Name Ports, Systems, Landing Areas Etc After Departed Commanders.

[Desupero]

Hello, I would like to see an option to submit a request to be able to name systems, ports or landings after our departed wing buddies. My friend Cmdr Tumor passed away last year.. It would be great to honor him and all our other departed friends in this way (of course they would need to be owners of the game and have had an account). With so many planets, systems, Ports, Hubs, Landing Areas of Interest I feel this would be a fitting tribute to players that have purchased the game but will no longer have the pleasure of playing it. During the Distant Worlds Expedition I needed to turn back to spend some time playing with my buddy who was dying of cancer. The Expedition named a landing coordinate and planet in his honor (and his wife). I have attached the images that ware sent. This not only provides a personal lasting memory to players that they can visit when they play and maybe spend a little time with that friend in another part of the universe, but also would show the consideration of Frontier that in some way they are giving back to someone who had invested in them at some stage. This would be for existing and previous players ONLY, it meant a lot to me... Here is the text that was included:

Game map search ref. : PRIELUIA RD-P C20-0 B 1

POI Type: Visual & Statistical

An unusually large airless world situated close to the NGC6357 Nebula. This world weighs in at 19.4 Earth masses, yes has a surface gravity of just 2.13G, indicating that it is of quite a low density. R-MAILE'S DZ 050316 was discovered during the Distant Worlds Expedition of 3302 and was named in honour of Rick Maile (CMDR Tumor), a fellow pilot and wingman who passed away during the Distant Worlds Expedition

 

[Hydrino]

I think this would be neat, but not sure it is a priority on FD radar, yet...

I am curious if FD could do this one gratis, but it would require some onerous paperwork evidence and might not be worth the effort to go that route. In any case there are so many old fans of ED that it could easily become thousands of commanders in the next few years to memorialize.

I envision this in the future as FD selling a variety of in-game "cosmetic" items not tied to ships. FD need to continue coming up with some ways to fund the long-term development of the game. Folks have to remember it has been over a year since Horizons release, which was the last big cost "game" package FD offered. So cash-shop sales which don't affect play are to me a really unobtrusive and least objectionable way to fund the ongoing game.

FD in fact, did a survey on this some time back. So things like naming a planet or buying an Obelisk with some short text message and placing it on a planet surface as a permanent POI were part of that.

It's easy to ask for this but probably hella hard to code in such a massive game.

But it would be very cool.

 

[Lestat]

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Hello, I would like to see an option to submit a request to be able to name systems, ports or landings after our departed wing buddies. My friend Cmdr Tumor passed away last year.. It would be great to honor him and all our other departed friends in this way (of course they would need to be owners of the game and have had an account). With so many planets, systems, Ports, Hubs, Landing Areas of Interest I feel this would be a fitting tribute to players that have purchased the game but will no longer have the pleasure of playing it. During the Distant Worlds Expedition I needed to turn back to spend some time playing with my buddy who was dying of cancer. The Expedition named a landing coordinate and planet in his honor (and his wife). I have attached the images that ware sent. This not only provides a personal lasting memory to players that they can visit when they play and maybe spend a little time with that friend in another part of the universe, but also would show the consideration of Frontier that in some way they are giving back to someone who had invested in them at some stage. This would be for existing and previous players ONLY, it meant a lot to me... Here is the text that was included:

Game map search ref. : PRIELUIA RD-P C20-0 B 1

POI Type: Visual & Statistical

An unusually large airless world situated close to the NGC6357 Nebula. This world weighs in at 19.4 Earth masses, yes has a surface gravity of just 2.13G, indicating that it is of quite a low density. R-MAILE'S DZ 050316 was discovered during the Distant Worlds Expedition of 3302 and was named in honour of Rick Maile (CMDR Tumor), a fellow pilot and wingman who passed away during the Distant Worlds Expedition




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Not a bad idea. But in my life from 2013 to 2017 I lost 3 people due to cancer. How hard would it be to use one of them as a exploit to name a station on one of my cmrd.

 

[Tryst]

I'd rather not have such places as "[insert inappropriate name here] memorial" or some name resulting from a Commander who face rolled the keyboard because he couldn't think of a decent name. There has to be limits to what would be acceptable.