If the dinner had been in VR more money could have been raised 
Drew Wagar's Thoughts
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I still wonder who named Salted Womb in Valac btw...I did chuckle when I dropped into the system, and wondered
In Colonia terms, it is in a 'nice' place for me to work from, so I'd spent a week or so parked up there.
No, it was on foot... Cinematic screen only - they way it will ever be...If the dinner had been in VR more money could have been raised
Or "Stapled Peacock Flesh"?
I did chuckle when I dropped into the system, and wondered
In Colonia terms, it is in a 'nice' place for me to work from, so I'd spent a week or so parked up there.
Nice.
I may give it a visit some day. I have an alt out at Jacques (Juniper Child, part of a story I was working on at the time).
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In line with Frontier's naming guidance no doubt.Or "Stapled Peacock Flesh"?
You never been there?
Where? The system randomly called Juniper that Rat Catcher mentioned? No, I've only just heard about it.
I think you had to pledge about £3000 to name a system in the Kickstarter, and I didn't go that high.
Really?
Now I'll have to get back to the bubble and take a look! Brilliant!!!
(Sad that it isn't Anarchy though!)
It occurs to me that there might be a lot of forum names used as system / planet names, buried deep within E: D's galaxy.
Cue everyone jumping into the game to check if they're there.
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Wut?
They just couldn't spell your name correctly.
If it was £100,000 worth of refunds, would that be insignificant?
A little bit more than insignificant. Highly unlikely. There was lots of noise, but i suspect it was mainly that. Naturally i can't say that as a fact, just my supposition. And the positive PR from offering full refunds for anyone would be worth the financial hit. It would say "Here's a company that's not afraid of owning up to its missteps"
Oh, I always thought you named it... since you backed that tier.
N/m then
No, I backed high enough to name a station (£500) originally, as I wanted to pay tribute to my Dad who had bought me a C64 and a copy of Elite back in the day, and had passed away a few years before. At that time, I thought it was going to be offline too - so the name would continue for all eternity rather than just for as long as the game makes money for Frontier. Another reason I was cross.
Then I wanted to go to the launch party, which was £750 (and included naming a planet), so I jontied up.
System naming was in a different price bracket entirely.
I think someone from the Marquisate reads the forums from time to time, so you never know, there might be an explanation.
I don't know if anyone from the Bloodhounds (Juniper/Marigold) does.
One of the things I like about Colonia is that so many of the systems and objects are player-named - with a little bit of Frontier moderation - as it's ended up in 70ish systems with more variety than most of the bubble has.
As far as the bubble goes, even the sillier names I think are fine.
1) Have you seen the sort of names that get put on villages, streets, etc. in real life?
2) I can entirely believe that after cataloguing a few thousand planets you'd run out of synonyms for "rock" and start going for weirder ones.
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