Would You Pay to have a System You Could Name?

You truly believe that FD is manually inspecting 4 billion procedurally generated systems to check for cool places to set as tourist POIs? :D

There is a reason why they asked explorers to submit POIs for cool places that they discovered on their galaxy.

And it's not like you have to take those missions anyway...

Oh man, now I want to see fly on the wall footage of when they were sifting through player submitted entries..... "oh wow! We made that?"
 
Errr, no, what I might go for, they give us a chance to grind for a system including a base to call our own, then put aesthetics for these things on the Frontier store, want your base to look like a pirate base, purchase spikes and bloody paint jobs, and so on.
 

Slopey

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KK, so if FD made it possible, would you be willing to pay real kronor (or whatever Mickey Mouse currency your country uses :D) to have FD create a new system in the Bubble, or, indeed, out of it, that you could name, including the astronomical bodies within?

I would! FD could charge more for prime locations and according to how many planets and what types of planets you wanted.

Guess you missed the Kickstarter then?
 
Honestly I would love it but I also know the dangers of just letting anyone just name things. How many planet bobs would we have?
 
But in real life we have a planet in our solar system named after a candy bar.

But you’ve given me an idea. I’m going to buy Frontier Developments. Then I could name any planet/star/System I wanted. :D

Just 9 posts in and it went full on crazy. Good show! :D
 

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I personally wouldn't have much interest in it.

But for as long as System and its Bodies were to be allowed Names only by the CMDRs that have their 1st Discovery tag on them, I wouldn't object it (as a pure source of income for Frontier).

However...
Let me Colonize a System of my choice (requirement : 1st Discovered by me) and start building my own home and develop it... Now that might trigger my interest.
Haul construction Materials, build & improve Facilities, ramp it all up from scratch, Transport workforce and population as a seed and see it grow over time with my Support.
Yup, that'd work.

But hard fiat money just for an ASCII String somewhere in the middle of nowhere? Nah...
 
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can we stop to open threads about the theme: "Would You Pay to have X"

it start to be annoying... we want to pay only for space legs and atmo-planet FULLSTOP.

Who's 'we' exactly?

Naming systems has no effect on gameplay for anyone. Even the most grossly inappropriate name is just a funny name. Okay I'll draw my line at libel.
 
I don't see a problem with allowing explorers to name their discoveries, so long as the submissions are curated by Frontier Developments.

I'd pay some serious Reserve Bank of Australia Federal Dollarydoos to make that happen.
 
It's an entirely hypothetical discussion, because FD aren't going to be spontaneously creating any entirely new star systems inside the Bubble. That would cause all sorts of problems with Powerplay and the BGS.

Example: when the astronomers announced the discovery of "earth-like planets" in the TRAPPIST-1 system a year ago, people clamoured for that system and those planets to be added to the game. Some people did the math and discovered there was a procedurally-generated Y-class brown dwarf system in roughly the same place that TRAPPIST-1 would be, so FD manually edited that system, changing the star to an M-class and editing the planets to match those found in the actual TRAPPIST-1 system. Which even included an actual Earth-like world (21st century exoplanetary astronomers have an entirely different definition of "Earth-like" to the ED definition).

But they didn't make TRAPPIST-1 inhabited. That would have thrown out the BGS for every star system within 15 LYs of TRAPPIST-1, as well as altering the dynamic of Powerplay in the region (more people = making the area more profitable). Yes, it does mean that they need to explain why an inhabitable planet only a few dozen LYs away from Earth and well within the Bubble, that we've known about the existence of since before the invention of interstellar flight 1200 years ago, has never been colonized. But writing some handwavium lore (I prefer the Galactic Park hypothesis) is easier than making the BGS and Powerplay players mad.

Now, that being said, there are an awful lot of already-colonized planets within the bubble that have never been given a "proper name". The only planets with actual names are the "FE2/FFE legacy map" names, and the Kickstarter names. I find it unrealistic that a planet that's home to billions of people and has presumably been colonized for over a thousand years has never been given a name that's better than [name or catalogue number of star] [orbital position number]. Humans aren't like that. We like to give names to things, and the places where we live are pretty high up on the priority list of things-we-need-to-give-names-to. And I'd guess there are tens of thousands of inhabited-yet-unnamed planets in ED.

A reasonable compromise, though a lot of work for FD so it still probably wouldn't be implemented: every player is given the option to submit one name. FD sorts through them and sifts out the obvious troll-names. The rest get randomly allocated to the un-named planets.
 
I'd pay to rename Sol system PHAX%%#$T-G134333-A-H-24-URGLE_GARGLE

No particular reason other than to annoy the fed supporters and mess with people when they say they can't find Sol on the galaxy map :D
 
FD could sell the naming rights to advertisers to raise cash.
I for one would be happy to stop off at the "sale now on at DFS system" on the way to colonia. ;)
 
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