of-catfish-named-after-greedo-star-wars-2835014

"Ridiculous names are unbelievable" arguments: Deceased.