Naming Stations
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Been trying to rename my Outpost for days. Confirm purchase just spins for a milli sec and nothing happes. i have 9,180 arx and it costs only 5,000 anyone else having this. bug
I don't mind there being an ARX cost to custom names, precisely because it weeds out the smarmy naming. However I do wish there was a system wide option. I'd be willing to pay a bit more at once if it means I get to custom rename everything in the system. I plan on theming my system to something special, and the system I have has something like 30+ space slots and 40+ ground slots. That's going to get expensive.
Sadly, I'm thinking of naming my station Whyfo Be 62 to help make the system name a tiny bit memorable (Lyncis Sector YF-O-B6-2).
There is a long history of that kind of naming, from the Humvee military vehicle to Artoo in Star Wars
Maybe they were derived as shorthand rather than memory aid, but it's essentially the same. Everyone living in your station would call it Whyfo
I have the same issue with pretty long name and starting to think, that approval is based only on specific words that are banned for use, not on the length of the name.
Out of curiosity, what is the character limit for station/settlement names?
Where is a description on HOW to access this Renaming, limits (one Facility?), and cost (5,000 ARX?), etc etc Please?
Where does that detail come from please? Source? Appreciated.
Same here, confirm button does not work for either random or custom names, it does not even retract the 5k ARX from my balance.
I tried both before and after Thursday's maintenance, not working for me
In the renaming window, the number of renamings left is given, and starts at 5.
Note that you can roll for generated names as many times as you like until you find one you like, it's only when you apply a name (generated or ARX) that it counts as a remaining.
I haven't encountered the issue where renaming doesn't work (I was able to rename both before and after completing constructions) but I've seen several people describe it that it's definitely a thing though I don't know what might cause it
The renaming option is available in the top right-side info window (IIRC) that comes up when you select an installation in the system map. You might need to be in architect view, I don't recall.
Not 100% the same, but similar to what I encountered today: I was not able to rename (free roll rename) a surface port (Aphrodite) after creating it and delivering the first load of materials to it.
I spun the "re-roll name" quite often unteil I got something that fitted, hit "CONFIRM" to immediately apply the new name. After this a short "Confirming Facility Rename" spinner occured and after that it reverted to the screen as before with no name being changed.
See screenshots for more.
Does this already have an issue tracker to contribute to?
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Hey it might be a bug but I got it working, I just tried once again yesterday
Are you trying to name it "Seven Words You Can't Say On Television?"
There's an issue where even a paid rename doesn't work - probably the same underlying issue?
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Looks like maybe some hope coming tomorrow ( or thursday ) --> https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...ilblazers-update-2-wednesday-march-19.635362/
Bit late, but is there a reason why we can't use an apostrophe in our custom station names? The non-custom ones generated by the game for station/installations allow it. Tanaka's Pride was one I was able to generate for example, but I couldn't use the custom name Nguyen's Heart; it just altered it into Nguyens Heart instead.
Wait, am I getting this right?
If I purchase a custom naming of a certain station for 5000 ARX, I also get unlimited custom renaming for that station?
Yes, for that one particular station. I've renamed mine a few times now...
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I think some keyboard layouts have different apostrophes and some are supported and some not. my UK qwerty works ok.
edit. now you have me wondering if maybe it isn't displayed in game. I never noticed but maybe it doesn't. I can't be bothered going back just now